1073 minor prophets, 144. Grand total of the theories of the Old Testament books, 539!' The work of the theorist as regards the New Testament is equally comprehensive and instructive. As to Matthew, we dis cover 7; Mark, 10; Luke, 9; John, 14;— total as to the Gospels, 41. As to Acts, 12; Romans, 15; 1 and 2 Corinthians, 18; Galatians, 11; Ephesians, 8; Philippians, 8; Colossians, 12; 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 9; 1 and 2 Timothy, 12; Titus, 6; Phile mon, 4; Hebrews, 8;—total as to Paul’s Epistles, 111. As to James, 5; 1 and 2 Peter, 7; 1, 2 and 3 John, 13; Jude, 7; Revelation, 12;—total 44. The number of theories applied to the New Testament books is 208. Adding 509 on the Old Testament, we have a total of 747 theo ries applied to the Biblical books since 1850. Of the 747, 603 are defunct, and many of the remaining 144 are in the last stages of degeneracy and dissolution. When the critics agree among them selves and have some definite data to give us, we shall be prepared to listen to them. Meantime we again protest against their getting on to the pedestal of knowledge and saying, “We, we only, and we ever, are the embodiments of learning, the acute and-accurate think ers of the age!” WE SHALL KNOW THEM I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them on earth. If I thought I should never know them, and consequently, never love them, after this life is ended, I should in reason number them with temporal things, and love them as such; but I now delightfully converse with my pious friends, in a firm per suasion that I shall converse with them forever; and I take comfort in those of them who are dead or absent, as believ ing I shall shortly meet them in heaven, and love them with a love which shall then be perfected.—Baxter.
T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S merits as the following: “ Modern re vivals seem little more than recrudes cence of primitive religious-orgies, such as marked the cult of Dionysus and Cybele, and are found among the howl ing dervishes of today.” He thinks that orthodox theology “ has been a crim inal libel on the nature of God; that orthodoxy appreciates neither sin nor virtue. Man ^ crucified with Christ, not Christ crucified for man, is the doctrine of the cross in the teaching of Jesus. Hymns like Cowper’s ‘There is a foun tain filled with blood’ have led thou sands into a fool’s paradise.’ ” He holds that transference of penalty can not happen and is inconceivable. “ When one becomes ready to do his part in reorganizing the social order on the basis of brotherhood he becomes a member of the kingdom of God,” says the professor. - UNLIMITED GUESSWORK We wonder what the disciples of the higher criticism have to say to the fol lowing facts, the result of the observa tion of the great Wesleyan theologian, the late Dr. G. Gregory. He said, as he referred to the theories as to the author ship of the books of the Bible: “As to Genesis, we record 16 theories; Exodus, 13; Leviticus, 22; Numbers, 8; Deutero nomy, 17;—total on the' Pentateuch, 76. As to Joshua, 10; Judges, 7; Ruth, 4; 1 and 2 Samuel, 20; 1 and 2 Kings, 24; 1 and 2 Chronicles, 17; Ezra, 14; Nehe- miah, 11; Esther, 6;—total on historic books, 116. As to Job, 26; Psalms, 19; Proverbs, 24; Ecclesiastes, 21; Song of Solomon, 18;—total on poetical books, 108. As to Isaiah, 27; Jeremiah, 27; Lamentations, 10; Ezekiel, 15; Daniel, 22;— total on major prophets, 98. As to Hosea, 13; Amos, 15; Joel, 18; Obadiah, 9; Jonah, 14; Micah, 12; Nahum, 10; Habakkuk, 13; Zephaniah, 9; Haggai, 6; Zechariah, 14; Malachi, 11;—total on the
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