Methods, by Truman Henry Safford, Ph.D.," Professor of Astronomy in Williams College; Modern Petrography, an Account of the Application of the Microscope to the Study of Geology. By George Huntington Williams, Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins University;" "How to Teach Reading, and What to Read in School. By G. Stanley Hall, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy in Johns Hopkins University;" "The Study of Latin in the Preparatory Course By E. P. Morris, Professor of the Latin Language and Literature in Williams College." valuable contributions to the theory and practice of teaching, by specialists in the themes indicated. They are to be followed by others, if these are sufficiently patronized by teachers to enable the publishers to recover merely the money invested. up in neat form, each pamphlet averaging 37 pages of instructive reading, they are furnished at 25 cents each, post paid.

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Arguments on Behalf of the Complainants in the Matter of the Complaint against Egbert C. Smyth, Brown Professor of Ecclesiastical History. Heard December 28, 29, 30, 31, 1886. Rand Avery Company. 1887. 8vo pp. 189. The Complainants, Hon. Asa French, Rev. J. W. Wellman, D.D., Rev. O. T. Lamphear, D.D., Rev. Í. M. Dexter, D.D., and their Attorney, Hon. E. R. Hoar, here give in full their arguments before the Board of Visitors in the Andover Theological Seminary, in support of the charge that Prof. Smyth is teaching in that Institution doctrines opposed to those which he has sworn to explain and enforce. The Complainants have, in our judgmenl, made out their case. While we sympathize with Prot. Smyth in his breaking away from the old dogmas, we have no respect for his false position at Andover. — his retaining his professorship after the clear repudiation of his pledges as to what he will teach. The manly attitude for him to take is separation from the Seminary, and an independent, honest utterance of his thoughts. It will be helpful to him, also, in other ways, for now he only sees "men as trees walking," but wholly independent thought will give him clearer vision Dr. Dexter, it seems to us, makes more in his use of John Murray's theories, in drawing his comparisons, than those theories warrant; and certainly he is in error when he says that at the time of the adoption of the Creed by the Foun ders of Andover, in 1808, the Universalism" which they knew, dreaded, and desired to pledge all their Professors to oppose," was the Universalism of John Murray. Certainly this was not the Universalism taught at that time outside of Boston. Mr. Murray complained that he "stood alone," with one exception only, as early as 1787. His fanciful notions as to the method of universal salvation never prevailed to any great extent. Even in 1790 Dr. Jonathan Edwards' great attack on Universalism was against the theories of the late Rev. Dr. Chauncy. The Universalism of 1808 was almost wholly Winchesterian. Mr. Murray's theory was that no man will be punished for sin either here or hereafter. Christ has borne all that sinners deserve. The condemnation of unbelief remains on man, and will remain on some in the other world, till "the books are opened," and all see that their names are "written in the Book of Life."

The Swiss Cross. A Monthly Magazine of the Agassiz Association. Published by N. D. C. Hodges, 47 Layfette Place, New York. $1.50 per year, We are in receipt of the January and February numbers of this new magazine. It is the official organ of the Agassiz Association, devoted to spreading among the people an accurate knowledge of nature. Harlan H. Ballard, of Pittsfield, Mass., is the editor. The purpose, we judge, is to popularize science, Success seems to be assured, if the numbers before us are fair specimens of what shall follow. To the young the magazine will have, we believe, special attractions, while it will also interest and instruct those who are older;

The Cooperative Index to Periodicals. Issued Quarterly. Edited by W. I Fletcher. and published at 31 and 32 Park Row, New York, has reached the close of the second volume. It is a great convenience to those who have occasion to inquire concerning the themes which are receiving treatment in Periodical Literature. The Index covers the principal American and Foreign Magazines. It is in handsome quarto form, and furnished at $2 per year.

"The Universalism of the Golden Rule. A Sermon by Rev. Abram Conklin." "What Ought We to Teach? A Sunday School Address by Rev. A. B. Hervey, Ph.D." These two pamphlets, published by O. Hutchinson, 25 East 14th St.. New York, are full of sound doctrine and excellent suggestions.

The Soarce of the Mississippi. Comprising I. Letter from Messrs. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. II. Report of Hopewell Clarke, Chief of the I. B. T. & Co. Expedition to the Head-waters of the Mississippi, October, 1886. This 16 paged quarto pamphlet contains an article "Reprinted from Science (December 24, 1886)," in defence of the accurate survey of the source of the Mississippi, by Nicollet, in 1836, and subsequent surveys of the U. S. Government, against the pretended survey of Captain Glazier in 1881. It is a startling exposé of the presumption and fraud of the latter.

The Phrenological Journal. New York. Fowler & Wells Co. $2 per year. This interesting Monthly began its 84th volume in January. It improves with age, and is valuable reading to all who are interested in its purpose: the study of man in his mental and physical relations.

Henry George and His Land Theories. With an Appendix. By Rev. Henry A. Brann, D.D. Reprinted from The Catholic World for March, 1887. A logical and caustic review and destruction of the sophistries of Henry George on the theme indicated; and just now especially interesting as presenting from Catholic authorities a complete refutation of Father McGlynn's assertion of the attitude of such representatives on the land question.

By Joseph Cook.

Boston Monday Lectures. Delivered in Tremont Temple. A New Departure in the publication of Mr. Cook's Lectures insures their instant revision by the author and their presentation to the public in convenient and readable form, with the least possible delay. The Rand Avery Company have undertaken to put them in excel.ent form, - a handsome pamphlet, printed from large, clear type, on heavy white paper. and to issue them each week. As we write, the first four Lectures for 1887 have been published. That Mr. Cook's utterances are well worth reading will be conceded by all, whether they agree or not with what he says; and with very much of it all right thinking men will agree. At all events few will be found to fault his treatment of the most of the themes selected for "Preludes." And so far as Universalists are concerned, they will be tar more likely to stand by some of the Lecturer's statements than will Mr. Cook himself. Take this, for example, from the Lecture the 21st Feb. on "Self-Surrender to the Self-Evident." Mr. Cook is arguing, and profoundly and ably for the Personality of God based on human personality, and says: "There is a profound sense, therefore, in which man is made in the image of God, and in which God not only enswathes him, but dwells within him, as the air not only sur rounds but fills the cloud. Let us not think of God as only enswathing human personality. He interpenetrates it; He is the Life of its life; He is like the air and the lightning within the cloud as well as without it; His immanence is to be asserted as emphatically as His trancendence." Agreed; but will Mr. Cook stand steadfast here? If so, will he tell us what becomes of this immanence of God in the soul, when, as is his favorite theory, the soul loses all power to become obedient to God? The Lectures, put up in the above described handsome style, are sold at 10 cents each.

The Old Testament Student. As will be noticed, we have drawn largely in our General Review from the January number of this valuable magazine. We here note that its office of publication is changed from Morgan Park, Ill., to New Haven, Conn. The Student is furnished at the very low price of $1.00 per year.

Familiar Hymns and Tunes for Congregational Singing. Compiled by Rev. G. L. Perin. In this handsome pamphlet of 24 pages. we have 48 familiar hymns, 44 of which are set to music, and all are popular devotional melodies, well adapted for Conference, Praise and general religious meetings, where it is desirable that everybody shall be able to join in the invitation to sing. The price, without covers, is 8 cents: and with strong manilla covers, 10 cents. Just issued by the Publishing House, and destined, we think, to be in great demand and deservedly popular. Single copies sent post free for examination, on the addition of 2 cents to the prices given above.

"Three Lessons in Bible Universalism;" "A Statement of the Belief of Universalists." These two Leaflets, the first covering 8 pp., and sold at 75 cents per hundred, and the second making four closely printed pages, and furnished at 25 cents per hundred, have just been issued by the Publishing House. The "Lessons" are from the pen of Rev. Dr. J. M. Pullman, and fully justify his reputation as an apt instructor in the truth. They are divided into three sections, and treat of the following themes: The Conflict between Good and Evil; The Divine Fatherhood; The Final Restoration. They are put in catechetical form, and appended to each answer are Scriptural proofs of the statements made. The second Leaflet is endorsed by brethren entertaining quite various views on incidental matters of faith, as setting forth a just and defensible statement of fundamentals in Universalist Belief. The Winchester Profession of Belief is first given, and is followed by the statement of twelve particulars of doctrine, each briefly explained, and the explanations are fortified by references to Scripture proofs. Both Leafiets are having unprecedented circulation, and our readers cau render the cause no better service than by increasing their distribution, especially among those who are ignorant of our faith.

All publications noticed under the heads of "Contemporary Literature" and "Book Notes," will be found on sale at our Publishing House.

ARTICLE XVI.

Universalism in America.

Universalism in America. A History. By Richard Eddy, D.D., President of the Universalist Historical Society; Member and late Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Vol. II. 18011886. Bibliography. Boston: Universalist Publishing House. 1886. pp. vi., 634 IN the first volume of this elaborate and valuable work Dr. Eddy brought down the history of Universalism in America from 1636, when traces of this doctrine appeared on this side of the Atlantic, to the close of the last century. The second volume, now before us, and which completes our author's undertaking, resumes the story where the first left it and continues it down to the present day. It necessarily embraces, therefore, a most interesting and important period in our denominational life, and commands the fixed attention of the Universalist reader from beginning to end. Besides tracing with a good degree of particularity the progress of our cause through the first twenty years of this century, our author gives a full and satisfactory account of the introduction and adoption of our Profession of Faith at Winchester, N. H., in 1803, together with the plan of association and government then adopted, the gradual development of which he has carefully traced to the system now existing. Here we have, too, a full and impartial history of what is known as the Restorationist controversy, ending in an unfortunate schism; and also what is vastly more grateful to the reader, an account of our denominational movement and efforts in the interest of education and their present results; and after sketching the history of Universalism in the several States and Territories of the Union, and presenting in brief the condition of our Church in each at the present time, our author closes his task with a bibliography, or extended list, surprising on account of its extent, of books, pamphlets, and all manner of printed matter which the discussion of Universalism in America has in one way and another called forth.

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ous topics of interest to which this volume so strongly invites us, we wish to stop a moment and throw back a glance at the condition of Universalism here at the opening of the present century. At that date the Rev. John Murray, whom we may without impropriety call the father of Universalism here, had been in the country thirty years, the first ten of which he had spent chiefly in an itineracy of wide missionary labor. It was twenty years after the organization of the first Universalist parish in Gloucester, Mass., and the erection of our first distinctively Universalist house of worship for its special accommodation. Yet at this period there were less than thirty Universalist ministers in the whole country, twenty-two of whom were in New England, one was known to be in the city of New York, while there were possibly four or five in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and still further south. Of all these ministers, though generally men of intelligence and good sense, there was not one blessed with what was called a liberal or college education, and few or none whose education was much above what the common schools of the time were able to give, supplemented by such reading as the books then easily accessible could furnish, improved and made useful by individual observation and reflection. Nor are we to suppose that these twenty-five or thirty men devoted their whole time to the work of the ministry. Many of them, we know, were obliged, like the apostles of old, to labor with their hands for the support of themselves and their families. They preached because they felt that they had some great truths which the world needed to know, and they were glad, without regard to financial compensation, of every opportunity to proclaim them. Meanwhile there had sprung up, chiefly in New England, perhaps fifty or sixty Universalist parishes, then commonly called churches or societies, often widely separated from each other, with few exceptions very small and poor, and generally made up of families or individuals gathered from a circuit of ten, fifteen and even twenty miles in diameter. With the exception of very few of them, as Gloucester, Boston, Oxford, etc., they had no church edifice, and worshipped in school houses, halls,

and not infrequently in private dwellings. Among them all there were probably not five that were able to maintain regular services every Sabbath in the year; many thought themselves fortunate if they could hear the preached word every alternate Sabbath, and others had to be content if they could enjoy such a service once a month; while others still were happy in a less frequent ministration of the gospel. It is worthy of notice that, unlike the present time, most of these parishes or missionary stations were not in our large towns, but in rural districts, quite remote from any centre of large population, and might, no doubt, be generally traced to the influence of some intelligent individual in the neighborhood, who had by some chance received the new faith, and diffusing it among his friends, had gathered what is called a society about him. From the circumstances of the case there could be very little of what we now call church life. The members of these little parishes were widely scattered and seldom met except at Sabbath services. Sunday Schools had not yet come into existence, and the various associations for charitable, social and church purposes, now so common in all our parishes ̧ -wheels within wheels, which touch and move different individuals, young and old, on different sides of human nature, -had not been thought of, or would then have been impracticable. Worst of all, we had no Universalist press, very few books, no tracts, and no weekly denominational paper to carry our thought and the knowledge of our work and our progress out among the people. We had, indeed, a Convention, which met once a year, that embraced New England, and brought together our ministers and parishes, though in the loosest organization and with no other bond of union than the common faith in the infinite love of God and the great salvation.

This is but a faint picture of the condition of Universalism at the beginning of this century. So slow had been the progress of a doctrine which our orthodox neighbors tell us every day is most pleasing to the carnal and unregenerate heart, and which, if their opinion of it is well founded, should in that generation, not eminent for its virtues or its morality, have