THE

METHODIST REVIEW

(BIMONTHLY)

VOLUME LXXXIX.-FIFTH SERIES, VOLUME XXIII

WILLIAM V. KELLEY, L.H.D., EDITOR

NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS
CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM
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CONTENTS OF THE VOLUME

JANUARY-FEBRUARY

BISHOP ISAAC WILSON JOYCE, D.D., LL.D..

CHARLES BAYARD MITCHELL, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio.

THE INTEGRITY OF NATURE AS A BASIS OF FAITH...

WILLIAM L. WATKINSON, D.D., LL.D., London, England.

THE CHIEF WORK OF THE MINISTER OF GOD....

Professor EZRA SQUIER TIPPLE, D.D., Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New

Jersey.

LONGFELLOW'S SERVICE TO AMERICAN CULTURE.....

Professor FRANK C. LOCKWOOD, Ph.D., Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania.

THE INVINCIBILITY OF TRUTH...

GEORGE P. MAINS, D.D., New York, New York.

THE ÆSTHETIC MOTIVE IN SCHILLER'S ETHICAL THOUGHT...........

Professor EMIL C. WILM, Ph.D., Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas.

RECRUITING FOR THE MINISTRY.....

GEORGE C. PECK, D.D., Scranton, Pennsylvania.

THE VALUE OF PSYCHOLOGY TO THE MINISTRY....

86

Professor WALTER M. PATTON, Ph.D., Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas.

THE BIBLE ON THE TONGUE OF LINCOLN....

93

Rev. GEORGE T. LEMMON, A.M., Luzerne, New York.

JOHN OLIVER HOBBES

109

Professor THOMAS P. BEYER, Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS:

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS..

114

The God of Law and Order, 114; The Imitation of Christ, 117; My Parish, 120.

THE ARENA............

125

Systematic Pulpit Teaching, 125; Goldwin Smith and "Rational Christianity," 127;

Wanted, a Vision, 128.

Hughes's Letters on Evangelism. 151; Dinsmore's Atonement in Literature and Life,

155; Drawbridge's Is Religion Undermined? 158; Brown's A Hebrew and English

Lexicon of the Old Testament, 161; Ford's The Methodist Year Book, 162; Gilder's

A Book of Music, 162; Symons's An Introduction to the Life of Browning, 165; Fitch-

ett's Ithuriel's Spear, 167; Harrison's Memories and Thoughts, 169; Collyer's Father

Taylor, 174; Walker's John Calvin the Organizer of Reformed Protestantism, 1509-

1564, 176.

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Professor JAMES MAIN DIXON, M.A., F.R.S., University of Southern California,

Los Angeles, California.

AN ESTIMATE OF SIDNEY LANIER.....

203

Professor T. W. HUNT, Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

THE FIRST ATTEMPTS AT CHURCH UNION IN AMERICA:..

Professor JOHN L. NUELSEN, Theological Seminary, Berea, Ohio.

216

DO WE NEED A METHODIST CREED?....

221

Rev. H. FRANK RALL, Ph.D., Baltimore, Maryland.

ROBERT BROWNING'S CHRISTMAS REVERIE.....

Rev. JAMES ALLEN GEISSINGER, A.M., El Paso, Texas.

IMPRESSIONS OF FRENCH CULTURE..

Professor A. C. ARMSTRONG, Ph.D., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connect-

icut.

OUR ENGLISH SPELLING OF YESTERDAY-WHY ANTIQUATED? . .

Professor E. W. BOWEN, Ph.D., Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia.

253

HEAVEN'S WINDOWS OPENED.....

269

Rev. A. R. DAVIES, A.M., Bridgeport, Connecticut.

PRACTICAL LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY.....

276

Professor J. H. FARLEY, Ph.D., Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Dr. Downey and Human Depravity, 295; Dr. Downey and Dr. Watts, 298; A Reply

to Criticisms, 298; The Interpretation of Isaiah's "Double," 299; Nicodemus's New

Birth, 301; The Will of God, 302.

Watson's The Inspiration of Our Faith, 121; Noyes's Poems, 325; Woodberry's

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 330; Connor's The Doctor. 332; Peck's Twenty Years of the

Republic, 333; Nettleship's Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, 338; Jackson's Persia,

Past and Present, 341; Edwards's On the Mexican Highlands, 343; MISCELLA

NEOUS, 344.

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BISHOP STEPHEN MASON MERRILL, D.D., LL.D................

345

R. J. COOKE, D.D., Book Editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

THE PROVINCE OF THE PREACHER.............

360

CHARLES E. JEFFERSON, D.D., New York, N. Y.

AFTER THE WAR.....

373

HENRY B. SCHWARTZ, D.D., Naha, Loo Choo Islands, Japan.

Professor GEORGE A. WILSON, Ph.D., Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.

CONVENT LIFE IN OLD MANILA.....

416

Rev. GEORGE A. MILLER, A.M., Manila, Philippine Islands.

Professor W. M. SMALLWOOD, Ph.D., Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.

A New Exposition, 467; The Creed-" He Rose Again," 468; A Challenged Statement,

470.

THE ITINERANTS' CLUB..

471

The General Epistle of Jude (continued from the May June Review, 1905), 471.

Valentine's Christian Theology, 493; Hastings's A Dictionary of Christ and the Gos-

pels, 495; Brookfield's The Cambridge Apostles, 498; Plunkett's The Letters of One,

502; Whitney's The Reformation: Being an Outline of the History of the Church from

1503 to 1648, 505; Breasted's Ancient Records of Egypt, 507; Ramsay's Pauline and

Other Studies in Early Christian History, 508; MISCELLANEOUS, 509.