f science have been
arrayed against the incorrect interpretations of the Word of God. But
when both are better understood, and more justly conceived, they are
found in wondrous harmony. When the New Testament speaks to man of God,
of duty, of immortality, and of retribution, man feels that its
teachings "commend themselves to his conscience" and reason. When it
speaks to him of redemption, of salvation, of eternal life and
blessedness, he feels that it meets and answers all the wants and
longings of his heart. Thus does Christianity throw light upon the
original revelations of God in the human conscience, and answers all the
yearnings of the human soul. So it is found in individual experiences,
so it has been found in the history of humanity. As Leverrier and Adams
were enabled to affirm, from purely mathematical reasoning, that another
planet must exist beyond _Uranus_ which had never yet been seen by human
eyes, and then, afterwards, that affirmation was gloriously verified in
the discovery of _Neptune_ by the telescope of Galle; so the reasonings
of ancient philosophy, based on certain necessary laws of mind, enabled
man to affirm the existence of a God, of the soul, of a future
retribution, and an eternal life beyond the grave; and, then,
subsequently, these were brought fully into light, and verified by the
Gospel.

We conclude in the words of Pressense: "To isolate it from the past,
would be to refuse to comprehend the nature of Christianity itself, and
the extent of its triumphs. Although the Gospel is not, as has been
affirmed, the product of anterior civilizations--a mere compound of
Greek and Oriental elements--it is not the less certain that it brings
to the human mind the satisfaction vainly sought by it in the East as in
the West. _Omnia subito_ is not its device, but that of the Gnostic
heresy. Better to say, with Clement of Alexandria and Origen, that the
night of paganism had its stars to light it, but that they called to the
Morning-star which stood over Bethlehem."

"If we regard philosophy as a preparation for Christianity, instead of
seeking in it a substitute for the Gospel, we shall not need to
overstate its grandeur in order to estimate its real value."

CONTENTS.

A.

Abstraction, comparative and immediate, 187-189; 362-364.

AEschylus, his conception of the Supreme Divinity, 146;
his recognition of human guilt, and need of expiation, 515-517.

AEtiological