sion that there is
no personal God, and no life after death, it would seem to follow that
the question, Have we still a religion? "must be answered in the
negative." But as he makes the essence of religion to consist in a sense
of dependence, and as he felt himself to be helpless in the midst of
this whirling universe, he had that much religion left.

ADVERTISEMENTS

_The Great Theological Work of the Age._

DR. HODGE'S THEOLOGY.

Systematic Theology.

By CHARLES HODGE, D.D., LL.D.,

of Princeton Theological Seminary.

_Complete in three volumes 8vo, tinted paper. Price, vols. I. and II._,
$4.50. _Vol. III._, $5.

In these volumes are comprised the results of the life-long labors and
investigations of one of the most eminent theologians of the age. The
work covers the ground usually occupied by treatises on Systematic
Theology, and adopts the commonly received divisions of the
subject,--THEOLOGY, Vol. I.; ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. II.; SOTERIOLOGY AND
ESCHATOLOGY, Vol. III.

The INTRODUCTION is devoted to the consideration of preliminary matters,
such as Method, or the principles which should guide the student of
Theology, and the different theories as to the source and standard of
our knowledge of divine things, Rationalism, Mysticism, the Roman
Catholic doctrine of the Rule of Faith, and the Protestant doctrine on
that subject.

The department of THEOLOGY proper includes the origin of the Idea of
God, the Being of God, the Anti-Theistic systems of Atheism, Polytheism,
Materialism, and Pantheism; the Nature of God, the Divine Attributes,
the Doctrines of the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, and of the Holy
Spirit; the Decrees of God, Creation, Providence, and Miracles.

The department of ANTHROPOLOGY includes the Nature, Origin, and
Antiquity of Man, his Primitive State and Probation; the Fall; the
Effect of Adam's Sin upon himself and upon his Posterity; the Nature of
Sin; the Different Philosophical and Theological Theories on that
subject.

SOTERIOLOGY includes the Plan or Purpose of God in reference to the
Salvation of Men; the Person and Work of the Redeemer; his Offices as
Prophet, Priest, and King, the Work of the Holy Spirit in applying the
redemption purchased by Christ; Common and Efficacious Grace,
Regeneration, Faith, Justification, Sanctification, the Law or Rule of
Life, and the means of Grace.

ESCHATOLOGY includes the State of the Soul after Death; the Second
Coming of Christ; the