, 135, 136.
Semler's mental defects, 136.
His imitators, 137.
Fatal results of Semler's doctrines, 146, 147.

Seriousness and Peace, society called, 376.

Shaftesbury, Lord, cultivated the acquaintance of the leaders of
skepticism in France and England, 115.
His violent hostility to Christianity, 115.
His _Characteristics_, 115.

Sin, Unitarian opinion of, 548-550.

Skepticism, the result of coldness, formalism, and controversy in the
Church, 4.
Development of skepticism south and west of Germany, 112, 113.
Skepticism received the support of the educated and refined German
circles during latter part of the eighteenth century, 149.
Historical record of skepticism, 563.

Skeptics, spirit of kindness toward, 587, 588.

Smith, John Pye, his statement concerning the inferior character of
replies to the English Deists, 117.

Speculative Rationalism in Zuerich, Periodicals favoring, 434.
Opinions of the Speculative Rationalists concerning the Scriptures and
Christ, 435-437;
immortality, 437, 438;
sin, 438;
faith, 438, 439.

Spener, Philip Jacob, his testimony on neglect of children, 63, 64.
His University life and pastoral labors, 89, 90.
His labors in behalf of children, 90.
The _Collegia Pietatis_, 90, 91.
Spener's _Pia Desideria_, 91.
His childlike nature, 91, 92.
His literary activity, 92.
Bitterness of his enemies after his death, 92, 93.

Spinoza, 103, 281.

Stanley, Dean of Westminster, his works, 523.
Rationalistic concessions in his _Jewish Church_, 524.
His late article in the _Westminster Review_, 524, 525.

Stevenson, description of Fliedner's Deaconess Institute, 317, 318.
Synod of Dort, 334.

Stoddard, Venerable, did not believe in excluding unregenerate persons
from the Lord's Supper, 537.

Strauss, his _Life of Jesus_ the outgrowth of long-standing doubt, 29.
Strauss a Left-Hegelian, 258.
Popular reception of his _Life of Jesus_, 259.
Extraordinary character of the contents of that work, 259, 260.
Strauss had an erroneous view of history, 260.
He contended that Christ was a mythical personage, 261-263.
Doctrines contained in the _Life of Jesus_, 263-270.
Replies to that work, 273, 274.
His late work, _Life of Jesus Popularly Treated_, designed for the
laity, 275.
Contents of that work, 276, 277.
Strauss' _System of Doctrine_, an embodiment of Hegelian philosophy,
281.
Rejection from prof