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The publication in this handy volume of these special copyri2;hted contributions that have ap- peared in recent issues of The Treasury Magazine, is in harmony with a proposed plan, —in the belief that it will aid in the accomplishment of the end sought, —the discussion and better under- standing of vital questions and issues of the day. CONTENTS. THE PAPACY IN POLITICS. By Chancellor John Hall, D.D., LL.D., of the Univer- sity of the City of New York il THE PROT^TANT CHURCH AND THE APOCRYPHA. By John Hall, D.D , LL.D 19 THE CHARACTER AISTD AIM OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, y By Rev. W. R. Gordon, S.T.D., Reformed Ch. of N. A.. 25 HOW CAN JESUITISM B|X^CCE5SFULLY MET? By Principal D. H. MacVicar, D.D., Presb. College, Montreal 39 THE OPPONENTS OF CHRISTIANITY. By Sir Wm. ^Dawson, LL.D., Principal of M'Gill Uni- versity, Montreal. ...... ., 55 RISE OF PRELACY AND I;F^ GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT. By President W. D. Killen, D.D., Assembly College, Belfast, Ireland 59 PROOFS OF A THREEFOLD ORDER OF THE CHRIS- TIAN MINISTRY. By F. Spalding, Bis-hop of Colorado J. / 73 PROOFS OF AN HISTORIC EPISCOPATE. By Wm. Stevens Perry, D.D., Bishop of Iowa, and Presi- dent of Griswold College 91 CLAIMS OF TRE^HISTORIC EPISCOPATE EXAMINED. By Pres. J.TiARPER, D.D., U. P. Theo. Sem., Xenia, Ohio. 107 THE ONE HOLY CATlt'OLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH. By Prof. James TIeron, D D., Presb. College, Belfast, Ire- land y- 123 CHRISTIANITY V^SUS FORMALISM. By Pres. S. A. Ort, D.D., Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio 141 S CONTENTS. THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS A TEXT-BOOK IN THEOLOG- ICAL SEMINARIES. By Pres. Robert Graham, D.D., Lexington. Ky 153 THE MINISTER A}^6 HIS BIBLE. By Prof. H. W. Warriner, B.D., Congregational College of Canada, Montreal 159 THE TEACHER REPRODUCED IN THE PUPIL. By Principal D. H.^MacVicar, D.D., LL.D., Presb. Col- lege, Montreal , 175 THE PULPIT AND ETHICS. By President B. P. Raymond, D.D., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn 1S9 THE SOURCES OF MORALS. By President W. M. Blackburn, D.D., Pierre University, E. Pierre, S. Dakota 201 LAW AND PERSUASION. By President W. M. 'Blackburn, D.D., Pierre University, E. Pierre, S. Dakota 205 THE INDIAN QUESTION : THE FRIENDLIES. By Pres. W. M. jBlackburn 215 TEMPERANCE IN ALL THINGS : BIBLICAL TEACHINGS AND MODERN METHODS. V 221 By Prof. E. J. Wolff, D.D., Gettysburgh, Pa WHAT IS TRUTh/^ By Pres. F. L. Patton, D.D., LL.D., Princeton College, N.J 229 TH E HIGHER CRITICISM. By Prof. M. S. Tkrry, D.D., Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois 235 INSPIRED FICTION. By Prof. M. S. Terry, D.D., Eva,nston, 111 241 LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND^ITS LIMITATIONS. By Professor Theodore W. Hunt, Princeton College, N. J. 249 SHEOL. y^ By Prof. Thos. Hill Rich, Cobb Divinity School, Lewis- ton, Me •• 257 CONTENTS. ^ NOTES ON THE NEGATIVE CRITICISM. By Professor W. 11. ^Roberts, DD, LL.D., Lane Theo- logical Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio 263 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HIGHER CRITI- CISM, y' By Professor A. H. Sayce, LL.D., Oxford, England 269 THE UNITY OF GEi<^SIS : I. AND II. CHAPTERS. By Prof. W. H.Xreen, D.D., Princeton Theo. Sem., N. J. 275 MODERN CRITjefsM OF THE PENTATEUCH. By Prof. M. Leitch, D.D., Presb. College, Belfast, Ireland. 283 THE ORIGIN AND RELIGIOUS CONTENTS OF THE PSALTER. By Rev. J. S. Steele, Ph.D., Lecturer on Hebrew 307 THE BIBLICAL CRITICISM OF..-(5UR DAY. By Rev. Professor Geo. H. Schodde, Ph.D., Columbus University, Ohio 315 UNITY OF THE SCRIPTURES. By Rev. Professor Geo. H. Schodde, Ph.D., Columbus University, Columbus, Ohio 323 DOES THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY MEET THE EDUCA- TIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE AGE? By Pres. E. B. Andrews, LL.D., Brown University, R. I. 329 OPPORTUNITIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF A COLLEGE EDUCATip(N. By Prof. G. P. Fisher, D.D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn 337 BROTHERHOOD IN^HIGHEST SERVICE. By Pres. M. E. Gates, LL.D., Amherst College, Mass.... 341 ESSENTIALS OF THE CURRICULUM. By Pres. B. P. Raymond, D.D., Wesleyan University 349 THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS VALUE OF HIGHER EDUCATIO>r.' By Pres. E. B. Andrews, LL.D., Brown University, R. I. 355 THE PAPACY IN POLITICS. By Chancellor John Hall, D.D., LL.D., of the University of the City of New York. THERE are many excellent people who deprecate any severe strictures upon that system of religion the representatives of which in Rome, and in our own country, are making public and effusive declarations of their love for us and for our American institutions. It is natural that in a nation like ours, where all men are free and equal, any- thing savoring of narrowness and prejudice should be dis- couraged. But it is possible to make a discrimination that is often ignored in these criticisms upon the "narrow and bigoted " Protestants who stand with the Reformers, the Puritans, and the historians. I think there have been up- right, humane and kind-hearted members of the imperial family of Russia ; but I do not, as an American citizen, feel kindly to the Russian system of government. I have met extremely amiable members of the Russian aristocracy, but I do not like the system they represent. Or, to put it more directly, there were some excellent people in Great Britain in the close of the last century, but British sway was set aside notwithstanding. Now, is there not room for a candid discrimination on corresponding lines in regard to pronounced Protestants ? Can they not be credited with the recognition of devoutness and piety in Roman Catholics, while pronounced against the system known as the Papacy ? Are not the very critics who think us want- ing in charity slightly defective themselves in that virtue which is so attractive when it is intelligent and genuine ? Again, it is common enough to say in relation to stric- tures on the Papacy that the past is not to be taken into 12 QUESTIONS OF THE DAY. account, for it had its bad features all around, and the evil has been discarded in the more enlightened times in which we live. Is this plea well founded ? Protestant bodies might properly set it up. They make no claim to infallibility in their leaders and consequent unchangeable- ness. But it is different with the Papacy. We do not linger over the question whether the infallibility is personal as well as official. The claim is that the Popes fill an office divinely appointed, at the head of a Church that can make no mistakes. Its principles, therefore, admit of no change. What it was since the day, as it alleges, when the Apostle Peter ordained Clement I. as Pope, according to the " Dec- retals " which for centuries gave supremacy to the Pontiffs, it is now; an unerring infallible wisdom has shaped the policy and determined the character of the Papacy.