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the negro who had accompanied the old man, he inquired, and answer them well ; but they could not exchange places " Is your master a Christian? " " No, sah, he's a Prisby­ without serious detriment to their usefulness. It is true that terian. ' Much disconcerted, Mr. Moody sought still to turn A. excels in argumentative power ; let him argue, then, for the conversation to profit, so, addressing the negro, he said, he was made on purpose to convince men's reasons ; but "Are you a Christian?" "Yes, sah, I'se a Mefodis."­ because B.'s style is more expository do not despise him, for E. Eggleston; Scribmr's llfonthly. he was sent not to reason, but to teach. If all the members of the mystical body had the same office and gift, what a wretched malformation it would be ; it would hardly be so THE propensity to compare is frequently indulged in good as that, for it would not be a formation at all. If all footish and injurious ways. It cuts us to the heart when we ears, mouths, hands, and feet were turned into eyes, who hear excellent ministers decried, because they are not like would hear, eat, grasp, or move? A church with a Luther certain others. You cannot logically institute comparisons in every pulpit would be all fist; and with a Calvin to fill where they do not hold. Rugged Cephas has his place and every pastorate, she would be all skull. Blessed be God for order, and he is neither better nor worse, higher nor lower one Robert Hall ; but let the man be whipped who tries in in value, than polished . No one inquires which is his own person to make a second. Rowland Hill is admir­ "the more useful-a needle or a pin, a spade or a hoe, a able for once, but it is quite as well that the mould was waggon or a plough ; they are designed for different ends, broken.-C. H. Spurgeon,

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OTHER GREEK WRITERS, APOSTOLIC FATHRRS, APOLOGISTS, SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA. SECOND CENTURY. ------I------Clement of Rome, C, 60-102 "'· Greek. lgnatius of Antioch, c. 70-115 Quadratus of Athens, :~~ I of Smyrna, c. 86-155 , 130 1 Aristo of Pella, . Justin Martyr, . ;~~I Claudius Apollinaris, Teaching of Twelve Apostles, c. xoo Miltiades of Athens, ~~~I Hermas of Rome, , . . roo Melito of Sardis, 170 I Pseudo- of AlexandriJ., 120 Tatian of Assyria, . 170 Diony!lius of Corinth, 170 Pantrenus, t8o Writer to Diognetus, x20 , t8o I Hegesippus, . . 170 Clement, 190 , I so Athenasoras of Athen•, • Origen, . 202

1 rS~! Trenreus ofGaul, . rSo 1 Heraclas, 248 ~ Hippolytus of Portus, 200 I Dionysius, . . 265 ~ GregorY. Thaumaturgus, 270 i Pamphllus of Cresarea, 309

{3. Latin. ! Tertullian of Carthage, 150-220 ;------ of Carthage, • 20o-258 I Minucius Felix, Carthage, 2D0-250 GRERK FATHERS, NICENR AGE, i LATIX FATHERS, CONTEMPORARY. Commodian of Carthage, 250-300 I I N ovatian of Rome, 250-300 I Arnobius of Sicca, . 260-300 ' of Cresarea, . 270-340 , . 290"368 Lactantius of Sicca, 300-330 , 303-373 [Ephra:m the Syrian, 30D-3791 Basil the Great, . 329-379 : Cyril ef Jerusalem, . . 31<>-386 i Gregory of N azianzum, . 33<>-39 1 335-395 of Milan, . 'I Gregory of N yssa, • • 34D-397 Didymus of Alexandria, . 309-395 Epiphanius of Salamis, . 315-403 ' Chrysostom of Constanti- of Rome, . 34<>-419 nople, • . • . 347-407 I , . 380-444 I , 354-430

I Greek Historians af"ter Eusebius.l Latbt H-istorians afttr ]erouu.

I Socrates of Constantinople, 380-439 Ruffinus of Aquileia, . 33o-4ro Theodoret ofCyrus in Syria, 39o-457 Paul us Orosius, . 415 I Sozomen of Constantinople, 39o-423' Snlpicius Severus, . 420 1

~ Evagrius of Antioch, • 536-594'1 Gennadius of Gaul, 495 Theodorus, Lector. Co~st., fl. 525 Cassiodorus, . . 562 1 --~~----.I ------·~ ------~--