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METHODIST REVIEW.

(BIMONTHLY.)

VOLUME LXVII.-FIFTH SERIES VOLUME I.

DANIEL CURRY, LL.D., EDITOR.

NEW YORK:
PHILLIPS & HUNT.

CINCINNATI:

CRANSTON & STOWE.

1885.

CONTENTS OF THE VOLUME.

BISHOP SIMPSON

JANUARY NUMBER.

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H. B. RIDGAWAY, D.D., Professor in Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 80

JOSEPH PULLMAN, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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ETHNOGRAPHY OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA...............................

RICHARD WHEATLEY, D.D., New York.

EDITORIAL MISCELLANY,.

CURRENT TOPICS: Reading the Hymns, 108; Philosophico-Theologizing, 110;

"The Philosophy of Conversion," 113; Right and Wrong Uses of the

Bible, 116; The Political Situation, 118; Private Character and Public

Life, 121.

FOREIGN, RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY.

DOMESTIC RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE..

MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE...

THE MAGAZINES...

BOOK NOTICES....

Edersheim's Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, 148; Reuss's History

of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament, 150; Lowrey's Possibil-

ities of Grace, 151; Lacordaire's Jesus Christ, God, God and Man, 153;

Potts's Spiritual Life, 153; Smyth's Reality of Faith, 153; M'Tyeire's

History of Methodism, 154; Atkinson's Centennial History of American

Methodism, 157; Trumbull's Teachers and Teaching, 158; Mitchell's

Hebrew Lessons, 158; Hughes's Beloved Physician, 159; Harrison's Life

of Robert Paine, 159; Froude's Thomas Carlyle, 160; Ingersoll's Coun-

try Cousins, 160; Hurlbut's Manual of Biblical Geography, 160; Bose's

Hindu Philosophy Popularly Explained, 161; Dorchester's Liquor Prob-

lem in all Ages, 161; MISCELLANEOUS, 163.

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