practical refutation of any assertion that the minority have been subjected to the tyranny of a majority. Finally, we cannot but hope that the minority, after reviewing the entire action of the conference, will find that, both in their Declaration and their Protest, they have taken too strong a view of the case; and that by presenting it in its true light before their people, they may be able to check any feelings of discord that may have arisen, so that the Methodist Episcopal Church may still continue as one body, engaged in its proper work of "spreading scriptural holiness over these lands." ART. VIII.—SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS. American Quarterly Reviews. BAPTIST QUARTERLY, October, 1875. (Philadelphia.)-1. Romans VII, 7-25. 2. Arnold's Literature and Dogma. 3. The Missionary Future in the Light or Prophecy. 4. Renan's Antichrist. 5. John, the Apostle, and his Writings. 6. Exegetical Studies. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, AND THEOLOGICAL ECLECTIC. October, 1875. (Andover.)1. Jesus and the Resurrection. 2. The Indorsement of the Septuagint. 3. Recent Critical Treatment of the Psalter. 4. The Early British and Irish Churches. 5. Consciousness. 6. Words in New Testament Greek Borrowed from the Latin. 7. Recent Assyrian Discoveries. 8. Decline of Rationalism in the German Universities. 9. Dr. Burton on Metaphysics. CHRISTIAN QUARTERLY, October, 1875. (Cincinnati.)-1. The Struggle between Church and State in Germany. 2. The Ground of Obligation and Norm of Right. 3. Christ and Antichrist. 4. The Family as Typical of the State. 5. The Three Great Questions of the Age. CONGREGATIONAL QUARTERLY, October, 1875. (Boston.)-1. David Choate. 2. Exegesis of Genesis xlix, 22-26. 3. Dogma and Liberalism. 4. The Sacraments: Who may administer them. 5. Absent Members, and what to do with them. 6. Ministry and Churches of New Hampshire. 7. Congregational Necrology. NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, October, 1875. (Boston.) -1. An Address on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Meeting of the Provincial Legislature in Salem, Oct. 5, 1774. 2. An Oration on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. 3. An Oration on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Fight in Concord, April 19, 1775. 4. An Oration on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. 5. An Oration on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Washington's Taking Command of the Continental Army, July 3, 1775. 6. An Oration on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Meeting of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774. 7. Proceedings at Centennial Commemorations, 1874-5. PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, October. 1875. (New York.) -1. Presbyterian Elements of our Nationality. 2. Civil and Religious Liberty in Turkey. 3. The Right of a Prosecutor to Appeal. 4. The Law of Appeal in the Presbyterian Church. 5. "God in Human Thought." 6. The Hornets of Scripture. 7. Textual and Topical Preaching Compared. 8. Simon's Mistake-Luke vii, 36-50. 9. The Sabbath, and How to Observe It. 10. The Currency Question. FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XXVIII-10 QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. October, 1875. (Gettysburgh.)-1. The Relation and Duties of Educators to Crime. 2. The Lord's Supper. 3. Consecration in the Ministry. 4. What is a Fundamental Doctrine? 5. Erasmus and Luther. 6 Hebrews xiii, 10. 7. Collegiate Education. 8. General Synod. 9. The Work of the Review. SOUTHERN REVIEW, October, 1875. (Baltimore.)-1. The Ninth Chapter of Romans 2. The Times of George III. 3. Bacon's Philosophy. 4. New France and her New England Historians. 5. Termites. 6. James Russell Lowell. 7. The Ground of Right. English Reviews. British and FoREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, October, 1875. (London.)—1. Servum Arbitrium. 2. The Epistle to the Hebrews. 3. On the Relation of God to the World. 4. The Course of the Church in Prussia during the Present Century. 5. Jephthah's Vow. 6. Dr. Merle D'Aubigné on the Reformation in Scotland. BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1875. (London.)-1. "Religious Art," 2. The Atomic Theory of Lucretius. 3. The Poetry of Alfred Tennyson. 4. The Etruscans and their Language. 5. The Boarding-Out of Pauper Orphans. 6. Modern Necromancy. 7. Isaac Casaubon. EDINBURGH REVIEW, October, 1875. (New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay-street.)—1. The Financial Grievance of Ireland. 2. Recent Editions of Molière. 3. Forest Management. 4. The Reresby Memoirs. 5. Ewald's History of Israel. 6. Progress of the Kingdom of Italy. 7. Lawson's Travels in New Guinea. 8. A Prussian Campaign in Holland. 9. The Municipal Government of London. LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1875. (London.)-1. The Magic and Sorcery of the Chaldeans. 2. Celtic Culture. 3. The Unseen Universe. 4. The Brighton Convention and its Opponents. 5. Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Accommodation. 6. William Bell Scott, Poet and Painter. 7. The Methodist Conference of 1875. LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1875. (New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay-street.)-1. Memoirs of Saint-Simon. 2. Trout and Trout Fishing. 3. William Borlase, St. Aubyn, and Pope. 4. Drink: the Vice and the Disease. 5. Icelandic Illustrations of English. 6. Tre Maules of Panmure. 7. Russian Proverbs. 8. Census of England and Wales. 9. The Conservative Government. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, October, 1875. (New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay-street.)-1. The Marriage of Near Kin. 2. Quakerism. 3. Lord Shelburne, the Minister. 4. The Religious Education of Children. 5. The Baroda Blunder. 6. Montaigne. 7. Physics and Physiology of Harmony. 8. Theism. German Reviews. THEOLOGISCHE Studien und KRITIKEN. (Theological Essays and Reviews.) Edited by Dr. Riehm and Dr. Köstlin. 1876. First Number. Essays: 1. KÖSTLIN, The Proofs of the Existence of God. (Second Article, concluded.) 2. ROTERMUND, From Ephraim to Golgotha. Thoughts and Remarks: 1. SCHUM, The Quedlin burg Fragment of an Illustrated Itala. 2. RöSCH, King Pul. Reviews: 1. VOIGT Fundamental Dogmatik, reviewed by Von der Goltz. 2. GOLTZ, Die christlichen Grundwahrheiten, reviewed by Gottschick. Miscellaneous: A German Palestine Museum in Jerusalem. The numerous monuments relating to the ancient history of Assyria, which have of late been discovered and deciphered, have a special interest for the Christian theologian on account of the light which they shed upon the chronology of the Old Testament. We have, in a former number of the "Methodist Quarterly Review," referred to the valuable information derived from the monuments concerning King Sargon, whose name is only once mentioned in the Scriptures, (Isa. xx, 1,) but who, in the light of the native inscriptions, is now universally recognized as one of the greatest of all Assyrian kings, and appears as such in all text-books of ancient history. On the other hand, King Pul, who occupies a most prominent position in the biblical records, and was formerly believed to have been one of its foremost kings, appears to lose his claim to be counted among the actual sovereigns of the Assyrian empire. The above article, by G. Rösch, acquaints us with the recent researches and discoveries of German theologians and Orientalists relating to this king. His name has thus far not been found in the Assyro-Babylonian stone monuments. Lepsius in his essay, Ueber den chronologischen Werth der assyrischen Eponymen, ("On the Chronological Value of the Assyrian eponyms," Berlin, 1869,) thinks that any further search for him in the inscriptions will be useless, as he is identical with Tiglathpileser. This view is supported by the most learned of German Assyriologists, Professor Schrader, of Berlin, in his work, Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament, ("The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament.") The author of the above article, J. Rösch, who is also devoting special attention to the Assyrian monuments, opposes the views of these scholars. He admits, with Schrader and Lepsius, that, in view of the. continuity of the Assyrian lists of eponyms, there is no room left for a king of the Assyrian empire by the name of Pul, but he adduces two historical arguments, and one philological, against the identity of Pul with Tiglath-pileser. The only way. of harmonizing the biblical records with the inscriptions appears to him to be to assume that Pul was a subordinate king or viceroy, appointed in Babylonia by the sovereign of Assyria. This explanation has previously been given by other writers on the subject, and Rösch refutes the arguments by which Schrader had opposed it, and gives some reasons for its correctness. In the first article Professor Köstlin concludes his essay on the arguments which Christian theologians have used for proving the existence of a supernatural, personal God. The article is specially devoted to a review of the cosmological and teleological arguments, and the argument derived from the consent of all nations. The objections of the opponents are fully developed, several weak points in the argumentation of the defenders are admitted; but, in conclusion, the writer takes the ground that the religious and Christian faith conveys a degree of certainty in regard to the reality of a living, personal God which no so-called proof of the existence of God can produce. The article "From Ephraim to Golgotha," by the Rev. W. Rotermund, a German Protestant pastor at Sào Leopoldo, in Brazil, undertakes to give us a connected view of the last days in the life of Jesus, beginning with his departure from Ephraim, and closing with the crucifixion. As is usual in the essays of this class, the conflicting views of the recent writers on the life of Jesus are referred to and examined, and, in conclusion, the author gives us the result of his studies in the following table: Thursday.. March 80.. Nisan 7.. Departure from Ephraim; arrival in Jericho. 8.. Journey from Jericho to Bethany. 9.. Last supper and anointment. 66 10.. Entry into Jerusalem. น 11.. Cursing of the fig-tree; cleansing 12.. Withering of the fig-tree; ser mons. 13.. Sojourn in Bethany. Tuesday... 4.... the passover. Passages of the Scriptures. Luke xviii, 81-xix, 27; Matt. John xii, 12-19; Mark xi,1-11; Mark xi, 12-19; Matt. xxi, 12-19; Luke xix, 45-48. Mark xi, 20-xiv, 2; Matthew xxi, 20-xxvi, 5; Luke xx, 1xxii, 6. 14.. Preparation for, and partaking of, Matt. xxvi, 17–30; Mark xiv, 12-26: Luke xxii, 7-89; John xiii-xvii. John xviii, xix; Luke xxii, 40-xxiii; Matthew xxvi, 31 xxvii; Mark xiv, 27-xv. French Reviews. REVUE CHRÉTIENNE. (Christian Review.) July, 1875.-1. LICHTENBERGER, Alexander Vinet. 2. E. W., A Religious Novel, (Le Mot de l'Enigme, by Madame Augustus Craven.) 3. BONIFAS, Roman History in the Tragedies of Corneille, (Conclusion.) 4. G. MONOD, Fine Arts in France in 1875. August.-1. LICHTENBERGER, Alexander Vinet, (Second Article.) 2. PENEL, Gladstone and Ultramontanism. 3. LICHTENBERGER, German Affairs.-The Future of the Theological Faculties. September.-1. E. DE PRESSENSE, The General Aspects of Religion after the Fall of Man. 2. E. DE GUERLE, Byron and his Last Critics. 3. NAVILLE, On the Existence of a Religious Christian Art in the First Centuries. October.-1. E. DE PRESSENSE, Apologetic Studies, (Second Series,) The Supernatural in God. 2. CADENE, The Correspondence of Lamartine. 3. FR. DE PRESSENSE, England and English Society under George IV. and William IV. 4. LICHTENBERGER, German Affairs. Professor Lichtenberger, formerly of Strasburg and now of Paris, in his article on the Theological Faculties of Germany, discusses the dangers which at present threaten these institutions. After having raised German theology to the highest eminence which theological science has ever attained, their suppression is now demanded by several prominent scholars. Lichtenberger specially refers to the recent work of Professor Sybel, the celebrated historian of Bonn, and one of the chiefs of the national liberal party, on "The German Universities, their Achievements and Wants," (Die deutschen Universitäten, ihre Leistungen und Bedürfuisse. Berlin, 1874,) and to that of Dr. Geffcken, one of the few German advocates of an entire separation between Church and State, on "State and Church in their Mutual Relations." (Strasburg, 1875.) Sybel takes the ground that theology does not constitute a science in the strict sense of the word, but that it is the art of governing the soul, and that it belongs altogether to the seminaries. Geffcken, on the other hand, wants to confine the instruction of theology to the seminaries, on the ground that it solely concerns the Churches to organize and to direct the theological instruction given to her future ministers. Professor Lichtenberger does not share the opinion of the two German scholars. Though a very decided partisan of the separation between Church and State, he insists that "religious science is one of the subjects the instruction in which contributes to the intellectual culture of a country, and that, consequently, the State government has the duty to take the initiative in regard to it. This does not necessarily imply that the State is competent to |