ness, article on, by L. P. Hickok,|
D. D., 48: false methods of solv-
ing the problem, 48; character of
Dr. Beecher's "Conflict of Ages,51;
objections to the theory of pre-
existence, 53; contrary to the
general scope of Scripture state-
ment and teaching, 53; on the
supposition that benevolence is the
same as honor and right, pre-
existence untenable, 54; pre-
existence recognizes only individ-
uals, and denies any higher unity
in man, 55; the theory of pre-
existence does not touch the real
point of perplexity and anxiety,
56; the theory of preexistence,
unnecessary and undesirable, 57;
notice of Dr. Squier's problem
solved, 58; account of his theory,
58; God, not wholly disconnected
with sin, 59; a third method of so-
lution, 61; two general methods of
prosecuting the investigation, 61;
the theory of benevolence, 61;
leading facts involved in the theory
of benevolence,61; positions, taken
on this theory, in order to recon-
cile the existence of sin with the
perfections of God, 62; the first
position relates to the nature of be-
nevolence, 63; this position inde-
fensible, 64; the second position
relates to the nature of the means,
to be employed, 64; objections to
this position, 65; a third position
relates to the nature of happiness,
66; an important defect in the
whole theory of benevolence, 68;
a fourth position relates to the na-
ture of free agency, as being such
that God cannot have more holi-
ness and less sin, 69; objections to
this position, 70; the theory of rec-
titude, 72; sin cannot enter through
God, 73; it may enter through fi-
nite spirits, 73; sin, certain to en-
ter, if God deals with finite spirits
according to honor and right, 74;
this last position, accordant with
facts, 76; it involves nothing de-
rogatory to the character of God,
76; the great difficulty in reconcil-
ing perpetual sin with omnipotent
goodness, relates to the facts and
circumstances of human depravity,

76; method of overcoming this dif-
ficulty, 76; the sin of Adam, by the
very necessity of the case, involved
the sinfulness of his posterity, 76;
this necessity does not, of itself, in-
volve, in Adam's descendants, penal
guilt, 78; a new headship intro-
duced in Christ, into humanity, 79.
Phillips, Judge Samuel, Rev. J. L.
Taylor's Memoir of, article on, by
Prof. E. A. Park, 853.

Place and Condition of the Departed,
article on, by Prof. N. H. Griffin,
153 meaning of the sentence-
"To-day shalt thou be with me in
paradise," 153; what paradise is,
154; is no part of Hades, 155;
Hades used in four different senses,
in the Bible, 156; paradise is hea-
ven, 161; proofs of this statement
in the Bible, 162; Christ repre-
sented as going up to heaven, 163;
Christians represented as going
thither, 164; the condition of the
departed dead, one of full con-
sciousness and activity, 166; need
of a general Judgment, 170; need
of a resurrection, 172.
Plutarch on the Delay of Providence
in Punishing the Wicked, article on,
by Prof. Horatio B. Hackett, 609 :
account of the work, and impor-
tance of the subject, 609; general
plan and structure of the dialogue,
611; inferences, drawn by enemies
of religion, from the delay of Provi-
dence in the punishment of the
wicked, 613; these inferences,
shown to be improper and ground-
less, 614; direct vindication of
Providence against the charge of
remissness, 615; such delay, meant
to be an example of patience to
men, 616; this delay affords an
opportunity for repentance, 617;
the wicked, used as instruments of
the justice of God in the punish-
ment of others, 617; the wicked,
spared in order to bless the world
with a virtuous posterity, 618;
punishment, delayed in order that,
when inflicted, the hand of Provi-
dence may appear the more con-
spicuous, 618; the prosperity and
impunity enjoyed by the wicked,
more apparent than real, 619;

wickedness, the instrument of its
own punishment, 620; the recti-
tude of Providence in punishing
children for the sins of their pa-
rents, 621; answers to the objec-
tion drawn from this source, 622;|
continued existence of souls, after
death, 625.

Porter, Rev. J. L., article by, on Ba-

shan, Ituræa, Kenath, 789.
Predestination, Scripture, briefly Stated
and Considered, by Robert Knight,
noticed, 219.

Psalms, Imprecatory, article on, by
Rev. John J. Owen, 551.

R.

Robie, Rev. Edward, article by, on the
Figurative Language of the Scrip-
tures, 314.

Roman Exile, noticed, 656.

S.

Schaff, Prof., on the United States,
noticed, 217.

Shedd, Prof. W. G. T., article by, on
English Studies, 325.
Science and the Bible, article on, by
James D. Dana, LL. D., 80: the
character of God displayed in his
works, 80; natural science, with
many, an object of scorn, 81; origin
of this feeling, 81; researches into
the works of nature,as successful as
into revelation, 81; discovery of the
law of gravitation, 82; crystalli-
zation, 82; the discoveries of chem-
istry, 84; light, 84; laws in the
kingdom of life, 85; contempt of
science as shown by the author of
"Six Days of Creation," 89; the
subject of facts and laws of nature
misunderstood by him, 89; his con-
tempt directed specially against ge-
ology, 92; general course of doc-
trine in the " Six Days of Crea-
tion," 93; recapitulation of the
prominent points of Prof. Lewis's
system, 98; agreement in the first
three of these points with the "Ves-
tiges of Creation," 99; his system,
not found in the Bible, 99; neither
does science suggest such a view?
100; physical force cannot give
rise to life, 101; no living univer-
sal nature, capable of self-develop-

ment, 102; meaning of the ex-
pression," in the beginning," 103;
Prof. Lewis's ideas of the formless
and void state of the earth, 103;
of the works of the third day, 104;
the creation of vegetation, 104;
the creation of man, 105; points,
wherein science has thrown light
on the Mosaic account of the crea-
tion, 106; the authority of the Mo-
saic record, 106; point, wherein the
Mosaic account and geology are at
variance with each other; geolo-
gy making creation progressive
through secondary causes; Moses
making it instantaneous through a
simple fiat of the Almighty, 108;
geology, not a changeable science,
but progressive, 109; harmony
between science and the Bible, as
brought to view by Guyot, 110;
evidence of Divinity in the whole
order of creation, 110; the points
which God's testimonies in nature
have made clear, 112; creation,
mainly through secondary causes,
112; the "days" of Genesis, ma-
my long periods, 112; the true
principles or law of development in
nature, 112; the universe, one in
system and origin, 113; light, nec-
essarily the work of the first day,
114; the beginning," the actual
beginning, 114; division into dry
land and seas, gradual, 115; vege-
tation, part of the physical crea-
tion, 116; the creation of the sun
on the fourth day, 117; the inver-
tebrates, fishes, reptiles, and birds,
the earlier animal creations, 118; the
creation of the tribes, not simulta-
neous, but successive, 119; grad-
ual elevation of the successive races,
involved in the gradual refrigera-
tion of the earth, 121; system of
life-evolution, 122; the revolution
closing the Reptilian age in geolo-
gy, universal, 125; creation of
mammals, introducing a new ele-
ment into the world, 125; progress
by revolutions and by successive
creations of mammals, 126; dwind-
ling of the race of mammals, as the
age of man approached, 126; man,
the new creation, 127; man, the
last creation; the day of rest, 128;