EDITED BY

H. B. BASCOM, D.D., LL.D.,

"Causas cognoscite rerum."-PERSIUS.

"Estimate things, not by their rareness, difficulty, or credit, but by their real
importance."-LORD BACON.

VOL. III.

LOUISVILLE, KY:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN EARLY, FOR THE METHODIST E. CHURCH, SOUTH.
(Office, No. 457, up stairs, Main Street.)

MORTON & GRISWOLD, PRINTERS.
1849.

Austin, Texas

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

NUMBER I.

ART. I. Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Bonaparte,...

II. A Review of the Epistle to the Galatians,.

III. The Sacrifice of Christ,.

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48

72

112

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120

143

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V. A Response to "J. B." on Capital Punishment,...

VI. Outlines of a System of Geology,.

VII. Philosophical Atheism,..

VIII. D'Aubigne's Vindication of Oliver Cromwell,...... 170

1. A Compendium of Logic,.

II. The Witness of the Spirit,.

III. The Sonship of Christ,.

IV. Outlines of a System of Geology,.

V. A Review of the Epistle to the Galatians,.

VI. Our National Religion,.

I. Providential Agency-Reply to "J. W. S."....

V. Outline Portraits of Distinguished American Metho-

dist Preachers,...

407

VI. Review of "The Sufferings of Christ," by a Layman, 425

VII. Review of the "Appeal" of Commissioners of the

Methodist Episcopal Church, South,..

VIII. Critical Notices,.

441

489

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NUMBER IV.

I. Pastoral Letter of the Archbishops and Bishops of the

United States,...

II. The Germ Theory of the Resurrection,..

493

502

III. Origin of the Idea of the Existence of Deity,.. ... 519

IV. Review of Elements of Divinity,..

533

V. Thoughts on the Origin of Natural Death,.

VI. The Wesleyan-Class Meetings,