INDEX OF TOPICS

"A church" and "the church," dis- | Charisms, the primitive, 37, 38.

tinguish between, 164-167.
Adjustments, problem of ecclesiastical,

Christian character, the qualification
for Lord's Supper, 80, 81.
"Christians," origin of name of, 18, 19.

Agassiz, his story of the geologist Church, as a divine ideal, 161–207.

"Ecclesia," fine instance of verbal
transfiguration, 161–163.
the King's, 170–179.

Canterbury, missionary college at, 140. | Ethiopian Eunuch, baptism of, 15.

"Faith delivered once for all to the Mission of the church, 45-54.

saints," 155.
Feet-washing, custom of, 67–70.
First Christian Convention, 27-35.
Foreign missions, birth of, 20-26.
Forms in worship, need of, 111-113.

"Gates of Hades," meaning of, 173.
"God is spirit," 109, 110.

"Hades, gates of," 173.
Heredity, beneficence of, 61-65.
Hezekiah's catholic prayer, 89, 90.
Homologue and analogue, distinguish
between, 191, 192.

Ideal church, a unity, 141.
Immersion, the primitive baptism, 66,
71-75.

Imperfections of primitive church,

40-42.

of the principal sects, 147-149.
Missionary college at Canterbury, 140.
Missions, birth of foreign, 20-26.
Music, the natural outlet of devo-
tion, 120, 121.

New Jerusalem, church of, 202–207.
"New things and old," 102, 103.

Officers of the primitive church, 38, 39.
"Ordinances," beware of, 83, 84.
Organism and organization, distin-
guish between, 164-169.

Parallelism, Hebrew, 121, 122.
Paul, catholicity of, 24-26.
Pentecostal community of goods, 8, 9.
Peter, his interview with Cornelius, 17.
his relapse at Antioch, 40.
Prayer, the Pattern, 119.

Infant conversion, profoundly philo- Primitive church, 3–43.

sophical, 60, 61.

Inspiration not omniscience, 40.
Irenicon, proposed Baptist, 91–93.
Non-Baptist, 75-76.

Jerusalem, the church in, 13, 14.
Jesus at Jacob's well, 109, 110.

his reply to John's embassy, 49–54.
Jews, narrowness of the ancient, 21-23.
John's intense sectarianism, 150.
Justification, James's doctrine of, 53, 54.

"Keys of the Kingdom," meaning of
phrase, 174, 175.

Kingdom, church of the, 170-179.

Lay-missionaries, problem of, 135–140.
Levitical worship, a divinely prescribed

liturgy, 109.

Liturgy, problem of, 107-124.

"Lord's Prayer," seventeenth

John's Gospel, the real, 119.

Lord's Supper, problem of, 77-97.

a child of circumstances, 5.
assumptions concerning, 3, 4.
charisms of, 37, 38.

community of goods, 8, 9.
convention of, 27-35.

evolution of, 4-43.

first mention of "church" in Acts
4, 9.

general survey of, 36-39.
imperfections of, 40-42.
knowledge of largely inferential,
39, 40.

not our ecclesiastical model, 40-42.
officers of, 38, 39.

theology of, 39.

Problems of modern church, 45-157.

adjustments, 55-58.

baptism, 66-76.

Love, the supreme commandment,

91-93.

Matthias, appointment of, 7.

membership, 129-134.

polity, 141-257.

unification, 141–157.

Qualification for Lord's Supper, 80, 81.

Tabernacle, purpose of ancient, 108, 109." Wilderness, church in," 13.