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CONTENTS OF VOL. L.

Article.

NO. CXCVII.

1. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS....

BY PROFESSOR WILLIAM NORTH RICE, MIDDLETOWN, CONN.

Page.

I

II. EDWIN P. WHIPPLE AS AN ENGLISH ESSAYIST..... 36

BY PROFESSOR T. W. HUNT, PH. D., L. H. D., Princeton college.

III. CRITICISM AND THE COMMON LIFE

BY THE REV. A. A. BERLE, BRIGHTON, MASS.

IV. SOME HOMILETIC USES OF THE DOCTRINE OF

ELECTION ....

BY THE REV. HERBERT W. lathe, denver, colorado.

52

79

V. SCIENCE AND CHRIST (I.)...

93

BY WILLIAM W. KINSLEY, WASHINgton, d. c., AUTHOR OF

"VIEWS ON VEXED QUESTIONS."

VI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF OLD TESTAMENT WORK IN

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES...

BY PROFESSOR OWEN H. GATES, PH. D., OBERLIN THEOLOG.

ICAL SEMINARY,

119

VII. GEOLOGIC TIME RATIOS, AND ESTIMATES OF THE

EARTH'S AGE AND OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY....... 131

BY WARREN UPHAM, ASSISTANT ON THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF

NEW HAMPSHIRE, MINNESOTA, AND THE UNITED STATES.

VIII. THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF CHRISTIANITY....

BY PROFESSOR ARTHUR CUSHMAN MCGIFFERT, LANE THEO

150

LOGICAL SEMINARY.

IX. NOTES AND CRITICISMS.

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183

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Old Testament Books.......

Mr. Huxley and the Healing of the Gadarenes, or the "Swine

Miracle." Charles B. Warring...

172

172

More Books on the Sunday Question....

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