magnify, or wish to have us magnify, their physical discomforts and the aching void of social life. Rude homes, much of sickness, frequent removals, lack of domestic help and conveniences, maternal suffering and care, pastoral anxieties and labors, wear hard upon them, until the canker eats at the husband's heart as he sees his companion wasting away under the accumulating burden, which he sees no way of easing. I have been moved by the sacrifice of life on the part of the wives of several of the first Illinois missionaries. In the summer of 1833, Mr. Ellis, returning to Jacksonville from a missionary tour, found that his wife and two only children were in their graves, taken away by the cholera, which had swept off seventy persons in that neighborhood. In the same season and place, and by the same fell destroyer, Mrs. Farnham was removed. Then, soon, the wife of Mr. Jenney; then the wife of Mr. Watson; then the wife of Mr. Bascom, only four years after his coming to Illinois ;--then the wife of Mr. Sturtevant, all of whom passed away at the opening of domestic life. "Some of them," says one of the bereaved men, “were women at whose death hundreds were ready to exclaim-when shall we see the like again?-women of rare beauty, purity and high culture, to whose services to the cause, justice will only be done in another sphere than this." And yet in this earthly sphere their influence still lives. Of all such, the Saviour's words "She hath done what she could"--are at once a memorial and a benediction.

Turning from this look backward through the last fifty years to a glance forward through the next half-century, what may it reveal of Christianizing influence in Illinois? May we not expect that another half a hundred years, starting with this meas ure of advancement, will witness a great increase in the number and spiritual power of our churches-a corresponding growth in our Christian Institutions--progress in the prevalence and power of revivals-a maturing of the Christian State under the training of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May we not expect that the Illinois Home Missionary Society, besides doing its own home work, shall become a succorer of many mission enterprises toward the West and toward the South, and shall, of its sons, raise up many who shall go forward as ministers of the Word to help in the founding of other Christian empires in our

land. And may we not expect that our twenty-five Illinois young men, now at work in heathen countries, may, in the next half-century, be followed by a ten-fold number who shall go forth to make known to the nations, the unsearchable riches of Christ. All our home work, essential and glorious as it is, is only a means to the end of making our nation the great missionary power in the earth.

Very few of us will be here to unite in the celebration of the second jubilee of this National Society. But upon us of the present generation falls largely the responsibility of making that Centenary what it ought to be. If we carry on to our succes sors that which we have received from the Fathers; if we but use wisely the system of appliances which they have set up; if we be filled with the Spirit from on high, we shall resign our trust with assurance that, under God's foreordaining love, the report of a hundred years of this evangelizing scheme will give our sons occasion to review the past with still more absolute faith that the triumph of the Kingdom of Christ is near at hand.

ARTICLE X.-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS.

THE ATONEMENT.-We can confidently speak of Mr. Dale's work on the Atonement-of which this is the fourth edition-as one of the most valuable contributions to the theological literature of our day. It is the more timely because the subject, besides being a central theme of revelation, has been reopened in recent discussions both in England and in this country. The treatment here is thoroughly biblical, as it should be. It does justice to the author's reputation as a scholarly, discriminating, candid, and devout theologian. It has the advantage, as compared with most treatises, of insisting on the "Fact of the Atonement" as the objective ground for the remission of sins, in distinction from any theory regarding the mode of its operation, as also of pursuing the strictest method of interpretation; and this too with reference to recent investigations and controversies. After an ample and able introduction, the author in successive lectures argues the Fact of the Atonement from the History of our Lord, from our Lord's own testimony, and from that of the Apostles Peter, John, James, and Paul, separately considered. Another lecture is taken up with general confirmatory considerations, and yet another with "the Remission of Sins." While carefully distinguishing the fact of the Atonement from any theory and enjoining modesty as to any views claiming or supposed to be exhaustive of the subject, he would yet encourage instead of repressing thought in this direction, and his last two lectures attempt to illustrate the theory from our Lord's relation "to the Eternal Law of Righteousness," and also from his relation "to the human race." In this part of the work he does not seem to us so clear and helpful as in the foregoing exegetical discussions which will be found most serviceable not only to ministers but to intelligent readers generally. More than sixty pages of notes are added, contributing to the thoroughness and value of the discussion.

*The Atonement. The Congregational Union Lecture for 1875. By R. W. DALE, M.A., Birmingham. Fourth edition. New York and Chicago: A. S.

HALL ON THE RESURRECTION.*-The author of this little volume was a teacher of considerable repute more than thirty years ago, in Ellington, Conn. He was an enterprising scholar, possessed of much enthusiasm and characterized as an original and independent thinker. His Christian life was marked by earnestness and devotion. Some years before his death, which occurred in 1847, he became convinced, by his investigation of the subject, that the ordinary view concerning the resurrection of the body was erroneous, and, as the result of his reflection and study, he wrote the brief treatise which is now published by his children. A whole generation has passed since the book was written. Its author is unknown by all but the older part of the community in the region where he lived. But the subject is one which has equal interest for all generations, and any careful and thoughtful treatise respecting it is worthy of attention. Mr. Hall examines all the passages in the New Testament, which bear or are supposed to bear on the doctrine in question. He candidly considers the arguments of those who are opposed to him, and ingeniously and ably sets forth the strength of his own position. His conclusion is, that the doctrine of the resurrection of the present body is nowhere taught in the New Testament, and, also, that there is no foundation for the view entertained by many, that there is in the present human body some germ which will be raised to life and will unite the future body with the present one. On the contrary, he believes the opposite of both of these views to be distinctly declared. Since his treatise was prepared, the number of those who hold, in the strictest sense, to a literal resurrection of the present body, has greatly diminished. It would seem, indeed, that the declarations of Paul with regard to this point are sufficiently clear and satisfactory as against such a view, and that the objections to the theory from other sources than the Scriptures are such as to render it most difficult to accept and maintain. But so strong is the influence of past beliefs, that many Christians will look even now upon any denial of this view with a feeling that a most precious truth is assailed. We are convinced that there must be, hereafter, a more reasonable doctrine, than the strictly physical

*How are the Dead Raised? and with what Body do they come? An inquiry into the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, as taught in the New Testa ment; with particular reference to the Question of a future existence of the human body. By JOHN HALL, late Principal of the Ellington School. Hartford: Brown & Gross. Hall Brothers, Elmira, N. Y., 1875. 12mo, pp. 226.

and literal one, and that the Church has yet to attain to what is in the highest degree satisfying with regard to this subject. Whether Mr. Hall's positions can be regarded as all of them correct or not, we are sure that those who peruse his little book will be interested in it. It is creditable to any one, who, like him, is engaged in the work of teaching a classical school, that he has the ability and the enthusiasm to prepare such a treatise on a subject so remote from the studies with which he is daily occupied.

SCOTT ON THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW TESTAMENT QUOTATION.*The object of this volume is to discover, by an examination and classification of the quotations made by the New Testament writers from the old Testament Scriptures, the principles which underlie them, and to apply these principles to questions connected with biblical study. The author begins by presenting the large number of quotations, and then states the formulas and forms according to which they are made. He then enters upon a thorough investigation of the principles on which the writers proceeded, which principles he classifies by a fivefold divisionpsychological, grammatical, analogical, synthetic, and prophetic— and gives examples in illustration of each class. He compares, also, quotations made by the patristic writers from the Old and New Testaments, and refers to citations in the ecclesiastical authors, and even to the action and principles of the mediæval and modern philosophers in quoting from the Greek and Roman classics. By a full, though brief, survey of the entire field, he thus lays a foundation for the main part of his work, which is the vindication and application of the principles discovered. The author is a Scotch clergyman, and evidently writes, in some degree, under the influence of the education which he has received. He takes a strong position, as against all who would, like many German writers, find in Paul's quotations, at times, traces of the Jewish schools, a rabbinical element, or any traces, except, perhaps, as to what is formal rather than essential, of the Jewish schools. He also, in the application of his principles, makes the quotations, in their forms and methods and peculiarities, afford strong proof in confirmation of the genuineness and inspiration of the New Testament. His doctrine of inspiration is that it is, in

* Principles of New Testament Quotation, established and applied to biblical science. By the Rev. JAMES SCOTT, M.A., B.D. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. 1875. 12mo, pp. 169.