CONTENTS. ANTE-NICENE FATHERS AND THE MOSAIC ORIGIN OF THE PENTATEUCH, BIBLE STUDY: Jesus at the WELL OF SYCHAR.-By James G. Vose, D.D. BIBLICAL NOTES: THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.-By T. W. Chambers . Browning, Mrs.—By Mrs. Theodosia Warren BURIAL OF THE DEAD IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THE (from . DANIEL, THE HISTORICAL CHAPTERS OF, ATTESTED BY CONTEMPORARY RECORDS.-By William Hayes Ward, D.D. DARWINISM, CHRISTIAN ASPECTS OF.-By the Rev. J. M. Whiton EMERSON, RALPH WALDO.-By Professor George Prentice HOLY SPIRIT THe Need of the Church, The.—By President G. D. B. PAGE 623 INSPIRATION, THEORIES OF.-By Alvah Hovey, D.D., LL.D. JESUS, THE DIALECTIC METHOD OF.-By the Rev. Richard Montague. IMMORTALITY And Science.-By Professor James T. Bixby IMMORTALITY, THE INTUITION OF.-By President Geo. T. Gould, D.D. . LOST WORD, THE THEOLOGY OF THE, AND THE MANIFESTATION OF THE LUTHER AND LOYOLA: THEIR INFLUENCE ON MEN.-By Alfred A. MADONNA DI SAN SISTO, THE.-By the Rev. J. I. Mombert, D.D.. MAN, THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF.-By Professor Stearns MILTON AND TENNYSON.-By the Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke, Junr. MINISTER'S VOCATION AND AVOCATION, THE.-By the Rev. J. Brainerd I 115 ORIGIN OF MAN, THE RECENT AND SUPERNATURAL, CONSIDERED FROM A 225 POSITIVE FAITH, THE DUTY, VALUE AND POWER OF. By Samuel C. PRAYER, CONDITions of SuccessFUL.-By the Rev. Dr. W. M. Taylor 137 Lobb's Theological Quarterly. I. THE THEOLOGY OF THE LOST WORD AND THE MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINE NAME. BY THE REV. DR. J. F. GARRISON. THE writings that compose the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Canon are pervaded by a unity of thought and fact, amidst a diversity of conditions, which is as unique in the history of literature as is the career of the Jewish people in the chronicle of nations. It is without a parallel, or even a resemblance, in the mental or religious development of any other people. The nearest approach to it is the Sacred Classics of the Chinese; but theirs is the unity of purposed repetition, and not a unity combined with growth. Their whole spirit is embodied in the saying of Confucius, who claims only to be "a transmitter, not a maker;" one who is "fond of antiquity, and seeks knowledge there." The best praise of any work, with them, is that it reproduces most nearly what has been said before; and the highest aim of their typical" superior man" is to recall the past unchanged, and so fix this that it shall remain unchangeable. The writings which are collected in the Bible show, on the contrary, a continual and intended progress. Each writer not only adds something to what has gone before, but speaks mainly because he has somewhat to add. Yet his "word " always fits into that which has preceded it, has an essential connection with this, cannot be adequately understood apart from it, and sheds a new light backward on some part of what has been already written; is, in fact, a true and legiti VOL. I. B mate growth of the same spiritual life. The later differing from the earlier only as the bud, blossom, and fruit differ from each other and from the seed; all being involved potentially in the germ, and all pervaded by the one common life, which has unfolded each in its due place and order. The main features of this unity are so clearly evident, that the world unconsciously has recognized it by its very title of "the Bible"-that is, "the Book "-implying thus that, notwithstanding all the diversity of circumstances, variety of authorship, and fifteen centuries of time which are combined in it, yet it is one "Book" in spirit, one in its accepted basis of fact, and even by its opponents is treated and criticised as essentially one in truth or falsehood. Besides these general characteristics of unity, there are also many subtler trains of thought that do not lie upon the surface, but which run through the various portions of these Scriptures, and testify, in even a more wonderful manner than those usually recognised, to one common source of origin and one common spirit guiding all its authorship. Some of these are wholly within the text, and show themselves, in ever growing force and number, to all zealous students into the full connection and significance of the different portions of the Bible; while there are others that are dependent for their explanation, still more for a true apprehension of their value, upon a comparison of the contents of the Scriptures with facts and lines of thought outside of their own letter. One of this latter class, which though often alluded to is seldom recognised in its full import, is the use of the Divine "NAME' throughout the Bible, and the relation it bears to God's manifestation of His "WORD," in both the Old Testament and the New. That there was great importance attached to "the Name" of God is evident from the mode and frequency with which this expression is employed in every part of the Hebrew Scriptures, and far more than is commonly noticed in the Christian Canon. In the Old Testament" The Name of the LORD," or "in the Name of the LORD," is applied continually, under circumstances that imply the high regard attached to it in the opinion of the writer. It often stands as a mode of personification of the Divine Being Himself, or as the self-active energy of some of His attributes; is, in fact, only another way of saying that "God" or the LORD does thus and so; and hence must be regarded, in very many places, as a true synonym for God. Take, for example, among the many illustrations of these uses that may be found in every part of the Old Testament, these: "The |