THE

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA.

EDITED BY

EDWARDS A. PARK AND SAMUEL H. TAYLOR,

WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF

PRESIDENT BARNAS SEARS.

VOL. XXII.

ANDOVER:

PUBLISHED BY WARREN F. DRAPER.

LONDON: TRÜBNER AND COMPANY.

1865.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

WARREN F. DRAPER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XXII.

Article

No. LXXXV.

I. AN EXAMINATION OF THE VARIOUS READINGS

OF 1 TIMOTHY III. 15,

BY REV. WILLIAM H. WARD, UTICA, N. Y.

Manuscripts,

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BY REV. WILLIAM 8. TYLER, PROFESSOR IN AMHERST COLLEGE.

III. MARKS OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN GOD'S PROM-

ISE TO ABRAHAM,

79

BY SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., PROFESSOR IN BANGOR THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY.

IV. THE GIFT OF TONGUES,

99

BY REV. DAVID GREENE, FORMERLY SECRETARY OF A. B. C. F. M.

BY REV. LEMUEL 8. POTWIN, NORTH GREENWICH, CONN.

BY H. B. HACKETT, PROFESSOR IN NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

VII. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE,

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150

Description of the Ancient Town of Amadia in Assyria,

by Rev. Justin Perkins, Missionary at Oroomiah, Persia, 150

Letter from Rev. George C. Hurter, Beirût, Syria,

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The Schemitic and the Indo-Germanic Races in their Rela-

II. MORE RECENT WORKS ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST,

BY CHARLES M. MEAD, M.A., BERLIN, PRUSSIA.

207

III. THE PERMANENCE OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE

INTENTION OF ITS FOUNDER, .

BY JOSEPH P. THOMPSON, d.d., new YORK.

IV. HISTORICAL STUDIES IN COLLEGE,

223.

THEIR DEGREE OF IMPORTANCE, AND THE BEST WAY OF

CONDUCTING THEM.

BY REV. B. SEARS, D.D., PRESIDENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY.

V. THE SCRIPTURAL PHILOSOPHY OF CONGREGA-

TIONALISM AND OF COUNCILS,

284

BY REV. EDWARD Beecher, d.d., GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.

Means of attaining it introduced by Christ,

The Fundamental Warrant and Reason of Congregation-

alism, .

The Great Temptation and Delusion,

The Power of the Congregational Principle,

Congregational Councils, .

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