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time he wished to show that there was much in the affairs of this world analogous to religious faith. So he uses the phrase "acting on probability." But may we not consider that "when Butler wrote to us probability is the very guide of life,' he may have meant to include in the wide range of that phrase as defined on the first page of his treatise all that Holy Scripture means when it tells us that faith is 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' STUDENS.

DOES THE BIBLE SAY THAT EVE WAS MADE OUT OF ADAM'S RIB? T. D., on page 357 of the lately completed vol. of the Homilist, in reference to the question, "Does the Bible say that Eve was made out of Adam's rib?" speaks of "visions" as granted to Abraham, Eliphaz, Elihu, Daniel; and then asks, in reference to Gen. iii. 21., "Did Adam see a vision?" That is, I suppose, did he in vision seem to see a symbolical act performed upon himself in the taking one of his ribs, and the formation of the woman from it. Surely there is the remarkable difference to notice between his "deep sleep" and that of those above referred to, that the narration speaks no word of a "vision" being given to him. This seems to suggest that his was an entirely "visionless sleep," as contrasted with that of all the others mentioned, and that we may still hold to the literal interpretation and still commonly held idea concerning the passage, and regard woman as having really been made out of man. T. L. L.

QUESTIONS.

"HOMOOUSION AND HOMOIOUSION."

Can you tell me where to find the clearest account of the controversy that gathered round the terms, "Homoousion" and "Homoiousion"? Does not a large part of modern Theological controversy and error arise from an unconscious heresy or lack of clear belief on this matter? O. N. T.

SPECIAL SERVICES FOR NON-CHURCHGOERS.

Will some of your readers, or yourself, give some instances of successful adaptation of Sunday Services-specially Sunday Evening Services-to interest the masses who are not Church or Chapel-goers?

SOUTHPORT.

ALCOHOL WINES AND SCRIPTURE.

W. B.

Is there any good literature any of your readers can suggest on the question of the alcoholic nature of the wine at the marriage-feast in Cana, and at the Lord's Supper?

BRISTOL

NEPHALIST.

Reviews.

MEMORIALS OF A Consecrated LIFE, compiled from the Autobiography, Letters, and Diaries of Anne Lutton. London: T. Woolmer, City Road.

The rarity of such a type of life as Miss Lutton lived in this bewilderingly busy age, would be a very good reason for publishing her biography. The beauty of that life is a still better reason. In her, and in such as she, we may find what the modern saint is and can be. The saint of the home, the saint who, blending intellectual pursuits and social engagements and domestic duties with more public Christian activities, redeems the secular from being trivial, and the sacred from being sentimental, will do for our age all that saints of stricter orders have done for earlier centuries, and more than they did. During almost the whole of her 89 years Miss Lutton lived a life of most remarkable consecration to God. And in perusing the pages that, with unusual vividness, bring that life before us we have been most struck-not with her powers as a preacher to women, and a Methodist class leader, which were very great, but with the combination of character that is evident all through, and, perhaps, finds no more characteristic illustration than in the following notes about her early and her latest years. "Latin classics could not last for ever. I began to dread a famine. I had heard of Greek poets, historians, and orators; might I not read them? I well knew 1 could have no aid, but must rely on the Divine blessing which by this time had become my never-failing source of strength. . . . I learned, in addition to Latin and Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and read some of the best writers in these languages. Then I read Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Arabic and Persian. Chaldee came in naturally, and I have also done a little at Æthiopic, Hindustanee, Russian, and Irish.' In little matters she always seemed to have at hand just what one wanted in her pocket. Oh that wonderfully capacious, that many-partitioned, that most useful pocket! What did it not contain? If anyone was ill there was a smelling bottle; if tired with reading, a lozenge was offered; if a pin were required the well-filled pincushion was produced; if a memorandum were needed, there was an ivory tablet and the gold pencil-case at hand; a penknife or a fruit knife was ready on occasion; if a letter had to be posted the stamp case was brought out; if a sick person was visited, it never failed to produce a Testament for reading, and often a tract to be given, and the purse ever open to a case of distress; or if a point of Biblical criticism was on the tapis, the pocket always contained the Greek Testament.'

The perusal of the life open before us may well inspire ministers to seek to produce Christian characters of such manysidedness, or we may, perhaps, better say of such wholeness as Anne Lutton.

THE HIGHWAYS OF LITERATURE.
Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo.

By DAVID PRYDE, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.E.

The preface to this book will indicate its character, style, and purpose. "The multitude of books has now become almost overwhelming. Many of these are comparatively worthless; and it is quite possible for a man to go on reading for a lifetime and never light upon the grand standard works. It is absolutely necessary, therefore, that every earnest reader should be able to discover the best books, and study them properly after they have been discovered. This is precisely the task which the present work undertakes. Both in the Chapter on Books in general, and also in those on different kinds of literature, it lays down rules by which the reader, in the first place, may identify for himself the best authors, and, in the second place, may study them in such a way that they will be of use in the duties of every day life." This book consists of eight chapters, the subjects of

which are: Books in General-Works of Fiction-Biography-History-PoetryThe Drama-Oratory-Mental Philosophy. These chapters are written in a manner that can scarcely fail both to interest and instruct. The author throughout shows himself to be a man of extensive reading, keen discrimination, high appreciation of the best authors and their best thoughts, and possessing withal a style of expression indicative both of beauty and of power.

THE MESSIAH KING. BY JAMES WITHER. London: S. W. Partridge and Co. "In placing," says the author, "the following pages before the Christian reader, the writer does not aim to instruct those who have had greater advantages than himself, but rather to invite Christian believers, generally, to a solemn inquiry as to the Scriptural foundations for the views so strongly enforced upon his own convictions. The vast importance of the subject, whether referring to the beneficent designs and intentions of the Supreme Being, or the happiness of the whole human family, presents sufficient claims for the most earnest investigation, however long the inquiry may have been deferred." This book is not the production of a professional religious author, nor that of a mere conventional evangelical, but of a man who by independent enquiry into the Gospel of Christ has reached strong convictions which seem to force an utterance. These convictions for the most part appear to be in agreement with the Word of God and are of great practical importance.

INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. By W. GARRETT HORDER. London: Elliot Stock.

"The real purpose of this book," says the author, "is to show that the whole order of things amid which man's lot is cast, as well as his own nature, are studded over with hints of immortality. There is here no attempt to set forth all such hints, but only those which, to the mind of the writer, seemed the most impressive. He has found some of these to be helpful to minds that were perplexed on this great subject, and thus it is at their suggestion and request that they are offered to that wider circle which can be reached only through the press. It will be a great joy to know that they have removed any cloud of difficulty, or in any way strengthened hearts that are perplexed to look on with more assurance to that higher realm, in which, as the writer believes, our natures will reach out to their highest development and fulfil their noblest mission." This is a very valuable little work on the momentous subject on which it treats. It teems with brief extracts from many of our best authors, breathes out many noble thoughts in eloquent phrases. Mr. Horder was fired with a lofty aim and has wrought it out with unusual success.

THE WORK-A-DAY WORLD. By E. WORDSWORTH. London: Hatchards.

This book endeavours to aid those who live in this work-a-day world not merely to look beyond it, but to look into it. It is written evidently by one not only possessing pure taste and great refinement, but inspired with a Christly spirit, and has a high practical purpose.

EXCELSIOR: Helps to Progress in Thought and Action. Vol. IV. Sunday School Union. Old Bailey.

This volume, intended to interest the senior scholars in our Sunday Schools, contains much that is bright and attractive, and maintains a high tone throughout. The aim of its editor and the general scope of the magazine may be judged from a glance at its contents. Here are short papers on Natural Science, stirring tales of Adventure, suggestions for the employment of winter evenings, hints on public

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speaking, puzzles, enigmas, and acrostics, short stories of Notable Lives, &c., &c. The chief worth of the volume is given to it by a series of papers on "Scripture Figures and Eastern Facts," by Rev. W. Spencer Edwards. They are written simply and pleasantly, and throw a flood of light upon many passages and allusions that to most Bible readers convey no meaning. The principal tale, Motto, or Clement Markwood's Victory," is well written and full of interest. The incidents are natural and lifelike, and are wisely left to teach their own lesson. But while there is much to praise, honesty compels us to say that the book is by no means free from padding. Much of its moralizing is dull and longworded and utterly wanting in force. We are greatly mistaken if in the case of some of the articles, the mental and manual labour together cost their writer more than half-an-hour. The book is well got up in strong and handsome binding, and its pages are enriched by a number of illustrations.

EXPOSITION AND SERMON. By the Rev. Dr. MCAUSLANE. No. 3. London: Penny, Paternoster Row.

This number in the series Dr. McAuslane is publishing has as subject of its exposition, "The Tax Gatherer," and of its sermon, "Divine and Human Workmanship." In the first, Dr. McAuslane catches the spirit of the narrative with unusual keenness, and adapts its teachings with much quaintness, honesty, and force to our daily life. Zaccheus lives on its page, and many a modern counterpart of Zaccheus lives there too, while some who are sad and sombre contrasts to Zaccheus are made to feel ashamed of the contrast. The sermon is on the wellworn text, "We are labourers together with God," and ably shows with unaffected originality and power how this truth is illustrated in the Operations of Nature, Secular Pursuits, the composition of the Bible, the Sacrificial Death of Christ, and the Salvation of the Soul.

CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORLD. The Inaugural Address Delivered before the Congregational Union of South Australia. By Rev. OSRIC COPLAND. Adelaide: Thomas & Co.

Happy is the ecclesiastical assembly that has such a chairman, and that has the discernment to choose such an one. For Mr. Copland, whom the editor is glad thus as an old fellow student to greet though afar off, has dealt with a grand theme in a great breadth of sympathy, and with unflinching loyalty to Christ. His concluding words are very indicative of the spirit of the entire address. "I once saw a very beautiful picture of the Crucifixion. In the foreground stood our Saviour's Cross, whilst the great city with all its human interests loomed in silent grandeur behind, with the shadows settling upon it. What an illustration is this, I thought, of the place the world should hold in our thoughts and our affections. It is there, yes, there with its struggles, with its politics, with its social life, with its literature, with its art, with its science, with its amusements, with its business, it is certainly there, but its place should ever be behind the Cross, behind the Cross."

THE HEALING POWER OF CHRIST. By the Rev. W. J. HUMBERSTONE, London: Elliot Stock, Paternoster Row.

Though this is scarcely a fitting title for this entire volume of quiet, thoughtful, and refined meditations, it describes the whole more appropriately than names of the first articles in volumes, similarly used, often do. For at least half of the twelve chapters more or less directly group themselves round the central thought of the title. And, indeed, the whole influence of the book is rather healing than

awakening or arousing. It is manifestly, as Mr. Humberstone in his self-depreciating preface says, the production of a man's recovery from overwork, and seems to us to be a leaf plucked by his tired nature from the tree of life for the healing of his readers. We should rejoice in another volume that would be the vigorous outcome of his more robust health.

ANNALS OF THE EARLY FRIENDS. New Series. Richard Davies, and other Biographical Sketches. By FRANCES ANNE BUDGE.

THE BARCLAYS OF URY, AND OTHER SKETCHES OF THE EARLY FRIENDS. By FRANCES ANNE BUDGE. London: Samuel Harris & Co.

Miss Budge is doing good service in popularising the facts of the early history of the Quakers. Their first preachers were zealous evangelists and martyrs for religious liberty, and the influence of their story must be helpful now that the Society is returning to its early aggressive spirit and labours. The Methodists have long used the autobiographies of their first lay preachers to stir up the zeal and piety of the Societies; these twelve sketches can hardly fail of a similar result among all who read them. The sketches of the Barclays, of Isaac Pennington, and Alexander Jeffray, are those most interesting to the general public.

VOICES OF THE TWILIGHT, AND OTHER POEMS. 108 pp. By E. N. CAPPER. London: Samuel Harris & Co.

Many of Miss Capper's poems are musical, and all are marked by a spirit of joyous yet chastened piety. Some of the poems, such as "We would see Jesus," and Discouraged because of the Way," have long been in favour with what is called "the religious public." But the workmanship is unequal, and the ear is jarred upon at times by halting rhythm.

ENQUIRE WITHIN UPON EVERYTHING. London: Houlston & Sons, Paternoster Square.

This New Edition of an old book is a wonderful treasury of just such information as every household almost daily wants. Amongst the three thousand it supplies there is almost every time-honoured recipe for nearly everything the mother, the nurse, the cook, the gardener, &c., may need. Do we ask some rudimentary question in chemistry or astronomy or the other sciences, do we want to meet some pressing need about a dinner or an accident, the shape and texture of a garment, or the accurate preparation of a manuscript, the laws of a game, or the leasing or decoration of a house? we shall find some serviceable information within the covers of a book that is truly everybody's vade mecum. If any directions are out of date and old-fashioned, we think they are the medical ones; but when doctors differ, who shall decide?

THE ROMAN STUDENTS. By D. ALCOCK. London: T. Fisher Unwin.

This is a tale of the Renaissance. The incidents introduced into this book are instinct with historic memories, and will scarcely fail to interest the reader from beginning to end, suggesting from page to page as he proceeds many harrowing thoughts. The book is printed in good type, on good paper, and is elegantly "got up." A very nice present for the young.

ART IN EVERYTHING. BY HENRY FAWCETT. London: Houlston and Sons.

This work is dedicated to Sir Frederick Leighton, President of the Royal Academy. It is a reproduction of articles which appeared in the Churchman's Magazine. Its purpose is to call attention to the value of art in matters of every day life. Although so much has been said of recent years of the æsthetical and