Short Notices [pp. 675-680]

678 Sltort Notices. [Oc~o~E~
Christocracy; or, Essays on the Coming and Kingdom of Christ. With
answers to the principal obj ections of Post-millenarians. By John T.
Demarest, and William R. Gordon ministers of the gospel in the
I~etormed Dutch Church. New York: A. Lloyd, No. 115 Nassau Street.
1867.
This volume comprises a series of articles on Eschatology,
published a few years ago by Drs. Demarest and Gordon in
"The Christian Intelligencer." The articles have been somewhat enlarged and modified, and as now issued each is accompanied with a reply to alleged objections. The different pointS
involved in the Millenarian controversy are discussed with considerable ability and scholarship. The writers are honest, earnest,
and thoroughly familiar with both the scriptural and historical
argument in favour of Pre-millenianisin. Their familiarity
with the writings of Mr. D. N. Lord-whom they hold in high
esteem-occasionally betrays them into an imitation of his style
of dealing with an opponent. They "cannot conceal their
fears" that Dr. McClellan "was not exactly honest." They
are "amazed" that Dr. Fairbairn should "sup, port an opinion
absolutely at variance with common sense. McCullagh's
Exposition of Isaiah lxv. 17, is "ridiculous." They raise the
question whether Drs. Hatfield and Shedd "can be so self-conceited as to think, &c."
Should some one who has the leisure and the ability for the
work prepare and publish a satisfactory reply to the numerous
volumes that within the last few years have been issued from
the press in defence of the theory of the Pre-millennial Advent,
he would render the church an important and much needed
service.
The Theology of the Creek Poets. By V. S. Tyler, Williston Professor of
Greek in Amherst College. Pp. 365. Boston: Draper & lialliday.
1867.
This valuable volume is made up of six essays, published at
different times in various theological reviews. The title of the
book is fairly descriptive of the subjects of the last four essays,
two of which, on "The llomeric doctrine of the gods," and
"The Homeric doctrine of Sin," were published in the American
Th'eoThgical Review, and the other two on "The Theology of
IEschylus," and "The Theology of Sophocles,"in the Bi6liotkeea Sacra. To these are prefixed an essay entitled, "The
Head of the Church head over all things," which appeared in
1838 in the Bi6lieal Re~ository; and one on "The Homeric
Question," taken from the Bi~tiotkeea Sacra.
The collection is an interesting and valuable contribution to
Natural Theology. The opening essay, written nearly twenty
years before the others, will have the widest circle of readers,