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respect to each other? This we understand to be denied in the passage
quoted above, and to be affirmed by the Word of God, the faith of His
Church, and implied in real vicarious atonement.
Nelson & Phillips have published two bright little volumes, replete with the
suggestions and exhortations which are fitted to promote the devoutest aspirations and strivings after holiness, with only the defect that they recognize rino
holiness short of sinless perfection. The first is entitled: Bi7trlu-ig/t of all
God's Czildrcni. By Rev. J. T. CRANE, D.D. I-e begins his discussion
by a careful analysis of WVesley's teachings on the subject, which he proves to
be exceedingly vacillating and inconsistent. He accounts for this, by showing
that \Wesley held that "This infection of nature (original sin) dothl remainyea, in them that are regenerated." Of course this is incompatible with the
doctrine of sinlessness, so much contended for by this great divine. Our
author cuts the knot without untying it, by denying that " there is" proof that
this "infection of nature remains in the regenerate," the soul which is
"born of God." This does not satisfy us that John was mtistaken when he
said, "if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not
in us."
The otiher volume on thle same subject is entitled Ifoliness to the Lord,
By Rev. LEWIS R. DUNN, and is even richer in its hortatory and devotional
matter than that just noticed. His position on sinless perfection, however,
is sufficiently clear, when he says, in defining holiness: "First, it excludes
all sin; not merely the wilful violation of the law of God, but also
all moral impurity and defilement-all that is unhallowed or profane.
Secondly, it includes moral wholeness, completeness, soundness, purity,
consecration. It relates also to both inward and outward states, embracing
the moral condition of the heart and the character of life." Aside of this
perfectionism, this little volume has much to commend it.
The Carters bring out The Gosfd and its Fruits, a Book fir tire Young
By J. It. WIl,SON, M. A., Barclay Church, Edinburgh. It is made up of
the substance of sermons to the yonng people of his charge, admirably
adapted to a!dvance them in Christian knowledg,e, principle and practice,all the elements of holy living. MDIinisters might well study them as good
samples of evangelical preaching to the young. We commend to the attention
oi the admritrers of some books we have noticed, which are in quite a contrary
view, thie clhapter entitled, "Chirist the Substitute." We believe there is
more of the "power of God unto salvation," for the present and future generations of men, young and old, in such teaching, than in any thousand
volumes on the Way of Salvation, which teach that "for God to accept the
sufferings of innocence in place of those of guilt involves the confusion or
loss of all moral distinctions."
The Luminous teUnity, or L -teLrs addressed to the Rev. A. Gninzburg, a
rabbi of Boston, Mass., from the Rev. 31. S. Miller, on the question, Is
Unitarianism as opposedl t Trinibarianesm a princirle of Heathenism rather
than of spTeeifie Jud,ism? Philadelpli,: J. B. Lippineott & Co. 12mo,
I July,
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