Contemporary Literature [pp. 549-569]

S 5S CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. [July,
nounce and promulgate." Of the Hebrew priesthood he says, "it prefigured
the expiation made by Christ, the admission of thoze who receive him as
their priest to fellowship with God through him, and still closer fellowship
between him and the Father."
The work is fully illustrated from ancient and modern sources, and is
brought out in excellent style by the publishers.
Maranatha; or, the Lord Cometh. By JAMES H. BRoOKES. Published by
Chas. C. Con, St. Louis, Mo.
The first edition of this work was issued in January last. A notice of it,
intended for our April number, was accidentally omitted. That a second
edition should be already called for, is a proof both of the interest felt in the
subject and of the ability with which it is treated. The work is characterized by those qualities of mind and heart which have for years given Dr.
Brookes a place in the front rank of the American clergy-familiarity with
the Scriptures and scrupulous reverence for their authority as the very word
of God; uncompromising fidelity to what he believes to be the truth, combined with charity towards those who differ from him; doctrinal orthodoxy
vitalized by evangelical piety; withal, a vigor of thought and expression
which comes only from a gifted intellect, thorough culture, and an earnest
Spirit. As we may in a future number notice at more length this work and
other recent publications on the same subject, we at present merely direct to
it the attention of any of our readers who may wish to have in a concise and
interesting form the ground on which many of God's children believe in the
pre-millenial advent of Christ, and are looking for his "glorious appearing"
with longing and expectation.
We take this opportunity of commending a monthly periodical called
The Truth," edited by Dr. Brookes, and issued by the publisher abovementioned, at $i a year. The periodical is similar in form and character to
"The Witness," edited for many years by the late lamented Dr. Inglis. It
contains "nothing sectarian in its purpose, or secular in its aims, or controversial in its character, or personal in its allusions," and has "for its sole
object the glory of God in the salvation of sinners and the comfort of saints."
J. T. D.
PHiLoSoPHY.
William Mullan of Belfast, Ireland, has issued two tracts by the REv. DR.
WATTS, Professor of Theology in the Assembly's College at that place; the
first being An Ezamination of Herbert Spencer's Biological Hypotheses;
the second is entitled: Atomism: Dr. Tyndall's Atomic Theory of the
Universe, Ezamined and Refuted; to which are adaedHumanitarianirm
Accepts, Provirionaly, Tyndall's Jmpersonal Atomic Deity; and A Letter
to the Presbytery of Belfast, containing a Note from the Rev. Dr. Hodge,
and ~ Critique on Dr. Tyndall's recent Manchester Recantation, together
with Strictures on the late Manijesto of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of
Jreland in refrrence to the Spkere of Science. This latter is a growth from
-the author's public reply to Tyndall's Belfast Lecture shortly after its de