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TiIIIRSDAY; MARCEr 50868.
. .
MITED ATONtrinINT' Tow'RYIPROP
HODGi. • , ;"
We left Prof. Hodge inifilltid iii the difficulty
i•r•ing from ascribing a penal quaiiy
rings of the Perfectly inneeent, infinitely hely.
edeemer ; a diffteulty_which %New. School men'
el is not forced ;upon them 'by Scripture ori by
c Confession"bf Faith, Mid to their
inds, conveys an immoral idea: 'Theyhold,
I they think it sufficient to, hold; that the suf. ;
rings of Christ are in place;of bhei,eafferinganf
,e sinner; are intended to 9rkilt-4 - alid
ess God's sense of the heittetiSigiS 'of .
;much as He himself sixtfereir - in place of - sin:
era, before he wenld,pardon These ,sne
rings are not the ,pettaltylot.eitt ; they itre_not,
, called in the Bible or the Coriteisitiri of Path,'
d they can only, by a, very great n aceommode2 :
on of lattgua,ge, be called penab;becauie . they,
,swer all the ends of penalty. PeAttps ,we,
ght to waive.our philological seruples.for the.
ke of peace; And stretch's word' tiut of 'shape'
, aid in Re-union., only'nedesia
,• to understand line' Another, ifA ,differeet e.
•ptance of terms that eeparates,us. ..&04
metimes,' we .read , this treatise, we aresnr
ised to find how'near i ghe lifts' of betly-bian•-'
ses are together,"hoW purely verbal, sornetitnee; :
,e differences appeee,i 1 , 14 ; es we eeetinite, we
serve a re-appearance , ,of the high orthodoxy,,
comparison with which, Prof. Hodgef , findri
ult with Calvin, with Aligtuitine-Leinnetimei
ilty, according to 'the Profeasor, Usinglr in
finite latiguage,,'after the familiar example
,of
cripture,"—not to mention tlae Bible itself i Whoie
•ry language, almost, theiPrOfessor seems , dis- ,
leased with (page 378):* - - '
The Professor's statement or 'hrs. doctrine
.
found, among other places, on pages 308
d 9; where he says : lomat be cones
•d by all that justice .cannot deem&
to the punishment of a sin upon any party that
not truly and really responsible for it, and that ,
,e sins of one person cannot really be expiated
; the suffering of another, unless they be in
, ch a sense legally one that in the judgment of
c law, the suffering of the one is the suffering
the other. Now the gte.rnal Logos, in. court
-1 with the Father. and Holy Ghost assumed the
sponsibility of the federal relations of his elect
the law from all eternity. They were created
,d permitted to fall to the end of their redemp
in in Christ." Again, page 31 ; whete note
c exclusive tone of the statement:: "The
hurch doctrine always has been simply that the
~a 1 responsibilities (penal and,federal)of•bli
ople were, by covenant; transferred to Christ;
that he, as Mediator, was regarded and `trea
d accordingly. The obligation to punishment,
cording to the terms - of the eternal covenant,
s been taken from , the elect and fully dis
urged in the sufferings of our Substitute."
That there is an ineffable, mystical onion
tween Christ and his people, be it far from us
question or-deny. That through- that union
e Atonement becomes Redeniption,—is realized
his people, is very probably the fact. But
'at there is any necessity for the Princeton
very modern notion of a`" federal headship" •
e deny. Or, if it be admitted that the lan
age of Scripture and of the Confession in re'
'I rd to the Covenants iirtnelly justifies the use
the technical term/a/krill; which 'they never
s , ,—no more than they;do:.oo and penalty,
Christ's sufferings--iit , must be pronounced
nsatisfactory 'as , a final ' explanation of the
•ounds of the efficaly of Christ's' sufferings. ft
a contrivance to nuke , Citrist guilty and 'to;
rove his sufferings for:, sin it 'lnst"punishnient.
hrist becomes, so bruly one ,with his people, that
eir guilt and just liability to punishment be•
bun! his, although Without , a irAtifer of character.
'he legal relations ofi the tvto parties are identi
--,vr all this an be, Without' going the
RealisMir--which,Prof. Hedge earnestlY
m,—or without making Christ as great a.:
:n Luther's bold representations-4hich
ily distasteful tfi 9;tr.?author ; in short,
Hodge's theory eseapes the opprobriUm
lasfer dogma, he .14,04,1 c virtually p 9,1 37
it he cannotexplaiti. :Re , admits i g n o ..
truly, if not as :nnhesitatingly,ns Mr.
He says, in apiwer.to the objection
ts remarkable pitsa„(re,: the Professor Sr:
dust a general 'Ater'dertidtil) says : 40 1t. reg.r
rod as willing at,Oltiiiiine Maiiilisteirbei
d that only the elect. be isaVed." -Who.
call to mind, with. a ,start, the, aiordivof
3: 9, "Not 'willing that-itny should per-.
hat all should come to - repentance:" -
hailer these words are among the proof-
Princeton or Allegheny.' No doctrine dor
ig to them is taught at either
16jub, 68
that [tetributive]justice cannot be satisfied by
vicarious suffering "Me have admitted. that
this is the precise - pOintin which the ISeriptural
,doctrine of the- . AtoneMent transcends :human
reason. ant whole difficulty lies in oiir:ina: ,
bility to= diadem fullpthe• grounds upon •• WhiCh.
. ,
tthe legal , onettss ofiChiist , and his - .people
pend.P' .1 ' , •
•
Now it seemsi to us 4)." ;species speUhlatiVe
I
,trilling„ tirldvioi'Ve . 'oneself tthui more, deeply' in
Itheoriesiirhich do not solve anything, 'which -
"notj-save :froth they confession -of , igribriatteeii l
which;in fact; are themeiltes- new diBft'enitiatad:l
deci 'tO" stlbfict'alreadl 'euffi.diefitti 4fiVakd:`
And .when such th,eortes are thrust upon t us
10 4 11 tbenaks-14f..flual, a 14.korItY0' .M 9 , 1 , 1144. 1 14 Mei
hUrch doctrine ;, irS tests of( orlliodoky.pJas,
'barrier hioArkent' 'Of
'l"l l . 4yte`
:toosev i ereli gf authOi. iipir,prO*l4l;374ofp,,l,
iraittifig4heliiiisibiliti of iiskede74lh'eM l
, • , `, W ql"
, ship Christ and or A,dam, for holam... hen
1 , 1 1 l l ,-
m94§1 ,1 3 , 1. is a possible f or eifl 3 4 Prditk.
, weishall - fin cl. l caul t with' no. •ortel inside, er, putsidei
'of :the '-fireabyteriati 'Chtirch,--why produce it
'as thee,Ssential girbit&d'atul ablution. bf the Aitonc-•
,I , t
,meut , ,as the o vowrn will a vicarious
atoneine.ot.p4.he,_ooetk,,to,,p,nswcrt the
,eni.:18,91 . ,
justice.? . Why claim, thaVonly as niatod iseat
Christ literally his elket clieoPle;he !ban! justly
accept stiffer no• as lent to, h
in ,t ' - Wg
• ' • • I I II
can aceemit ler it,,Only-ontyi: grognd
;we
_have..tormedtho ..r,..loPOliitig Pt! 1 1 49,4eAm d9g - .
Imatizera,in the .ohurchlothiwypission, we :.mean,t
'fora coittpkte which
is to be inslined as out orA ee ;
Chitrc
,the i :dOitil, doubt, or gike*w i u p i f any °ill , :feint.
of, mbiob . to bo dollogooqa 11 O;O 9 Y.•
Federal Headship of , 'Christ' is the correlate of,
,Federal HeOship• of A.dana: Those who teach
,the' 'dectr • ikie here'lo 'Well pleased. With ie
that,they must apply , to the Atonements.
It is the ,universal eolveht of, difficulties ..bir A 4-;
thropology and Soteriolout , The •analogies and. •
illustrations 'of Scripture. are
•
:intq . pteted-!..- 4 0,
'cat sate- - meats, anu tko - „F - d&liii is ei
,'
declared proved by the Bible, thco 7
logical novelty of the seventeenth century is pre-,
seated as the only orthodox doctrine.
The final, cortelusive,,objection to this dogma,
of federal headshipis,-that a limited atonernentis,
its necessary logical consequence. To say that
the union bf the 'elect with the Savibur 'is ne
cessary ed'theii• redemption, or - that Seine' in.bh
union, is. necessary to give efficacy to the Atone-,
went, is to assert nothing which any_ _evangelical
Christian ivoul&denyrf but to say that' the Yeah: .
ty ofChrist's work, thepossibility of . it's ii . C.Ceil:
tarr '
, . ~e
before the law, its whole virtue ai s an
'atonement or :satisfaction depends on. the, $0 5 .;
i viourisidentification with those whose sins are
actually expiated.,....se_that, the _penalty of their
sinscan ia strict justice be, demanded of Him, iv y
nomereliftoniate the Atonement'elfickeibue foi l '
ti
them, but, to confine its relations, as an atone-
Meat, strictly and wholly tothem.' It can have
. ce, as . ...;
no, referen to any but those by iden
such,
.
tification with whom it has any virtue at all—it'
becomes what it is. ' 'No`sins can possibly be - re: ,
garded dsaioned for, but those of the persons
with whom the Saviour ' was federally united:
'Justice is not satisfied in regard to aniothers.
The,penalty of no others is - paid. Outside the
strictryWiarie'd li'ne',:it the elect, there is no p'l`o
- for the salvation of a sin g le soul of man
u. , ~ , •
It i a `base of personal sUbstitutiOn. ,tvly 4
54,-
stituie, , went to the wars for me and for. no One
agar' HO hitiy have fouklit - with' a ValbrM'bre
11thab - hitinan. - 'He may have' done the'work of a
1 couipany or a!egiment. 'Ho ay have been a
god in diioiise, and 'to flight 'Whole arinie,4
Irof the enemy." 3 .id 'in,y; stead - "only;
e
ancrth hi makes my liberationAlk; &inn:till
, .
possible , . •
tart' service, e on-his account. The 'whole
community;
thronoliiis victories in a general way, bui as 4 -
1 substitute for military service 'it is absurd to
1 ;r. • i ~ A 1 ~: 'F.I
speak' of his benefitting any who werenot,put
, in, personal„"relations to him. His sttbsAtution .34,
I such is ,utterly, - valueless,' meaningless, , exce
44,
with lreferenee'tc r, these with whoni he ' -is , leg -.1
associate/ It is this legal assoCiatiort, in 4 8t,
i i
which makes him a ; sn s ue. , ~,,
I I That , 'atone,. which acecirdin,g to Prof. Hodge
niblick 'Christ's:iitonernent to he and' atonement',
also Lakes At a Vaulted Atonewpt.• It is only
as it is limited to the elect th . it is an; atone
ment. 1 This, we say, is the ' itmate, unavoida
h Ile inference from' the doct hie l'
that the i3;dertol'
4g
Eidad.ship of the'Retteeiner.ti necessary to make
his Sufferings penal, and PrOf. .1(6 age has al
ready insisted that his sufferings must be penal
lin order to their having-any expiatory.virtue• at
all. 'Limited '4:tonement'artd.Federal Ifelidehip
Are'logically inseparilble:' 'We shalt shoW how
-.a ...,f' ~cL
PHILADELPHIA,. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1868.
Prof 4Fodge 'uneasily endeavors 6-get -away from
this eoli6ltision irurtiii next.
STILL ,IWORE matEßigkrs-orniiit.cifi-
DID POLICY. •
-
ThUtible ir quaßeil v t - Ouitlittieli"Tkelindo
ner Ae'ai iievtw
Con.j
is 0.• , - 11A-111 1 J-
-sinatchulyt r ,Opposed, - thri goy-, dootri ,
nal•diseussioni if& the pointi afisaninbetween the;
101 d lihd Ne*FrSehool hollipS;!hitir,
for Janiiar' fiautlt'ati*Pd't ose orencese It
blame itadrlou f4Athl2l„..,?rifTi.
gh.we have;
ever P0gt0.1401.434 ..opljy. if and, upon ;
,the oft.fdifFerencesiandtiM clearest
Llstatement' of *hat thbecoidifteeMsWitleatly
To .ittilunon'Aipk t e sgAiYak6u sup
-..
'1,41 Mir; Itta
P°Plt49ll that r friends
a .permaPeqt :;40 C9rdiatVAP lAPlimunAPOi rufhPr ,
ithoie,who endear.iyord to theaintuie:..and.
diffPferOok 4hdiiitthtiSe who
'Wpuld`stine4ll disc
sitt
ort" s
L pt And
I. tip'' T.}nti W, Ith
. when 914 a,'coidlal Reunion, .gught
about
the,setyviiees,of *AN : whop in the Ace { ..pg some
fpostitibu , 'and .diptritst,Jinsisted On-auelioliseussiom
wilf 'be ' 'reeogniiPd;
.61
says . . . .
It 1..
i"Welw.ertitskeil if weagrc .P .44oltitgly, our WI;
3poixt:tao,with:Atke: CO.:8400J awl,: we.
,frankly §4d;.thatAixere Airethr t ee.potchtgipmwhinhi
,vi'ets4ppotiO4t4ekibllereja a Atieeto4e, okutlkot Poi
Oseu,tialr clifferehoo o vis„..., ( immediatp„ ilnputatioup:
unipplifmit linsiOt;y, and. a lirpitilitt4ottOulOnt,
,llPrgiwe agVee aubst ativoik , 44: birer
I thpailjeptivep; saymodiate iippmattpn., Juptsk,
Lgenexala,tio,ne . inetit specific.:
,redemption, .; r
We have nothing ta.,keey.%.baelc.' to:'
!illeow#lPugilt,ip such nia4ers heyentixely frank: ;
Ar.' glArefellio yikeen if -possible, inpt .misun, •
I;deptencl i , il Wie L yneau that this: reax* shall ; not
tha.Nevoted 1)y Au.v.fault of ours. 40,4-, there
eli44;ol
,fot47,e-A r died. Teme,voimisuudVAtandings;i
tot@APJAYi.loure2iagtjr)l4.itilect;.-01 W , A4 4 1.e4livt-JY ,
044.0 t iipegutif)4.%; ,api,..tp;reake,no - Aqvimtion ju• -
irelurn k i tald Sphool tejee#re,44p3N.iv.shall
! not: be, so far ; ,as we : ,cau, tie* it;,bydifigiloing to
whiph4p iqejeet4pfi do444l.:_ipp which
; ;1' ;4;;•': t,':
TO'tla *6li* atfteiirstiaiailittiott
in''a 'letter to the Preglier of February
Rferring to Dr. Hodge's tquargoles of July,ar3,
January, he says: , ,
Anxious as' we are to •have -the , : reproabh
disunion , iolledvaway,.and the ibreaeh of tthirty
3 , eate.r . epaired; ftmel tire not Willing to I have it leg , '
feetectby u tiisunderstanding of oar irt&iki3sition.
We wish-. it- to be •understood °that :wel tire' koziw
what' we were last =July; -'and whil'twe E have Fall-
along been:" •
~: _,: i ' . is
=ENKE
;,<, b-RISUM7-=TEINLITIS, 11410 V ,:, ,t 5 C,
04 i: ex il e' le' di' 'cotempOia : ry - `the Presbyieria n .
t
...;;.. •
o 1 1= • !•. ; ~ ~] 3: ..; .1...
Banner, , kftsburgh, ,tiles.tc,get skwp.yfr9.m our
;charge :of:iratie DiliStic , tendert cies la .D r• .H o age's
hobk, byitaillihglit ai"-hugeiloke.V ; if it .be so;
th4;i6iders - of the Banner "thiddld be corigrlitiilir-'
ted off baying sack L'fi k lfriirtaeiO ' rt from our iti•
-:
Y e 4 as . l '
t l - '.. ." ''. `-'
tic sip. , arger._ plata ,IC merit o f the jocose,
than they aresapt to -And ,in, the. very; respectable
columns of our Pittsburgh cotemporary.'
Readers Of. thequotatiOn in, the' ; Banner' will
observe that our: charge of
. r,at,tenalistie temien
;cies against. Prof• Hodge,'was inzesponse to '.one
,of exactly i t f he 'satire import, brought 'by ithe Pro=
fe4or: '(on 'Page' 34' .. .1 of liite 'IAA)• ) 'ac;aihst' 'Mil.
Barnes, On no better grounds` .than we had for 1
ours against. Dr. I-lodge,if.so good. ' Now we will,
.call this fair; If-Itkie Banner, Which seerns;.to
speak , for -, li'iobilodgeu by authority, will assure
us that the'PriotessOr iiie,ailt 4 hlS - '49sertiott in re-
pgai:il ' O, - SO. ; - 14r4ei as a " HVG'F. JOKE," we will
\ agree
.to conaj.deriour charge-imprecisely the Barnet.
light? and w.e.willpronbunce it fortunate jitcharCes
•
of Such 'a: EserioUsteliardeter against men ' - ofrinidli
staiidiiig in Pie ' Clitirch,'can' th'ila' he smiled'
•sii ; .• ....•• t. ; I . . : „... -,-,;-•;: .... .:-- • • •
away. , ,.., ' 'C. - ~ 07 , t .., ~ i: '
But surely theßaniiil'self must have caught
the trick. of joking when it !says that we call the
kfr •
'Princeton Theology " pitiless' 'Elege)kanisnr.". We
• • , 1 • '... t
na
simply, byoairOOes's Of '"'aiialOkcal' reds mi - ' "
• t: • • .:I.- '7' 4 .;'
,compared its 'dialectical spirit, not ,its subject-,
:matt e 4 to Ilegelianism. lt May take something
rer than the daylight -they have in Third SC,
'Pittsburgh, but it Certainly will require no'Specs
' tacles; lb see that this i's hbaOlutely'all that was
.
contained, in
,our, article., .
• , ;But -there is-also a very serious-side Ito the
;Banner's'afteinpt at 'a joke. It is . seero(l.) in
the claim made - in this article that the doctrine
of Prof. Hodge's book "Is simply the doctrine of
the 'Westminster standards in ; their true' histori
cal . i. e. the Calvinistic or• Reformed 'sense;" in
'other words, if we do not accept - the-teaching of
1
Prof. Hodge, and of Princeton on the Atenement,
we do not accept the Westminster .standards,—
we are outside the Calvinistic .or Reformed
- : Church r =we;are -heretics. This; let us , observe,
is from a paper regardertas liberal - (sit verda verho)
,amonc , Old School 'organs: . Our readers may
see,what they, are,to expect from the "liberal"
`wing of the 0: S. Church, if the ilanner repre.
sents that wing.- 2. Still more serious and•moret
exiiiordinary is the itfea'riinning throtigh the
article: i that because oppc4e Prof. Hodge's
L. •
bopk, we ‘ oppose r ßeunion.
,Whis 18 an entj.Tely
news phase the agitation for 'Reunion. .There
iilnealurn of impudenca-initJapproaching ,r the.
sublime. Reunion men, in, both branches ! learn
what not only: of i drthodpxyr . but of
ilterinionism q It is sAbscription, not to tlag,don-„
fessicsa t not,to.theZoint Oonimittee's plan, not to.
I the - but'' to IProE Hodgeisf
l' boob on the Atoneirient l' '
41 111 1 11RK kr•THE,"Cii , ITAL.'
1 ,,
full pgfice:ttation here,that the reqiiired.
two.;thibis Imajonity tot' lithe :Benet& • (ivil II vote for,
linipeenhinetit'.-: The faetk'ailet-ope tt: and - ;notorious.
, The ljireelr . ' tif law Nits' inadein'the'lbeflagrant
t :t—g. :!!) t l .
mp / utter, rbglit of .Comessl
:het4lo,4sils were i 4 ,:sesSi9n, 1tA41 ,1 lif)
i mostt.r.eitraOrdinary thing, -President, by
.
any
} trickery; tepliriicality:Or -treacheiy 'lescaped
„• t • •t• •
conviction. rue rresment and mg - trienas are .
ClaiMini that P,eSsend,en,
Bprague, ; Willey, Tipton, and tap
vote against. impeachment:and, thus defeat, it.•
3 The r oottry ig_rtitttid for- the ''ety.tetation that I Can
Tear',, is; that' ' these ' • Senatnis Were .r.. • -
'lea z noCiatisiled'
:• • .1. • • ••t'l it..
With the election: of:Bei Vir i ade 'to the Presidency
thf,-;1 6 . 4 44e.) and 4:2,Q4SequenttlY/4fq. 3 ,
t,o-engage•ln an act; that will'. make,him President
'of the United -"States. That ease ; lunar. be des
perhte' that, rest*:Mi 'tihe,h expectations.'
too, that enough, Republican
•
Senators nert,blzti bribed to prevent,,„conyietieiv
have beard:tin naives in this conrieetiem,and do/
not , believe a single candidate for such Infamy
ean .1k " I de' 'lict believe th'e're iS
that
f able ground - to suspect any Republican will
fail or Iflin s ek in this lorisis, and surely none a
the can doubt- that - the people; the , y•repretient,
demand'tlit&S.ndiew joliiikni be iemoved, and
i bis s. pi?yret.l.p l ,disgraee r 'end qi,injure .us be shprn
.away, .
,wexe better a
_thousand times ,that,im-,
peachatept, haknever been, undertaken than that:
it , should fail,•for in , that case the man' who• has
dbi7e so much mischief' would' stand before. 'the
, country triumphant; .and would be incited` to
to t•. ,
,fresh 4 deeds of lawlessnm} I believe but_ a few
-daYllPter,,r49P• kilt-FRen: us and .049 p; -law is to
I 'be -sustained.; ;the , single mantwho 'stands , in the
`wayis-to be removeditind) the long agitation ,
itrtietion ikrtbhe ended. • - •
Report has it t is morningthat Secretary Mc
and.„,the Kr9gident have quarreled-tthe
iSeeretary insisting-. upon ,- his. right to. make
changes' in:the New' York custom=house; and 'the
President:, iron`
; The President findino. McCitilOch &din.. in sttb;
sery,ienAy, @aid., to, i lmv,e • exclaimed, in rage:
ru Whour_ean J. trust P.',
All- parties disclaim any previous knowledge:'
of the list litiilitintlstreke tof' tlief President: 'Hi`s
owri l :Cabitiet say:they; 'knew nothing of it. One:
of the ehief;members• of the Democratic Nation
al Committee-,has said, "-If h_e had hinted that
:such a game was on foot, we .should have protes
ted againstit warmly enough?' Judge Black, whe'is
'supposed' be "chiefmover in the Iresident's
plansisfieported to lave said, "Xlte - papers.talk_
about, me as, the president's
,chief ,adviser. That
is all humbug; he rarelyrfollows my advice; if
.he did;. he would ,„not make such a' fool of him
self so oftene 7 *'''' Et tu Brute I
• Whil • tie public is excited by the topic of
ay, and, Congress is pressing it to ponelit,
sian, ~the business of ,the. Session is advancing as
rapidly as usual:: The Howe has been busy with
:the apprOpiiation•'Rills• which seldom come up
earlier OiFi this. The` Senate has rejected Wise
well, an o11m e; remains , , Commissioner. of ;the
Revenue. The Senate hope by!evening sessions,
to• keep the impeachment trial from stopping ori
interfering with the regular order of business.
FEN WICK.
'PAUL N "OPPOSED :ft) GYMNASTICg. I --EriS
'expression, "Bodily exercise profiteth- little"
is setae - tidies quoted as if he were opposed.
In the Herald oi Health for February,- M r oseS
Coit Tyler says:- Everything turns uion- the
meaning Of the - phrase, which our translators have
render l ed.bodilyexeicise! Does that mean gym
nastic bOdily exercise` Not necessarily. -If you
will refer toDr.- Robinson's'' Lexicon of the New
Testament; you -mill find ' that he - translates the
,pbritse , ‘aicetic That -is undoubtedlY
'what the Apostle meant, —that asaettie'bodilydisc
cipline was not good for much. Turn to our
honest, sensible American commentatdr,..Albert
~ B arnes, and see what he - "says" In his note on
this passage` he uses -these. Werds:-
cruise, here 'refers, doubtlesS, to the tdorttficapon
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1137.
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of the body by abstinence and penance which the
ancient devotees, and particularly' the Essenes,
made so important a part of their religion.' You
see, therefoie, that the verse has nothing more to
do with gymnastics than it has with sawing wood,
hoeing corn, or splitting rails."
ItiLIGIOUB PUBLICATION SOCIETIES.-With
stave book in outlands as Bowen's Daily Medi
"tationsr (an isattoof our -Presbyterian Publication
Ccimmitteed we often think of the great service
- rendered-to evangelical 'literature by the Church.
-or-.other , Christian enterprises, devoted solely to
,thoPubtication and circulation of religious works.
•Houses which carry on the work of publishing as
merelpi3echlar enterprise, make the question of
a ready sale the first and last, concerning any
proposed reprint., of manuscript, It
,is true a con
scientious ptiyate publisher,: of ; :whom we have
mqlY-Ifoblelexanaples, will not( throw a demoral
-ising-,bpok upon , the epunnunity merely because
there is•nioney in, it; ,lant on ~the other hand he
will • npt ; take up a, good book merely en its own
merits, and. then apply the energy of . his, house
•to..the,work of bringing it ] bofore the people, and
`making k i l', the end popular.for its own sake—
.popular: intle..Christian sense of ,the word. It
,muSt. carry on its Ace. come, of, the more obvious
lattractions, or if its excellencies, lie.. deeper, it
mnst,appear under. sonao -name which publishers
have found a remunerating One, or it will find•its
way to the waste -basket__ 'The Church, propagat
ing a sanctified,litepturothrongh its publishing
,Committees, Nerds, of Societies, inquires not so
.much whether a. leOk will have a ready run, as
•
Wlother. it ought to go. It is true that even here,
_
the question whether an, editipn will pay for it-
Iselfycannot be overlooked. The Church has not
)yet been been.sufficiently munificent in this line,
to 'justify its - publishing agencies to be reckless on
the ane.stion of Ultimate remuneration; still the
whole arrangement is conducted on the principle
subordinatingthat question to.the higher ob
ject of overspreading the land with the best•reli
giiti reading, securing for it the,attention of all
seriene minds and teaching the „people,. to •Valne,
for the sake of the-treasures of good which are
,really in them, books whose very excellencies
I might 'otherwise have •lirisuretl them oblivion..
these:Pa which have been the
companion of many of our - closet hours, we should
perhaps have never seen but for this Church
agency. •. So with other works rich with the vi
italitieS• 'the' Christian life.- • A private pub
lisher would-have dismissed them with his doubt
whether they - Would'tstice With the public. The
Church, through its appropriate. agency, said,
they_ ought to, and they must•take.• And so they
do take, and will.
= sq 9- Lippincott's newziViagazine, tlie only literary
'mOntlilyin,our city, and therefore a matter or peeu
liar Solicitude to allwho seek the infusion of a higher
degree of literary interestin our business and man
ufacturing circles, is now in:its third number and
coristantlysholis improvement. "Lippineott "is
nothing` if not. respectable. 'lndeed 'Trot"' appear
ancesin th e first number, it was feared the mag
azine would die quickly of its eminent respecta
bility. Now, while we would greatly deplore
death or atrophy from such a ridiculons cause,
we should deplore -even more such a want of real
Christian r respectability as_ some departments of
the niagaiine are apparently, coming to. 'There
are indications that whateVer has literary merit,
even if serious objections may lie against
point view, will receive
theapproval of its.critics and be aided to notoriety
by their laudatory;notices. Now as some of the
most-venomouS pen-poison of the day is conveyed
most meritorious and fascinating liteiary
we fear that, on the. principle above men
-tionediLippincott's will, become; the vehicle of
'thig pen-poison to its readerS; Those opening to
:the "Monthly Gossip'" will understand our re
mark, when they . observe that , arcing the first
matters which attract the pleased attention of the
critic are the editkks, of Walt. Whitman and
Swinburne's PoetrAffiat tnlti t pear an England.
Of the latter, whose Opine is ag I greater as
'his swinish propensities are liaSer'' than Lord
*, .
pan's, the - critic sa ys , :;" Mr. Swinburne, we are
glad to hear, has several works in progress." Of
Walt. Whitman on whom the critic gossips at
great' length, it is sufficient to say that he is even
`more insufferable than Swinborne., _ .
. .
We earnestly hope for the good name of our
comparatively pure city; the managers will see fit
tolchinge the Policy of their monthly in this vi.
tally frilidrtant particular.-
, .
Viri,Revivai. Intelligence to a greater extent
than in any previous '.issue this season,. will be
found in our cOlumns for thiif' Week. The
'ChUrches of the`other branch are specially blessed.