THE ANDOVER REVIEW:

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF RELIGION, THEOLOGY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE.

EDITED BY

EGBERT C. SMYTH, WILLIAM J. TUCKER, J. W. CHURCHILL, GEORGE HARRIS, EDWARD Y. HINCKS,

Professors in Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., with the coöperation and active support of their colleagues in the Faculty.

THE ANDOVER REVIEW exists to represent progressive thought in the maintenance and development of Evangelical Theology, and to promote Christianity in its practical relations to individual and social life and to the work of the Church. Some of the special features which lend value and interest to THE ANDOVER REVIEW FOR 1889 are as follows:

A SERIES OF CHURCH PAPERS.

I. THE PROBLEM OF THE SECOND SERVICE OF THE SABBATH.

2. THE SECULAR WORK OF THE CHURCH.

3. THE RECOVERY OF THE DEVOTIONAL ELEMENT IN WORSHIP ANd Work. 4. THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE IN THE CHURCHES.

Competent writers, including Rev. ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, D. D., Rev. CHARLES A. DICKINSON, and Rev. DeWitt S. CLARK, treat these subjects, and others comment on their articles.

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN RELIGION.

This important subject, just now demanding wise consideration, is discussed by prominent edu cators, who will treat of Religious Instruction, both in Common Schools and in Colleges.

• THE WORKING IDEA OF INSPIRATION.

Several articles upon this topic appear from Biblical scholars and pastors of wide study and experience.

SOCIALISM IN ITS PRESENT ASPECTS

in Germany, England, and America, is treated by writers who can speak with peculiar authority by virtue of their ample information.

SOCIAL ECONOMICS.

The Elective Course in Social Economics at Andover Theological Seminary, covering many important subjects on which intelligent citizens should be thoroughly informed, is described in outline from month to month, and authorities are indicated. This course is presented in response to requests from ministers and laymen.

LITERATURE AND RELIGION.

The REVIEW Continues to discuss Literary Questions, and special works and authors, in their relations to Morals and Religion.

LESSONS FROM CHURCH HISTORY.

Prof. EGBERT C. SMYTH contributes several papers, entitled “Studies in Christian Life - Three Great Types of Faith."

THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

contains in each number articles treating subjects of special importance and current interest relating to religion and society.

THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS

are maintained by writers of aptitude and experience. Sociological Notes are furnished by Rev. S. W. DIKE, LL. D., and Mr. D. COLLIN WELLS; Mr. MATTOON M. CURTIS, of Leipsic, supplies valuable Notes on German Theological Literature; Archæology is under the charge of Professor JOHN PHELPS TAYLOR; Missionary Intelligence is contributed by Rev. C. C. STARBUCK; and important New Books are carefully reviewed.

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GREAT BIBLE DICTIONARY.

By WILLIAM SMITH.

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There cannot be two opinions about the merits of Smith's Bible Dictionary. What was, to begin with, the best book of its kind in our language, is now still better.- PROF. Roswell D. HITCHCOCK.

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It is a library in itself; it is scholarly and critical enough for the most advanced student; it is readable and interesting enough for the average mind; its arrangement is admirable; its tone is reverent but independent; its researches are rigid, and its deductions careful; and, as a companion to the Bible, as a work of reference for the study, as a book to own and to read, to place in the library and in the Sabbath-school, we know not its superior, and know of nothing to take its place. Watchman and Reflector (Boston).

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THE

ANDOVER REVIEW:

A RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY

VOL. XII.-SEPTEMBER, 1889.-No. LXIX.

WHAT IS REALITY?

PART IV. THE THING-IN-ITSELF.

It has, perhaps, occurred to the reader, that the argument used in the preceding number of this series bears a strong resemblance to that too familiar form of moral justification sometimes called "leveling down." When a man finds himself utterly without excuse for his own conduct, it is still possible for him to demonstrate that his neighbor is no better than himself. We have labored to show that modern science abounds in assumptions that are as irreconcilable in their conflict as any of those forced upon us by practical experience. How, it may be asked, does this help matters? We entered upon our inquiry with the hope of finding a rational basis for our higher beliefs; but does not the foregoing argument, instead of bringing us nearer to the desired goal, push us in the opposite direction? Does it not, so far as it proves anything, prove that the reality of things is unknow

able?

This is not a question to be lightly passed over. The word agnosticism represents a most powerful current of thought in our day, not the less significant because, in the great majority of cases, it is of the nature of an undertow. The rapidity of our progress in knowledge is, of itself, most unsettling. The necessity of continually changing our ideas gradually begets in us the feeling that all things are subject to change, that the reality of to-day may at any moment pass into the illusion of to-morrow. The history of science in the past is prophetic of its future.

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