foul slaughter at Van! Missionaries and their friends are warned not to write anything more. But I deem the warning useless, for missionaries and their friends are apt to claim the ordinary rights of free discussion, and it would not be strange that they would insist upon them. However, Mr. Olney is in a tight place, diplomatically; he must indorse what he receives from Judge Terrell. This Administration cannot and will not change its policy, but protests of righteous indignation are seeds that will bear fruits in the next. CYRUS HAMLIN.

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Notes and Queries

Kindly answer the following questions: 1. Do you consider that there is any Scriptural foundation for the belief in divine healing? 2. How should a minister, who is earnestly expounding the Bible as God's Word, and a guide for life, faith, and practice, explain the following passages to one who used them as arguments for divine healing: Mark xvi., 18; Matt. xvii., 20; Jas. v., 15? 3. How would you answer the claim, based on Matt. viii., 14, that because Christ in his death bore our infirmities, we, his followers, have a divine right to claim from him treedom from bodily ills? 4. Is there ground in John xiv., 12, for the claim that we should effect cures by the methods which Christ employed, namely, by prayer, laying on of hands, etc.? C. R. 1. For a belief, yes; see Ps. ciii. 3; for a certain type of belief, no. 2. As to Mark, if a valid argument, it is a guarantee against the fatal effect of an -overdose of morphine. But Mark xvi., 9-20, is agreed by scholars to be a later addition to the Gospel, and hardly the authority required for a proof-text. See R. V. and marg. As to the other texts, the promise to faith is always conditioned, expressly or impliedly, on a believing use of means. James says that prayer must be coupled with anointing. How much more, then, with the more effective remedial agents known today. So Paul, though promised deliverance from shipwreck, employed every means hopeful to escape. 3. By a parallel argument based on Hebrews ii., 9, that since Christ "tasted death for every man,"

every man should be exempt from tasting it for himself. The claim to freedom from bodily ills is too sweeping. See 1 Cor. xv., 50. The body is made to wear out and decay. How about the exhaustion of old age, paralysis, cancer, and other ills? 4. Yes, that we may, not "should." Some cases are doubtless amenable to such treatment, especially the victims of nervous troubles, provided they have the faith in it which the subjects of Jesus' treatment had. If all cases-lepers, for instanceare amenable, the way is open to test it by a medical mission of Christian Scientists to Molokai, the leper settlement of the Sandwich Islands, now ministered to by Roman Catholics and others. Finally, the important truth should be freely admitted that bodily ills may be alleviated, if not overcome, by a right direction of the mind. For a general discussion of the subject see Hudson's "Law of Psychic Phenomena." Avoiding controversy as far as may be, one should insist that the supreme interest and value of Christianity be placed in moral rather than bodily regeneration. See 1 Timothy i., 5.

1. As I am a new subscriber and interested in the new theology, may I ask what view it takes of the nature of the relation of religion (a) to morality; (b) to science? 2. It is a prevalent idea in certain sections of the Evangelical Church that a man can lead a noble moral life without regenerating grace. Is this idea based on anything in the Bible, stated or implied? BETA.

1. Regarding morality superficially as mere con-duct, religion is the spirit of love and loyalty to God which gives character and worth to conduct. Regarding it radically as in character, religion and morality differ as two sides of the same thing; religion being the reflective side of character, turned toward the Eternal Law, and morality the practical side, turned toward its realization in the life both outward and inward. As to science, she is no competitor of religion, but simply her handmaid and torch-bearer. 2. The Bible constantly insists that all human worth is imparted by God. The idea you refer to proceeds from the superficial notion of morality just mentioned. The normally and truly moral life cannot be other than the religious life, seeking to fulfill its moral obligations to God as well as to men. As such, it is not self-originated, but "born from above" (see John iii., 3, R. V. and marg.). The theological term for this is "regenerated."

The "Friends" (Quakers) and many of our most exemplary Christians (churched and unchurched) seem to set little or no importance on the sacraments. Please inform me where we can find the best written defense of this indifference from a Scripture and Christian standpoint, and also the best defense of the sacraments as ordinances of Christ which should be continued. A DILIGENT READER.

We desire some member of the Society of Friends among our readers to tell us what he esteems as the

best book for his view of the matter. For the other view see the Rev. G. D. Armstrong's "Sacraments of the New Testament as Instituted by Christ" (Armstrong & Son, New York); also Stanley's "Christian Institutions." Our view is that the two sacraments symbolically represent the fundamental truths of the Gospel, and so demand parallel continuance with the preaching of the Gospel for the re-enforcement of the truth by expressing to the eye what the spoken word expresses to the ear.

1. What is the most exhaustive treatise on the theme of the universal Fatherhood (not creatorship) of God? 2. What is your exegesis of Romans viii., 14, 15 (please note especially "adoption "), and Ephesians ii., 2, 3 (in this, "by nature" is most perplexing)? 3 In the passage, Ephesians i., 2, 3, is there any significance in the use of "sons" in 2, and "children" in 3 (R. V.)? T. C. McC.

1. See Dr. A. B. Bruce's "St. Paul's Conception of Christianity," Chapter X., on " Adoption." 2. For Romans viii., 14, 15, see Dr. Bruce, as cited. In Ephesians ii., 2, 3, the really perplexing term is "children of wrath." But it is explained by comparison with "sons of disobedience," verse 2, also verse 6; "children of obedience," 1 Peter i., 14; "children of cursing," 2 Peter ii., 14. The reference is to human, not divine, wrath; "of wrath" is equivalent to wrathful, or passionate.

1. What book on "Sources of Religious Authority" presents the Bible as the source? 2. What book treats of church government with Scripture evidence for each system? L. M.

1. Gaussen's "Theopneusty" is a book of this sort; any book which inculcates the theory of verbal inspiration is such a book. 2. You will have to go to books rather than a book for this. Roman, Anglican, Presbyterian, Congregational books, presenting the Scripture evidence for their competing claims, are hardly what we think you want. Read Dr. Shields's "United Church in the United States" for what is best in present-day thought upon this subject.

What books would you recommend a class studying present-day conditions of life and practical sociology to use as a basis of their work, and what works or reports would it be wise for them to use in connection? E.S. W.

of age, and their preparation. Among many other It depends somewhat on the class, their maturity helpful books we name Dr. Abbott's "Christianity and Social Problems," Professor Ely's "Socialism and Social Reform," "The Labor Movement in America," "Problems of To-Day;" also Dr. Spahr's

"Present Distribution of Wealth."

Kindly mention a list of the best books illustrative of the International Lessons for January to July, 1897, or, if you prefer, have it cover the life, work, and teachings of the Apostle Paul. Books desired are those most helpful to a busy pastor, who wishes to get at the vital truths enforced by the great Apostle, irrespective of any theological prepossessions. PASTOR DILIGENT.

"The Spiritual Development of St. Paul," by Dr. Matheson; "St. Paul's Conception of Christianity," by Dr. Bruce; "St. Paul as Traveler and Roman ostolic Age of the Christian Church." Citizen," by Dr. Ramsay; also Weitzsäcker's "Ap

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