THE

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA

A Religious and Sociological Quarterly

EDITORS

G. FREDERICK WRIGHT

Z. SWIFT HOLBROOK

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

EDWARDS A. PARK, NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, FRANK WAKELEY GUNSAU-
LUS, FRANK H. FOSTER, JUDSON SMITH, D. W. SIMON, WM. M.
BARBOUR, SAMUEL IVES CURTISS, CHARLES F. THWING,

A. A. BERLE, W. E. BARTON, E. H. JOHNSON,

JACOB COOPER, AND E. W. BEMIS.

VOL. LV

OBERLIN, OHIO

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA COMPANY

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER AND CO., LONDON

1898

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA COMPANY

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

TIBBYBA

OBERLIN, OHIO

Press of Pearce & Randolph.

II. GILEAD AND BASHAN: OR, THE PRAE-MOSAIC MA-

NASSITE CONQUEST..

BY THE REV. HENRY HAYMAN, D.D., ALDINGHAM,

ULVERSTON, ENGLAND.

III. DOES A LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THE SONG

OF SONGS REMOVE ITS CHARACTER AS SCRIP-

TURE.......

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BY PROFESSOR SAMUEL IVES CURTISS, D.D., CHICAGO, ILL.

BY THE REV. EZRA HOYT BYINGTON, D.d., newTON, MASS.

VI.

CIVIC REFORM...

128

BY MR, Z. SWIFT HOLBROOK, CHICAGO, ILL.

VII. THE SOCIAL FAILURE OF THE CITY.............

BY MRS. EMMA WINNER ROGERS, EVANSTON, ILL.

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