Christian herald and signs of our times (1886) (14802168973)
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Identifier: christianheralds09unse (find matches)
Title: Christian herald and signs of our times
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University
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and scholarship have been pressed intoservice in the campaign, and so craftily has itbeen planned that the believer finds his mosteffective weapons wrested from his hand, andhis most conclusive arguments inoperative. Asingularly able work has, however, been preparedby Geerhardus Vos, a Fellow of Princeton Col-lege, who meets the assailants on their ownground. The title of his book is The MosaicOrigin of the Pentateuchal Codes. In it heundertakes to show from internal evidence thatthe Mosaic legislation is a unit, and bears theimpress of the Mosaic age. This, too, whilerigorously excluding every testimony to whichthe assailants demur. The value of his argu-ment is far-reaching because his conclusion in-volves the corollary that the codes were a revela-tion from God and not the result of develop-ment. His reasoning is cogent and ingenious.Every young man whose faith has been disturbedought to read this book. He will see from it 204. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. April 1.
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The Late Rev. W. E. Boardman. (Seepage ig3) Sechele, Chief of the Bechuanas, in State Attire. that, without employing the highest argumentsat his disposal, the believer is able to defend hisposition against the assaults of the foe. Pages263; price, $1.50. Published by A. C. Armstrong&* Son, New York. EPOCHS OF HISTORY. The two small volumes of this well-knownseries now issued deal respectively with epochsof ancient and modern history. One of them,by Charles Sankey, M.A., who is joint editorwith the Rev. G. W. Cox of the Ancient His-tory series, deals with the epoch of the Spartanand Theban supremacies. It covers one of themost important periods in the history of Greece.The other, by Professor Edward E. Morris,deals with the period between I7i3and 1749, andis mainly concerned with events in England. Itis entitled the Early Hanoverians, and belongsto the Modern History section of the series. Inboth cases, however, the principle of dealing horizontally as to time, rather than vertica