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The Ind. the Maps of the Holy Land will be given with the Part which contains the southern division of the cou The Classical Maps have been prepared by Dr. CARL MULLER, the Editor of Strabo and the Minor Greek graphers, under the superintendence of Dr. WILLIAM SMITH. Those of the Holy Land and Mount Sinai kuri the recent observations and positions obtained by the officers of Royal Engineers employed in surveying th and have been constructed under the superintendence of Mr. GEORGE GROVE.. The Maps are of the same size as those in Keith Johnston's Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, with whic present Atlas will rauge. The last Part will contain an account of the Authorities employed in constructing each Map. The Mays. numbered in the order in which they will be finally arranged. SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO CLERGYMEN. Part I. now ready. LIST OF MAPS. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS OF THE ANCIENTS. 2. THE WORLD AS KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS. 3. EMPIRES OF THE BABYLONIANS, LYDIANS, MEDES, AND PERSIANS. 4. EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 5. KINGDOMS OF THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 6. KINGDOMS OF THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 7. THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN ITS GREATEST EXTENT. (First Part.) 8. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AFTER ITS DIVISION INTO THE EASTERN AND WESTERN EMPIRES. 9. GREEK AND PHOENICIAN COLONIES. Also Maps: a. Magna Græcia; b, Sicily at the time of the Peloponn War; c, Syracuse; d, Agrigentum; e, Bosporus Cimmerius. 10. BRITANNIA. 11. HISPANIA. 12. GALLIA. Also Maps: a, Gallia before the time of Augustus; b, Insula Batavorum; c, Port of Massilia. 13. GERMANIA, RHETIA, NORICUM. 14. PEONIA, THRACIA, MESIA, ILLYRIA, DACIA, PANNONIA. 15. HISTORICAL MAPS OF ITALY. 16. ITALIA SUPERIOR. 17. ITALIA INFERIOR. 18. PLAN OF ROME. 19. ENVIRONS OF ROME. 20. GREECE AFTER THE DORIC MIGRATION. Also Maps: a, Greece in the Heroic Age; b, Plain of Troy. 21. GREECE AT THE TIME OF THE PERSIAN WARS. 22. GREECE AT THE TIME OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. 23. GREECE AT THE TIME OF THE ACHEAN LEAGUE. 24. NORTHERN GREECE. 25. CENTRAL GREECE. Containing Attica, Boeotia, Locris, Phocis, Doris, Malis. Also Maps: a, Athens; T Environs of Athens; c, The Harbours of Athens; d, Acropolis; e, Marathon; f, Eleusis. 26. PELOPONNESUS. With Plan of Sparta. 27. SHORES AND ISLANDS OF THE EGEAN SEA. 28. HISTORICAL MAPS OF ASIA MINOR. 29. ASIA MINOR. 30. ARABIA. 31. INDIA. 32. NORTHERN PART OF AFRICA. 33. EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA. 34. HISTORICAL MAPS OF THE HOLY LAND. a, Before the Conquest, 1451 B.C.; b, After the Conquest, as Divd amongst the Twelve Tribes: c, During the Monarchy, 1095 B.C. to 586 B.C.; d, Under the Maccabees. B.C.; e, Under Herod the Great, B.C. 40; f, In the time of our Lord; 9, Under Agrippa L., A.D. 41; À, At th Destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. 35. THE HOLY LAND. [Northern Division.] 36. THE HOLY LAND. [Southern Division.] 37. JERUSALEM. Also Maps: a, Jerusalem in the Time of David; b, Jerusalem according to Josephus. 38. ENVIRONS OF JERUSALEM. 39. 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I.-THE GENERAL SYNOD OF PROTESTANTS IN From the French of Ed. de Pressensé in the Revue des deux Mondes, by A FEW years ago the meeting of the Protestant Synod in Paris would have been an unnoticed event. The spirit of the time was that of Gallio, the Roman consul, who cared for none of these things. It is different now; the age is curious for all sorts of knowledge. It turns over all ideas, even at the risk of a superficial acquaintance. M. de Pressensé, in an article in the Revue des deux Mondes, leaves the news-loving Parisians without excuse for a superficial knowledge of the late Protestant Synod. The last preceding official Synod had been held at Loudun, as long ago as the year 1659. It was assembled for the purpose of hearing from the mouth of the king's representative the decree of dissolution, closely followed by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Thus, after two centuries and more, the Reformed Church of France found herself again in possession of her rights. It was an occasion of profound interest, and when the same Psalms were sung which used to be heard in those dark and bloody days of the Church, and when the eloquent pastor, M. Babut of Nismes, alluded to those glorious and sorrowful memories, many eyes were bathed in tears. The French Protestants formed the chivalry of the Reformation. Their grand characters, as Coligny and du Plessis Mornay, were true Christian gentlemen. The high-toned sentiments and ardent convictions generated by the Reformation, and expressed by such writers as Calvin and Beza, did more to clear the French language of its dross, and to form and render flexible that marvellous instrument of precision-French prose-with its native and luminous dialectic, and its incomparable art of linking ideas, than all the polishing of the grammarians, and the labor of all the Vaugelas. The consequences of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, were not so deplorable for the persecuted as for the persecutors. France was not only deprived of lucrative industries, but her middle class lost one of its most precious and liberal elements, as was clearly enough perceived at the great revolution. The form of government of the French Reformed Church unites most admirably the genius of law with the genius of liberty. Calvin, so superficially judged by France, was its author: Calvin, who doubtless has none of the attractions of that royal skeptic who believed that "Paris was worth a mass," and so, jestingly, put away his faith that he might gain a crown; Calvin, in whose eyes the whole world would have been no compensation for the abandonment of his faith; Calvin, who has won for the reformed faith and for civil and religious liberty one entire portion of the civilized world, I mean the great Anglo-Saxon race. It was Calvin who gave it the most perfect model of that representative government which is its glory and its strength; and that model is none other than a Presbyterian Synod. What may be called the Constituent Assembly of French Protestantism was held in Paris in May, 1559. Only eleven churches ventured to send delegates to this secret and outlawed convention. A Confession of Faith was prepared, which, stripped of theological details, might be summed up in two articles: The authority of Scripture takes the place of all human authority and of the Roman hierarchy; and salvation by faith in Christ puts the soul into immediate relations with God, without any priestly mediation. Thus the Reform was distinguished from philosophy and from the Renaissance. It was not a simple system, it was a religion. Free inquiry was nothing for it but a point of departure; its point of arrival was a very definite creed. Yet, in maintaining direct divine authority, it achieved the liberation of thought and of conscience, in the face of all human authority. After adopting the Confession, the Form of Government was discussed, and the entire frame-work of the Presbyterian polity |