only to supply the deficiency or absence of regular fountains. The only difficulty, in fact, (aside from Mr. Wood's inscription, whatever that may be,) which stands against this view is found in Strabo's statement, in relation to a place called Tracheia, which seems to have been not far from the site of the temple. His account seems to require we should place Tracheia on the east of Prion. (Book XIV, chap. i-iv.) But it may be doubted whether the Tracheia mentioned at the place cited is the same as the one referred to in relation to the temple. Certainly the rough rocky tract lying between Prion and the supposed temple site would merit the name, which signifies "roughness," as does none other in the vicinity of Prion, unless we include under the term large mountain districts. After a careful survey of the facts in the case, we conclude, unless Mr. Wood has some most positive and reliable testimony, that the temple stood north of the harbor, as the most appropriate place in view of the facts of its history. We await with considerable confidence the verdict of future antiquarian research. There is one fact, if it be such, of essential service in finding the site. It is said to have been founded on charcoal and fleeces of wool firmly beaten together. The known indestructible character of charcoal, when buried beneath the soil, would lead us to expect it would be found. But, whatever conclusion the traveler may reach as to the site of the temple or other points in the archæology or topography of this renowned spot, he will hardly be able to resist the powerful lesson learned as to the comparative value and durability of things. Who, living in St. Paul's day, could have supposed this great city would have been so utterly ruined and deserted, that even the traces of her renowned temple "and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshiped?" What so likely, then, as that all these things should endure, while the voice of the single man, raised up in behalf of truth, should be lost and forgotten in the babel of voices that proclaimed, "about the space of two hours, Great is Diana of the Ephesians?" But to-day is the truth stranger than fiction. The city has long since been utterly ruined, its theaters and Stadium deserted, its harbor an impassable marsh, its magnificent public buildings crumbling and shapeless heaps, overgrown with weeds, and the site of its temple a matter of conjecture; while the work and influence of the lone man, mighty in nothing but a gifted mind swayed by the deepest and most powerful of impulses, and mighty in the TRUTH, has widened and will widen continually, to be measured only at the throne of the judgment. ART. VIII. SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES, AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS. American Quarterly Reviews. BAPTIST QUARTERLY, January, 1871. Philadelphia.)-1. The Physiological Method of Mental Philosophy. 2. Modern Greece. 3. The Realm of Faith. 4. Religion and Astronomy. 5. Tertullian on the Rite of Baptism. 6. Exegesis of John i, 16. 7. The Scriptural Theory of Ministerial Education. 8. Exegetical Studies. BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, January, 1871. (New York)1. Quarterly Reviews: their Province and Function. 2. Responsibility of Society for the Causes of Crime. 3. Proposed Revision of the English Bible. 4. The Philosophy of Civil Punishment. 5. Preaching the Gospel to the Poor. 6. Jonathan Dickinson and Dickinson Hall. 7. The True Sources of Literary Inspiration. 8. The Theology Taught and Preached by Christ. 9. The Temporal Power of the Pope. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, January, 1871. (Andover.)-1. Protestant Sisterhoods as they exist in Germany, and as they may be organized in the United States. 2. St. Patrick and the Primitive Irish Church. 3. The Incarnation. 4. What Can Be Done for Augmenting the Number of Christian Ministers? 5. The Deeline of the Religious Sentiment. 6. Cicero, and Remarks on the Ciceronian Style. 7. Origin and Significance of Jewish Sacrifices. CHRISTIAN QUARTERLY, January, 1871. (Cincinnati.)-1. What is Sectarianism? 2. The Genuineness and Authenticity of the Gospels. 3. Classic Baptism." 4. Indolent Preachers. 5. Fiction. EVANGELICAL QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1871. (Gettysburgh.)-1. The Review. 2. Systematic Benevolence. 3. The History of Protestant Theology. 4. Socrates and Arnold; or, The Ancient and Modern Teacher. 5. Method of Studying the English Language. 6. Reason Not a Rule of Faith. 7. The Relation of the Sunday-School to the Church. 8. Prof. Dr. J. T. Beck, of Tübin gen, and his Views of the Word of God. 9. The Codex Sinaiticus. 10. American Colleges. 11. Book of Worship. 2. The 3. The MERCERSBURG REVIEW, January, 1871. (Philadelphia.)-1. Education. N. H. 12. First Record-Book of First Church in Charlestown, Mass. 13. Fosters of Charlestown. Mass. 14. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of Connecticut. 15. The War of the Regulators in North Carolina, 1768-71. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, January, 1871. (Boston.)-1. The Aborigines of Nova Scotia. 2. The Government and the Railroad Corporations. 3. Mining Schools in the United States. 4. The Civil-Service Reform. 5. Prussia and Germany. 6. Modern Architecture. 7. Pope. UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY, January, 1871. (Boston.)-1. Religion in its Relation to Art. 2. The Hebrew New Testament. 3. British India. 4. Dr. Williamson's Rudiments. 5. Origen as a Defender of Christianity. 6. The Ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Work of Salvation. London: SOUTHERN REVIEW, January, 1871. (Baltimore: Poisal & Roszell Trubner & Co.)-1. The Suffering and the Salvation of Infants. 2. Pathetic Poetry. 3. Madagascar: its Rapid Progress. 4. New England and Secession. 5. Marriage and Divorce. 6. American Education. 7. The Reviewers Reviewed. 8. The Beauty of the Universe. A Poem. The "Southern Review," edited by Albert T. Bledsoe, author of the Theodicy, has been adopted as its organ by the Southern Methodist Church, and the editor, heretofore an Episcopalian, has become a member and an ordained minister of that Church. By this felicitous adjustment that Review secures, we trust, a permanent existence, and the Church South acquires at once a very able Quarterly. Dr. Bledsoe, however, firmly declines to eliminate the political element from his Quarterly, and so the Church South, which has not only made an ostentatious display of being a non-political Church, but has elaborately made the factitious charge upon our non-sectional Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States of being a political Church, floats at its mast-head a bold partisan political banner. The banner and the Church alike bear a sectional title. For our own part we should profoundly object to belonging to a "political Church." We fully indorse the sentiment, though we do not admire the phraseology, of the sentence quoted in this Review, (p. 115,) "A clergyman preaching party politics merits less attention than the meanest of his race." The Church and ministry, while they have nothing to do, as such, with secular questions, are to maintain religious and moral truth irrespective of political parties, and whether any political party maintains or opposes it or not. As a Church, we approve no party except as that party sustains the cause of truth and righteousness. Dr. Bledsoe furnishes an able article on Infant Damnation, tracing the doctrine from its original author, Augustine, to Luther and Calvin, and thence into the formularies of the An glican Church. It was the existence of that doctrine in those formularies which obliged Dr. Bledsoe years ago in conscience to retire from the ministry of that Church. In striking from our Twenty-five Articles the doctrine that Original Sin renders every man deserving of eternal death, Dr. Bledsoe declares that John Wesley struck a powerful blow at Infant Damnation. Yet nobody, he thinks, has heard the blow; and Dr. Bledsoe now intends that the blow shall be heard. We bid him Godspeed in his exposition of the subject, but would simply hint that the blow has not been inaudible because his ears have failed to audit it. It is from a general unacquaintance with the past of Methodism, and perhaps from a slight defect of modesty, that Dr. Bledsoe imagines that our protest against this item of Calvinism was a nihil until his advent into our system. To press this point of Infant Damnation beyond measure has, to some minds, a slightly sensational aspect. Infant Damnation is a logical necessity in the doctrine of predestination; for that doctrine teaches that the predestinating decree is irrespective of any thing in the creature, and so irrespective of innocence or age. The decree is without antecedent foresight, foreknowledge, or regard of the possible or prospective individual, and allows him no chance of evading or deserving its fatal power. Now such a decree, predetermining the character itself, and fixing the destiny to the character decreed, is just as barbarous upon an adult as an infant. Its crude cruelty is just as execrable whether the victim be six feet high and sixty years old, or six inches and six hours. But Dr. Bledsoe's promised volume on this subject will be welcomed, and doubtless make itself powerfully felt. The article on "New England and Secession," founded on the biographies of William Plumer and Josiah Quincey, exposes the disunionism prevalent in the early history of New England. Some of our readers may recollect that in book-noticing the latter work we explicitly said that Josiah Quincey was in a part of his career a factionist and a "copperhead," and that Northern disunionism was no better than Southern. Secession, or rather revolutionary withdrawal, was, through a large part of the period from Jefferson's Embargo to the close of the War of 1812, a New England Federalist heresy. Many a member of that party desired to embarrass the National Government in the war, and rejoiced at our defeats. It is equally true that our Northern National or Democratic party, and nearly the whole South, considered them traitors and rebels, and upon any overt act of revolt by them committed, whether as States or individuals, would, if possible, have promptly and rightly hung them for treason. Such being the case, we would advise both parties, as far as possible, to balance accounts, blot out the hostile past, and plan a present and future of national peace and prosperity. Of the present Republican party the writer speaks in the following amiable terms: "There is another fact that these pages, taken in connection with recent history, bring out most prominently: That the recently formed Republican party is a compound of all the mean and intolerant principles of the old Federalist party, with an exchange of all its virtues or conservative traits for all the vices of the old Republican or, as it was afterward called, Democratic party. It is the compound of all the vices of both of the old parties, with not one of the virtues of either." Taking into view the fact that eight tenths of the scholars and well-read men, eight tenths of the members of the Protestant evangelical Churches, nineteen twentieths of the temperance men, and the great body of the evangelical ministry are in the Republican party at the North, even a candid Southern reader must pronounce this a very uncandid statement. While nine tenths of the rum-sellers and saloon-keepers, nineteen twentieths of the Irish papists, the great body of the gamblers, pickpockets, and blacklegs vote the opposite ticket, we think there are few Christian and intelligent Southerners that do not feel some misgivings at linking their destinies with such a party. Christian people, both North and South, have a common cause. They have a common moral interest. The Southern Methodists dread the dominion of popery just as do we the Northern; and yet they are being led by their politicians to sustain its advancing supremacy. They dread the dominion. of the rum-shop as we, and yet they are placed in inseparable alliance with the rum-sellers. And so reflective Southern Christians cannot but feel that they are in a false position when they find themselves arrayed against Northern Christians and strangely sustaining the great mass of abuses and abominations that threaten the age. |