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THE

MERCERSBURG REVIEW:

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI OF MARSHALL

COLLEGE.

VOLUME III.—1851.

Neque enim quæro intelligere ut credam, sed credo ut intelligam, Anselm.

MERCERSBURG, PA:
P. A. RICE, PRINTER,“ JOURNAL” OFFICE.

1851.

Ry.st
Sud

14.40

41649

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

NO. I.

Article.

Page.

I. CATHOLICISM,

1

By J. W. Nevin, D. D., President of Marshall College.

II, SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE or A PLEA FOR

THE LORD'S PORTION OF OUR INCREASE. 27

By Rev. H. Harbaugh, A. M., Lancaster, Pa.

III. PROGRUSS IN THE ART OF TRANSLATING, 43

By Prof. W. M. Nevin, Mercersburg, Pa.

IV. PECULIAR ATTRACTION OF JOHN'S GOSPEL, 52

[Translated from Schaff's Kirchenfreund,)

By Prof. E. V. Gerhart, Tiffin, Ohio.

V. LIEBNER'S CHRISTOLOGY,

55

Christologie, oder die christologische Einheit des

dogmatischen systems, dargestellt von Dr. Th. A.

Liebner. Erste Abtheiling, Goethingen 1849,

By Rev. J. W. Nevin, D. D.

VI. RECOLLECTIONS OF NEANDER,

73

By Prof. P. Schaff, D.D., Mercersburg, Pa.

VII. SONNETS,

By Prof. T. C. Porter, Mercersburg, Pa.

.

VIII. EUTHANASIA,

92

By Prof. T. C. Porter, Mercersburg, Pa.

IX. ANGELS,

93

[Translated from J. P. Lange.]

X. THE FOOT-PRINTS OF THE CREATOR,

95

The Foot-Prints of the Creator, or the Asterolepsis

of Stromness, by Hugh Miller, author of "The

Old Red Sandstone," with a memoir of the author,

by Lewis Agassis. Gould, Kendall & Lincoln,

Boston. 1850 : pp. 337.

By Prof. T. C. Porter, Mercersburg, Pa.

91

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96

XI. THE POETRY OF SCIENCE,

The Poetry of Science, by Robert Hunt, author of

• Panthea, Researches on Light,' &c. Gould,

Kendall & Lincoln. Boston : 1850. pp. 388.

By Prof. T. C. Porter, Mercersburg, Pa.

6

NO. II.

XII. THE OLD PALATINATE LITURGY OF 1563, 07

[Continued from Vol. II. No III.]

By Rev. J. H. A. Bomberger, A. M., Easton, Pa.

XIII. THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE,

129

By Rev. F. D. Stem, A. M., Trenton, N. J.

XIV. THE VERNAL ODES OF HORACE,

144

By Prof. W. M. Nevin, Mercersburg, Pa.

XV. PRACTICAL EXEGESIS,

152

From an article by Neander in the Deutsche Zeits-

chrift of Berlin, for February, 1850.

Translated by Rev. J. W. Nevin, D. D.

XVI. MODERN CIVILIZATION,

165

Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their ef-

fects on the Civilization of Europe. Written in

Spanish by the Reva J. BALMES. Translated from

the French. Baltimore : Published by John Mur-

phy & Co. Pittsburg : George Quigley. 1851.

8vo. pp. 514.

By Rev. J. W. Nevin, D. D.

NO. III.

XVII. THE VALUE OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS, 209

By Rev. T. Apple, Prof. in Marshall College.

XVIII. CUR DEUS HOMO?