HISTORY OF OPINIONS


SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINE OF RETRIBUTION.
 By EDWARD BEECHEO, D. D.,
 Author'of "The Conflict of Ageps"
 1 vol., 12mo. - Cloth, $1.5.

 The momentous question of future retribution is here historically
discussed with an earnestness and deliberation due to Its transcen-
dent importance. The main interest of the inquiry naturally centers
in the doom of the wicked. Will it be annihilation ? ultimate rento.
ration to holiness and happiness ? endless punishment ? or is it out
of our power to decide which of these views is the truth ? The dis-
uension is intensited by being narrowed to the meaning of a single
word, aiidoe. The opinions of those to whom Christ spoke, and
bow they understood him, are vital questions4n the argument; and,
to solve them, the opinions and modes of speech of preceding ages
must be attentively weighed, for each age is known to have molded
the opinions and use of words of its successor. Hence, Ir. Beecher
bas found himself compelled to "trace the development of thought
and language from the outset to the days of Christ, then to inqure
into the import of his words, In the light of all preceding ages and.
lastly, to trace the development of opinion downward through the
Christian ages."

STUDIES IN THE CREATIVE WEEK.
 By Rev. GEORGE D. BOARDXAN, D. D.
 1 vol., 19mo. Cloth, $1.5.

 The Lectures, fourteen in number, embrace the following topics: 1. I-
Tnonvuerox; 2. GzOzrss or Txn Unrvzss; 8. Or OnDEn; 4. Or Lrean; I
0. Or Tnu BS ; 6. Or Tn LADS; 7. Or PLArs; 8. Or Tam LxMt-
xarsm; 9. Or AxmnAX; 10. Or MAN; 11. Or ED s; 12. Or WOMm;
I. Or THs ABBAT; 14. PALIuxemo s.
 "We see in the Lectures more than tl)e sensation of the hour.
They will have a marked effect in defining the position of the believer
of to-day, in certifying both to disciple and to skeptic Just what is to
be bed against all attack; and the statement of the case will be 'I
many eases the strongest argument They will tend to broaden the
minds ofbelievers, and to lift them above the letter to the plane of
the spt rf They will show that truth and religion are capable of be-
ing defended without violence, without denunciation, without mls-
repreentatlon, without the impugning of motives."-NationalBW hit.
 revelation and Science can not really conflict because truth ca
not be contrary to truth;' but so persistent have been the attach of
scientists on time-honored orthodoxy. that the believer in Revelation
has long demanded an exhaustive work on the first chapter of Gete-
Ma. In response t this widespread feeling, the Rev. George Dana
Boardman D. D., the learned pastor of the First Baptist Church,
PhiladelpMa, wa requested to deliver a course of lectures covering
this debatable ground.", P 1 B
D. APPLBTON A 00., Puuzusmus, s4 & 551 BEOADWAY, N. Y.