(PAGES 12-16..) Speaker's Commentary on the Holy Bible Accord to the Authorized Version: New Testament: Vol. III.-Official Proame und Hand-book of the Ecumenical Methodist Conference-The Catholic Cou Sion and Relations of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South-Illustrated Hand-book to City-road ChapelGregory's Bonniebell and Other Poems-Bond's Positive Evidences of Christianity-Briggs's Martyr President--Smyth's Orthodox Theology of To-day-Williams's Mosaics-Disos way's Beppie-Dorchester's Problem of Religious Progress -Graves's Life of Andrew Jackson Potter-Helms's Moses Resisted-Parker's Ingersoll Answered-Page's Leaders of Men-Simmons's Few Plain Words on Baptism-Southern Methodist Almanac for 1882. PERIODICALS. See also Post SCRIPT. NOTES AND QUERIES. (PAGES 162-192.) Our Present Number-The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the Ecumenical Conference-Southern Methodist Statistics-"Is a Dearth of Ministers Coming?" -Biblical Criticism-Dean Stanley-Reprobation Reprobated-Deau Swift and Salt A Few Mistakes-Glubdubdrib Necromancy-Heterodoxy versus Orthodoxy-Dr. McFerrin on Conference Organs-Scientific Optimism-Friendly Criticism-Shakspere, Shakspeare, Shakespeare-The Four Gospels-Sixth Petition of the Lord's Prayer-Cleanliness is Next to Godliness"-Genesis vi. 2, 4-May Women Preach ?-0. C. R.-" Despair"-"A New Love Poet"-Mr. Hughes's Rugby-Necrology. POSTSCRIPT: Phelps's Theory of Preaching-Merrill's East of the Jordan-Riddle's The Gospel According to Mark-Petrie's GennesaretTalks to Boys and Girls About Jesus-Smith's Young Methodist-Fitzgerald's California Sketches, New Series-The Literary World-The Canadian Methodist Magazine Vanderbilt Observer. TO THE FRIENDS OF THE REVIEW. THE Managers of THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH, duly appreciate the generous notices of it by editors and others, and are thankful for suggestions which they will turn to account in the conduct of the REVIEW. Excellent communications (as well as editorials) are on file, and others are promised, for the April number. Literary Notices will be a prominent feature of the work, and competent pens are employed in their production. Publishers of books and periodicals will please take note of this. The Managers tender their thanks to ministers and cthers who have taken so great interest in the REVIEW, and hope they will continue their favors, and do still more to improve its character, and increase its circula POLEMICS from óleos, war-is that branch of Theology which treats scientifically and historically of the contest for Christian truth. It recognizes offensive as well as defensive contests, and prescribes rules for both. In the widest sense it embraces defensive and offensive contests with non-Christian opponents (Apologetics), as well as controversy with errorists who profess and call themselves Christians-Elenchtics, from èérzet, to convince or refute an opponent. It is the counterpart of Irenics, which seeks peace and ensues it-though, when properly conducted, Polemics postulates the same result. Sometimes Polemics has been extended over the whole ground-so as to embrace Apologetics, Elenchtics, and Irenics— but it is now generally restricted to Elenchtics, Disputation, or Controversy, among the different sects, factions, or parties, into which Christendom is unhappily divided. It is necessarily both offensive and defensive. Truth must oppose error; and error will oppose truth, which must be defended from its attacks. Polemics, therefore, treats (1) of Heterodoxy, or departures from Orthodoxy in every age; (2) the Controversies thereby (1) |