THE GENIUS OF THE GOSPEL. The First Scene in the Moral History of Redeemed Humanity The Five Brethren; or, a Terrible Picture of Domestic Life The Individual and Social Influence of Religion. (By H. E. Christ Stilling the Tempest. (BY JOSEPH PARKER) Spiritual Qualification for the Reception of the Spiritual. (BY from this World and Paul's, in Relation to Usefulness Jesus and the Ruffian Band in Gethsemane; or, the Majesty Heresy: an Exposition and an Appeal. (BY JOSEPH PARKER) 332 The Divine Fruits of Faith. (BY W. F. HURNDALL, M. A.) The Privileges of the Good. (BY SAMUEL ROBERTS, M. A.) The Supreme Importance of Moral Purity The Fifth Scene in the History of Redeemed Humanity; or, the The moral disparity between Man's Thoughts and Ways and Baumgarten's Apostolic History. A Critical Commentary on Paul and his Times. The Evangelical System considered The British Controversialist. No Better than we Should Be 144 The Christ of History. The Old Mine explored, and the Golden Ore of the Gospel Extracted. Anti-mysticism. The Sta PAGE 359 X. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, and of William Lisle INDEX OF TEXTS. 360 ON The Impotency of Time; OR, THE ETERNALLY PERMANENT AMIDST THE CONSTANTLY FLUCTUATING. "That which hath been is now."-Eccles. iii. 15. "IMPOTENCY OF TIME"! Why time is anything but impotent! Is not its history a record of stupendous achievements? Are not the whole scene of our observation and sphere of our knowledge covered with tokens of its power? Do we not see, on every hand, signs of its destructive force in the beings, systems, institutions, cities, and empires, which it is fast reducing to ruins; and in the mementoes of others, which it has long since destroyed? Where are the magnificent cities and mighty nations of which we read in history? Where are the untold generations that have successively tenanted this planet for well nigh sixty centuries? And where are the great men who appeared in each revolving age, and have left the impress of their genius upon all the epochs that followed? Has not time carried "them away as with a flood"?--Like clouds on the wings of the wind, straws on the bosom of the ebbing wave-has not time borne them off? And then, have we not, also, ever-abounding proofs of its constructive powers ? Do we not see them, both in those existences, sciences, arts, societies, and empires, which it is calling into being, and in those which it is nursing to maturity? "Time impotent," indeed! Its hand is on all things, and all things yield to its touch; it is the mighty sea that bears all things to our shore; and, anon, bears all away. Such we imagine, may be the cogitations of some thoughtful brother, Vol. IV. B |