ESSAYS, ORATIONS,

AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

OF THE

SIXTH GENERAL CONFERENCE

OF THE

EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

HISTORICAL SKETCH..........

ADDRESS OF WELCOME,

By the Rev. WILLIAM ADAMS, D.D., LL.D., New York. Delivered at the Social

Reception, on Thursday Evening, October 2, 1873, in the Young Men's Christian

Association Hall...............

DIVISION I.

REPORTS ON THE STATE OF RELIGION IN VARIOUS

CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES.

Friday, October 3, 1873.

1. ON THE POSITION OF THE PROTESTANT RELIGION IN FRANCE, AND PARTICULARLY OF

THE NATIONAL FRENCH REFORMED CHURCH.

By the Rev. AUGUSTE DECOPPET, B.D., Pastor of the National Reformed Church

in Paris..

2. THE OTHER PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN FRANCE.

By the Rev. GEORGE FISCH, D.D., Pastor of the Free Church in Paris....

3. CHRISTIAN LIFE IN GERMANY.

By the Rev. HERMANN KRUMMACHER, Brandenburg, Prussia....

4. EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY IN GERMANY: SURVEY OF MY LIFE AS A TEACHER OF

THEOLOGY.

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By Professor AUGUST THOLUCK, D.D., University of Halle.

Translated and read,

with an Addition, by the Rev. LEOPOLD WITTE, Cöthen, Prussia........

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5. THE RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF HOLLAND.

By the Rev. M. COHEN STUART, D.D., from Rotterdam..

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6. THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CONDITION OF BELGIUM.

By the Rev. LEONARD ANET, of Brussels, Pastor and General Secretary of the Chris-

tian Missionary Church in Belgium....

By the Rev. MATTEO PROCHET, Pastor of a Waldensian Church at Genoa, Italy

10. REPORT ON THE STATE OF RELIGION IN SPAIN.

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By the Rev. ANTONIO CARRASCO, Madrid..............

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11. THE EVANGELIZATION OF SPAIN.

By the Rev. FRITZ FLIEDNER, of Madrid.............

12. RELIGION IN GREECE.

By the Rev. MICHAEL D. KALOPOTHAKES, M.D., Athens....

13. THE BRITISH PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA.

By the Rev. ROBERT MURRAY, Halifax, Nova Scotia..........

14. CHRISTIANITY IN THE WEST INDIES.

By the Rev. WILLIAM MURRAY, Falmouth, Jamaica.....

[Reports on the state of religion in Great Britain and the United States-the two most im-

portant Protestant countries in the world-were intentionally omitted from the Programme,

both on account of the vastness of the subject and the prevailing Anglo-American character

of the whole Conference.]

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DIVISION II.

CHRISTIAN UNION.

Saturday, October 4, 1873.

1. THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH BASED ON PERSONAL UNION WITH CHRIST.

By the Rev. CHARLES HODGE, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology in the Theological

Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey...........

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2. CHRISTIAN UNION CONSISTENT WITH DENOMINATIONAL DISTINCTIONS.

By the Very Rev. R. PAYNE SMITH, D.D., Dean of Canterbury......

3. SPIRITUAL UNITY NOT ORGANIC UNION.

By the Rt. Rev. GREGORY T. BEDELL, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of the Protestant

Episcopal Church in Ohio....

4. THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS-MODES OF ITS PROMOTION AND MANIFESTATION.

By the Rev. ELiphalet Nott POTTER, D.D., President of Union College, Schenectady,

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N. Y. Together with a Communication from Professor TAYLER LEWIS, LL.D..... 154

5. THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS-MODES OF ITS PROMOTION AND MANIFESTATION.

By the Rev. C. DALLAS MARSTON, M. A., Vicar of St. Paul's, Onslow Square, London... 160

6. CHRISTIAN LOVE THE BOND OF CHRISTIAN UNION.

By the Rev. GEORGE R. CROOKS, D.D., New York.

7. CHRISTIAN UNION; OR, THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE IN FRANCE.

By the Rev. EMILE F. COOK, В.A., Paris...............

8. INTERCHANGE OF PULPITS.

By the Rev. F. W. CONRAD, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.....................

9. THE LORD'S SUPPER IN RELATION TO CHRISTIAN UNION.

By the Rev. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, D.D., Pastor and Superintendent of

St. Luke's Hospital, New York, and of St. Johnland, Long Island..

10. THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND SPIRITUAL RELATIONS OF AMERICA TO ENGLAND.

By the Rev. JOHN STOUGHTON, D.D., Kensington, London.................

11. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE: ITS ORIGIN, OBJECTS, AND OPERATIONS.

By the Rev. JAMES DAVIS, Secretary of the British Organization, London.....

12. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE: ITS OBJECTS AND INFLUENCE IN PROMOTING THE

UNIVERSAL PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS TO THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.

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By the Rev. W. NOËL, Counselor of the "Ober-Kirchenrath," First Pastor of the Louisa

Parish Church at Berlin, and Secretary of the "German Evangelical Church Diet"... 197

DIVISION III.

CHRISTIANITY AND ITS ANTAGONISMS.

Monday, October 6, 1873.

THEOLOGICAL SECTION.

1. THE BEST METHODS OF COUNTERACTING MODERN INFIDELITY.

By the Rev. THEODORE CHRISTLIEB, D.D., Professor of Theology, and Chaplain in the

University of Bonn, Prussia....

2. BEST METHODS OF CounteractinG MODERN INFIDELITY.

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By the Rev. STANLEY LEATHES, Professor of Hebrew, King's College, London.........................

3. THE CAUSES OF, AND BEST METHODS OF COUNTERACTING, MODERN INFIDELITY.

By the Rev. JOHN CAIRNS, D.D., Berwick, England..........

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By the Rev. J. J. VAN OOSTERZEE, D.D., Professor of Theology at the University of

Utrecht, Holland..

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4. THE GOSPEL HISTORY AND MODERN CRITICISM.

5. AMERICAN INFIDELITY: ITS FACTORS AND PHASES.

By the Rev. WILLIAM F. WARREN, D.D., President of Boston University................ 249

6. REASON AND FAITH.

By the Rev. E. A. WASHBURN, D.D., of New York......

7. CHRISTIANITY AND THE GOSPEL.

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By FELIX BOVET, Ph.D., Professor of Theology in the College at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 261

PHILOSOPHICAL SECTION.

1. RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF THE DOCTRINE OF DEVELOPMENT.

By the Rev. JAMES MCCOSH, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, N. J., President of the College

of New Jersey..

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2. PRIMITIVE MAN AND REVELATION.

By J. W. DAWSON, LL.D., Principal of McGill College, Montreal..

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3. CosmogonY AND THE BIBLE; OR, THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF CREATION IN THE

LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENCE.

By Professor ARNOLD HENRY Guyot, LL.D., Princeton, New Jersey.

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4. THE GOSPEL AND PHILOSOPHY.

By Professor ERNEST NAVILLE, of Geneva, Switzerland, Corresponding Member of the

Institute of France...

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5. THE STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF IDEALISM.

By the Rev. CHARLES P. KRAUTH, D.D., Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylva-

nia, Philadelphia...

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