“Knowing the burden and sorrow of earth, brooding in dim solicitude over the far times and men yet to be, we cannot recklessly utter a word calculated to lessen the hopes of man, pathetic creature, who weeps into the world and faints out of it. It is our faith--not knowledge--that the spirit is without terminus or rest. The faithful truth-hunter, in dying, finds not a covert, but a better trail. Yet the saintliness of the intellect is to be purged from prejudice and self-will. With God we are not to prescribe conditions. The thought that all high virtue and piety must die with the abandonment of belief in immortality is as pernicious and dangerous as it is shallow, vulgar, and unchristian. The view is obviously gaining prevalence among scientific and philosophical thinkers, that life is the specialization of the universal in the individual, death the restoration of the individual to the whole. This doubt as to a personal future life will unquestionably increase. Let traditional teachers beware how they venture to shift the moral law from its immutable basis in the will of God to a precarious poise on the selfish hope and fear of man. The sole safety, the ultimate desideratum, is perception of law with disinterested conformity.”--_Doctrine of a Future Life_, pp. 652-661. INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED. Alger, W. R., 264, 345 Alleine, Jos., 257 Andrews, S. J., 140 Augustine, 273 Baptist Confession, 219 Barnes, A., 117, 317 Benson, 302, 303 Bloomfield, 97, 147 Buck, Chas., 47 Bush, Geo., 43, 101 Butler, Wm. A., 314 Carmichael, A., 233 Chaldee Paraphrase, 76 Chapin, E. H., 335 Cicero, 9, 273 Clarke, A., 32, 36, 43, 86, 90, 140, 167, 257, 295 Conant, T. J., 32 Constable, H., 303, 340 Crellius, J., 206 Cruden, 294 Dalton, 328 Dobney, H. H., 8, 263, 328 Douay Bible, 76 Eusebius, 285 Gesenius, 51 Greenfield, 283, 292 Ham, J. P., 331 Hobbs, 9 Hogg, James, 327 Homer, 285 Hudson, C. F., 278 Kitto, 41 Landis, R. W., 45, 58, 59, 61, 64, 73, 77, 89, 94, 105, 122, 162, 170, 172, 175, 203 Law, Bishop, 205, 242 Lee, Luther, 101, 140, 210, 274, 323 Leeland, 333 Liddell & Scott, 292 Locke, John, 228, 328 Longfellow, 224 Luther, 76 Mattison, H., 36 Moncrieff, W. G., 326 Muller, Dr., 233 Newton, Bp., 318 Olshausen, 49, 321 Parkhurst, 51, 53, 102, 293 Priestly, Dr., 206 Pritchard, 328 Robinson, 53, 293 Saurin, 317 Scott, Thos., 32 Schrevelius, 292 Schleusner, 293 Seneca, 9 Septuagint, 76 Socrates, 9 Smith, Sidney, 324 Smith, Wm., 49 Stuart, Moses, 8, 296 Syriac Version, 76 Taylor, I., 319 Taylor, Dr. J., 51, 229 Tillotson, Bp., 337 Trench, 167 Tyndale, Wm., 233 Vincent, Thos., 301 Wahl, 294 Wakefield, 147 Warburton, Bp., 324 Watson, 70 Watts, Isaac, 228 Wesley, 70 Wetstein, 285 Whately, R., 333 Whedon, D. D., 224