[54] We have heard a story of a gentleman who gave an artist a commission for a historical painting, and suggested as the subject, the Passage of the Israelites over the Red Sea. In due time he was informed that his picture was finished, and was shown by the artist a large canvas painted red. "What is that?" he asked. "Why," says the artist, "that is the Red Sea." "But where are the Israelites?" "Oh, they have passed over." "And where are the Egyptians?" "They are under the sea." [55] _As Regards Protoplasm in Relation to Professor Huxley's Essay an the Physical Basis of Life_. By Dr. James H. Stirling. See, also, _Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man_, by L. S. Beale; also, _The Mystery of Life in Reply to Dr. Gull's Attack on the Theory of Vitality_. By L. S. Beale, M. D., 1871. [56] The address delivered by Sir William Thomson, as President of the British Association at its meeting in Edinburgh, 1871. [57] _The Old Faith and the New_. Prefatory Postscript, xxi. [58] _Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication_. New York, 1868, vol. ii. pp. 515, 516. [59] _Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science_. Cambridge, 1873, p. 20. [60] The _Atlantic Monthly_ for October, 1860. The three articles in the July, August, and October numbers of the _Atlantic_, on this subject, have been reprinted with the name of Dr. Asa Gray as their author. [61] Strauss says that as he has arrived at the conclusion that there is no personal God, and no life after death, it would seem to follow that the question, Have we still a religion? "must be answered in the negative." But as he makes the essence of religion to consist in a sense of dependence, and as he felt himself to be helpless in the midst of this whirling universe, he had that much religion left. ADVERTISEMENTS _The Great Theological Work of the Age._ DR. HODGE'S THEOLOGY. Systematic Theology. By CHARLES HODGE, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton Theological Seminary. _Complete in three volumes 8vo, tinted paper. Price, vols. I. and II._, $4.50. _Vol. III._, $5. In these volumes are comprised the results of the life-long labors and investigations of one of the most eminent theologians of the age. The work covers the ground usually occupied by treatises on Systematic Theology, and adopts the commonly received divisions of the subject,--THEOLOGY, Vol. I.; ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. II.; SOTERIOLOGY AND ESCHATOLOGY, Vol. III. The INTRODUCTION is devoted to the consideration of preliminary matters, such as Method, or the principles which should guide the student of Theology, and the different theories as to the source and standard of our knowledge of divine things, Rationalism, Mysticism, the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Rule of Faith, and the Protestant doctrine on that subject.