THE

MERCERSBURG REVIEW:

EDITED FOR

The Alumni Association

OF

FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE;

BY

REV. E. V. GERHART, D. D. AND REV. P. SCHAFF, D. D.

Neque enim quæro intelligere ut credam, sed credo ut intelligam.—Anselm.

VOLUME XI.---1859.

PUBLISHED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

BY GEORGE B. RUSSELL, PITTSBURG, PA

CHAMBERSBURG:

M. KIEFFER & CO.

1859.

ARTICLE.

NO. I.

I. THE SYNOD AT FREDERICK, MD.,

By Philip Schaff, D. D., Mercersburg, Pa.

II. THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM-ITS FORMATION AND

FIRST INTRODUCTION IN THE PALATINATE,

By the Rev. Henry Harbaugh, Lancaster, Pa.

III. THE HUMAN BODY AND DISEASE, CONSIDERED FROM

THE CHRISTIAN STAND-POINT,

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By Lewis H. Steiner, M. D., Baltimore, Md.

IV. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY,

93

By J. H. A. Bomberger, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.

V. THE OFFICE OF BISHOP,

107

By the Rev. Daniel Gans, Harrisburg, Pa.

VI. THE PALATINATE-A HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, 140

By Prof. Adolph L. Koeppen, Lancaster, Pa.

VII. RECENT PUBLICATIONS,

NO. II.

I. SKETCHES OF A Traveller from GREECE, CONSTANTINO-

PLE, ASIA MINOR AND PALESTINE,

II. NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL,

By John W. Nevin, D. D., Lancaster, Pa.

III. THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF Washington,

By the Rev. Amos H. Kremer, Carlisle, Pa.

IV. A DISCOURSE BY DR. RAUCH: EVERY MAN IS THE

By Philip Schaff, D. D., Mercersburg, Pa.

VI. THE PALATINATE: A HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICAL

SKETCH, (Second Article,) Its history from the ear-
liest times to the extinction of the elder Electoral

line in 1559,

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Translated from the Latin of the Genevan Catechism, by

Prof. Thomas C. Porter, Lancaster, Pa.