BOOK REVIEWS-The Visions of the Apocalypse and their Lessons, Thomas Lucas Scott; The Foundations of Belier, Arthur James Balfour; The Bohlen Lectures for 1895, Hugh Miller 51 54 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL REVIEW (FORMERLY THE VIRGINIA SEMINARY MAGAZINE,) Published Monthly from October to July. No Numbers are Published in August or September. EDITED BY REV. PROF. CARL E. GRAMMER, ASSISTED BY Rev. Prof. CORNELIUS WALKER, D. D., Rev. Prof. ANGUS CRAWFORD, M. A., D. D., Rev. Prof. SAMUEL A. WALLIS. The Editors are not responsible for the views expressed by their contributors. While this REVIEW is edited chiefly by the Faculty of the Theological Seminary of Virginia, it is not the purpose of the Editors to make it the organ of one institution or school of thought. They wish to have in it a periodical as inclusive in its sympathy and toleration as the Church whose official name it bears. It will be the endeavor of the Editors to see that each school of thought in our Church receives courteous treatment in our pages-criticism without personality and examination without insinuation. It will not, however, be inconsistent with this liberality; indeed it will be in the closest accord with it, that the Editors should seek to make the prevailing tone conservative and yet progressive, liberal and yet reverent, critical and yet constructive. All who may be interested in the furtherance and guidance of religious thought and its dissemination among clergy and laity are invited to assist us in this undertaking. Subscription, $1.00 per year; Single Copies, 15 Cents. Remittances must be sent to the Business Manager. Checks and Post-Office Orders must be made payable to "THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL REVIEW." Post-Office Orders should be made payable at Alexandria, Va. A dollar note or Postal Note may be safely sent in the ordinary mail. Literary matter should be addressed to Rev. Prof. CARL E. GRAMMER, Editorin-Chief, Theological Seminary, P. O., Va. Address all other communications to THOMAS W. COOKE, BUSINESS MANAGER, Theological Seminary P. O., Fairfax Co., Va. THE EVANGELICALISM. [The Eighth Reinicker Lecture.] HE use of names in connection with movements and divisions in the Christian Church has been peculiarly unsystematic. Names of apparently small original connotation, like "Protestant," have held their own and extended their sway sometimes even where they were not desired or appreciated. Names given in ridicule or in jest, like "Methodist," have been adopted and honored by the long history of noble deeds that have been connected with them. And names like Evangelical, which should belong to all Christians, have been appropriated for a special movement, in a way which may have been originally either hostile or friendly. It is hard to tell when these names have arisen and whence they have come, or how they were given, for no central and superior body has existed to allot them or to amend them, and they generally embody but the passing and popular impression caught from special features of a movement of greater or less power. And yet, as time has gone on, all of these names have come practically to have a certain clearness to the mind, and thus have answered a purpose greater than was originally intended. The life and character of the movements have given to their names meanings which seldom failed to be well understood. Like the names bestowed on children through family associations or parental caprice, these names in Christian history have gained their true position in the world from the deeds and lives of those to whom they were given. |