n against a body of men posted in a wood to the left,
rode up to the subaltern, and said: "Well aimed, captain; but no
more,--they are our own 99th!" A similar mistake has sometimes been
committed by ecclesiastical organizations, which, instead of aiming at
the common enemy, have expended too much valuable time and energy in
efforts to defend their individual creeds. A more intense harmony of all
the friends of orthodoxy is a condition of permanent success. The
theological crisis of to-day may be followed by others more severe. But
the Faith of the Church teaches the invaluable lesson that God designs,
by the ordeal of the earthly crucible, to prepare her for higher honor
and perfect service. She does not desire a premature termination of the
season of proof.

"From darkness here, and weariness,
We ask not full repose,
Only be Thou at hand.--

* * * * *

The wanderer seeks his native bower,
And we will look and long for Thee,
And thank Thee for each trying hour,
Wishing, not struggling, to be free."[288]

FOOTNOTES:

[282] John Foster, _Broadmead Lectures_, vol. i., p. 309.

[283] _What is Church History?_ p. 15.

[284] Winer, _Handbuch der Theologischen Wissenschaft_, 1838-1842.

[285] _What is Church History?_ p. 17.

[286] _History of the Apostolic Church_, p. 80.

[287] _Geschichte der Neuesten Theologie._ Second Edition, pp. 105, 152.

[288] Keble, _Christian Year_.

APPENDIX.

LITERATURE OF RATIONALISM.

I.--GERMANY--HOLLAND--SWITZERLAND.

AUBERLEN, C. A.--Die Goettliche Offenbarung, 2 Baende, Basel, 1861-64.

AeUSERUNGEN ueb. Renan, Strauss u. aehnliche Buecher. Anon. Tueb., 1864.

BALMES, J.--Briefe an einen Zweifler, Aus d. Span. uebersetzt, von F.
Loruiser, Regensburg, 1864.

BAUR, F. C.--Die Tuebingen Schule und ihre Stellung zur Gegenwart.
Tuebingen, 1859.

BEYSCHLAG, W.--Ueber das "Leben Jesu" v. Renan. Halle a. S. 1864.

BOCKSHAMMER, G. F.--Offenbarung und Theologie. Stuttg. 1822.

BOeHME, C. F.--Christliches Henotikon. Halle, 1827.

---- Die Sache des rationalen Supranaturalismus, geprueft und erklaert.
Neust. 1823.

BRETSCHNEIDER, K. G.--Ueber die Grundprincipien der Evang. Theologie.
Altenburg, 1832.

---- Zwei Sendschreiben an einem Staatsmann. Leipzig, 1830.

BRONSVELD, A. W.--Oorzaken der verbreiding van het rationalisme in ous
land, sinds de laaste jaren der vorigen eeuw. Rotter