ruction imparted in the high-schools has long
since lost its Rationalistic puerilities. The candidates for the
pastoral office are not asked such questions as were propounded to their
fathers and predecessors. Church history, written in clear and natural
style, is no longer a collection of pointless anecdotes. Exegesis has
ceased to be a word-play, and the companion of classical annotations.
The sermons of the present ministry partake of Reinhard's earnestness
and faith. Gallicisms and technical terminology are no longer proclaimed
to the peasants, while the artisan is no more entertained with
grandiloquent descriptions of the last night of Socrates, or with
Ciceronian laudations of the Schoolmen.[83] The popular attendance at
the public services is greatly on the increase, and the congregations
are expressing in no doubtful terms their desire for the restoration of
the thrilling evangelical hymns of other days.[84]

The masses, having tasted the word of God in its simplicity, will not be
satisfied without deep draughts for many future years. The Protestant
Church will yet be "fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as
an army with banners." Then will Germany be what she was in the heroic
age of the Reformation,--the instructor of the ignorant, the friend of
the helpless, the dread of Romanism, and the mother of giants. The evil
days are nearly numbered. "Good Friday is the precursor of a joyous
Easter Morning."

FOOTNOTES:

[69] For accounts of the later theologians of Germany, consult Schaff,
_Germany: Its Universities, Theology and Religion_. Phila., 1857. Also,
Schwarz, _Geschichte der Neuesten Theologie_, _Leipzig_, _Dritte
Ausgabe_, 1864.

[70] _Doctrine of Person of Christ_ (Clark's Foreign Theological
Library, VI-VIII).

[71] _Doctrine of Person of Christ_, Vol. I, pp 80-81.

[72] _American Presb. and Theolog. Review_, January, 1863.

[73] _Dogmatik_, 1849.

[74] _System of Christian Doctrine._ Translated by Montgomery and
Hennen. Clark's Library, Edinburgh, 1849.

[75] _Die Anfaenge der Christlichen Kirche und ihrer Verfassung_, 1837.

[76] _Ethik_--1845-1848.

[77] _Ethik_, _Preface_, p. 6.

[78] _Westminster Review_, July, 1863.

[79] _Beitraege zur Einleitung in das alte Testamente._ Drei Baende,
1831-39.

[80] _Christologie._ Drei Baende, 1829-35.

[81] Besides the _Evangelical Church Gazette_, semi-weekly, by
Hengstenberg, established 1827, are the _Studien und Kritiken_, by