CONTEN CONTENTS OF NO. III. VOL. I. THIRD SERIES I. INFLUENCE OF FAITH UPON INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER, . 391 By Rev. C. B. BOYNTON, Troy, N. Y. By Prof. WM. S. TYLER, Amherst College, Mass. By Prof. L. P. HICKOK, D. D., Auburn Theological Seminary. By Prof. J. ALDEN, D. D., Williams College, Mass. 3. Barnes' Notes on Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. 4. Cormenin's History of the Popes. 9. Mayer's Expository Lectures. LAW OF PERIODICALS. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publisher may continue to send them till all arrearages are paid, and subscribers are responsible for the numbers sent. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the office to which they are directed, they are held responsible till they have settled their bills, and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and their periodicals are sent to their former direction, they are held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, until all arrearages are paid, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. POSTAGE REDUCED. THE POSTAGE on the Repository will, hereafter, be about NINE CENTS, to any distance whatever, being a reduction of nearly one half to all our subscribers over 100 miles. By publishing on lighter paper it might be reduced yet more; but we question whether our subscribers would not prefer to have better paper and a little higher postage. POST OFFICE LAW.-" On Magazines, 2 1-2 cents for the first ounce, and 1 cent for each successive ounce, not exceeding eight. Any thing over eight ounces is excluded from the mail." NOTA BENE. After the 1st of July, our subscribers can remit to us, by paying their own postmaster, taking his receipt, and transmitting to us; which being presented to our postmaster here, entitles us to receive from him the amount receipted for. We hope all will now send what they owe in this way or in a letter. We are grateful to the Postmaster General for this accommodation, as it will enable us to receive our pay in a very convenient way. THE BIBLICAL REPOSITORY AND CLASSICAL REVIEW. THIRD SERIES, NO. III.-WHOLE NUMBER LIX. ARTICLE I. THE INFLUENCE OF FAITH UPON INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER. By Rev. C. B. BOYNTON, Troy, N. Y. In this age, so far removed from the influence of ancient opinions, and among a people so eminently practical as we are, any allusion to a faith which controlled the nations twenty or thirty centuries ago, may appear like the pedantry of a school-boy, or at least, be considered an unwise attempt to draw off the mind from its active duties in the real world, to wander among the visions of one purely ideal. A belief in the invisible has very little direct influence upon our nation. Indeed, Protestant Christendom yields but slightly to any impressions from the spiritual world. This is a matter of fact era, and facts, with us, are such truths as can be tested by the senses. Whatever can be touched and seen and used moreover, for some profitable purpose, is allowed to have a real being. A railroad, or a steamboat, or a cotton-factory, or a bond and mortgage, or bank notes at par, or coin, they are veritable things. A man may THIRD SERIES, VOL. I. NO. III. 26 |