COMFORT FOR MOURNERS IN GENERAL.

Rev. Professor Eadie, D.D., Glasgow-The Saviour's

Sympathy with the Afflicted, -

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Rev. Professor Eadie, D.D., Glasgow-"Jesus Wept,"

Rev. Dr. Charles J. Vaughan, Doncaster--How to

Sympathise with Mourners,

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*Dean Alford, Canterbury-"Thy Will be Done,'

*Principal Tulloch, D.D., St. Andrews-Sorrow for

the Dead,

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*Professor Islay Burns, D.D., Glasgow-"How are

the Dead Raised Up, and with what Body do they

Come ?" -

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Rev. Dr. John Ker, Glasgow-Christ's Delay to Inter-

pose against Death,

204

Rev. John Riddell, Moffat-Death in the Palace,

Rev. George Gilfillan, Dundee-A Lovely Life: Its

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Closing Scene,

210

*Mrs. Janet Hamilton, Langloan-Resignation to the

Divine Will, -

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*Rev. Henry Allon, London--A Word to Parents,

217

Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, B. A., London-"These Little

Ones,"

219

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher-Identity Preserved in

Heaven,

221

Rev. Wm. Morley Punshon, M. A.-Heaven a Vast

and Happy Society,

225

Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, Brooklyn—A Walk in

Greenwood Cemetery,

226

D. M. Moir ("Delta")- A Thornless Sorrow,

230

POETRY.

D. M. Moir, ("Delta")-"Casa Wappy,"

D. M. Moir, ("Delta")-"Wee Willie,

D. M. Moir, ("Delta")-" Casa's Dirge,"

William Wordsworth-"We are Seven,"

Alfred Tennyson, D. C.L.-"The May Queen,”

Alfred Tennyson, D. C. L.-The Grandmother,

Alfred Tennyson, D. C. L.-Enoch Arden,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D.-The Reaper

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and the Flowers,

245

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D.-"Resignation," 246

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D.-Suspiria,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge-Berkeley and Florence

248

Thomas Aird-Song of the Church-yard Children,

251

D. M. Moir, ("Delta")" Weep not for Her,"

James Hedderwick, Glasgow-Home Trial, -

Walter C. Smith, D.D., Glasgow-Our First Taken,

William B. Robertson, D.D., Irvine The Child's

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Angel,

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Archbishop Trench,

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Archbishop Trench,

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-The White Doves, -

*W. B. Robertson, D. D., Irvine—The Departed Nigh,

James Montgomery-The Infant Choir in Heaven,

Archbishop Trench, Dublin-" Sleep Softly,"

268

Henry Alford, D.D., Dean of Canterbury-The Child

in Paradise,

268

Henry Alford, D.D., Dean of Canterbury—Faith,

269

Henry Alford, D. D.-Lacrymæ Paternæ,

270

John Milton-"The Fairest Flower,'

272

Paul Gerhardt-"Still Thou art mine Own,”

274

*Gottfried Hoffmann-" Go Hence my Child," (Trans-

lated by John Guthrie, M. A., Glasgow),

Alaric A. Watts-"The Death of the First-Born,"

281

Theodore Martin, London-The Angel and the Infant,

Robert Nicoll-The Sick Child's Dream,

* Janet Hamilton, Langloan-"Words of Comfort,"

Janet Hamilton, Langloan-Little Dora,

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Harriet Beecher Stowe-The Garden Rose-Bud,

295

J. Stanyan Bigg-"O Little Child,"

297

Robert Pollok, M. A.,-The Dying Mother and Her Child, 298

*Alexander Wallace, D.D., Glasgow-Jesus in the

Storm,

John Critchley Prince-" "The Dewdrop's Gone,"

*William M. Taylor, M. A., Liverpool-The Rosebuds,

*John Guthrie, M.A., Glasgow-Parental Consolation,

*William T. Macauslane, Glasgow-Resigned in Hope,

*Rev. Henry Batchelor, Glasgow-To a Bereaved

Mother,

*Alex. Wallace, D.D., Glasgow-The Contrast,

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*A. R.-Acrostic,

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James D. Burns, M. A. -The Angels Singing,

307

*William Freeland, Glasgow- Not Dead but Changed,

James Edmeston, Homerton-"Come, Quickly Come,"

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HISTORICAL SKETCH

OF THE QUESTION OF THE SALVATION OF

DECEASED INFANTS:

REV. WILLIAM ANDERSON, LL.D.

THE historical sketch in the former editions occupies a much larger space, and the following is merely a summary account of it, with quotations of principal passages:

"The history of the question of the salvation of such as die in infancy is at once curious and impressive. It is curious for the exhibition which it makes of men being compelled gradually to modify their most favourite systematic dogmas till they reduce them almost, if not entirely, to absurdities; and it is impressive for the manifestation which it makes of the principle by which they were thus compelled-viz., the sovereign power of Common Sense-the Common Sense of united Piety and Humanity-protesting, in the one case, against God being blasphemed, by pourtraying Him an object of horror, for injustice and cruelty; and, in the other case, against the best affections of the human heart being insulted and outraged."