Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . eism ofthe lower masses and the virtual atheism of the edu-cated and philosophic classes, both show, however,that the moral force of anything that can properly sion may require, though only with the same kind ofinterest with which Westerners are wont to trythis or that quack medicine. Yet to the high ethicalprinciples taught by Confucius, Mr. Smith, followingDr. Wells Williams, Dr. Medhurst, and others, pays 76 BOOK NOTICES. [January, a high tribute, and he thinks that the influencewhich those teachings have exerted upon the Empireof China has
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . eism ofthe lower masses and the virtual atheism of the edu-cated and philosophic classes, both show, however,that the moral force of anything that can properly sion may require, though only with the same kind ofinterest with which Westerners are wont to trythis or that quack medicine. Yet to the high ethicalprinciples taught by Confucius, Mr. Smith, followingDr. Wells Williams, Dr. Medhurst, and others, pays 76 BOOK NOTICES. [January, a high tribute, and he thinks that the influencewhich those teachings have exerted upon the Empireof China has been great and lasting. The book should be in all libraries that aim tosecure a full list of the very first class of missionaryor ethnological literature. The Student Volunteer Movement, like the Inter-Seminary Missionary Convention, seems to havebecome a permanent institution. Its plans undergomore or less change from year to year, but there isno doubting the fact that it is an important and far-reaching force in stimulating missionary interest. The Student Missionary Enterprise, (Ad-dresses and Discussions of the Second Interna-tional Convention of the Student Volunteer Move-ment for Foreign Missions held at Detroit). Editedby Max Wood Moorhead; Fleming H. Revell Com-pany. among the youth, and certainly no class of theyoung is it more important to reach and to movethan the students in our Colleges and Seminaries forboth sexes. Its yearly volume will well pay aperusal by those who have not been privileged toattend itsmeetings. 1895.] MINISTERIAL NECROLOGY. 77 Ministerial Necrology. ty We earnestly request the families of deceased min-isters and the stated clerks of their presbyteries to for-ward to us promptly the facts given in these notices, andas nearly as possible in the form exemplified notices are highly valued by writers of Presby-terian history, compilers of statistics and the intelligentreaders of both. Alexander, Samuel Davies,— Born at Prince-ton,
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