THE

SOUTHERN

PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW:

CONDUCTED BY

AN ASSOCIATION OF MINISTERS

IN

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.

VOLUME VIII.-MDCCCLV.

COLUMBIA, S. C.

PRINTED BY I. C. MORGAN.

1855.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

448550

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS,

1909

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

NUMBER I.

Article.

I. Report of a Conference by the Presbytery of Charles-

ton, on the subject of "The Organization, Instruction

and Discipline of the Coloured People,"

II. The Unjust Steward,......

III. Religion and Mathematics,..

....

IV. On the Trinity.-The objections of unreasonableness,

contradiction, and the human origin of the word

Trinity,.....

V. The Poetical Element of the Bible,..

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VI. The Authority of Ecclesiastical Rulers,...

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112

VII. Necrology.-Memoir of Rev. James Edmonds,..... 134

Biographical sketch of Maj. John James, 141

VIII. Critical Notices,.

1. Views of the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal and Experimental.

2. The Premium Essay on the Characteristics and Laws of

Prophetic Symbols.

150

NUMBER II.

I. The Doctrine of the Trinity, Practical and Fundamen-