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THE DIVINE IDEAL OF THE CHURCH. By an ELDER. London: Elliot Stock, Paternoster row.

This little book, while it contains some stupid things, may be read with interest, and, perhaps, with profit by some elders. A Church is an assembly of Christly lives. But where is there such an assembly to be found?

UNIVERSALISM : a Lecture by T. M. MACDONALD, M.A.

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