OUR HOPE: A MAGAZINE BEARING ON PROPHETIC ENQUIRY. EDITED BY WILLIAM MAUDE. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech." 2 COR. iii. 12 (Margin). VOLUME I. OTHE LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW. Symond's Kingdom of Christ...... Thoughts on the Divine and Human Character of Christ Upton's Panorama of Prophecy.... 131 328 OUR HOPE: A Magazine bearing on Prophetic Enquiry. OCTOBER, 1873. THE CHARACTER OF GOD. HOWEVER much some of us may feel constrained to deprecate the strong language and to dissent from the extreme conclusions of the very remarkable and interesting article which appeared in the May number of Fraser's Magazine, from the pen of Miss Florence Nightingale; we do at least feel that no small debt of gratitude is due to the writerwhose noble, successful, and unwearied labours for the alleviation of many forms of human suffering have made her name a "household word,"-for the clear and forcible manner in which she has drawn attention to the great truthfundamental indeed if anything is to be regarded as fundamental-that all our hope for time and for eternity depends ultimately and absolutely upon the character of God. Thus she writes: "Because I am God, and not man,' said One a few thousands of years ago. Then surely, is it not the most important and at the same time the most neglected point in theology, to determine what God is-what His character is like? "Reams of sermons are written on every point but this. And yet this is the foundation of all. "It may seem a little too familiar an illustration to say that in marriage it is a constant reproach brought against continental nations, that they do not let the woman know B |