§ III.-ARRANGEMENT OF CLASSES AND STUDIES. The principles on which the Church has regulated the CurriIculum have been referred to in Part I. The order of Classes now sanctioned as the permanent arrangement for Edinburgh is the following: First Year-Divinity, Junior Hebrew, Natural Science. Second Year-Divinity, Senior Hebrew, Junior Exegetics. Third Year-Divinity, Senior Exegetics, Junior Church History. Fourth Year-Divinity, Senior Church History. SESSION 1882-83. The Introductory Lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, 1st November, by Dr. LAIDLAW. The classes for the ensuing Session will meet on Thursday, 2nd November. The Session closes on the Wednesday before the first Tuesday of April, 1883. Divinity, Systematic Theology, Divinity and Church History, First Year, I P.M. .Dr. BLAIKIE, 9 Palmer- Dr. RAINY, 23 Douglas Junior Hebrew at 10 A. M. First Year's Students, First Year's Theology at 1 P.M. Second Year'sStudents, Third Year's Students, Fourth Year'sStudents, Dr. BLAIKIE. Evangelistic Theology at 11 A.M.* Dr. SMEATON. Dr. LAIDLAW. MATRICULATION AND ENROLMENT. Regular Students of Theology, before entering with the Professors, must matriculate, and pay the Common Fee to the Treasurer, each year of their course. Nor can an irregular Student be enrolled with any Professor before he has matriculated. The Matriculation-Fee is ios., and the Common Fee is £4, IOS. yearly. The matriculation takes place in the Senate Hall, at times indicated on the Board at the gate. Having matriculated, all Free Church Students must next enrol, producing all the certificates specified at pages 10, 11. The Enrolment Book is at present kept by Dr. Blaikie, and the times for enrolling will be intimated on the Board. No Free Church Student can be entitled to a certificate in any class without having had his name entered in this book at the beginning of each session. On a separate page of the book, there is also kept a register of Students who are not provided with all the statutory certificates; such Students may be allowed to take part in all the * The Evangelistic Theology Classes meet during November and December only, for three hours a-week. + Students of each year attend this class for one hour a-week. ordinary work of the classes they attend, with the exception of the discourses required by the laws of the Church. Students from other countries or churches should bring with them certificates of Christian character from their ministers, and of their previous studies in the Universities and Theological Institutions with which they have been connected. For licentiates, a certificate of licence is sufficient. Hebrew Tutorial Class-A Class will be conducted by the Tutor, Mr. James G. Sutherland, M.A., for Students preparing to enter on the regular Theological Course. Fee, One Guinea. (See further, p. 44.) HOLIDAYS. The Classes do not meet during the Christmas holidays, nor on the first Monday of February, nor on the day when the March Commission of Assembly is held. COLLEGE DISCOURSES. The Discourses required by the Laws of the Church to be delivered by Students at the Divinity Hall, are given in at Edinburgh as under First Year.-Homily in English, not later than 1st February. Second Year.-Lecture on the first Monday of the Session, and critical Hebrew Exercise, not later than 24th December. Third Year.-Exegesis in Latin or English, and the Exercise and Addition, not later than 14th December. Fourth Year.-Popular Sermon, on the first Monday of the Session. Besides these, the regulations of the College require each Student to give in, during each Session, to one of the Professors whose classes he attends, four monthly exercises connected with the business of the class. Further exercises are left to the discretion of the several Professors. DELIVERY OF THE TWO POPULAR DISCOURSES. I. One-half of the Lectures shall be publicly delivered as parts of a devotional exercise, or diet of worship, conducted by the Lecturer in such a manner as may seem best to the Professors in charge. II. To every Lecture, delivered as above, together with its accompanying service of prayer and praise, there shall be devoted an hour, with the reservation of not more than fifteen minutes for the remarks of the Principal or Professor; it being understood that these remarks shall be for the direction and encouragement of Students generally, and that any requisite criticisms of a different nature shall be given to the Lecturer in private. III. The hour shall be a Class-hour, the Professors giving the requisite number of hours for this end. The time shall be on Fridays, at Twelve o'clock. IV. Besides the attendance of the Professors who may be able to be present at the Lectures, the attendance of Students shall be required, according to the following arrangements :— (a.) Middle of November to end of December: First and Third Years' Students to attend. (b.) January to middle of February: Second and Fourth Years' Students to attend. V. With regard to the Popular Sermon, it shall be left to the discretion of the several Professors (among whom the Sermons shall be divided) to arrange for the delivery either in a Church, on an occasion of public worship, or before the Class, as they may find most suitable. OUTLINE OF CLASS-WORK. DIVINITY. Rev. Dr. BLAIKIE, Professor. FIRST YEAR: APOLOGETICAL THEOLOGY. Insuffi In the Lectures, after a sketch of the history of the principal attacks on religion, natural and revealed, and a bird's-eye view of the present modes and forms of unbelief, NATURAL THEOLOGY is first taken up. The fundamental principles of all belief, and especially of belief in God, are examined and vindicated, and the arguments stated and illustrated. ciency of Natural Religion, and relation of Reason to Revelation, are then considered, as preparatory to the next great subject-the CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE. Starting with the three great facts-Christ, Christianity, and the Christian Records, an adequate cause for these is sought. The various modern theories are thoroughly examined, and the supernatural solution is fully gone into. The genuineness and authenticity of the Gospel history is established by both internal and external proofs. Miracles, Prophecy, Internal or Moral Evidences, Collateral and Miscel laneous Evidences, are taken up; and afterwards the CANON, INSPIRATION, and AUTHORITY of Scripture. The Students are examined verbally and by written exercises; Essays are prepared on subjects prescribed; information is given orally on the literature of the subjects; and a Homily is prepared and delivered by each Student during the session. A few hours are given to instruction in Homiletics, especially the purpose, nature, and method of pulpit discourses. FOURTH YEAR: ECCLESIASTICAL AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY. This course embraces two subjects-1. The Theory or Doctrine of the Church; and 2. Homiletical and Pastoral Theology. Under the former of these, the lectures embrace (1) The idea of the Church; its design, nature, and characteristics. (2) Its constitution, government, and worship; power, officers, and ordinances. (3) Its relation to other bodies. In Homiletical and Pastoral Theology, a full view of the various branches of pulpit and pastoral duty is obtained through the use, as a text-book, of the Professor's "Manual" on that subject; a course on the Homiletics of the Bible is designed to illustrate the characteristic features of the great ministries of the Old and the New Testaments. Lectures are added on the history of the Christian pulpit, and on some of the great ministries of the Christian Church in various ages and countries. Besides examinations, written and oral, the exercises in the class are chiefly homiletical. SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY. Rev. Dr. LAIDLAW, Professor. The topics treated during Session 1881-82 were the Doctrines of Sin, of the Impetration of Redemption, and of its Application, with a few lectures in Eschatology. The prior part of Dogmatic will therefore fall to be treated during Session 1882-83-viz., (1.) The Introductory topics, such as the sources, principles, and methods of Systematic Theology; (2.) Theology proper, or the Doctrine of God, of the Trinity, of Creation and Providence; (3.) Anthropology, or the Doctrine of Man in His Constitution and First Estate; (4.) Christology, or the Doctrine of the Person of Christ. This arrangement of topics is provisional, and will probably undergo modification in future years. The method aimed at in handling each doctrine is (1.) To ground it in Scripture, usually by examining some leading |