Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1878, Page 2

- = withont repentance, ft was fooilsh to preach, and our churches had better be turned tnto lect- ure halls. We wanteid more light before re- nounchag the faith of our fathera, snd to cling 1o our present hope of Heaven until something better was wiven, THE REV, JORX WILLIAMSON preached In the Michigan Avenus Methodist Fapisoopal Church yosterday morning on * Hall; or, The State of Future Misery,"” taking for his text the geventeenth verse of the ninth Pealm, 4The wicked shall be cast fnto Hell." He sxid that those who looked upon tho Bible s the revesled word of God mast belisve what they found in the Bible, aa well ona part ss the olheér, Let them remove all prejudics from thelr minds, and sce what the Word of God sald. In Matthew, xvill., Christ sald that it was botier for 5 man to enter Into 11fe " halt or malmed, than, having tivo hands or two fect, to be cast-fnto evorlastiog fire; and, agaln, * It thine cye of- 1end, pluck It out and cast it from thee; it is better for thoe to enter 1lfo without oné eye rather than having two cves, to e cast fnto hell-fire,”* Chrlst saidalso, ** Who. socver shsll say * thou fool ! shall be in danger of tell-fire 't "' they shall be cast into outer darkness, thera shall be wee(flnfl' and walling, and gnashing of teeth.” In Matthew, xxv., 48, we fonnd: * And these shall zo away into ever- Jasting punishiment, but the righteods unto lite tlernh. " Dives cried, " Father Abrahamn, have mercy on me And send Lazarus, that He may dip the {ip of hia finger fnwater and cool my tongue, for T am tormented in tho flame.”” 1o Revela- fony, vt 15, we were told that in the last day the Rings of the earth, the great and the rich ehall call upon the mountains and rocks to fall upon them and bide them from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great and notable day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able Lo stand against ft. Mark, fit., 2. *But Tie that shail Ulasphemo against the ioiy Qlost bath never forgivencss, but shall be In danger of eternal damnation,” was also quoted. Mr, Willlamson also dirccted attention to the passages where it {8 sald that **the worm dieth ot “the wapes of siu Is death,” ' what o wan goweth that shall he also reap,'’ and vthers of Jike tenor, sud claimed that the Word of God vroved that there was a place of eternal misery appolated for the impenitent. The carly fathicrs -.9 the Churcht belfeved in nreal and ‘material flame. Justin Martyr, Pulycarp, and others llv- fug {n times not remote from the spostolle, Jully agracd in this view. Urigen held that the tniscey of the wicked consisied in Lho absence of God and the wurkings of remorse, and that the Gre was not waterial, but conslsted of the passlous of the soul. Chrysostom sepresented the torments o tho damned In s varfety of horriblo plctures, and coticluded that (¥ was more important to know tow to escape from Hell than to know what (& ts. ‘Thomas Aquinas, whose amazing Sndustry_and fervor of rellzious scatiment arv universally acknowledged, and who represents the feelings of the Church from the cighth ta the Afteenth century, says that the fice of Hell {a of the same oature as ordiuary tire, and that its situation, tuough not known, is probably under the earth, The position of the Presbyterian Church is well defined in the Confession of Fuith and the Catechlsms. In Chapter xxxlil., Sce. 2of the Conteeston, wo find: ** The wicked who know not Qod and obc{ not the Gospel of Josus Christ shall be cast Into eternal tormenta.” The swer to (Question 29 of the Larger Catechlsm §s: ‘The pualshments of #in In the world 10 come aré everlasting scparation from the comfortable presence of God, an most gricvous tormcnis (n soul und body without Intermlission, in hell-fire forever.” Dr. Archibald Alexander, & notable divine, belfeved In the perpetuity of future misery and the eterity of torment. From this it will be seen that the Presbyterlan triunpet gave forth no uncertain sound. Mr. Wesley, in his sermon on *“*Hell," direcred nttentlon to the utterances of our blessed Lordasset forth in Matthew,xxy. Verses 43 to 43, and concluded that o material fire was meant, and that to suppose any other wofld be absolute nonsense, Christ spoke of ztal fire, and they could fmpute no such folly to the Lord as to suppose tout He designed to Irighten people Into His kingdom by means of scarccrows. If nen Dbe- Jeved In the DBible they must belleve this doctrine, for e portion ol it was nnwurlh{ of credence, it coull not be the revelatfon of Uied, snd should be rojected. Theodore Parker and Thomns Starr King dishe- 1feved the doctrine of eternal punishment, and 10 be consistent they had to disbeliove m the whole Bible, Tha conclusions to be reacbed were as fol- Jows: Jirst—=It tue fact of an endiess Hell was meaningless, then no other purt of the Bible could bo depcpdad on. The uccotint of the creatfon, Lhe 1dll, the Incarnutlon, the reaurrec- tlon, and the ascension grere cqually meaning- less. Those who bhut this must cast out slso the Delty ot Chrlst, blood atonement, and sll tha other doctrines of thy Church. Second~Thnt unless men dying fn sin uro doutued to cternal sutferiug, théhumillation and crucifixfon of our Lord miust be regarded as a meana utterly dhsoroportlonate to the end pought. It sln wua nierely an eccentrleity of diol” or disease, or wus hereditury, as some wientists atleged, then the Lord Josns Chrlet went 1o 4 great deal of unneccesury trouble, i€ it were only meant to haston tiie growth of ourity certuln of ulttmate uttahnnent, then tho L‘ruun&xluu must Ly rogarded us tLe greatest ‘biunder of ull the ages. N Third=11_the Bivke langusge was weltten to be rewd, und ity NKe ull other serious works, 1t Yiis & micaniug, Its scutinients aro so plaiv toat there cat by no donbt that there 1 an_eternity oi pumshment for sinners, If the Bible was 0 bo vonsnlergd symuolical un this yolng, the whale (Juuslluu af its iuterpretation st be opeted, for Hell was s much @ purt ot It we lfeaven. The exislence of God sud of the Devil s uflirmed 10 the sato parts of apeech, the Diving wrath 18 as plafuty sct urtn as the Divine Juve, uud punlshmeut 18 as delinfle as pirton. Lourth—11gi] is ndethnite Tocality. There ls one phiiusaphy wreater thun that of Aristotle, Taecul, Dacon, Newton, and Raut, sod thet ie thu plulusopiy untversal humaunlty, Ezype 1.an engravinge show Just souls exposed to tem- peosts nird Lormented with firs by evil apirite. 7 hie Perslans belleved that in Hell fathers were sevarated drom their children, sisters Irom Brutbiers, and that while vue ster would Lo pure auother would lwcorru’n. The Beandina- viens held the bellef that after judgment the soula of thuwicked were contlned uwder curdting miete [y the midet ol marshus. Vhe Etrusean beliel was that the wicked wero hauimerd sud torweutsd by demoos, snd Plato wurned mens “Boast not thysell ot escaplyg tho fustice of the izode: thou shalt be punished in Hades.” Anciont and wodern writers atl ugree that manand bis Muker must ineetat last. havon fingl Judicimenty und thet it man wue unabls tu sulisly God he must depart into eterngl mirery, Fith—=Tbar Christianity Is aggressive aud niiselonary anly through sgenctes shat empha- sizo the dovtrine or au eternal Hell for those who haviug cojuyed the opportunity of grace, ot divin sin. Slrth—=Thut when winiatcrsand laymen attaln tha sixth or cntical sonte andconviues men that there s no Hell, or m“z if vno exists it Is spread over couutless azes, then humau sovlety, thus cunvinceid, will vote unanlnously to disband uil 1hao chiurches ss relics of & decaying sud bygone superatition. 1f ull were to beurrayed in white, Christ and tho Goapel were fruitless inventions, In conclusion, the day of separation and as- signment was drawing near, and all men must Touk forward to oue of two clernitics: glory or u wild and gloomy Uehonna. Everyihing in the Trovidencs ol God deepencd tho umpression that loat souls could uever by releuscd fruin the tyranay of that appalling habitation, und thely valy refuge was fu - Chriat, whoso promised sal- yatlon thuy sbould accept at once, TUR HEY. 4. GURNEY, paator of Bt. Paul's Methodist Eplscopal Church, Maxwell street, ucar Newborry avenue, preach- «ed a sermmon yesterday forcavon that was sproug aud pertinont ju its utteraucas, and which gave evident eatlsfaction to the Jurge cougregation | that heard it The text was from Romans, xvi, 17, 18: +Now I vescect ye, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doo- trive which yo huve learned, and avold thewn, For they that are such serve pot onr Lord Jesus Curlat, but thelr own belly, und by good words and falr specches deceive the hearts of the sim- plen U sald it was uo new thing for tcachers who pretend W be minlsters of Christ—~deliverers of His measage to ten—to clalm to be wiso ubove all others, nud bringiug In unew doctrines caus- fng divislons fn the Church aud offending seuinst God. The Apoatie fn hla text did uot Liesiiate Lo charte that such were uot the sery- ants of the Lord Jesus Christy they wers not content to bring His message; they must needs he sdvanced thinkers. ln tielr egotiam aud conceit they assumed that the wman who wccepts the Goape} in the slmplicity of {ts original ut- terance Is far beblnd thew. They glorlfied ihemyolves 84 * the mpostles of * modern thought,'! sssumiug that they were the ouly meu who think. Faul culled themn servaots of ihelr owa beltics,—that {s, they bad sncye on the positiun aud salary among mew, rather than ou Jesus, who was the Author and Piudsher of the Cbristian faith. Mr. Heecher, with a con. stantly-aiminishing roll of pew-rents falling uff 1 pes year, as the anoual sale of pewa drew near, must be sensational, large salary comes malnld from thoso who have broken with orthodox U Church, with a sound and abls ‘minister, sensational, could not meet its currenk penges. torances of Brookiyn, the Centeal Theatre, and the dishonored pulpit of Centenary Church. doctrine of futura recribution? The question 18 one long tince settled in the dogmatic theology of the historfeal chureh, but _n new generation reopened it for discusaton. The Ohurch relled Dot on the age of her betlels, but on their truth, 1s tuture retribution s fact or afablel what Is the gxtent, duration, and signfiennce of the fact! How should tho fact bo taught from tha Christian taught fu any Christlan pulpit should reat oi reasons. They wanted no pulplt declamation that would uot meet In s iast analysls Lhe ut- most demands of the sternest logle. sumed, for the purpose of the discourse, that the of truth sulted to ths religious needs of man, nor to fotidels nor atheists; {t would require & whole hour to present to them an oulline of the arguments which bad convinced the acutest scholara [n_every ago that what the Dible sald God sald, and that thero wasa God. dressed, then, those who belleved the Bilile to ba tha Word of God, an arcument asto review what had recently been rald on the subject of cternal punishnent. Ho admitted that the idea of future mant, endless In duration, was unple: If it was true, if it was Wora, sustaived by their surest and butit tha aut_but studyihz how they might escape the wrathto come, this unpleasant subject, belore they 'f“" up the effort to avold i lenst be very clear that there was no Hell, Nevertheless, I it was certaln that the doctring of a future terrible punisiment for sl mitted fn this life waa a superstition, ** i man- mado dogms,” a church bugbear, & religions scarecrow, then let thomn have doma with it forever. personal knowledge of the ordinary men who coustituted thelimass of the Chrlstian minlstry, he thought that they hind and could possibly have no sel ish reusons leadiny but the truth on that subject. auywhiere a scliish (nterest to bosubserved by the character of the doctrine heid on that sub- Jject and prociatmed Lo the people, all could ree ihat it atfected ovly the few popular senaational preachers who had won the position ot stars, and whose large salarles could only be met by attracting rich ain- uers, who ~coutd wet ~yalua recelved from thele ministry; only a8 it cnabled them to say na they emerged from their church, I can 2o home and Ilecr shall wake up in Hell before moraing,” & sen- tence which was roported aa falling T lipsof 8 hearer of Dr. Thomas last Sunday nlubt, and ho had been told h{ 0ne Who Dro- fessed to kuow that that indivld relleved us to the future, had failed in business four times in fftecn years, pald off his debis at 10 conts on the dollar, and of afing income_ from money thus stolsn from his creditors. porter of such a liberal pulpit. to tha so-valled sunsational preachicrs, suid the vlain, prosy ** litile preachers ' who were try- Ing to savo as mauy souls as they could und never looked to seo “thelr names in the news- pupers hind cortalaly no concelvable reason for a desfre to preach anything but the truth; took strong and unoquiivocal ground insupport of eternal punishment; gave soveral eccleslaatical authorities to substantlate his positlon; spoke ofthe yiews of the iRev. Mr, Beecber, Prof. Swing, and Dr. Tuomas on the subject of eternal punish- meni nor strictly in keeping with * modern thought,® and declared that the sermon of Inst Sundny cvenlug was s disgrace to tho denomluation. "’u 56 by quoting various passuies of Scripture o an aeuLs in support of ) preached “to u large sudience In Ada Street Methodist Church yesterday mornlog, taking as his subject * Eternal Punishweut,” aud as his text: ment, batthe Fightoons TLtsy 40, case, nud eternal {n tho other, was the same word Ia the Greek, and might haye been trans- Inted alike Lut for a desire for euphony, no desire to answor any arguinent ur to enter Into anv vontroversy with auy clergymnan either in this elty or out of ft; he wished simply to set forth the doetrine of is Church upon the sub. Ject he had chosen, tothe thought set forth In the popular press,— that the Gospel should be adapted to the times, It the Gospel was what It cialined to bo—the thing. not be bent to anything crocked or devious, Men had the same natural heart all through time, and the same Uospel had power to save them, The text plainly declared the eternal punish- [l derstand that the Bible was not orizlnally writ- ten tn English, but the Greek, ‘Uhe Greck had 13,000 words and the Euglish about 114,000, peated that the same word In UGreek might be translated by several Foglish words, The words alonion punis! puuishment, sufferlug, or chastisement. The wordl slunfun was used soventy-four times in the New Testament, referring fu fifty-une cases tothe Iife of the rznteous, and (0 the other thirteon to the punlsuncnt of ¢ of the cuses concernlng which there had Leen good deal of dispute wus the uss of the word incaulng forever by Jonah when {u the belly of tho whalo. The speaker very clearly showed that this was only o figurative expression, Re- furring to the testimony of the Comuientators, the speaker quoted from Adum Clarke, Qlk{nfi, \\:la-ley. Olshausen, Whedon, lobiuson, Nush, aw was not a shado of doubt of tho doctrine of eternal punistinent, Jslunent wus to deny the suthenticlty of tho Hible. the words in standing of thein by those who lived at the tine they wero uttered, taught in this country by Murray was really u\\‘:&h older—ulder syen than ()mqu’\. “The first THE CHICAGC TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JANUARY 14 Prof. 8wlng's ristianity. Centenary not ex- These facts explaln the recent ut- But bow shall the Christianminister teach the 1t afact, t uipitt The doctrines properly He as- Bible was a revelation from God,— 1i{s discourse, therelore, addressed itsell e ad- , not so_much to present nt, bt ounded upon tud's utentions, into ‘tno nature uf things, that it was unipicas- emphasizes the Importance ol fact Before they refused to examine [urther Tuture retribution, let them at o« From a sumcwhat intimate and Te could say poalllulll them to presch anything % [ thcr’; was now without any fear that [ rutn the ual, so much was now In rocelpt No doubt he was & liberal sup- ‘The reverend gentloman * pald hls respects * and did not conaider them well detined, Dr. Thomas Mr. Gurnoy voncluded bis dis- ingon the subject of futurs punishinent, detining thelr meaning sud using argu- belief, _THE REV. & M. CAULDWELL And those ahall go lwl{nltv‘l‘“l!‘?:‘czll::flll p:;xfll::x- ‘The word here translated cverlasting in oue The speaker here paused to say that he had 1le wished to call attention Word 0! Giod—it could not be adapted to any- What was stralght and inflexible could nent of the wicked. ‘The audlence would un- New Testament In from which it up- kolasin wero translated eternal ut. Tho latter always referrod to uo wicked, One Deun Meyer, who all sgreed that there Quatiug, theo, from scveral Unlrcru‘!m reachers, the .Imk“ sald that the only way hiey could douy the doctrluc of eternal punlsli- Auother and more yaluable interpretaiion of disputs wus found Ju the under- he upanimous senthinent and expression gf all the early tathers exeept Origen was thal there was -mmm(v of the cterunl punishoient of the wicked. Koferring 1o the pru[fru- of the Universallst denumina- tion, he sald that the faith which was was first Universalist preacher was be who entered luto the Garden 8,000 years ago, and sald (o the woman, ‘¢ Yo shatl not surely die™ (1 ye cat ol the trult of the tree. The couclusions drewn by the speaker from his view were thut men must believe in beli, for the nwme reasons which made them belleye {n Heaven forved them to feur s Hell. He did not believe that the ortbodux faith mads fu- tidels of people, but rather that it was the fol- luwlmi after mhal pruple called dberad views (moaning lovso uuel! that produced thut eflect. It was & most curlous thing toat Universal- (st wus never prosperous, aud that e hud vever wdvanced or been eatcemed by nore thun s few of the peopls 80 long as it was Universalisiu prescbed in Universalist pulpits. But just »o soon naan urthixdox minister tovk it up and preached it fn au orthodex pulplt, he becaine at ouce wells %nown, and crowds flocked Lo hear him, and called flm liboral, whon Le was really nothiug more than louse, He bad knowu orthodox proachers who vever wero speciully known or widely heard of in thetr orthodoxy to becotns ;crv popular 88 suon us they sbandoned it lfor Eresy. In wnawering some suppualtitions qucations the aker suld tbat be did not believe In a literal Hell of tire and brimstoue, and usyer knew but oug winister who dll; there was no tire thero, nor any brimetone, but these terns indicatu tho tires ot Just, or appetite, ol greed for gold, of revwric snd 1he uudylne worm of a guilty consvience. He did not belisva that a mz_\orlli! uf ths world would by demucd. Adum Clarke had said that sbout a3 large s ruportion would be cteruully duinned as wers yng ju thls world, e bel:eved that \he world might yery Ilk:l{ besomo wholly Christianized by 3,000 A. D, 1€ the Methodist Church could fv ou to that tino as rapidly s 1t bad guge un, L would buve 125,000 tiwce us inuch ssconverted the world, TUN REY. B. M, BORING preached in tho Forty-seventh Screet Methodist Church, corner of State, last eveniug, upon the sybject of Unlversalism sod eterual punishe ment, to a fair-sized sudlence, Followlng is 8 briet synopsis of his remmarks: 1f yu then, belng ovil, kuow bow to glve good S el e o o miregont vur ¥athier wilch ja 10 itoaven give good things e that aek Ui~ Malikiw, wid., 11, ‘The reverend gentlemau sald he had slready stated fu the presence of hly wudleuce that tho firs principle of Christianity was bellef In the existenca of a tiod. the hoart of every person to be a fact It wasa waste of time to sttempt Lo prove. The Bavior had given us & key to the Divine langiaze which he had read. things, hecould excuse any doubt upon the subject, but Christ Himself had sald it, nnd there could be no donht a8 to ita truth. stamped usIn His own {mage, andws were reaponsible to A certain extent for our actions. There had been aome gross misrepresentations in the charged signlog thum {n the beglnning, soms o a good and somg to a b taught children who were weak. ciful; God Sce what a father would do for his child, would do all that ha could, but he could not do everything; the ravages of aud all-powerful to save, ing over tha little crib. ously ill, Every moan went to that mother's heart, and she would do avnrylhln% dare every- thing, suffer everything for her darl i was powerless to save. lying dead, The mother had dong all that she could do for her child, but Death had come to clain his own. the poor mother called upon our Bayior to come and tay His haod upon her child. Jesus did so, and the daughter lived. of answerlog prayer. things that we did not need, and needed things we dld oot ask for. what wa peeded,— ment, when we needed blessing, and when wo necded rebuke,—and what we most needed every time. Tove; Te wus just fu luves merciful jn Tove; and He corrected us In love, upon his own Son and meted out to Him in love all that He meted out to us for our short- comings. e frequently heard ministers read out from a paper in the pulpit that ** God {s an all-merciful Being,” and that He did not pun- feh mortals for thelr transgressions. Of what usc waa the law withont the penaltyl We had Judges siteing in high courts who gravted su- pers representations of shyster lawyers aud per- jured witncsses, Often wo saw a policeman worst thief fn town was allowed to go free. these things demonstrated a loose - falrs, and this course was condemned By all right-minded citizena. buryed cusatlon and remorse. distipctly that there should be a punishment eternal for thosa who trans) The awakening of aterrible thiug. lated a number of instances in Iliustration of the romorse of conscience which he hsd seen vislted upon victims who had fallen under fts 1ash, suake when it rattled? who would not turn away from the jungle when he heard the tiger roar! There was mentioned his name, an Unlversalist; he was a good ma liked bim, actly did not take titne to read Ined titles to their prooerty, Whatever fras belteved in It David or Paul had said theso God had ulplty, he waa sorry to say, which %.,.Y'%m. creating mortals, and con- place. Chlldren were by & [few parents to believs was 8 terribla belng, to be that God feared at all times. This, the speaker was hapvy to say, instincts wora to lova her weak and erippled child best. know how to give good gifts to ¥our children, how much more ehall Heaven know how to that ask {ilm.” Divine Father was toward tlioss was dying out. Tha mothor's natural Chrlst bad said, ““If ye, belng ovily our Father whichi is la ve good gifts tothem This sbowed how tender our of Iljs CGod was met- Qod was jufiL & was loving; ho could not save Its lila or atay sickness. God was omulptent See the mother bend- Her chitd was danger- ng; but she Here was o young girl In the hour of ber djre distress Henold the contrast. ‘There were different wn;n, the speaker sald, We frequently asked for God knew just cxactly en we uceded chastise- He meted out to us just God ‘was Ilo ecven came down the justice ana reproval edeascs to the worst of criininals upon the OunCe Upon & Poor, hul‘)lul, drunken man and cad him vallently to the station, while m: order of "There had becna great many things sald in the pulpit about future bunishment, and a great many thiugs which ought notto have been sald, It might be asked by some whether there were many that belioy burning lake of tire. Perhaps not—such as was represented by Milton and Dante. in a literal ffcll—a )Y But tho Bible said that within cvery man’s breast there a fire—tho smoldering firo of seclf-ac- ‘Tho Word of God stated the laws. consclence was The roverend speaker re- He asked who would not fleo from tho r. Ityder, in this city,—he he said, ause he wns But he preached. and taught his people that man would leave this state in ex. the same condition as he had lived while here; if he was virtuous, he would be_taken to Heaven; if ho was vidous, be would go to Hetl, Bug Dr. Ryder Dbelleved that it was possible for & wnan to reforin hereafter, and still be saved. The speaker did not ki now whera his Universalist brother got his convie- tious from; ba (the speaker) could find_no au- thority for this doctrine io the Diple. The city papera of the day were flippantly leading men astray by their comments and their feers. Heo prayed God that thuss who controlled them tolgut refraln from using their influence {n the cause of wrong and destruction. The reverend gentieman viosed with a fervent prayer for alf who were being led nstray, and for leaders and scarcliers who were departiug from the stralght’; aud nurrow way. ] DR, M'CHESNRY. Last evening in the Park Avenue Methodiat Epfscopal Churct, coruer of Robey strect, tho Rey. Dr. McChesney preached o sermon belora avery largo audfence on the very luteresting subject of herctical miniaters who had becn preaching no Hell, taking bis text from Becond Timothy, first chapter, thirtventh verae: *Hold fast the form of sound words." o commenced by alluding to Chicago's Kreatness, and ber rapld growth within s gen- cration. ‘The result of the fost living was a neglect of moral culture. Soma had never read the Dible sloce childhood. ‘They wera too busy for that. Ben resd the papers, price-lists, ete, and read -the BSunday papers even, and on Monday ‘a ‘ssrmon, perhaps, it It contolned enough of heresy. But us to the Bible, Sthey cver got tims fo read that. Chicago wus wgreat city, bud men ne Bibfy, but thoy, rather read thelr mortgages, stocks, ana examis| lien thivy should bo reading tho title to their own hereafter, .« Yet the Bible was a oreat text-book. This city was only of material growth, It had all tne ele- ments of materfalism, But whera wero the poets and theologians of the cityl We had none, They would cone at Jast, but God wos never In a hurry. Thoy were so much eneross- ed in materislism that “they did not get timo to study religfon and the Bible. Tuo time was uumdm when the secular papers would not allude to Hell as a spnmmer resort, and to*n lunxilnz as another soul “jorked to Jesus. le thought the thuwe would come when the headiines of tho press would bo modified, IHe did not say that the papers did not represent the fecling of the time, 'To-day churches would bo bullt with {mnd ergans, cte. 1t was not so in the days of “hrist. He made =n allusion to Minnecsota patent flour os an example of puritication, whereln tho middiings are made into wuod our, 1o asked the difference between Chlcaro und Boston, Loston gave past of her timo to literature, while Chicago was shinning around to pay her debts, [lo then drew other coraparisons, snd alluded to Joseph Cook, who waa ably defending orthodox Clrlstianity Clileago wojld not give car to Juseph Cook, Tae difference was Buston passed through ber dark davs of Theadore Parker, Chlcago woutd coms around Gually, It was valy a local alfcotiun with ber. The spoaker then weut oo to criticlae the proacusra who had guestioned orthodox relizgion In the vulpit. All tho syzs- tews of aclepce had thelr fundamental prind. les, Religlon bad 3ts creeds. Theoiogy n Jte road scast was the thiukine of the Ciurch. It was the result ol sclentifi¢ eRort to discrhnl- nato truth, The same inen who lorever assalled religlon wers furever assalling creeds, Heretical stateents had from thne to time caused the restatemcent %f the Chrls- then doctrine, I went on o to say what were the dutles ot Christianity, e defined heresy as it extsted fu anclent tinde down to the presout time. e quotud fi Blackstone, sud held that the Beriptures wers the suthority upon Diviue doctripes, He explaloed the broad crele of literal Christianity, which extended lodetnite- Iy in all directions. He '.hull‘(hl. theolugieal out- lawry was mistaken for Independence. lo (juoted from the apostles, takiug Tinothy as lis guide, and showed what conetitued unzod- luced, He quoted from the writlnge of Ht. Paul to show that the laws were not made for the rignteons out for the disobedient. The doctrines of 8t. Paul were thoso for the Curch to follow, ‘'he Bible dfd not provide auy punisbment for the ductrinal beresy. [t werely meant to withdraw cburch fellowsbip from an of- fender, Thut was the law of anclent times, Would to Gud 1t bad rewained so! But wmen were afterwards puulsbed by eapital punlsh- ment forheresy, 1o went over (e era of pun- {shment ol the sucient Roman hicrarchy, aud thia to-duy wai the greatest defouse of the herctics, and_scrved 3 thelr excuse. Ho al- Juded to the Dutch persecutions aud the mussa- cre of Bt. Bartlolomew, Heresy was the same to-day as it was o those encicut days. Thu word heretle cane to ba odivas through the fuggot. Protestunts clalmed the riglt of judl- vidual Hberty of ideas. The Church dld uot persccute » winlster wha preached beresy in its rulnu. when it merely lméulml luto _the teach- ngs of that winbter. Cburchcs shoutd pro- tect thelr creeds, and (b was the duty of Prot- cstant Churchies to do s0. He alluded to the Rebellion as s political hen:uY. aud Lhe prescut stuguation fn trade aud prevaloucs of crime da results of Lhat beresy, le aida't thiok 1t was a questlon of the broad or oarrow views ul s wmlulster, whbether he was liberal or pot, but whetbes the beretical mla- later wus honest. He then weat ou to give usnally misnnderstood Chicago kuow it was eanter bulld up. unlesa he shall put up a better one," mired Martin Luther, because ne took down snd builded up better. away the Inspiratfon of the Bible uuless ho could replace it with sometblng better. The Dible was either Inaplred and Gosncl, or else it was n forgery. Wospel, and 8ald It was above human opinion. viewof Hell. nature of sin. rance, it deprived one of the knowledre of God; it it was considcred ns unbelfef, it ran into n paralysl, and It worked steadily onward toward annihlla- tion, unless controlled ,by some foree beyond croeds ol nifled it as terrible,—as annihilation, or sume- human soul in the future, transmigration was, about the sum total of the speculative pbilosophy of the world. Waa there anything more horrible than that? Shakspeare, and Miiton had shown the belict of Leasy somo of the f‘nnlll!x-nunnn necessaay fof a min- fster of the N was apparently dirocted agalnst the Rev. Dr, Thomina, though he nientionel no nanies, but auggested that any mau who did not like the Metnodist Church, and whohad found a religion cthodist Church. 1l1s dlscoursd he liked better, should leave the Church. ~ He alluded to Beecher and his recent dis- course, Aand held that men were not for an Rreat length of time. No tnan was infathibls, dut thought It strange that men should be misun- deratood o long. ; {n hiorogiyphlcs, and one Bundsy preacheds sermon which thoy had to explaln tho next. . He then went on to enumerste what constf:; Boma men preached relizion The people of destroy than to' Let no man take down ope stone He ad- tuted critlclsm on nmolmz!. o No mar had a right to toke e uphetd the divinity of the He concluded with au eloquent peroration in defenss of the Bible and its holy trutha. DR W. W. BYERTS preached yesterday morning at the First Bap- tist Church on the subject of the arthodox His text was, “For inthe day that thou eatest thereol thon shalt surely dle.” Freedom, he said, was & natural birthright of mankind, but with it was the possibllity of sin- ning, and the penaity of sin was death. lis object at present was o show what that death was,—ita nature, greatdess, and genern! charac- ter. Tt might bo illustrated by considering the 1f 1t was contemplated as jgno- athelsm; if as o habit, it kept growiog moro and more confirmed. ${o wae & perverted force fn another light, and unless there was an in- terruption, & revolution, it would utterly anoibllate man. Contemplate it as an extirpating power, mortal cootrol, In any and every case it tended vaturally and incvitably towsard death, Tho nl) sects had condemned ain, and mag- thing worse. Nothing could be concelved as worse than the loss of the possibilities of the ‘Tho doctring of mmh:I tho world in & future punlabment. ‘Tho Script- ures were not {n contradiction with the bolief of mankind, but in consonanco with {t. The wages of sin woro death, When o man had worked all bis tife through, he sulfered the blotting out of il his hopes, desires, and almg. The man who explained away the parable of the rich msn and Lazarus could explain awa showell tho grest fact of the Bible, Te the scparation between the good and bad, and the final coudition of ~ the two parties. Nob so much fmportance was to be attached to singlo words as to the drift of doctrinc, but v was somewhat remarkablo that the same words used with rolerence to the eternity of God and to the Immortality of the soul were employed to donoto the duration of tho punishinent” of the wicked.” Preachors who protended to ho Blble-teachers should adhers to tho Bible. If one of those who denled the cxistence of a Ilell, or who be- leved {n universal salvatton, should shake him by the hand, and welcome him as a brotlor, as emerging from narrow dogmas of the past, lic would feel alarmed. 8hading truth was alwaya dangerous. 1fmcn wanted to be freo ho had, no objection, but they should uot pretend to follow the Bible, Thoologlans wera disloyal to their Sroleulun whon they criticised the Blule, denled its teachings, and’ yet;pretended to be- licvoand oboy it. ‘Tha reault unscttled falth, took away the bellef in the unfailing rhfhteous— ness of God,.and was most dissstrous In Its ef- fect, Buch men triflcd Infamously with grave affafrs, The metaphysical and theologfeal are cument of tho question was znhui onln the Princeton fleview, written by Prof. Patign, aund ho would refor all those who 1lked such argu- ment to it, and ask nav man in Chicago to an- awer it. 1f so-called Blble-teachers wished to teach somothing moro than Gospol truths they should leave the pulpit and go on tho platform. ‘The broad man, so-called, was one who had no sharp, clear convictions, ‘The narrow man pro- ed them he belleved in falth and duty. e wasliko a Jocomotive that ran ona narrow track, Instead of plowing through valleys and i lewéh, the ‘church was tho place for worship. But why trouble about the punishmont—about. tho severity of the Isw—tho door of mercy was open, there was excuse for nonc. Go to the Savior when thore was timo before the evil day canie, THE REV. JOUN ATKINSON, of Grace Methodlst Church, beliaves in a Ioll, and endoavored last ovening to act forth all tha arguments in favor of that doctrive, To give force to hits remarks he prefaced them with tha two (UFwing toxts, Also #hto Thee, O Lard, belongeth mercy: for ’l‘hn’u‘t danm to_every man according 1o hia work, .y 12, ¥or rd apoken by agsls mas atandtasty and evory transgrossion and dlsobedience recelve: » ,‘\m Tecomponae of reward} 1ow shall wo escape, If wo neglect so great sal- vation; wi fitst began to be epoken by ch a e tne Lord, and was confizmod unto us by them thet Leard Him,—1eb, i, 4-3. ‘ The subject of tha reverend gentleman's dis- courso, as ho stated it, was tho doctrine of fu- turo punishment, and tobegin the ulscussion ha propounded the question whether it was right to punish sin, Upon tho answer to that ques- tlon he said, probably all would agree, Ortho- dox or lecterodox, whether thoy sccepted the Beriptures as the Inaplred word of God or not- In tho vury naturc of the case tharo could be but one answer, and that an afllrmative one. Courts of Justice were established to Inflict pan- 1shient for the transgression of laws, and the very men who descanted upon the love of God would be found as strongly inslstiog that crime must be punished. 1f it 'was right to punlsh offenses against tho law, It was right for the Bupremo Potentato of the Universe to punish transgressions against_§lis law, and robellion aguinst tisuuthority. Dr, Thomas, Prof. Swing, Dr. Ryder, Mr, Collyer, and the preacher him- sclt, would ull agreo asto this, however they mmht differ on other theological questions. As respocted the right and righteousness of God to punish sin, they were all in perfect agree- ment, Another vital queation was, How much ought sfo to be punlahed] 8o far & tho jprimary wn- awer to this wus concerned, there could bs no doubt that all were agreed; It was right that God should punish sin as inuch as it deserved to be punished. The polnt whero people diflered way just how much It deserved 1o be punishea, Eternal righteousuess, justice, hollucss, nud love furbade that God should go one lota In the punishinent of sln beyoud ita deserts, Dut how wuch did sin deseryo'tu be punishied? Accord- "IH to the old Universallst doctrine, aman dylng W nbluglwun on his lps, with Lis hands e brued In fus fellow-mau's Llood, went sight to Heaven. According to this sln had uo lielnous- nuss whatever, ‘The new Universallsm taughh Ifmited punishinent beyond tho gravo, snd the restorution of the sjuuer to Uod, purity, aud blessyduess, Auother theory was thas sin.de- served death,—that 18, bolung put out of exist- once, ‘The Bible doctrine was that punishment meted out Lo sluncrs was 10 be lu proportion the degree of their sins. Tho belicl among evangellcal churches wus that sin was to recelve puulshinentterrible iuita nature.audeterualin its duration. Gud was uot only lutiaitely Just, bug intluitely rightoous, good, aud buly, wud ' tho vuulsbineut of sin wus to be gternal, that ain muat bo heluous 1u ite nature, ‘T'he greut aues- tlon, broad as thu goverument of God, und oue which God hinisel{ could alone coniprenieud, wus, Whiat was the extent of the turpituds sud hein- ousuess uf aint OQuly God {lunself, aainat whom sfu was comuaitted, could decide just huw heinous & particular sin was, wud punish v as it deserved to Lo puuished. Bocicty decided the extent of punlshwent for yuis cowuwitted agalust {tecll. 10 & wwan defied the uujm:& aud suthority of God, nebody but @ cuuld tell thiy desert of that siogle traus- grusalon or the desert of the sius of » lifetime, Nubudy could sgv that such and such astuner dul not deserve eterual puulshncut, atd 1o waw wuuld ever bo able ta gstablish the positiun logleally or rationally that punish- maut for viu' in the world hervalter would not bueternal. What did Uod Himsell tell usf That punlshment for sln wad to bu cyorlasting, The best scholars, Mr Atkivson claimed, bhad waintained that Greex word - lu thls conuectiun mg wccurately aud fulthfully trausdated by the word over- lasting. ‘It was claimed by some that It was somethnes used ta & lmited seuse, bul ud- mml:f this, ayd that puulshment was to last a luited tiwe,who could pretead Lo say whbat that limit wusf 1t migbt be thousands of years, {lllnitable ages, before that Umit would be reached. How tersible, theo, must Lo that punishuiont which the' Ureck word clearly weant—everlastion! It was vastly bettes, thereforc, tu aut vn the theory that puulsliwaent was Lo be cternal, to the vud that the punish- muat inight be sbunned, aud, I it was shuvned, it would wake uo differcnce to Chrlitiaus as to hia hearers the certaln I e A O i e R o i 1878, the saivation of thelr souls whether It was lim- ited or of endiess duration, In conclusion, the Qm or impressed upon v that sin deserved pun- ishment fn the hereafter; that they could not escapo the punishnient of sfa unlcss they found refuge in Christ; and urged them to fiee from the wrath to comz, TI® KAY. MR. PENDLETON, “Tho World of Spirits; or, The Intermediate Blate,’ was the subject of n discourso by the Rev, Mr. Pendleton, in Lincoln Park New {Church Chapel (8wedenborglan), lsst cvenlng: o took hls toxt from Luke, xvl., 28: *“And beslde all thie, between us and you there s a great gull fixed; so that they which would pass from hevco to you cannot: nefther can they ‘pass to 1s that would come from thence.” The spcaker sald it was now tevealed by the Lord in His sacond coming that the great gull epoken of {n the toxt was the world of spirits, which was Intermediate between Heaven and Hell. It was so called becauss IHeaven was whiere angels dwell, and Hell was the nbude ot dewils and satans, The world of apirita was the abode of neither, nor was it the permanent abaode of any one, but only a tamporary condi- tion fnto which all splrits enter {muicdiately after the dcath of the yy—all who arc not yet coppletely dovlls, “or angels, Lut part “of swhom ‘ars soon to become aagels of Heaven,—those who have acknowl- edged onc God and 1ived a life of ubedience to the commandments while In the natural world, and the rest arg soon Lo become devils, namely, those who In the world bad acknowledged no (fod but sclf, and had In consequence lived a 1ife of evil. Every man while In the natural world was s to his spirit_In this great guld between Heaven and Hell,' but which was not conaclous to himselt, until he hat laid astde the body; that Is, every man s inan_intermediate state between leaven nnd 1ell. They and himself, as to actual lifo, wereneither in Heaven nor in Hell, but na to tholr minds they were i nn Intermediate state between them. = Thelr af- fectlons and thoughts and consequent life were nelther altogether heavonly nor altogeth- er licliish. Thero- was something ot hell in _almost evcr[y man o thc mnatural world; oven the _best people Dave somothing of evil adhering to’ them ' with their bodles, which wmight be found If thelr quality were fully explored: and the most wicked persons tave with them something heavenly, sumewhat uf good, at lesst, to out- ward appearance. ‘They have nassuined by habit, for the sake of gof tln? along_peaceably and well, au external form of good which makes them appesr Lo themselves to be .zoud and also toothers. Thus, we can safcly say, thatnl- most every man in the natural world fs as to his mind {n an intermedlate state between Ileaven and [ell, simply becsuse there is somethin: within him that partakes of the character ol both, All opposites have thelr intermediates, and the Intermedlate partnkes somewnat of the character of both. The socaker illustrated that polut to show the lntermedinte states e said that man, as to his mind, continued in the in- termediafo staty for a length of timoafter the death of the l"‘""f Jongzer or shorter A8 tho case bo. Tho mere act of death did not change a man's character; Lo left nothing behlnd him but the body. All that mnkes im a man, that gives him lte, gocs with him, and the body was sim- [‘l.lv doad beeause the nan was gone from it. oy could not sav that man lives at all after death, unless they belioved that he preserved his fdentity; soimmedlately after death a man woke up tho same mau e was before, though now in n spiritual world. They left nothing that belonged o the mind with tho body when what Is calted death took place, They took with them all thelr affections, all thelr de- sires, all thelr tondencies of thought, all their meinory, aud, In ahort, every habil or condition of mind and wpirit. Therofore, ns it was the mind that made the man,—not the body,—they were the snme man. Mr, Pendleton cxpatiated farther en tho fo- termedtato condition, and claborately expound- ed the New Church doctring concernlng the three states thac the spiritual body enters after death, some passing Into Heaven from the inter- mediata state, or spirftunl world, and othors into fell. lla detived the thrce states into which man entered atter death, andshowed what sort of persons cntered Heaven and Hell from the spiritual or {ntermediato state. Next Bunday evening he will discuss ' [Teav- en,” and the followlng Sabbath ** Hell." TILE RAY, 4. 3, WIITR preached last cvening to a small congregation at No. 007 West Van Buren streot, 1His sub- Ject was “The Futuroc of the Wicked,” snd his toxt was as follows: And behold, [ come quickly; and my reward 18 +with mo, to give ovcry man according as bis works shall be. —Recelation, zxil., 12, He sald God had estadlished laws for the gov- ernment of averybody and everything, but man haal boon distinctively cndowed with power and enorgy to be usced at s pleasure, and his con- dition hereatter would dopond on how e lived hero. Assuming that tho Biblo was inspired, wo lind o right 10 reject it beeauso wo could uot understand ft. Wo werc aure of tho exist- ence of Lhe aoul, and that it resided In the body, yet we had no positivo knowledge on the aul Jeets ‘Thus it was with tho Bible; wo were suro of Its truth, though much of it was beyond our comprehension. The child understood ‘that God existed, that tno futurc was endless, and tnat an life l'eu us aternity wouldfindus, Butof the nature and duration of future punishment and how many would be punished little was known except by faith, The Bible taught that thoso who did not know God would be punished, aud l)unllhcd eternally,and it was thoso who belfeved his aud had rafused to come to God that wero most afrafd thut thero was a place in Hell for thewm. 1o would leave tho heathen to God, but held that man was not competent to judgoe of the deserta of sin. The criininal always garded his punlshinent as unjuat, nence tho sf ner was [ucapable of sittiog fo judgment in his ‘The lunocont wers olten op- God was just, and so aure as o was just " the would conie when [lo would punish the sinful and rowand the rightoous. None would cacape i‘udnmunu Joflerson, ackvowledging the ustice of God, trambled for his country, and 0w nuch more should we, scknowledging 1is Justlce, tremble for vurselves! The musslon of tho fMible was to save nien here and prepare them for Uod, [f thoro was o Gospel for purgatory, iL stiould bs preached thore, as it could donogood here. It wo died in sin we should be srerlastingly In sin and punishment, and If overlasting “did not mean vverlasting, there was no such thing os ever- lasting Mlfo, and If wo tangne anything clso we nade God & iar. He did not know whethor Hell abounded with firs and brimstone or not, becausa he had not been there, nelther did ho know whettier Heaven was a land ol pearls and proclous stones or not. Buch language he ro- garded as purely figurative, but lie was suro that sin was a great reality and that tall was the future sbode of the wicked, ‘To teach other- wiso was mockery, I cter Hfo and eternal denth—the puradise of God snd the lake of Are—were lelt out; and nous so richly descrved eternal punlshmont ns that clusa who lstenod to the Gospal, neglected Its teachlogs, and de- uplsed Uod, They would be punished eternally. THE KEY. C. B, NEWITT, paatar, preachud last uight 10 & large congroga- tion at sl Centesulal Baptiat Church, corner of West Jackson sud Lincoln streets, upon the question of the cxistoncs of a Hetl. Ho chose aa bl text Mauthew, xxv., 43; **Depart from me, ye cursed, intv everlusting dre, prepared for tho devil and his sugcla.” In the courss of his remasrks, tho reverend geatleman aunounced hlnself as lo favor of now doctrines, could those new doctrines be EN"" trus ones. At the preseut time it would u well to mik tho guestion, *fs there a futurs punishment for sia committod upon this corthi’ And alwo, * How will ths futura lifo ba intiuenced by tho prasent existenced’ In ru- cont discussions as to the exlstence of a Nell be had noticed that there was debated not so much the fact uf s future punishment as the duration of that stata of retribution. In the case of the slckness of riend, & pereon did not feel as fu- terested and gyvmpathetis. i€ ho assured that liis friecnd was mot o die, Just so a porson, even though he allowed the suppusition of somu punishment did not feel as loterested and fuvolved as if he were to have & couvictiou that that punisbment waa not un etornul onc. "Tho vory natur¢ of man seemecd to argue fn fayor of the beiief toat thero was a Hell or 8 futurs punishment. Man had wiways of hisown avurd woepted such a bellsf, The suslons, the ancient Greeks, had » tradition of Heil, and other uations of the earth had correspouding traditions, The writinze of Homer snd other celebrated writers of the carly davs shiowod that they belicyed ina season of retribution. The barbarous and halt-ivilized natons of to-duy had belios {n a Holl of some kind. The beliel was naturul aud fnevitavte conviction wilch, thouxh suppressed, would wiscrt itscif fu all ruces, all classes and couditions, aud smony all ¢ people of the earth. How could w0 Mcf‘ ated a conviction bo otberwise thaa truel It was well knowa that & violation of the laws of bealth aud physiology broughy physical piu- jspwment. thourls that punish- wept m byckward fu muking Itset! maullest 1t was uvevertheless cortaln. A reformed drunkard wigby no} feel the effects fl hhh h{am'xur Iu‘u of ‘ll‘ebauch‘cry until cars after bis reformation, when palsy, wpo- {zluxyor sowe such allmeut would sw{dm}] Aud ht irelizions teaching, mmst ithe question ol punishment and unmistakably declarca so, and overtake him, The fact that the punishment was delayed did not insure an limmunity from it. It was certain that vunishment followed a violation of the physleal lawa. \Was it not just 8 rensonable to say Lhat punishment followed the violatlon of divinu ardinances? A murderer might by committing sulclle eaunio adequate I punistinent fn this life. Bul Akl the act of sulekle frec him from all' culnnlx[lll.{ aml blame In the Jife hereaftert No, the moral puniahment must continue as Lhe moral nature tontintied, There was auniverssl, spontancous, hittnan 2entiment that wrong must be pumshed. Humanity de- manded that oven In fictlon punishment should be meted out to the wrong-loer. There must be a futurs punishment to satis(y that universal sense of retributive justice, And- here recurred the question of the dnra- tlon of that state of atonement. The Dible, il taken ns_thg fountain-head of moral and e consulted upon ns much as upon other questions. The Biblo sald that Every man shall give accountof tho deeds dong in the body, and shall in the 1ife out of the Loy receive according to what he has done In the body. Christ wus to coma at the tinal day and the separation of the sheepand the uats was, wo were told, lo be fiual. The zoats were 1t be consigned toeverlasting punishment. The workers of Iniquity were to meet with destruc- Uon, At the last day the slecpors were to awake, some toshame and the others to cter- nal joy. Biasphemers of the Holy Ghost were, we were again adinonished, to bo doomed 10 eternal punishment. The hundreds of other similar passages of scr(ixlurc all referred to the eternity of the stats of punishment, and so clearand forciblo wero those statemaonts that they could not be mistaken for misconstrucd, Everybody almost was willing to belleve in the existence of o Hoaven, and that a life there was nn eternal one. The Bible saidso. Tho same book sald that a }fo in Hell was an etgrnal one, and in the original Greck the word Which ex- prossad the steraity of o life In Heavon was tho sane word which wos used to denote the clv.'rnllz of " n consignment to Hell. It the Bible tauglit the cxlstenco of a Heaven, then it also taught the oxistence of o Hell, 'Notsucha Hell; perhaps, as some folks wers wont to descrine,~n ses of burning brimatone, sulphur, and lost souls,—but a lh\t nevertheless; o Hell of remorse, and bitter- ness, and woe; n Hell infinitcly more terrible than ' the ke of fire, a placo where the ~worm dicth not. Heecher might philosophize, Prof, Bwinz might argue his liberality of {deas, and tho apologziats for the sina of themseives nnd others might apologlze, but there was a Holl nevertheless, The Bible most emphatically #0 long ar the Bible wans the accepted atamiard of religion #0 loug shiould thera be o place of pumishnent {n the hercafter. AGAILNST, W, H. RYDEI. The Rev. W. H. Ryder, of 8t. Paul's Univer- salist Church, repeated yesterday evenlog, by request, his sermon dellvered the weck beforo on * The Btrengthaud Weakness of Universal- ism.” From it tho followiner cxtracts are mado regarding the questlon of the final doom of the wicked, and the alleged weakening of the so- called orthodox churches regarding the doctrine of clernal punishmnent: Of the course of religlous thought (n this cotintry during the past thirty years, so far as It bears tipon this questfon of man’a final doom, X ay assume to have some knowledge. When I began my ministry Universaliste stood alone In Amcrica {n the advocacy of the final redemption of the world. Then the Unitarians, as a body, 100k no definito position upon this duetring of the world's salvation, though they did plead cloquently for the parcutal cbaracter of God, and the natural worth of man, and smong those who rendered eflicient service In these partieu- lars mné bo {»mmincnuy mentioned Willlam Fllery Channing, But what Is tho condition of tho relizious world to-dayi In one respect wo still stand alone, alncé we arc the only sact that o its creed naserts the doctrine of tho salyation of oll, And yet what o change! Then, here and there & nulfllt, aad hera nod there s bellover, ad- vocating_the doctrine ouce delivered to the salnts, Now wo havenn army of helpers. Then we wore taunted on the right band and on the left with the queation, * How s it that you know all theso things so welll” [ the Bible teaches the doctrine of the ulttmato redemption of all, if the Biblo teaches this doctrine that you neaert, low {s 1t that the wise men of the last }Ivn hfindwd or o thousand years Lave not found t ou What wera the doctrines that we rojected? I name some of the most prominent: Tho total depravity of man at birth; transmitted guilt from Aoam through all his posterity; that Christ died to mitigato the divine dlspleasure; the doctriue of a persoual Dovil and a burning Heoll for the wicked; the damnation of the heathen for rejecting s Bavior of whom they had noyer heard, ete. Will you foll me, my brethren, which one of theso positions we have beon called upou to abandon? Wil you tell me which ono of these positions has oot gainod streagth durlmf tho last thirty years? ~ Way, thera llas bren of lnte & perfect land-slido"into Unlversatism, Iad I been told o the beginnlng of my minls- try that there would bo within thirty yeats such an upheaval in rveligious thought, and so general a vindlcatfon of our theological pusi- tions, I could not have belleyed the statcinent for very jov. Many of you have road the re- cent utterances of "tho Canon of Westininster, Allow me renowedly to call your attention to tols pasange from onc of his sermons recently delived In Westinluster Abbey : It this awfal doctrine had to be declded by toxts, {hen tio otfgtonl languaio muat be sppested to and Intorproted In itqproperand historlcal slgnidcance, Whero wonld be the popular tonchings about Il 1t we calmly aud doliberataly erased from our Ei glish Dibles the threo words *‘damnation,” Sthellat mnd ‘teverlasting?" Yet, “{’ un- hesltatingly—I n‘; claiming ths fulleat right to aponk with the authorlty of knowtedgo—~1 say, with the calmest and most unflinching senie of albllity—I say, standing here tn the a and m( #avior, and, it may bo, of tho th splrits of tho dead—that nof ono of thos ouam to ntand any longer in our anfluh Biblen; and that belng, In our present acceptation of them, almply mistrannistione, thoy most unquestibnably wiil not stand in the revised editlon of the Bible, A1 the revisers have understood their duty, Ilcarn by the punblic press that sentiments almost a4 remarkable have boen lately uttereid in several Now England puipits by distinzaieh- cd preachers. We read that ordalning council aro catled, that the candidates deny the endica ness of punishnicot, and the doctrines of trans. mitted gutit and hmputed rightvousness, but are nevertholess voted ordination and set in places of pawer i1 the Church, und that distingulshed ruvvmlenmlve men by thewr votes fudorse this action, But we need not go so far away from home to hear strong and significunt utterances in denial ol the old theology. ‘Fwo of the recoguized leading clesgymen Of our city, neither of them belonging to'the so-callud liboral branch of the Christian Church, sinco the #rat preaching of this surnon two wecks ago, have virtually added thelr panies to the rapldly enlarging st of those who deny the eternity of mlsery far uny human soul, It i8 true thelr posliionaare rather those of denfal than faith, of doubt than bellof; but }h‘a tendency of their thought fa clear aud fww ul. Truly o great chango las taken place in popular bellef on thoso mowmentous questions of the future MNfo of the soul, whereat we have occaslon to refolce. But, in announcing my subjeet, I sncak of tho weakness of Uni- versahisme What do I mean by that! [ mean by the weaknesd af Unlversallsm, Universullsm a8 some peante state it aud gocin_to naderstand it, ‘The strongest objectlon to Universalism on the sile of weakness that [ know of inay be stated o theas words: ‘That it placed 80 uiuch emphasls on the soverelgnty of Uod and the Fatlierly ood-will as practically tolift from the miuds of thoss who acvept it that deep seuse of personal responstbllity which it i3 impurtant for eazh one to foel, o I do not hesleata to asy that the {dua of the Bua) recovery of w)l souls hos Leen oo exchu- sively dwelt upon fu some of our }mlulu and newspapers for the bighest good of the peopte, But for this there Is at least a partlsl Justigica- tion fn the necessity of the case. Assalled ou ides, they defended thelr positlous with zesl, But extremes in the attitude of rellrious denominstions Is vothing uuusual, Oug.Cal. viulstic fricuds will huntly deny that iotheir preachivg thoy fornerly” put the doctrine of elvction lito & more prouiinent nlace thay It holde in the UGasbels, * And our Mothodist co- workers sru not to be condenined because, fu thelr fncreasing wisdom, they abandon some of the oxtravarunce of thelr mefAod, and both dress aud worship more like other Christisus, Experieuco las taught thew, just as it has taught us, that it ls not wise for the preachor to trust to the insplratiom of the hour for suwme. thing to suy to his people, but that theological schools and deliberdte study, and, at thnes, even the written sermon, aro ncedful to give effcct- {vuncss to the minfatry. It {8 slply & fact, too obyiousto be disputel, thut achange In tho attituds of the wind to- ward uuy dmportaut religious truth is liable to lead to lovscncss in thought and someties to feregulariey fu life. “Thu balance of the wfnd is disturbed by the faith which it bas lost But what will you do? What can ba done! People will not betieve what you wish, und, i€ vou have thelr best good at heart, you will nut desire they suoutd cliug to what bs false. Buppose it betrue that 1 rejecting tho siricter Wen\oiy souy relapse lutu intdelity, to whom shall the blawe be attached, If blamu theredsi Certaiuly Dot to the uew truth that sceks to save thpw, 3 but to the old error that has misled them. Wq charge n laree ,\orlluu of the roliglous {ndiffer. ence and Indldelity of this time upon the teach. ing of Tertuliinn, Angustine, Calvin, and Joha Knox. [tis the natura) reaction from thejr extreme and reyniting doctrines, Shall the lending aclentists of onr age ceasa their Investigations Into the phenomena of nature bevause such critfcal -zud{ oyerthrows soma of the old superstitions of the worid) Shall weexclude thetrit) lutmmm{heuu 1 astronomical truth has d slru{ml the old super- stition In regard to an eclipse! Or shall wunog rather state the facts as they are, leaving the resnita with God, all the whilo taking due hesd to tho necessity of giving to the world the whole truth, Inalldts varfous phascs, as fully as wy ca . For this faith, thls broad, tnclusive hope, I ean work, and, thank God, I cAn pray. Our brethiren in the other churches can wurk for “their religlon, hut thuy cannot pray for it. No. hudy can think of 8 inan praylng that the doo trina ot endless misery may ha true. Think of o man prayine that the orthodox Idea of God mav be found to he correct, so that God ma; have tha (nfinite plcasure uf peopling the worl of Hell with the beings e has created. To think that three-quarters or nineteen-twentisths of the human rmee are to be shut out from the favor of God, nobody can pray for that, Why nott Why are wo now so inuch more scnsitive upon these fearful conecntions of God than people seem formerly to have been! 8im. ply because tha conscience of humanity has been «uickened Into s clearer conception of the worth of man, Tbeold errors pglve way as the new truths present themeelves and ask for admis. slon. And I tho sonl of manas it riscs into nearncss with God fecls thus the glow of & gen. crous sympathy, it may be well to ask st what stage of its upward growth will it lose this tenderness and compnssion and relapso intg disregard? Will not these aspirations strengthe cn as wo leave the boay of the flest and enter upon tho abode of the spiriti And where docs Lhis love of ours, that thus strengthens with our growth, come from but from Godi And If the litie tenderness In ng cannot _contemplate without pain, unmitigated and endlcas sorrot, may we not ratlonally hop that God, Ilimsclf the foundation of love, ha neresaitated no such condition? The present popular protest agalnst certaly conceptions of the future 1ife Is the utterance ot tho human heart, too loug held in bondage hy the conviction of the rcason. The late War In this country quickened tho religious syinpathles of milllons, until at Inat *out of the fullucas of the heart tho mouth speaketi. TIE REV. T. D, YORRUSI expounded his viows on the all-lmportant sub. Joct of futuro punishment vestorday morning at the Third Unitarian Church, corner of Mon- roc and Laflin stecots, Formally stated, his thame was “The Dible Doctrine of Hell) which he treated in fully as liberal a manner as his well-known progressivo idess would lead people to expect. [{ls toxt—onc, he sald, from which he seldom spoke—was that famous verse, Matthow xxv., 46: ** Thesc shall go away Into everlasting punishment; but the rightcous intg Ufe ctermal.” ,Ho prefaced what he had to say ‘on the Biblo Doctrine of Future Punishment with a reference to tho Ideas of unishnent found outsldo of the Bible, Thore had niways been, he sald, a wido difference of opinfon on this Tmuuam Barbarlans had bo- lleved that when this life was over they would be romoved to the Iugpy renlms boyond, what cver had boen ,the character of thelr ilves on carth, With civilizatlon came the iden that there must be n dlstinction’ in the other world, bascd somchow on tho results of this life. The doctrines of the Ethnic religions might bs summed up thus: Among savage tribes there was littlo or no idea of punishment aftor death. With them the futurc was bright and happy, Moras clvilized peoplo belfeved {n future punisl ment, but knew nothing of its overlastingness, Amonz European nations, the Scandinavian Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans, taught fearful future retributione, and the Scandinavisns went 80 far as to nssert tholr eternity, The Aslatie relizions nnd all their offshoots taught the ereat {dea ofa full nx‘)huun of all evil done in the body, and of the final restoratfon aml flnal blessedncss of all mankind, maintaining that at last oll ovil would vanish, and that endless, un- {magined would flow on in & unlverse of love and Joy. The tlcbfews made no distinctlons fn their ehostty, silent undetworld until they came in contract with the Porsisus. Beforo this, their Helt was a dim, gloomy, shadowy unconaclons- ncss, whero the sorvant was freed from his master, and no man kridw anything, Than this silent underworld was divided into Paradise and Gehenna, with an impassable gulf fixed be- tween them. The inhabitants of this dark, slient, gloomy underworld were all in s state of walting tor the Messiah aod the judgment. ‘Thosg who recelyed the Messlah's lngrolmlnu werato dwell fn Paradiso; thoss whodid not were to be plunged Into the lako of firo underneath this _intermedlary underworld., According to the Jews, the heathen were to suffer forever. It was to the Jows that the Now Testament was written, and It was therefore no wonder that the writers of the Gospels should have glven evi dences of thelr bellef n the old Jowish idea of (chenna and Paradise,~bellefs wrought into the very toxturcs of their mlods. Tho allusions of Paul to the future state were, on the other land, very vaguo and indefinite. Ho emphatie- ally,asscrted that thers wero conditions of sal. vation, and threatened those who wneglected these conditlons with rotribution, but left the whole subject of the future state and odes of punishment ln final gloom. Tho same great Apostle clenrl{ told of an exsct udgmont, sometimes favored the ldca of auni: hlation, but sald nothlng as totheduration aud modes of runluhmcnt. ‘Taking ull bis writings together, Lo beleved fo the sccond coming, the restoration of all souls from Hades, and the Judgment, but, on the ausstion of the future, ho slinply said that somo would bo everlastingly Laufshed from the presance of the Lord, There wua nothing in the writings of Peter and Faul, and {n John's Gospel, that predictod an eternal Hell of ire, ‘I'hcre was no torture, no pain, but silent glootn, deep uunquict, ’l‘ha Apocs Iypso, however, gave forth no uncertain sound. A{l 'whoso vames were not wrlttenin the Lanb's Book ot Lifo were to be cast Into ascaol firo to bo at the mercy of the Dovil, by whom they had been decelved alt thelr Mves. Andit wouldavpearasifJohn had m:v.unllf belleved what he wrote. Were bis words to be lterally takeni As ull scholars knew, tho transiation of the old Itebrow ward Qelicnna, efpnifying the under- world, hfl the fwmillar ward ** tHell,'* did not cxpress the exact meauing of that word, With the Jews, Gehonnu was used to algnify the utderworld, as well as a valloy uear Jerusalem which was made a re-cptaclo for thecity's ‘Esmm. perpetual fires being kept up in order to revent pustilontisl cifluvis, As tranalated, it ad come to algaily o Hteral holl of fire, 'There wus also 8 question as to whoether the origlinal (ireok wuni fur everlustingreally meant eternal, But the writers of the (ospels had, (n the preacher’s opinion, uscd the strongost words they could find, and would prabably haye used strouger worda If thoy lad been known, They undoubtedly belloved what they wrote, bhut it was quits possible—as had often been suggested—that they had interpreted Chris! words (o accordauce with thewr previous mi of thinking and with duo regard to the old Jewish {dens on the wubject. According to thess Apostles, Christ must fiave tauzht a punlibe ment whose duration wus fittingly expreascd by tho word everlasting, and however wo wmight wish to explain away theso slrung expressious, ftvould not bo done without treating these pussages fn & way which, if followed out, would soon crpty all lterature of any meanuig save such asshould suit the whim of the laterpreter 10 asaign toit, *‘Tu answer to tho question, ‘What docs tbe New Testament teach concerning the fate of tho wicked ' sald tho preacher in conclusios. T would say the writers Jeft the fate of the wicked Jargely in the dark, with positive asser tiuns that they will uot funerit cterual 1ife & blessedness, aud with more than hints that they will rematn In the dim underworld of shadow ‘sud sllencs forever, Tbe Guspels 1ell of a doom fuarful asthe fires of Gebanna, from which ttere s no prospect of release. It seeins hard to wiako auy stronier assertions than they contaln of absulite, cternal punishment. [ fuclive to think that this sharp language comes from the (oapel writers rather than from Jesus; thst it is s traditiou; and that thoy seck 10 givo authority to a dugma b q_"l_ul- ‘suppol his ing the Master in ity irles of future endicss punlibment s not (o ac cordance with the higher aud better toachin of Jusus. 1t dovs not breatbe tho spirit of story uf the Prodigal Son, or the lost sheop—the spirit which loves on sud forgives seveuty tmes sevon. And fb caunot be reconciled with shat thought of a perfuct law of love which was the ceutro aud ground of Jesus® teaching—the very 1 of His whole life, Everlasting puaish: na tlery bell {8 not possible o & universs ed aud filled by fatinlts love, watched ovel b absolute Provideocs, o matger in w! sacred buoks, of what sucicut days or fosp! ruces, tho doguwa inuy seem to be taught.” TUE BBV, SUMNELR ELLIS preached & sernon last éveufng in the Ch'{“'l of the Redeemer, corner of Sangamon and Wesb + Washington atreets, from the following text: After the way which they call heresy, 80 wo! 1the God of wy fathere.—dcls, £519., 1 Mr. ENls said that ho bad a good miud to havé takeu for his text the words of Bolomod “Thery Is & time to laugh” Universalistd were will entitled to & feellng joy “aud grstilcation, for what tbef bad presbod for su hundred years ¥M & bre: me cre: