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Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason
An Orthodox Minister
That which is incredible to thee thou shalt not, at thy soul's peril, attempt to believe. Go to Perdition if thou must, but not with a lie in thy mouth. By the Eternal Maker, no. —Carlyle.
Is not Universal Salvation the Divine Corollary of Universal Atonement? —Extract of a letter from the Author to an eminent Methodist minister in England.
Fear of Punishment—Early Impressions—Men of Piety and Learning—Facts and Figures—Mental or Material Fire—The Theory of Conditional Immortality—Why Invented—Moody—Divine Failure Impossible—Future Operations of Grace—Restoration—A Plea for Charity—Other Worlds—The Heathen—Devout Use of the Imagination.
Unconditional Election—Children of Believing Parents—An Arrogant Pretension—God's Own Children—The Heathen of All Time—A Baleful Shadow—Former Cruelty—Herbert Spencer—Dr. Farrar's Eternal Hope—A Lady With An Open Mind—Dr. Dawson's Larger View—The Universal Attraction.
No Definite Note of Warning—Preachers Afraid of Discipline—Divided As to Restoration or Extinction—Plea for Liberty—Liberalism of the Episcopal Church—Advance in Christian Unity—Dr. Edward White—Conditional Immortality—Endless Torment—If True Ought to Be Preached Morning, Noon and Night—Awful Penalty of Sin—Extinction—True Religion Is Reasonable—Enlarged Conceptions.
A Strong Argument—Universal Atonement—Infinite Justice Satisfied—A Candid Methodist Minister—Can Man Commit An Infinite Sin?—Everlasting Punishment Could Not Be Rendered—Uses of Suffering—Punitive and Remedial—The Penalty Has Been Paid—Moral Effect—Mystery of Pain—Not Punishment but Chastening—Extending Our Outlook Beyond—Boundless Time and Space—Operations of Grace in the Next Life—Infinite Power—Infinite Mercy—Infinite Love—Incentive to Endless Praise.
Our Limitations—Development—Our Capacity—Divine Foreknowledge—No Divine Failure—The Heathen—Unchangeable Dove—Union of Four Attributes—Eternal Wisdom—A Marvel of Coercion and Freedom—The Day of Divine Power—An Unfathomable Mystery—Future Revelations—Coming to Zion with Songs.
Horatio
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LOVE'S FINAL VICTORY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.
DIFFERENT THEORIES.
II.
CRUELTY OF FORMER VIEWS.
III.
THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION.
IV.
INFINITE JUSTICE.
V.
HARMONY OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.
VI.
THEORY OF EQUALITY.
VII.
PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION.
VIII.
THE INTERMEDIATE STATE.
IX.
THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.
X.
DIVINE LOVE.
XI.
THE ATONEMENT.
XII.
A FEEBLE NOTE OF WARNING.
XIII.
PROPHECIES YET TO BE FULFILLED.
XIV.
TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE.
XV.
TESTIMONY OF REASON.
XVI.
XVII.
ETERNAL SEPARATIONS.
XVIII.
NOT REALLY BELIEVED.
XIX.
WORKING MEN AND THE CHURCH.
XX.
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN.
XXI.
THE FINAL DAY.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
THE MEANING OF THE WORD "HADES."
THE EARLY-CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF HADES.
THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH THE DOCTRINE OF EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT HAS BEEN BUILT.
I.
DIFFERENT THEORIES.
DR. EDWARD WHITE'S THEORY.
UNFOLDING LIGHT OF REVELATION.
SUFFICIENT REVELATION.
THE DEPARTED MORE AMENABLE.
II.
CRUELTY OF FORMER VIEWS.
III.
THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION.
OPENING OF THE PULPITS.
THERE IS NO WARNING.
A VITAL PHASE.
IV.
INFINITE JUSTICE.
V.
HARMONY OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.
VI.
THEORY OF EQUALITY.
VII.
PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION.
VIII.
THE INTERMEDIATE STATE.
IMPRISONED SOULS.
IX.
THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.
X.
DIVINE LOVE.
A THEORY.
A SERIOUS DEPARTURE.
EVEN IF THEY ARE FAVORED.
TRIUMPH OF GOOD OVER EVIL.
NOT ASKED TO SURRENDER.
STERN FOR THE MOMENT.
ON A LARGE SCALE.
XI.
THE ATONEMENT.
I TOOK THE LARGER VIEW.
A SPONTANEOUS ANSWER.
THE SPIRIT OF THE LARGER DOCTRINE.
BUT A PASSING EPOCH.
THE DIVINE IMAGE.
DESTINED FOR A BETTER WORLD.
THRUST INTO NEW CONDITIONS.
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT.
FIRM AND QUICK TREAD.
EVERY POSSIBLE ARGUMENT.
XII.
A FEEBLE NOTE OF WARNING.
XIII.
PROPHECIES YET TO BE FULFILLED.
UNCOUNTED MILLIONS.
THE GLADDEST MESSAGE.
NO SMALLER MEANING.
XIV.
TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE.
THIS DIVINE LIGHT.
XV.
TESTIMONY OF REASON.
PREPARATION FOR HEAVENLY BLESSEDNESS.
THE SWEEP OF THE INFINITE MIND.
HESITATING AND HALTING.
BARBAROUS IDEAS.
A SHAFT OF RIDICULE.
XVI.
THE CASE OF SAUL.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S OPINION.
THE WORST OF MANKIND.
THEY MAY YIELD SPEEDILY.
XVII.
ETERNAL SEPARATIONS.
GEORGE ELIOT'S IDEA.
WE HAVE NO DATA.
XVIII.
NOT REALLY BELIEVED.
INCREASED INTEREST AND SYMPATHY
WHAT BECOMES OF THE HEATHEN?
A QUASI ENTHUSIASM.
COULD NOT REST IN THEIR BEDS.
ENCUMBERED THOUGH IT BE.
WANT OF PROPORTION.
SOUNDNESS IN THE FAITH.
XIX.
WORKING MEN AND THE CHURCH.
XX.
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN.
XXI.
THE FINAL DAY.
DIVINE POWER AND GRACE.