I.
DIFFERENT THEORIES.
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.
II.
CRUELTY OF FORMER VIEWS.
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.
III.
THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION.
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.