After she had taken the stand, in company with myself, I invited the audience to select a Committee of three competent persons to designate a subject for the evening's discourse. That Committee was duly chosen and voted in by the audience. I then stated that they had the privilege of presenting any question or theme in Philosophy, Moral or Religious ethics for elucidation. I give it to the reader without a change of a word, from the Reporter's manuscript, that he may have it as it came from the speaker, in a Trance state . From this statement, it will be seen that the discourse is entirely impromptu, and delivered without one minute opportunity for reflection or arrangement of ideas.
Man is free to do right or wrong.
He is here to judge which he will take, right or wrong, but at the same time he is not free to make the wrong permanently triumphant, for it can never be so. The right is the infinite, and consequently it always predominates over ignorance, error, and darkness. It is simply the doctrine that Universalists preach. We are not aware, precisely, what are the views entertained by Universalists, upon this subject. But, most certainly, it is our opinion, whether it be Universalism or the belief of any other class of men.