Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-17
By DIR EDWARD BEEcHER.

By DIN EDWARD bEEIHLh
THIS Remarkable Work has reached its Fifth
Edition, in the brief space Of Four Months!
A success unprecedented an Theological Pub
locations!
A impression has already been produced by this
II mastery treatise, the most profound. wide
reaching. and permanent
Ii is perfectly manifest to all competent observers
that We are upon the Of theological discussion,
the most comprehensive, radical and portontous, tho
world has To this discussion this book
leads the way, with momentum irrosistiblc. Thore
Is not question 10 Theology which is not destined
to como up for and thorough settlement in tho
light Of this final development
All those who have Theological doubts and diff
cultics should examine the solution this work affords
Those who have no doubts, but who wish to study
the history Of opinions in tho past, and to keep pace
with tho developments Of opinion in the future will
milar with this book. II contains the seeds Of the
thinkngs and debatings of tho next hundred years
Tho reception Of this work by tho The logical
press OF the country, has been significant Equally
declining to accept his conclusion, they do 1t OPP
posite and contradictory grounds. One half Of the
Theological press endorses tho major premise Of tho
argument and denies the minor. The other half en-
dorses the minor. and denies tho major. And they
are probably both right in their positive element and
wrong in thoir negative, tho work has received Vr
taal Endorsement of the most powerful kind.
AS regards tho ability OF the work, and its claims
on tho attention of ALL the following extracts may
suffice
From the Princeton Repertoyy Old Sc,ooi O,fhodon
1t IL characterized by great ability. by an
spirit by HankDess, candor, and courtesy. 1t has
special interest for US VIZ HAIL 1T AS AN ALLY
The author shuts his readers the choice between
Orthodoxy and the doctrine Of Pre-. Existence.
From M6 UaipeysaIia Quarterly and Geneyai Re-
pisn,, Jun, 1854
We have the novel spectacle Of man clinging
with mastery grasp to all tho fundamentals of Or
thodoxy, yet dealing it blow ieneath
1t would be difficult to find within tho limits Of
hundred pages any treatise essay that
pare in Importance with this analysis tB ivy of Or
thodox doctrines. DIR. Beecher has struck upon the
right principle in his theory of typical Interpretation
in the fifth Of Romans.
National Era
This work has caused great commoti among
the D. DIS in our land II merits their attention
~. \. Tribune.
Tho most significant work on Theology which has
appeared of late
In many respects, this volume is ono Of the most
curious as we'll as Of the most suggestive pro-
ductions of modern American Theology.
Philadelphia Presbyterian Quarterly, Nep School
Able It unquestionably is.
Westminster ReUie,o England
The Conflict of Ages j" is, in effect, protest
against Calvinism by of the leading Calvinistic
divines Of Now England
Boston Congregaiionalia
A very unsafe book for hertsiarchs to put into
the hands of either Universaist Unitarian of real
and manly mind, accustomed to deep and serious
thought. Whatever else he may be or may not be,
he will never BIO either ancient Socnian or q mod
ern Universalist
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, CO.,
May 20. Publishers, Boston.