Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-19
CONFLICT OF AGES!
BY DIR. EDWARD BREcHER.

This Remarkable Work mas reached its Fifth
Edition, tn the brief space Of Four Months !
A success unprecsdt nted IN Theological Pub
locations
A N impression has already been produced by this
"A mastery treatise, the most profound, wide
reaching, and permanent,
1t ID perfectly manifest to AL competent observers,
that wo are upon the Of theological discussion
the most comprehensive radical and portsntous, the
world has To this discussion this book
leads tho way, with q momentum irresistible There
is not question in Theology which is not destined
to come up for and thorough settlement in the
light Of this final development
All those who have Theological doubts and diff
culties should examine the solution this work affords
Those who have no doubts, but who wish to study
the history of opinions in the past and to keep pace
with the developments Of opinion in the future, will
greyousy err If they neglect to make themselves fa
milar with this book. II contains the seeds of the
thinkngs and debatings Of the next hundred years.
The reception of this work by the The logical
press of the country has been significant. Equally
declining to accept his conclusion they do it OPP
posito and contradictory grounds One half Of the
Theological press endorses the major premise Of the
dorses the minor, and denies the major And they
are probably both right in their positive element and
wrong in their negative, the work has received Vir
tua Endorsement of the most powerful kind
As regards the ability Of the work. and its claims
the attention Of all, the following extracts may
suffice:
From tie Princeton Repeytoyy--O old School O,thodoz.
1t is characterized by great ability, by earnest
spirit by frankncss candor, and courtesy. Tt has
special interest for u.s. WE HAIL 1T AS AN ALLY.
The author shuts up to the choice between
Orthodoxy and the doctrine of Pre- Existence.
From tie Univ0sahst Quarterly and General Re
vSeto, .yaA 1854.
We havo the novel spectacle of clnging
with mastery grasp to NIL tho fundamentals of Or
thodoxy, yet dealing 1t blow beneath
which it reels.
1t would be difficult to find within the limits of
hundred pages any treatise essay that can COM
pare in Importance with this analysis (B. iv) of Or
right principle in his theory of typical interpretation
in the fifth of Romans,
NATIONAL Era.
This work has caused great commotion among
the D. DIS in our land 1t merits their attention.
". Z. Irt5une.
The most significant work on Theology which has
appeared of late
In many respects, this volume is ono Of the most
curious, as well as Of the most suggestive pro-
auctions of modern American Theology.
PHILADELPHIA Presbyterian Quarterly, Neio SvlsooL
Able it unquestionably is
Westminster ReUieac, England.
The Conflict of Ages" is in effect protest
against Calvinism by Of the loading Calvnistic
divines of New England
Boston Congregationaitst
very unsafe book for hcresiarchs to put into
and manly mind, accustomed to deep and serious
thought. Whatever else ho may be or may not be,
he will never be either ancient Socinian or q mod
ern Universalist.
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, CO.,
May &c. Publishers, Boston.