Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-10
THE CONFLICT OF AGES!
BY DIR. EDWARD BEEcHER.

BY DR.. EDWARD BEECHER.
THIS Remarkable Work has reached its Fifth
Edition, an the brief space of -Four Months
A success unprecedented in Theological Pub
locations!
4 N impression has already been produced by this
IA mastery treatise, the most profound, wide
reaching, and permanent
1t is perfectly manifest to all competent observers
that upon the eve of theological discussion,
the most comprehensive, radical, and portcntous the
world has ever seen. To this discussion this book
leads the way with momentum irresistible. There
is not question ia Theology which is not destined
to up for new and thorough settlement in the
light of this final development
All those who have Theological doubts and diff
cultos should examine the solution this work affords
Those who have doubts, but who wish to study
the history Of opinions in tho past and to keep pace
with the developments Of opinion in the future, will
grevousy orr If they neglect TO make themselves ia
milar with this book 1t contains the seeds of the
thnkings and dcbatings Of the next hundred years.
The reception Of this work by the Theological
press of the country, has becn significant. Equally
declining to accept his conclusion, they do il OPP
posite and contradictory grounds. One half of the
Theological press endorses the major premise Of the
argument, and denies the minor. The other half en-
dorses the minor and denies the major. And they
probably both right in their positive element and
wrong in their negative, the work has received Vr
tual Endorsement of the most powerful kind.
As regards the ability of the work, and its claims
on the attention Of all, the following extracts may
suffice:
From The Princeton ReIyfory-O Oil Sehooi Orthodon.
1t is characterized by great ability, by earnest
spirit, by franknoss, candor and courtesy IL has
special interest for VIZ HAIL AN ALLY.
The author shuts his readers up the choice between
Orthodoxy and tho doctrine of Pre-Existence.
From Tia Umipersalia QUANTITY and General Re
pieto, Jun, 1854.
We have the novel spectacle Of man clinging
with mastery grasp to all tho fundamentals OF Or
thodoxy, y yet dealing il a blow beneath
which il reels
hundred pages any treatise essay that
pare in importance with this analysis q. iv) 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 notion among
the d D.'s in our land. 1t merits their attention
". J.. Ttibnnf.
The most significant work on Theology which has
appeared of late
In many respects, this volume is one OF the most
curious, as vol Of tho most suggestive pro
auctions Of modern American Theology.
Philadelphia Presbytoiaa Quarterly, Men Sohook
Able 1t unquostionably Us.
Westminster Reviec, England.
The "Confict Of Ages" is in effect, a protest
against Cslvinism by of the leading Calvinstic
divines OF Now England
Boston CongyegatioRaiia
very unsafe book for horesiarchs to put into
the hands of either Unvcrsast Unitarian of real
and manly mind accustomed to deep and serious
thought Whatever olso he may be or may not be,
he will never be either ancient Socininn mod
ern Universast.
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, co,
May &c Publishers Boston.