Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-30
THE CONFLICT or AGES!
BY DIR, EDWARD BEEcHER.

BY DR., EDWARD BEECHER
tbs Remarkable WORT has reached ats Fifth
Edition, in The brief space Of -Four Months I
A success unprecedented IN Theological Pub
liCdti0nS!
A N impression has already been produced by this
"A mastery treatise, the most profound, wide
reaching, and permanent
1t is perfectly manifest to all competent observers
that We are upon the eve of theological discussion,
the most comprehensive, radical and portontous the
world has ever seen. To this discussion this book
leads the way, with a momentum irresistible. TheIe
is not question 10 Theology which is not destined
to up for new and thorough settlem ent in the
light of this final development
ALI those who have Theological doubts and diff
cultes 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
grievougly err il thoy neglect to make themselves IA
miliar with this book. 1t contains the seeds of the
thnkings and dcbatings of the next hundred yeaIs.
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
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 Vir
tual 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
1t is characterized by great ability, by
spirit by frankness, candor, and courtesy 1t has
special interest for VS. HAIL 1T As AN ALLY.
The author shuts his readers the choice between
Orthodoxy and tho doctrine Of Pre- Existence.
From Hts UniVerSaita Qnart1iy and General Re.
Vieto, Jan, 1854.
We have the novel spectacle OF a man clingng
with mastery grasp to all the fundamentals Of Or
thodoIy, = Jet dealing it blow beneath
which it reels.
Ii would be difficult 10 find within tho limits Of a
hundred pages any treatise or essay that can com
pare in Importance with this analysis (B iv Of Or
thodor doctrioes DIR Beecher has struck upon the
in the fifth Of Romans.
National Era.
This work hiss caused a great comm otion among
the d DIS in our land 1t merits their attention.
NJ u TribuU.
The most significant work on Theology which has
appeared Of late
In many respects. this volume is one Of the most
curious, well a Of the most suggestive, pro-
auctions Of modern American Theology.
Philadelphia Prc.5yt1ion Quarterly, Nep School
Able IL uDquestionaby Is.
Westminster ReUie,c, England
The Conflict Of Ages il, in effect, a protest
against Calyinism by ons Of the leading Calvinistc
divines Of New England
Boston CongyegahoHalist
A very unsafe book for hertsiarchs to put into
the hands Of either Unvcrsaist Unitarian Of real
and manly mind accustomed to deep and serious
thought Whatever else he may be or may not be,
he will be either ancient Socinian mod
ern Unversslist.
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, co,
May 20 Publishers Boston.