Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-06
THE CONFLICT or ACES!
BY DIR. EDWARD BEEcHER

BY DIX. EDWARD bEECHER.
THIS Remarkable Work has reached its Fifth
Edition, in the brief space of -Four Months!
A success unprecedented IN Theological Pub
locations!
A N impression has already been produced by this
IA mastcrly treatise, the most profound, wide
reaching and permanent.
1t is perfectly manifest to all competent observers
that We upon the eve of theological discussion,
the most comprehensive, radical and portontous the
world has To this discussion this book
loads the way, with u momentum irresistible There
is not question in Theology which is not destined
to up for a and thorough settlement in the
light Of this final development.
All those who have Theological doubts and diff
culties should examine tho 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 the developments of opinion In the future. will
grevously err they neglect to make themselves IA
thinkings and debstings Of the next hundred years
The reception OF this work by tho Theological
press Of the country, II 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 pow erfu kind
As regards the ability of the work, and its claims
the attention Of ALL the following extracts may
suffice:
Fo1s The Princeton Rs,erfory- old School Oyfhodor
1t is characterized by great ability, by earnest
spirit, by franknoss, candor, and courtesy II has
special interest for VIZ HAIL 1T AN ALLY.
The author shuts his the choice between
Orthodoxy and the doctrine Of Pro Existence.
From The Uai0ermlia Quarterly and General Re-
Uietc, Jan, 1854.
We have the novel spectacle OF man clinging
with mastery grasp to all the fundamentals Of Or
thodoxy, n yet dealing IL a blow beneath
which IL reels
hundred pages any treatise essay that com
pare in Importance with this analysis (B. 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 a great commotion among
the d DIS in our land. 1t merits their attention
NJ Y. TyfBnRs.
Tho most significant work on Theology which has
appeared Of late
In many respects, this volume is ono OF the most
auctions of modern American Theology.
PhiLllelphia PresJyterian Quarterly, Ne,c School
Able il unqucstionably is
WestmiRsty Revie,c, England.
Tho Conflict Of Ages" is, in effect, = protest
against Calvinism by Of the leading Calvinistic
divines Of New England
Boston CongreeafionoIia
A very unsafe book for heresiarchs to put into
tho hands Of either Unvorsaist Unitarian Of real
and manly mind accustomed to deep and serious
he will mover be either ancient Socinian a mod
rrn Unversalist.
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, CO,
May &C. Publishers, Boston.