The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-09-23
MR.. WEBSTER, TO MR. NYR
LETTER TX.

DEAR SIR: There would b, some per
tency in your remark respecting "univer
sal term )" had you adduaed one tex
in which they are employed in reference
to the final holiness and happiness o
man, but not one such has been advanced
The passage upon which you rely, being
simply descriptive of provisional grace
which readily allow to be universal
but subject to gospel limitation. as
have hitherto shown. You think my
work poorly done, and give an illustra'
ton in the description l made Of John
/, 20. "Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sins of the world"
admit, your say, that the term .cor1d,
means all men which is true-but deny
that the Lamb of God will actually take
away the sin Of all men. and insist that
the text simply means that Christ made
an atonement, by which the sins of the
world might be taken away, but make no
attempt at prov ing my point. True. l
claimed Christ to be set forth in his sacri-
fetal character, hence called "Lsmb Of
Cod" which is conclusive evidence that
reference is had in the passage to the
atonement, which atonement | allow TO
be universal; yet the proceeds Of that
atonement may be accepted or rejected
by the responsible agent. This lam sure
harmonizes completely with the whole
lenor of Revelation. But my work WAS
done little better than this. l put you
to the prosf of what you assumed in your
of the passage, viz; that it
followed that all manking would be ulLi-
mately holy and happy: a work which
you was argumentatively bound to do,
but has not yet been done. l now call
special attention to the phraseology Of
the text, in confirmation of my inlerpre-
tatiop, "takrM-~present time-away the
sin of the world" This indicates that
more especial reference was had to the
atonement or reconciliation made for
original sin, or that in which all were n
volved "by one mans disobedience,
which sin, he really took away "by the
sacrifice of himself" Hence, it is said,
III while We Were enemies, We were re-
by the death % His Soh, much
more being reconciled we''--who are JUS.
ifed by faith--"shall be saved by his
ife," Rom. 5, 10; and again, says the
postle, "By whom we have noaO recris
ID the atonemeut." Agreeable 10 uni
,ersalism, Jesus will not be the Saviour
# the world, until all are actually and
Ultimately saved; but the sense in which
he Lamb of God bears away the sins Of
f the world, was consistent with the
xpression "taketh," hence, "He bear
ur sins in His own body on the tree !
ath redeemed us from the curse of the ;
lw." DC.
You try to gather up the fragments Of
our arguments from Gen. 3, lS: John i
2, 50, and Is. 5. 8, IL. Say 1 over
'oked the proof that the psomise made r
} Abraham, in which all nations are to i
anticipate, refers to spiritual good |
lot at all. l allow that the promise d
both temporal and spirit. Il
al good, and still my reply is valid. /. Y
Iany have been blessed temporarily and r.
oiriauaally, and are still not only unho S
and unhappy, but bid fair to remain
}. 9. None will be finally lost, but n
lose who have not only received. but 81
oused great spiritual blessings. Hence, d
ou cannot make the shadow of an argu- Il
ent from this passage, in support OF ST
our proposition. Al
You insinuate that my Interpretation re
the drowinq OF men to Christ, fatty a
,ntradicts Christ's own words, when in