New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-24

MR.. BEECHER ON THE FUTURE LIFE.
Mr.. Beecher has some singular notions in
regard to future life and the condition Of men in that
futurity
Mr.. shearman. (Soao poce To the stenographer]-
Note an exception, please.
Mr.. Fullerton Soto roee. To the senographerI-
Mr.. Sherman excerpts to future life.
Mr.. Beach. continuation that memorable LIST OF
June, 1873 and speak not now from any published
Of Mr. Beecher for have not been able to OBJ
tain the production to which refer, but from general
recollection Of my own and from information derived
from Others Mr.. Beecher that day published sermon
in which he substantially abolished hell. He said in it
one sinner is admitted THAT is. to Heaven sup,
posel why not the second who lower in attainment
last Why not the bottom one OF ALI 1 do not believe
that there living soul on the earth to-day upon whom
Of the gospel has shone, In whom there some
indication that Gods grace has not entirely died out
that that soul " viii lind itself transpanted there.
Well that points pretty decsively to the idea of uni
versa salvation. II the Christian, redeemed according
to the Bibles scheme OF salvation is admitted to Heaven
and then the man, the soul little lower In It's attain
ments you keep travelling down in the degree OF attain
ment until you reach the bottom of ALL there is uni
versa salvation And in a commentary made in lead
ing and friendly paper said that the spirituats
claim that Mr. Beechers theory Of future punishment,
future ultimate salvation akin TO their own; ana
this sermon remember excited very extensive comment
and criticism throughout the Christian and secular press
Of the country. 1t was considered as denial of the
scrptural doctrine OF that place condition OF future
punishment which in the Bible Is denomnated hell Well
Mr. Beecher speaking OF sermon delivered by Jonathan
Edwards upon the text " Sinners in the hands OF an
angry Cod" says:
could never read that at one sitting think
person OF moral sensblity alone at midnight readng
that awful discourse, would well nigh go crazy
Well it would be intrusive and disrespectfu for me to
intimate how FAR might with or dissent from the
doctrines OF Mr. Beecher am endeayoring TO show
that the man who arragns Mr.. Tton and others for
heresy and heterodoxy should look well to his own
doctrine position before he opens the assault This
last paragraph read was from the work /" Eyes and
Ears" page Ill. Well as to Heaven, Mr. Beecher says
It does not to me- a. look at men IN the whole
dying they can be expected to enter upon per-
| fected state.
Well what becomes OF the emancpated spirit at death
Is there an intermediate and conditions Is there
new probation, new state OF discipline between the
eathbed and the bosom OF the Father and Is that the
teaching OF the Scriptures Must the hope Of the Chris
tan, sustaining him when the eye grows dim and the
breath falters and fails, be delusion and mockery
Can the dying saint no longer chant the song, Oh
DEATH where is thy sting; Oh, grave where is thy vic
tory and must look forward to another state OF ex
stence to purgatory and new expiation Have the
blood Of Christ and the sacrifice OF Calvary lost their
efciencyi Is the scheme scriptura redemption all
false and NAV he who dies believing who dies in the
hope and the faith OF Christian anticipate that when the
aconies OF death are past and the CONFUSION of that
mysterious separation the spirit and the body that he
is transpanted at to the Heaven OF his hope and
promsei And what will you do, II this be the doctrine,
| with that announced in the Westminster collection,
where It is said that "thc souls OF Christian believers set
free on earth do pass Immediately into gloryP stand
ard authority OF Christian belief and doctrine All what
will you do gentlemen, with that cheering assurance
given by Christ the thief the cross "Ths day shalt
| thou be with Me in Paradsep These doctrines and
declarations are dispensed with and discarded by Mr.
| Beecher He calls the Saybrook Platform Immortality
| Infamous ITO Mr.. Sherman. 1t is the Eighth Series
page 1O5 have no notions Of my own to advance upon
the subject OF election foreordnation and future pun
shmeut and 1t may very well be that many gentlemen
OF intelligence and thought will quite agree with the
sentiments of Mr.. Beecher. He says:
What could be thought Of the sovereign who organized
pain not as sanction OF government omt VINO created created
Of himself called by what eternal Oh words
know not justice and glory II tine . views
famous chapter referring to chapter from the say
brook Patform and which deeply color the preaching
must believe that the world Is continued IN ex-
stence pour neessant Hood OF souls into that eter
nal anguish for which they expressly foreOrdaned
And in words OF mastery force and imagination he
paints the of that doctrine which seems to
him so horrid and repusive; yet 1t is an mputation
upon the orthodoxy OF the church to which he belongs
to which his forefhers belonged to which his own hon
| cred father belonged
In a pamphlet edition of a sermon Of Mr. Beechers,
preached on the 9TH Of June 1874 find this teaching
The parabe OF the Garden OF Eden OF the Fail of Man.
and the Universal snfulness OF Men, as derived from
their involuntary connection with tne great unknown
enduring and the most universal theory theory now
ever which ia also the most oppressive and the most
| Inconsistent with or those Feelings which
spring up under religious education III the ethical pri'
\ ciples Of the Gospel