The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-11
PROBATION AND ruNIsHMENr-nEv. JAMES y


Gods justice.
PROBATION AND PUNIsHMENT-REy. JAMES N.
PULLMAN.
AT the Church OF Our Saviour (Sixih Universalst
Society in Ffty-seventh street Row. James NJ. Pull
man preached on the subject:-"John hall's Mis-
take-Review OF a Discourse on Probation and Pun
ishment." Taxing Isaiah. XIV, 1922 for text he
said the whole Bible contained such positive
declaration OF the power aud Righteousness Of God
''Look unto mo and DO 20 saved all the ends OF tho
earth, for am God aud there is else. l. the
Lord speaking Righteousness. declare things that
are right" They are declarative Of three things
OF tho supremacy OF God, OF His moral charac-
ter and OF the unquestioned ultimate success
OF His design TO redeem all mankind Rev. DR.. Hall
preached sermon last Sunday, said Mr. Pullman, in
which there Is no possibility OF the recovery OF SINFUL
souls after death. Ho offered at tho time strc-
lures on Unversalism which he he speake) INTENDED
HIS ignorance of tho real grounds oil Uni
versaism may be viewed with leniency, but matter
Vi such supreme Importance as tho future dcs-
tiny Of tho soul should bo lifted entirely above the
sining air OF partisan and sectarian discussion.
Tue great question II the Divine Being capable OF
percctiDg the souls He created 10 what Is now 10 be
dealt with here We unvorsalists believe that the
OLD and New Testameuts contain assurances that He
is We believe tnat God will finally restore The whole
OF mankind 70 holiness anu happiness ana IN this
show that VIC appreciate God AS being Of mercy
aud compassion aud not monster oil cruelty and in
justice. Dr. Hal's untrue statement Is that Univer-
sailsts believing III tho regeneration OF sinners
beyonds The grave evolve God out of thcir
own consciousness IN place OF relying GU the
explicit declarations OF tho Bible. Yet on these he
find what the Universasts believe. The supren.
acy God in all things but ms Caivinisu drives
to the doctrine OF Gou's impotency IN declaring sub
stantialy that IL is beyond His power u take tho
dead and unrcgeneratc sinner and place him In the
way OF ultimate redemption aud happiness. With
Scylia on the one hand and CharyOtis on the other
an III prospect betidcs Dr.. Hall. In Unversalsin,
however, he viii hna a saie open channel. 70 AVOID
tho rock OF the Lords impotcncy no ieels himself
driven toward tho other danger OF believing In
IL God exercising His power with m0nstrous tyranny.
Dr. HalPs mistake consists chiefly IN limiting the
sovereignty and moral perfection oi the Almighty and
tho saving efficacy OF Christ, and In assuming that the
death Of tho boIy changes the relation VI ood 10 the
soul Tho sinner dies Ut eleven O'Clock. Al ten min
TO eleven God Is all mercy seeking every means
to save him, and Ut ten minucs past eleven He has
His against him forever and sent him forever
hell He would mold that the assump-
ton that physical death likes the status
of the soul forever Is acknowledging and the man who
holds ana prcacncs IL should bring ara tho clearsst
arguments to prove It, That this lie Is proDation-
state oil moral triamay be easily conceived IN the
OF many, and to all II may DO considered state
OF ratrb uton There Is also muCh suffering In this
world apparently discipline, and that tao develop
ment OF tho soul through probation and moral trial
The Bible does not contain ono single
declaration coupling tho Immortality OF tho soul with
dccisive.crisis on The death OF the body.
DR. HALL AND COLONEL INGERsoLL ANSWERED
by REV. L. c. swEETsER.
Unversalist Church reply to Rev. DR.. Hall and
Colonel Ingerso, and had tor Its subject "Bbllcal
Unversalism versus Partialism and Inadelity." The
preacher selected his text from John XII. 32-"Jssus
answered and said And II be Iiitod from
the earth will draw all mon unto me-" st. Paul,
said the Clergyman, in ono OF his letters to the
gives catalogue of tho dangers which
surrounded his path and OF tho various kinds of
opposition to which his ministry was subjected. On
the hand he openly assailed by supcrstitous
idoators and fanatical Jews, and the other hand
he secretly and insdiously 'assaed by men who
pretended to be on his side while in reality their
Huenco directed against HIM And as II with
ST. Paul has been ever since with the truth which
he preached and presentod-t has been assailed from
both Sides by open foes ana false irenas. From the
days Of John Murray aud Hosea BAllou Universa!ism
has boon hindercd by jheso as 1t was In ST. Paul's
time.
Dr. sweetser alter remsrking that Univcrsal,sm
does not suffer 50 much now from the Causes above
cited formerly, added that Il had still to
tend with both kinds Of opposition and as evidence
OF this. he referred 10 the dscourses Of Dr. Hail. he
leading Presbyterian clergyman OF this city, and
Colonel Iugersol, "tho most prominent in1del."
livered yesterday week IN New YORK. on the doctrine
vi endless punishment DIR. Hall main tained the
trine on what he assumed TO DO Biblical grounds, and
Colonel Ingerso denied II what he umed 10 DO
first fact to which call your attention IN re-
gard TO the position OF these two mon, said
specs they agree precisely In ono rcspcct-ln
Ing that the doctrine OF endless misery taught by
the Bible. Colonel lngcrs0l Is the spokesman
army Of people, who think just he docs regard
the Bibe and II - striking coincidence that lie and
very same day The Presbyt terrain stor laying down
In the morning tho identical platform ON which The
inAdci of Presbyterian minister performed mis-
remarkable pranks in the evening.
DIR. HALLS PREACHING.
In dealing with Dr. Hall the clergyman reviewed his
discourse quite severely saying Dr. Hall charges
teaches the doctrine OF endless misery. He gives
proof 10 sustain this assertion Mr. Sweetscr claims.
and cites authorities. far tho reports SHOW
seeming TO think that his own dictum wt set.
tie It, How could any man claiming to BIO |
tho multitude Of learned men VINO. from the
of the Christian era, have denied that
ishnentY Did DIR. Hall pretend to say that there
true scholarship In the UniversAst and Unitarian
churcnes or the illogical schools or at Cambridge aud
Meadviiicy DID he deny the scholarship of Rev. Bal
OWN Brown Dean Stanley. Canon Kingsley, Frederick
Maurice ana Theodore Chrisllieb II ho denies thee.
logical scholarship TO these he openly docs Canon
Farrar he Is either dcnsey ignorant OF what
ing about or he purpOsely conveys which,
as u scholar he knows 10 be false But what viii he
say OF the famous six theological schools during the
first 1.-Two centuries OF the Christian craY Only OF
them taught the doctrine OF endless punishment whlo
OF them taught the doctrine OF tho annihilatou Of
the wicked, and four taught the lnal salvation Of all
men.
Tho remainder Of Rev. Mr. sweetser's sermon was
composed Of arguments Of this Tenchant and vigor-
Gus kind, and finally concluded with the statement
that II was just such preaching as DR.. Haips (which
gives US away TO tho Atheists"
NO ENDLESS pUNIsHMENr-REv. Z. II. CHAPLIN.
The Rev. DR.. e. II. Chaplin preached in the
morning from The text, 'Bo not overcome with evil
but overcome evil with good" tRomans l., 25), which
he considered rs special rule Tor tho guidance OF
mankind, and as principle from which no deducJd
hat there could DO no such thing endless punish
meat. but that God would 1naiiy overcome all evil
with good. He said 1t Is only necessary read this
Epstlc tho Romans to far Christianity IS re
moved IRON anything iko ianaticism Paul. the apos-
Io OF aith, here breaches works earnestly Christianity
Is not cut of from morality. know that may men
put abstract religion above practical morality fear
that with maby Christians the duties Of ovory
day lie are separated from rclgi0n. But according TO
Pau, to be Christian Is not only to DC dcvouL
ever but "A good neghbor. loyal citizen and truo
man. Considered as u special ruic how wise the text
Is There Is no weapon 30 cual as simple goodness
s.caiy stream of kindncss Oyor tho hardest heart
viii soften H. But TO let evil 20 unrcssted Is