The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-25
THE TESTIMONY AGAINST ENDLESS
PUNISHMENT.
OF D1VINBs POETS, SCHOLARS, PHILOso
Pliers, AND OTHER EMINENT MEN
AND WOMEN.

Eternal He'll No man does, and no
man can bslieve it. 1t is untrue if only
because human nature is incapable of be-
heving it.-Gerritt Smith.
The infinitely powerful and perfect
must necessarily subject, draw, and unite
all intelligent beings to himself, to make
them as happy as their respective natures
can admit. Cheyne.
1t seems to me that the great test ques-
ton about religious truth is,-Can it be
sung, can it be set to music, can the tor.
ments OF the wicked and everlasting pun
ishment be made melodious?-Dr Bar
toll.
We have plain experience that men may
be virtuous without it; witness the Jews,
all those who died before our Saviour
Jesus Christ and ell that believe not the
eternity of hell rments.-Archbisho
1SIlotSon.
The Christian church has made an aw-
full and fatal blunder in having totally
reversed the design OF the gospel that
mankind shall be governed by the prin-
ciple of love, and not by fear Editor of
Christian Banner.
The justice of the Deity is only con
ception OF his universal impartial beney-
olence for the universal good. II any
opinions deserve to be contended for,
they are those which give us lovely ideas
OF God.-Dr. Hutcheson.
st. Paul would be wretched before the
throne OF God il he thought there was
one man beyond the pale OF his mercy,
and that as much for Gods glory as for
mans sake, and what shall we say of the
man Christ Jesus? George Macdonald.
The danger of losing all faith in God.
all hope for others, all strength to try
and save them. I once knew lady who
was in state of scepticism and despair
from belief in that doctrine. / think /
saved her by giving her my faith.-Lady
Byron.
Ii an angel were to tell me to believe
In eternal punishment, I would not
do it; for it would better become me
to believe the angel delusion than God
monstrous. And we make him monstrous
when we make him the author of eternal
punishment.-Leigh Hunt.
The age which has demolished dun
geone, rejected torture, and given SO fair
prospect of abolishing the iniquity of
the slave trade, cannot long retain among
its articles Of belief the heart whitening
perspective of cruel and never ending
punishments.--MrS Barbauld.
The great God is our loving Father.
therefore we are bound to correspond to
God with pure and sincere love: not
forced by those fearful pains of hell,
which are at every moment put before MS
OF an ignorant priestoraft.-G Cdmpen-
ella, Chaplain of the late Pope.
To the eternity OF hell torments there
is and ever must Notwithstanding the
peremptory DEGREES of dogmatic theology.
and the reverential dread of SO many re-
hgious minds of tampering with what
seems to be the language of the New !.
Testament-a tacit repugnsnce.-Deaa
Miln,dn
Believe or be damned. Is this relig-
ious doctrine? How many die in infancy
who have never believed; and what q
considerable portion are idiots and i'm
beetles, who have no reason to enable
them to believe. What awful blasphemy
to preach this doctrine.-Rev. L. f. w.
AndreaUs.
Assuming the hell of the theologians,
those affections must be foregone or
trampled down in heaven, or else heaven
itself will become hell. AS a condition
or consequence of being admitted to the
presence Of God, we should have to pre-.
serve the little that is godlike in our COM
position.-W. r. Greg.
Gods design in creating finite intelli-
gences could only be to make them eter-
nslly happy in the knowledge and love of
his bouniless projections. Almighty
power, wisdom and love cannot be eter-
nally frustrated in his absolute and ulti-
mate designs; therefore God will at last
pardon and re-establish in happiness all
lapsed beings. II. Ramsay.
For our peace and virtue it is necessary
to have firm persuasion that our Orea-
tor is possessed of every possible excel
lence; that he is our constant and best
friend; that we are entirely at his merci-
ful disposal; that he is conducting us,
and all our brethren of mankind, by the
wisest means. -SouthUood Smith, NJ. d.
1 mean simply to indicate the spiritual
significance of the Christ Imean to say
that the birth, life, death, and glorifca-
ton of Christ, spiritually imply that in
finite love and wisdom constitute the in
most and inseparable life OF man, and will
ultimately vindicats their creative pres
ence and power by bringing the most de-
graded and condemned forms Of human
ity into rapturous conscious conjunction
with thee.-Henry James.
How long is the cross of Christ? Long
enough to last through all time. As long
as there is sinner to be saved; as long