The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
WHO oONQUERs2 JESUS OR sATAN9

IhlS IS the Jltle Oh llCClo DOOkleJ
printed this year in Birmingham,
England, which friend recently re-
turned from Europe has placed upon
our table. The writer, Thomas Young,
Of Handsworth, does not leave his
readers long in doubt as to the pur-
pose of the publication for in the first
paragraph of the preface he declares
that "the object of the following pages
is to prove that the human race
nothing less than the whole-is even
tually destined, part however after
longer and severer punishment, to be
conformed to the image of the Divine
Saviour and thus prove the triumph
of Jesus"
We notice the booklet as another
evidence of the encouraging fact that
the doctrine of Universalism is con-
stantly finding brave and outspoken
defenders in the Established and
Nonconformist churches of Eng
land. The impetus given to this
faith during the last twenty-five
years by the publications of such
epoch making books as Farrar's
eternal Hope" Andrew Jukes," Res:
titution of All Things" "Salvator
Mundi" by Samuel Cox, and Mr..
Aims "Universalism Asserted" is
far-reaching in its influence, and is
evidence that the doctrines and prin-
ciples of Biblical Universalism are
making wonderful progress in the
old world. The volumes mentioned
are mines of argument and illustra-
ton in behalf of the cardinal features
of the Universalist faith and they are
used by preachers and essayists with
excellent advantage in the propagan-
da against the eternal hell of the
creeds. Mr.. Young's booklet is an
example among many of the tracts
and pamphlets designed to enforce
the teachings of the more elaborate
works in support of Universalism,
and the hope of Eternal Hope.
Moncure D. Conway in his centen-
NAL history of South Place, Unitarian
chapel in London, of which Elhanan
Winchester was the founder, remarks
that Winchester's "Goliath was Hell"
Winchester dealt the malignant giant
some ponderous blows from which
he has never recovered. The attack
has been we'll followed up in every
decade since Winchester's time; but
never more courageously and effec-
lively than in the last thirty years.
When such an aristocratic church
man as Canon Wherefore greets the
publication of Allin's "Universalism
Asserted" in cordial words embody-
irg his detestation of the doctrine of
endless suffering, it is voice from
the English church that speaks with
an accent of decided promise for the
Established Church of the future,
which will undoubtedly leave tie
eternal hell out of its public teach
ings as it left the article which en-
Traced it out of its creed in the stress
of emergency over two hundred years
ago. The appearance of DIR. Cox's
"Salvator Mundi," and the respect
which is shown to its scholarship and
historical teaching, is also an evidence
that the Nonconformists of Eng
land are also on the line of advance
ment and have their own brave war
riors to oppose the Goliath of hell.
The reader will be interested in
the following extract from Mr..
Young's booklet in which he outlines
the victory of Jesus as against the
victory of Satan taught in the creeds
which embody endless misery. 1t
embraces solid, substantial sold
fastened Universalism" of which we
need more rather than less in our
own pulpits at the present day;