OR, UNIVERSALISM THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY. ari. BY REV. M. J. STEERE. "I have for a long time been thinking that a few years only will suffice "The thinking portion of the church are the doubting portion, in refer BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JAMES M. USHER, 37 Cornhill BX 9941 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by JAMES M. USHER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. INTRODUCTION. Practical Questions-Object of this Volume and Origin of itLove, the way to Heaven - That way obstructed - Church must clear it -Church's slow progress, and when it will be swifterDemand of Christian Civilization-Tides of Popularity changing -Conservatives alarmed - Discussion Discouraged -Proofs demanded - Discussion will come and is safe. What is the condition of the dead? With what emotions should they be contemplated? With what feelings should we go to join them? These are eminently practical questions, in which interest is every day becoming more intense. And this, not simply in view of the fresh graves of yesterday, but of all the desolations of mortality which have made the earth one vast grave-yard, in which human dust is disturbed by every furrow of the plow! The ancient question, "If a man die shall he live," is put beyond Christian controversy by that Scripture which saith, "There shall be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust." But what of this certified resurrection life? |