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This was the ground of the original Universalists, deduced from the doctrines which Augustine and Calvin had formulated. But they overlooked the Scripture declaration which Calvin never lost sight of, that salvation was only for those who believed.
When I felt an emotion without seeing the shadow of its edge turning toward me, I discovered my conscience, which hitherto had only been described to me. There were churches in the town beside the Unitarian. The Universalists had a bran-new one, and there was still another frequented by the sedimentary part of the population Methodists. I toned down perfectly within three months.
Methodists, Episcopalians, Baptists, Presbyterians, Swedenborgians, Congregationalists, Universalists and Unitarians, so called, here clasp hands in a common Christian brotherhood, and give themselves to the work of saving the lost and lifting up the fallen." "Why do you call it a Church?" asked Mrs. Birtwell.
While this fellow was enumerating the Universalists in neighboring towns who had turned from their errors on their death-beds, some one exclaimed, "John Hodges! why, he isn't dead, he's alive and well." Whereat there was a roar of laughter.
In their anxiety to get rid of a natural difficulty, they invent a supernatural one, and accuse Universalists of 'wilful blindness, and 'obstinate deafness, for not choosing so unphilosophic a mode of explaining universal mystery.
It was about this time that Starr King pronounced this classic: "The difference between Universalism and Unitarianism is that Universalists believe that God is too good to damn them; and the Unitarians believe that they are too good to be damned." At the Hollis Street Church this stripling of twenty-four now found himself being compared with the foremost preachers of America.
So I told him, general, that we had Baptists, and Quakers, and Universalists, and Episcopalians, and Presbyterians, old-lights, new- lights, and blue-lights; and Methodists . 'Stop, said the Devil, 'that's enough; you imp, be nimble with that horse. Let me see, commodore, what, part of the country did you say you came from? I told him the name more distinctly this time " "The very spot?"
I was in the State during the intense heat of May and June, speaking every evening to large audiences; in the afternoon to women alone, and preaching every Sunday in some pulpit. The Methodists, Universalists, Unitarians, and Quakers all threw open their churches to the apostles of the new gospel of equality for women. We spoke in jails, prisons, asylums, depots, and the open air.
Remember there are aged parents; two brothers living, one railroading in Spokane Falls, the other clerking in Washington, D. C. Don't mention the Universalists, there's ben two in the fam'ly; nor insanity, there 's ben one o' them. The girl in the corner by the clock is the one that the remains has been keeping comp'ny with.
The word above being substituted for again more forcibly demonstrates the correctness of my views in the two former discourses. Many charge the Universalists with denying the necessity of a new birth, or regeneration. But take from me my faith and hope in that glorious truth, and I must at that moment resign the salvation of every human being.
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