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But there will always be argument among those who are called Universalists and Particularists, according to what they teach of the grace and the will of God. For it is sufficient to consider that God, as well as every wise and beneficent mind, is inclined towards all possible good, and that this inclination is proportionate to the excellence of the good.
Whatever men could doubt or deny they have doubted or denied, but in no country of the world, in no age, has the dogma there is something been denied or even treated as doubtful. Here then Universalists, Theists, and Polytheists agree. They agree of necessity.
If we could get them committed to the scheme, and a man like Mr. Putney he'd make a capital Mercutio it would go like wildfire. We want to interest the churches, too. The object is so worthy, and the theatricals will be so entirely unobjectionable in every respect. We have the Unitarians and Universalists, of course.
I had been charged with being a Socialist, and, curious to know what a Socialist was, I began to study the subject. What I feared came upon me: I announced myself a Socialist. That settled the Single Taxers; they left in a bunch! No, hardly in a bunch; for two of them remained. The Universalists invited us to use their church for our Sunday night meetings. We thought that a fortunate windfall.
He had no kinship with those new and strange universalists of the type of Tolstoi who praise existence to the exclusion of all the institutions they have lived under, and all the ties they have known. He thought the world good because he had found so many things that were good in it religion, the nation, the family, the social class.
Protestants, therefore, hold that "the souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory." Between those who hold the doctrine of purgatory and believers in universal restoration, there is not a little in common. Universalists reject the Atonement, and say that God always punishes men for their sins.
The Universalists began making converts among the Separatist churches of Norwich as early as 1772. The year 1784 saw the organization of the New London Seventh-day Baptist church, the first of its kind in Connecticut. The abrogation of the Saybrook Platform was implied, not expressed, by dropping it out of the revised laws of 1784.
The fourth dogma is not questioned by Universalists, as they are quite convinced that it is not possible for us to comprehend the substance or essence of an immaterial Being. The other dogmas we need not enlarge upon, as they are little more than repetition or expansion of the preceding one.
Universalists consider the general course of nature, though strangely unheeded, does proclaim with 'most miraculous organ, that dogmatisers about any such 'figment of imagination' would, in a rational community, be viewed with the same feelings of compassion, which, even in these irrational days, are exhibited towards confirmed lunatics.
The Baptist societies in different towns met to condemn the measure on the same grounds, and on the additional ones that it was unfair to the Quakers, who had no paid preachers; to the Universalists, because they were numerically still too small to be of political importance; and indeed to many men, since, as every man had contributed to the expense of the war, every man ought to be rewarded proportionally.
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