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Horatio. Love's Final Victory
Love's Final Victory
Table of Contents
I. DIFFERENT THEORIES
II. CRUELTY OF FORMER VIEWS
III. THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION
IV. INFINITE JUSTICE
V. HARMONY OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
VI. THEORY OF EQUALITY
VII. PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION
VIII. THE INTERMEDIATE STATE
IX. THE SPIRITS IN PRISON
X. DIVINE LOVE
XI. THE ATONEMENT
XII. A FEEBLE NOTE OF WARNING
XIII. PROPHECIES YET TO BE FULFILLED
XIV. TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE
XV. TESTIMONY OF REASON
XVI. THE CASE OP SAUL
XVII. ETERNAL SEPARATIONS
XVIII. NOT REALLY BELIEVED
XIX. WORKING MEN AND THE CHURCH
XX. THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
XXI. THE FINAL DAY
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
THE MEANING OF THE WORD "HADES."
THE EARLY-CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF HADES
THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH THE DOCTRINE OF EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT HAS BEEN BUILT
I
DIFFERENT THEORIES
DR. EDWARD WHITE'S THEORY
UNFOLDING LIGHT OF REVELATION
SUFFICIENT REVELATION
THE DEPARTED MORE AMENABLE
II
CRUELTY OF FORMER VIEWS
III
THE CHURCH IN TRANSITION
OPENING OF THE PULPITS
THERE IS NO WARNING
A VITAL PHASE
IV
INFINITE JUSTICE
V
HARMONY OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
VI
THEORY OF EQUALITY
VII
PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION
VIII
THE INTERMEDIATE STATE
IMPRISONED SOULS
IX
THE SPIRITS IN PRISON
X
DIVINE LOVE
A THEORY
A SERIOUS DEPARTURE
EVEN IF THEY ARE FAVORED
TRIUMPH OF GOOD OVER EVIL
NOT ASKED TO SURRENDER
STERN FOR THE MOMENT
ON A LARGE SCALE
XI
THE ATONEMENT
I TOOK THE LARGER VIEW
A SPONTANEOUS ANSWER
THE SPIRIT OF THE LARGER DOCTRINE
BUT A PASSING EPOCH
THE DIVINE IMAGE
DESTINED FOR A BETTER WORLD
THRUST INTO NEW CONDITIONS
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT
FIRM AND QUICK TREAD
EVERY POSSIBLE ARGUMENT
XII
A FEEBLE NOTE OF WARNING
XIII
PROPHECIES YET TO BE FULFILLED
UNCOUNTED MILLIONS
THE GLADDEST MESSAGE
NO SMALLER MEANING
XIV
TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE
THIS DIVINE LIGHT
XV
TESTIMONY OF REASON
PREPARATION FOR HEAVENLY BLESSEDNESS
THE SWEEP OF THE INFINITE MIND
HESITATING AND HALTING
BARBAROUS IDEAS
A SHAFT OF RIDICULE
XVI
THE CASE OF SAUL
SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S OPINION
THE WORST OF MANKIND
THEY MAY YIELD SPEEDILY
XVII
ETERNAL SEPARATIONS
GEORGE ELIOT'S IDEA
WE HAVE NO DATA
XVIII
NOT REALLY BELIEVED
INCREASED INTEREST AND SYMPATHY
WHAT BECOMES OF THE HEATHEN?
A QUASI ENTHUSIASM
COULD NOT REST IN THEIR BEDS
ENCUMBERED THOUGH IT BE
WANT OF PROPORTION
SOUNDNESS IN THE FAITH
XIX
WORKING MEN AND THE CHURCH
XX
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
XXI
THE FINAL DAY
DIVINE POWER AND GRACE
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Horatio
Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason
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At all events, there is now more toleration for such views than there was some time ago. I know that many Congregational ministers hold to the doctrine of Conditional Immortality; and there is no bar to such views in that church. Dr. Farrar's "Eternal Hope" does him no discredit to-day in the Episcopal Church. So with Dr. Edward White's doctrine of Conditional Immortality. But there are some who still hold tenaciously to the orthodox faith, and are quick to resent any departure from it.
Well do I remember a conference that was held in Dr. Parker's Tabernacle in London several years ago. The occasion was the meeting with the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The large church where we met was nearly filled with ministers. During Mr. Beecher's talk one of these zealots for orthodoxy flung out the inquiry, "Do you believe in everlasting punishment?" Beecher—manly man that he was—immediately responded that he did not. At once there was an uproar. The great majority, I believe, whether in sympathy with Mr. Beecher or not, would have allowed the matter to pass in respectful silence. But there was a small minority who felt bound to stand up for orthodoxy. For a time there was great confusion. I remember Parker's dignified protest. "Brethren," he said, "this is a Conference; it is not an Inquisition."
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