Fifty Notable Years

As the Lord liveth, the now "open questions" will one day be settled, and settled on the side of the Divine Beneficence. The love of God in Christ has come into the world, and will not go out of it until its work is here done; love that is long-suffering, that rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; that beareth, believeth, hopeth, and endureth all things, and that never faileth; love that will bring the last lost one home, that will obliterate all the hells, and people all the heavens in the universe.

notes

1

Oration of Governor Long before the municipal authorities and citizens of Boston, July 4, 1882.

2

Eph. iv. 13.

3

Milman's "History of Christianity."

4

Civitate Dei, lib. xxi., chap. 16.

5

Civitate Dei, lib. xxi., chap. 16.

6

For evidence of the many utterances of the Universalist idea in the literature of the past, the reader is referred to the volume entitled "A Cloud of Witnesses," by Rev. John W. Hanson, D. D., Chicago, 1880.

7

Bancroft's History of the United States, vol. viii.

8

Acts, xvii. 24, 28.

9

Rev. v. 18.

10

1 Cor. xii. 14, 26.

11

When Rev. John Murray first preached in Faneuil Hall, Nov. 26, 1773, he discoursed from this appropriate text: "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." – John, viii. 36.

12

Rev. T. Whittemore, D. D. Speech at Faneuil Hall Festival, 1858.

13

Rev. J. H. Tuttle, D. D.

14

Rev. J. Smith Dodge, D. D.

15

Rev. A. D. Mayo, Sermon at Funeral of Rev. Thomas Jones of Gloucester, Mass., 1846.

16

Rev. Dr. A. A. Miner, Discourse at Gloucester, September, 1870.

17

Comm. on Acts, ii. 23.

18

Heb. ii. 9.

19

Rev. H. W. Beecher.

20

John, xii. 32; 1 Tim. ii. 4.

21

John, iii. 16, 17.

22

Dr. Taylor Lewis.

23

The volume on the Atonement, issued in 1805 by Rev. Hosea Ballou, was the first of any note, in this country, in which the subordination of Christ to the Father was maintained. Dr. Mayhew and Rev. James Freeman, of Boston, had already preached anti-Trinitarian views in that city, and Dr. Priestley and a Mr. Butler had preached them in other parts of the country. But Mr. Ballou's circumstances had not, it is likely, allowed him to know what these men believed and taught. – Rev. Dr. A. P. Putnam, in "Religious Magazine," April, 1871.

24

Mr. Parker's views were the subject of special note and examination on the part of the Universalist journals. A candid and able review of his opinions was given in "The Universalist Miscellany" of April, 1845, by the editor, Rev. O. A. Skinner. Rev. Mr. Lothrop, of the Brattle Square Church (Unitarian), delivered and published a strong discourse in opposition to the Rationalism of Mr. Parker.