UNIVERSALISTS believe in ONE GOD-not a trinity of Gods.

2. They believe God to be the Father of mankind, hence all are his children, and that neither life nor death, time nor eternity, can sever that relation.

3. They believe God is good, merciful, just to all, and ever will be.

4. They believe God is the Governor of the universe, and that all men are amenable to his law; if they do well they are rewarded, if ill, punished, but that he will not torment eternally for the sins of this brief life.

5. They believe salvation is through faith and works-not Jewish works of the law, but Christian works.

6. They believe salvation is from sin, corruption and spiritual deathnot from an endless hell, or the wrath of God, who is love.

7. ...y believe men should love God because he loves them; be truthful from the love of truth; just and honest from the love of justice and honesty-not from fear of eternal woe.

8. They believe God will have all men to be saved, and being unchangeable that ever will be his will, hence will not shut up millions in hell forever God must change first, but that is impossible.

9. They believe the Bible contains a record of God's revelation to man-not that every word of it is a revelation.

10. They also believe God is now revealing himself through man, and through all nature.

II. They belie Jesus is the Son of God and Savior of the world; tha he was God manifested in the flesh, and is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

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They believe man in his essential nature is in the divine image, and that when the house he

now lives in returns to dust, he returns to God. Returning to dust is death; returning to God is the resurrection. Earth claims its own; heaven claims its own.

13. They believe that in heaven there are "many mansions," and that each goes to his own place. As the sun, moon and stars differ in glory, so with mankind in the "many mansions," and that these differences there result from the life lived here.

14. They believe that this view of the results of our earth-life tends to make men live righteously, godly, divinely.

15. They believe men are depraved by practice, not by nature, and there is good in all.

16. They believe that finally, depravity will yield to purity, sin to holiness, error to truth, damnation to salvation, death to life, hell to heaven, and God will be all in all. Amen.

17. They believe men are now and ever will be free agents.

18. They believe God calls on all now, and ever will call on all, to come up higher, higher, higher, and that all should strive to think higher, act higher, live higher-be Christ-like in spirit and character.

19. They believe all will finally heed the divine mandate, and walk in the ways of salvation.

20. They believe all should be Christians every day of the week, and in all the vocations and relations of fc - Christian fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, neighbors, citizens-Christian preachers, lawyers, doctors, mer chants, mechanics, farmers, etc..

This is the sum and substance of their FAITH; and is it not Christian, reasonable, philosophical? Study it, believe it, practice it, and God will bless you now and forever.

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WHO WERE UNIVERSALISTS?

Many good and honest people have imbibed the notion that the doctrine

of universal grace and salvation is something of very rescent origin; or, in other words, that "it is a new doctrine. And the question is frequently asked, "If Universalism is true, why was it not known before?"

Why was it not discovered by some of the great and learned preachers of former times?" Now we might answer this question by saying that "Great men are not always wise, neither do the, aged [always] understand judgment." Or we might turn upon the querist, and put the same question to the believers in Partialism, (for some of the most popular sects have been in existence only about an hundred years). we prefer rather to show that our friends labor under a great mistake in supposing that Universalism is a new doctrine. And to this end we propose to give here some few extracts from the biographies and writings of some of the most remarkable men that have ever existed in age of the world; which we doubt not will abundantly satisfy the read

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1. That Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, those ancient patriarchs, and faithful servants of God, were Universalists They believed the promise of God', "That in their seed should all the nations, families and kindreds of the earth be blessed." (See Gen. xii. 3; xxvi. 4: xxviii. 14.) From which it appears perfectly obvious that they were believers in the ultimate salvation of all mankind; for the apostle Paul says, the seed mean Christ— Gal. iii. 16; and the apostle Peter says, the blessing consists in the turning away from his iniquities.” Acts iii. 26. Hence as all denominations of Christians admit, that to be turned away from our iniquities, and made new creatures, is all that is necessary, in order to fit us for the abodes of bliss; unless it can be shown that there are some persons who do not belong to any nation, family or kindred of the earth, (a hard task we opine), it must be admitted that these ancient worthies were Universalists.

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2. The pious and patient Job was a Universalist. So little fear did he have of the torments of that awful place, which our Partialist brethern call hell, that he even prayed to be hid therein, in order to escape the wrath of God! "O that thou wouldst hide me in hell (Sheol), that thou wouldst keep me secret, until thy wrath be past." Job xiv. 13. Had Job believed in the doctrine of end

less misery, he would have supposed, no doubt (as the believers in that doctrine now suppose), that hell is the very place where the fierce vials of God's wrath are poured out upon the devoted heads of his children, without mercy! But being a Universalist, he regarded hell (as spoken of in the Old Testament), as a place of rest; "Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary find repose."

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3. David, king of Israel, was Universalist. He says:-" The Lord is merciful and gracious-slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy; he will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger forever. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord! He that is our God, is the God of salvation, and unto God the Lord belong the issues of death. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever." Ps. ciii. 8, 9, 13; xxiii. 29; lxxxvi. 9; lxviii. 20; cxxxvi.; cxlv. 9, 10.

4. King Solomon was a Universalist. With all his wisdom, it appears that he knew nothing of the now

the dreadful sufferings of the impenitent in hell. But be taught "The righteous should be recompensed in the earth, much more the wicked and the sinner." Prov. xi. 31. He also taught, that, "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in hell (Sheol), whither thou goest." Eccl. ix. 10. Solomon, no doubt, considered hell to be nothing more nor less than the grave, for had he believed it to be such a place as it is now believed by many to be, he could not have used the language above cited.

5. The evangelical prophet, Isaiah, was a Universalist. He says:-" It shall come to pass, in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the tops of the mountains, and exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things. He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall be taken from off all the earth. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion, with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." Isa. ii. 2; xxv. 6-8; xxxv. 10; xl. 5.

6. Jeremiah was a Universalist. He expressly declares, that "The Lord will not cast off forever, but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his tender mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." Lam. iii. 31— 33.

7. Ezekiel was a Universalist. He says:- "When thy sister Sodom and

of judgment-of rewards and punishments in the immortal world, nor of

mer estate." "Pharaoh shall see them and be comforted over all his