of pain, sball not be eternal, in the highest sense of the word. But whether their release be by any change wrought in the disposition of their spirits, but without death; or whether by an escape, as it were, by dying to the body so tortured, there is no doubt to be made, but that both ways they may come into play again, and try their fortunes once more, in such regions of the world, as Providence judges fit for them!" DR. EDWARD YOUNG represents the lost soul, as saying: "Why burst the barriers of my peaceful grave? Our only song; black fires malignant light, Must all those powers heaven gave me to supply Why did not the Doctor answer his question? He must have stated it as an objection to the very thing he described. In his Night Thoughts he says: "Pain is to save from pain; all punishment To make for peace, and death to save from death: Great Source of Good alone, how kind in all! Though Young believed in a future state of punishment, it must be that he did not regard it as endless. The fact recorded in Whittemore's History of Universalism, that Young recommended Hartley's and Clarke's Universalist publications, corroborates this. "Father of Mercies! why from silent earth The damned soul may well ask this question. But it proceeds to call God "My Help, My God," and to say: "And canst thou, then, look down from perfect bliss, And see me plunging in the dark abyss? Calling thee Father in a sea of fire, Or pouring blasphemy at thy desire ?" Does it not seem that these lines were written that the reader might say, "No! No!" HARRIET MARTINEAU. The Martineaus, in common with English Unitarians, occupy substantially the same ground as American Universalists. Here are a few extracts from one of the most gifted women of modern times: "Here, where I once doubted whether I had a Maker, and whether, if there were such an one, men did anything but mock themselves in calling him FATHER, are the best witnesses of my avowal, that I have found these doubts to be the result of human creeds, as far as they are impious, and that I have reached, through the very severity of the discipline, a refuge whence I can never again be driven forth, into the chaos of the elements, out of which my new life has been framed." "Had Doddridge known God only as a tender Father, Christ only as his holy and approved Messenger, sin and sorrow as finite and limited influences, HOLINESS AND PEACE AS THE NATURAL how serene, how exalted might have been his mortal life!" AND ULTIMATE ELEMENTS OF BEING, "Here may we best reconcile our minds to the approach of the night of death, and exalt our conceptions of the Eternal Morning, which shall unclose every eye, and restore the long suspended energies of every soul." ROBERT BURNS. This Poet of Nature in many places on his undying pages has recorded his horror and detestation of popular Error, and his ardent aspirations for that Higher Faith then almost unknown in the world. Rev. Mr. GROSH quotes ALLAN CUNNINGHAM as saying:-" To a love of human nature he (BURNS) added an affection for the flowers of the valley, the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field; he acknowledged the tie of social sympathy which bound his heart to all created things, and carried his universal good will so far as to ENTERTAIN HOPES OF UNIVER SAL REDEMPTION, AND THE RESTORATION OF In harmony with the above sentiment he says: With soul erect; And trust the UNIVERSAL PLAN So again he says :— "Sure Thou, Almighty, canst not act Again : "Where with intention I have erred, No other plea I have, But, Thou art good; and goodness still None of his readers can be ignorant of his horror of what was and is so falsely styled Evangelical Religion. For illustration : "Ye'll get the best o' moral works, Be to the poor like onie whunstane, No matter; stick to sound believing. In the same strain are Holy Willie's Prayer, and the Kirk's Alarm. Elsewhere referring to popular Error, he says :— "Auld Orthodoxy lang did grapple, See how she fetches at the thrapple, |