CONCLUDING REMARKS.

1. It will be observed by the title-page, that a part of our original plan in unmasking Universalism, was to exhibit a tabular view of the doctrines, duties, practices, &c. &c. denied or ridiculed by the Universalists. We commenced such a table, and proceeded far enough to convince ourselves that while such an expose might throw confusion and dismay into the ranks of that denomination, it would also vitiate the morals and corrupt the principles of the unwary and the young. This is our only possible reason for withholding it from the press. Surely we could not return such a twoedged sword into its scabbard, if we wished simply to wound to the vitals the system of Universalism. This course has been taken, not only from personal conviction of its wisdom, but from a regard to the opinion of a judicious man to whom we submitted the case. But nevertheless, we solemnly affirm, that in our examinations of Universalist publications, and particularly the "Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate," and the "Universalist Union," (both of which papers have near two hundred Universalist clergymen, and about twice as many laymen as their publicly authorized agents,) we have found many of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible denied, and some of them blasphemously ridiculed. We have

found revivals of religion attributed to the agency of corrupt, crazy, designing priests. We have found Sunday schools as conducted by other denominations, denominated "nuisances" and "engines of spiritual despotism." We have found the Christian ministry aspersed and reviled. We have found protracted religious meetings ridiculed and styled the banes and curses of the community. We have found the believers in future misery styled the "dregs of hell and the skimmings of damnation!" We have, in short, made such a collection of extracts on all these subjects, ridiculed and denied by the Universalists, as would make a small volume by itself. They would, if published together, produce conviction throughout the whole community, whether religious or not, that Universalism is but rank and rotten infidelity, arrayed in the beautiful, yet stolen garments of Christianity. On every page, in almost every editorial paragraph, we have found expressions which indicate a state of mind at war with God and with truth. It would seem that policy would restrain such ebullitions of depravity, but "murder will out."

If the system itself is defective, how can its advocates progress a single step without, in one form or another, fighting against God. They deny one of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible, and as consistent men they must go on and deny every other doctrine which is involved with that doctrine. Such is the nature of divine truth, that if you strike one of the links, it vibrates through the

whole chain. We hold, and so must every other mind hold, that no proposition in Euclid is more. demonstrable than is the position that he who denies one of the truths of revelation, must be in reality an Atheist. He may wish as a shrewd politician and manager, to halt in his career half way between the people of God and the vile herd of Atheists, but why not doff his mask at once, and let them into the secrets of his soul, and the tendencies of his belief? To abstract one of the doctrines of the Bible, is as absurd and ruinous to the harmony and perfection of revealed truth and good morals, as to abstract one of the established principles of astronomy would be to the operations or existence of the solar or stellar systems. Let a man take away the principle of attraction to a common centre peculiar to our world and system, and what would become of us? Let a man take out of Euclid his twentieth problem, and what would become of all the rest? Let a man take away the number four from the science of figures, and what would become of mathematics? Take away orthography, and what would become of language?

Let a man take away any one truth from any system of truth of which it forms a component part, and he destroys that system altogether. Why then should Universalists affect to be angry when we charge home upon them the atheistical tendencies of their system? Why do they wince and writhe so when the silver probe of truth is driven to the bottom of the sore? If a man is essentially

infidel, he cannot expect to hold his standing in the community as a Christian. He may do so in the view of some, but it will be by assuming that vilest of all characters, the character of the hypocrite.

2d. The best evidence in the world that Universalists deem many things in the Bible as directly opposed to their system is, the character of their criticisms, prayers, and hymn-books. They always begin a criticism on a passage setting forth the future punishment of the wicked by the following phrase, viz. "this passage has been generally supposed to teach the cruel doctrine of damnation, or this parable has been from time immemorial used by the partialists to prove the abominable dogma of hell torments," &c. &c. Thus unwittingly admitting that the criticisms and understanding of all men are against them. It is really amusing (if the subjects of delusion, writhing under the pressure of God's truth, and contending with Jehovah, can be an amusing spectacle,) to see how troubled the Universalists are in regard to certain portions of the word of God, and how all their sermons and publications teem with jokes and witticisms, and (shall we say) criticisms upon these troublesome passages. Listen to their prayers, and see how they avoid much of the language of Scripture. The promises of God they interweave with their supplications, but not his awful threatenings. So if you look into their hymn-books, you will see the same careful and stu

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died shunning of one half of divine revelation. They have taken Dr. Watt's psalms and hymns, and run a Universalist theological dissecting knife through them, abstracting many, except those which involve the doctrine of endless misery. And, reader, do you know why the Universalists have not made a new Bible? We can tell you. would not be good policy for them to do so. That would be too great a concession that the "old fashioned Bible" and their system could no longer abide each other's presence.. But suppose they should attempt it, what a curiosity it would be. A "Universalist Bible!" But the time may come, when carried forward by their principles and having overcome their scruples in regard to the 22d chapter and 19th verse of Revelation, and their cautious policy of not unhinging the confidence of certain unwary souls, they will come out with proposals to publish a "Universalist Bible!"

3d. But the work of reformation, to be consistent, should not stop with a purgation of the word of God and the immortal Watts. Universalists, before they can rest, must reform the literature of the whole world. The doctrine of future punishment is so fully involved or set forth in allworks of philosophy, poetry, law, morals and religion of any celebrity, that it will require a large amount of funds, patience, self-confidence, perseverance, time and fortitude, to bring about a thorough reform. Milton's Paradise Lost must be mangled and rent in twain. Cowper's sweet and