39. Do you expect to be saved on the basis of your own morality, or by the atonement, or by simple omnipotence, exerted irrespective of moral character?

40. Do you not think it would be safer for you, in view of even the possibility that your system may be false, to prepare for the worst by repentance and faith?

41. Have you any evidence that you have ever been born again?

42. Since you have embraced Universalism, have you cherished an increasing hatred of sin in all its forms?

43. Has your love, since that time, for other denominations of Christians, been on the increase? 44. Are you not secretly convinced that your system is based on falsehood?

45. Do you believe that its universal prevalence would be attended with a single happy consequence?

46. Would you trust your life, reputation, and property, as cheerfully to the keeping of a Universalist, as you would to a believer in future punishment?

47. Will you not live and die in vain, if you live and die a Universalist?

48. Will you not, and do you not expect to die an awful death, if you die a Universalist?

49. Will you have any excuse, in the day of judgment, for having thus sacrificed your precious soul, and squandered your blood-bought privileges?

50. Will you not listen to the united voices of conscience, reason, revelation, and of your friends, and immediately and for ever abandon this refuge of lies, which has occasioned you so much mental fear and torment, and led you on to the brink of ruin?

FIFTY SEARCHING AND SOLEMN QUESTIONS,

ADDRESSED TO THE CONSCIENCE, UNDERSTANDING, AND HEART, OF EVERY UNIVERSALIST MINISTER.

1. What motives determined you in your choice of the Universalist ministry?

2. Were you a minister in any other denomination before you became a preacher of Universalism; and if so, why did you leave that denomination?

3. Were you respected by your brethren in the ministry as a holy man of God?

4. Was your ministry blessed by the gracious outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and the conversion of souls to God?

5. How many sects did you join before you finally apostatized ?

6. Have you received the advantages of a thorough course of education?

7. In your preparations for the Universalist ministry, did you labour most to make yourself acquainted with the entire Word of God, or with the various systems of Universalism?

8. Was not that an awful hour to your soul, when you for the first time stood up in the sacred desk as a preacher of Universalism?

9. How did you feel, and how do you now often feel, in time of prayer?

10. Have not these fearful compunctions of con

science, and horrors of soul, diminished in degree every year that you have been in the Universalist ministry?

11. Do you not wish at times that you never had become a Universalist minister?

12. Do you not wish that you could recall some of the compositions that you have published to the world?

13. Do you not often think, that in case you should renounce Universalism, these published productions of yours will afford you the greatest grief?

14. Do you not sometimes think, that it will be an awful aggravation to your torments in a future world, to reflect that you have books, and pamphlets, and opinions, still publishing and circulating in this world, calculated to drown souls in perdition ?

15. When you come to die, will you not wish all the productions that you have ever published, to be brought and burnt before your eyes?

16. When you are preparing your sophistical sermons for the pulpit, do you not often reflect"What a guilty wretch am I, not only to destroy my own soul, but thus knowingly to mislead poor souls, and ripen them for everlasting despair ?"

17. When you repair to the Word of God, is it not for the express purpose of gleaning out of it materials by which to defend and prop up your system?

18. Has not the most of your ministry been spent in harmonizing your system with the various contradictory portions of the Word of God?

19. Are there not passages in the Bible that trouble you amazingly, and haunt your fears by day and by night?

20. Do you not preach more against everlasting punishment, than you do in favour of universal salvation?

21. Would not your task be rather dull and heavy, if you should confine yourself to the preaching of universal salvation?

22. Are you not opposed to what are denominated "revivals of religion?"

23. Did you ever have a hearer come to you, and, with trembling and anxiety, ask-"Sirs, what must I do to be saved ?"

24. Are you in the habit of appointing and attending prayer meetings among your people?

25. Are the Universalist ministry in favour of, and do they urge their people to support, by their prayers and charities, any of the great benevolent institutions of the day?

26. Has your denomination any missionary stations among the heathen?

27. If you have none, why have you none?

28. How have you felt in regard to yourself, ministry, and people, when any great epidemic (as the Asiatic cholera) has been amongst us?

29. Do you believe it right or expedient for ministers of the gospel to drink wine at weddings, or on any other occasion, except at the Lord's supper?

30. Are you in the habit of preaching on the