Lanterna Rally

Author: Elbridge Gerry Brooks

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-16

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781333956554

Excerpt from Universalism, a Practical Power: Exhibited in a Series of Discourses As long ago as 1846, in Lowell, Mass, I gave a series of Sermons on the Practical Superiority of Universalism. These were the crude germs of this volume. In the winter of 1858 - 9, better informed and more mature in thought and opinion, I went more thoroughly over the same ground, with my people in Lynn, Mass. And during the past winter, responding to the spirit of inquiry seemingly awakened by several Re views, which I gave of Lectures professedly against Univer saliam, I still further wrought over the material, and preached these Discourses in my Church, in this city. I was, each tims, advised to publish the Sermons, as they were previously given; but I have been more importunately solicited to put them into a book, since they were last delivered. It is, mainly, in compli ance with requests thus urged, that they are now published. I will not disguise that I think such a book seriously needed. We have numerous expository and controversial works; and Bro. Thayer's admirable volume has supplied what has long been a desideratum among na - a clear and systematic pre scutation of the Theology qf Universalism. But we have no work specially discussing Universalism as a Spiritual Power, or setting forth its claims on purely practical grounds. This is the purpose of this volume. Its method, so far as I know, is peculiar to itself. I offer it, however, not as doing all that might be done with the subject, - only as an approximate treat ment of it, presenting, I trust, a little gold from the mine of thought it opens, to incite others to dig still richer treasures from it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.