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so plausible, so gratifying to all the selfish instincts of religious men, that the Gospel is only a scheme for saving them from the ruin which God decreed for the universe when Adam sinned? If the Articles had not refused to dogmatise on the meaning of the word Eternal, and on the endlessness of evil, what could prevent the doctrine, that an immense majority of our fellow-beings are in an utterly hopeless condition, from being regarded as the characteristic doctrine of Christian Divinity? I am sure that it has been so regarded by multitudes of our lay brethren, and that therefore the consciences and hearts to which we ought to present our message are closed against it. They understand us to say that God has sent His Son into the world, not to save it, but to condemn it.

I count it the highest blessing of my life that I have been permitted to become a witness, that the Church of England gives not the faintest encouragement to so horrible a contradiction of God's word. I receive the cordial and generous sympathy which has been shown to me by persons from whom I had no right to expect it, who would naturally have regarded me with prejudice and suspicion, not as rendered as to me, but as a proof how much affection towards the Church there is still in the hearts of our countrymen, how glad they are to believe that she is not what her sons sometimes represent her to be. And though opinions, which merely as such, are a thousand times weightier than mine, are in favor of forcing our Church to say what as yet she does not say, I believe they will not succeed in putting a new yoke upon our necks. I believe the English clergy will