e, in the conception
that all are parts of the same grand all-pervading essence, can have only
the following results: First, to wipe out all ideas of a future
retribution, for want of judge, for want of governor; second, to destroy
all distinctions consequent upon the ideas of a divine moral kingdom, or
Kingdom of God among men; third, to loosen up the religious and moral
restraints by removing the religious sanctions, or promises and threats,
which relate to the future retribution.

The advocates of this universal religion of the future, which is simply
universal non-religion, say "Protestantism is the grave digger of
Christianity." "But Christianity stoutly refuses to be buried alive," and
the multitude of facts that are continually transpiring demonstrate a
living, active existence; "its blood circulates; its pulse is certainly
beating;" its force is not spent in the least; it is always giving but is
never growing lean; "it has a long lease of life." All the trees of the
forest stand together in one grand old struggle for life. It may be that
Christianity will be under the necessity of struggling, for many years to
come, with the Godless forms of _Pantheism_ and _Atheism_, which are
simply two different phases of the same Godless philosophy; but the seeds
of the great Christian tree, in these United States, are being shaken down
into the tender and warm soil of millions of hearts in all our
Sunday-schools, and it will be many a year before Christianity dies.

BILL OF INDICTMENTS AGAINST PROTESTANTS.

_First._ The idea of total hereditary depravity which never can be
correlated with accountability.

_Second._ The idea of those who were never converted being rewarded
according to their own deeds, when they were never upon trial; for a man
must have ability to try before he can be tried, and that ability must
extend to the accomplishment of that to which the trial relates. Wesley's
Discipline says, The condition of man since the fall of Adam is such that
he can not, by his own natural strength, turn and prepare himself to faith
and calling upon God, without the grace of God by Christ going before to
give him good will, and working with him when he has that good will.

If it is improper to say that a man can by his own natural strength turn
and prepare himself to faith and calling upon God, it is, also, improper
to say he is naturally accountable, for where ability ceases,
accountability also terminates. Bu