believe that holiness and true happiness are
inseparably connected, and that believers ought to be careful to
maintain order, and practise good works; for these things are good
and profitable unto men."

History.

Universalists claim that the salvation of all men was taught by Jesus
Christ and his apostles. It was also taught and defended by several of the
most eminent Christian fathers; such as Clemens Alexandrinus, Origen, &c.
In the third and fourth centuries, this doctrine prevailed extensively,
and, for aught which appears to the contrary, was then accounted orthodox.
It was at length condemned, however, by the fifth general council, A. D.
553; after which, we find few traces of it through the dark ages, so
called.

It revived at the period of the reformation, and since that time has found
many able and fearless advocates;--in Switzerland, Petitpierre and Lavater;
in Germany, Seigvolk, Everhard, Steinbart, and Semler; in Scotland,
Purves, Douglass, and T. S. Smith; in England, Coppin, Jeremy White, Dr.
H. More, Dr. T. Burnet, Whiston, Hartley, Bishop Newton, Stonehouse,
Barbauld, Lindsey, Priestley, Belsham, Carpenter, Relly, Vidler, Scarlett,
and many others.

At the present day, Universalism prevails more extensively than elsewhere
in England, Germany, and the United States.

In England, the Unitarian divines, generally, believe in the final
salvation of all men. Dr. Lant Carpenter says, "Most of us, however,
believe that a period will come to each individual, when punishment shall
have done its work--when the awful sufferings with which the gospel
threatens the impenitent and disobedient, will have humbled the stubborn,
purified the polluted, and eradicated malignity, impiety, hypocrisy, and
every evil disposition; that a period will come (which it may be the
unspeakable bliss of those who enter the joy of their Lord to accelerate,
which, at least, it will be their delight to anticipate,) when he who
'must reign till he hath put _all enemies_ under his feet,' 'shall have
put down all rule, and all authority, and power.' 'The LAST ENEMY, death,
shall be DESTROYED.' 'Every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father,' 'who wills that all men should be
saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth,'--that truth which
sanctifies the heart,--that knowledge which is life eternal,--and God shall
be ALL IN ALL."

In Germany, nearly every theologian is a beli