UNIVERSALISTS believe in ONE GOD-not a trinity of Gods.

2. They believe God to be the Father of mankind, hence all are his children, and that neither life nor death, time nor eternity, can sever that relation.

3. They believe God is good, merciful, just to all, and ever will be.

4. They believe God is the Governor of the universe, and that all men are amenable to his law; if they do well they are rewarded, if ill, punished, but that he will not torment eternally for the sins of this brief life.

5. They believe salvation is through faith and works-not Jewish works of the law, but Christian works.

6. They believe salvation is from sin, corruption and spiritual deathnot from an endless hell, or the wrath of God, who is love.

7. ...y believe men should love God because he loves them; be truthful from the love of truth; just and honest from the love of justice and honesty-not from fear of eternal woe.

8. They believe God will have all men to be saved, and being unchangeable that ever will be his will, hence will not shut millions in hell forever God must change first, but that is impossible.

9. They believe the Bible contains a record of God's revelation to man-not that every word of it is a revelation.

10. They also believe God is now revealing himself through an, and through all nature.

II. They belie Jesus is the Son of God and savior of the world: the he was God manifested in the flesh, and is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

12. They believe man in his essential nature is in the divine image, and that when the house he

now lives in returns to dust, he returns to God. Returning to dust is death; returning to God is the resurrection. Earth claims its own; heaven claims its own.

13. They believe that in heaven there are many mansions," and that each goes to his own place. As the sun, moon and stars differ in glory, so with mankind in the "many mansions," and that these differences there result from the life lived here.

14. They believe that this view of the results of our earth-life tends to make men live righteously, godly, divinely.

15. They believe men are depraved by practice, not by nature, and there is good in all.

16. They believe that finally, depravity will yield to purity, sin to holiness, error to truth, damnation to salvation, death to life, hell to heaven, and God will be all in all. Amen.

17. They believe men are now and ever will be free agents.

18. They believe God calls on all now, and ever will call on all, to come up higher, higher, higher, and that all should strive to think higher, act higher, live higher-be Christ-like in spirit and character.

19. They believe all will finally heed the divine mandate, and walk in the ways of salvation.

20. They celieve all should be Christians every day of the week, and in all the vocations and relations of c-Christian fathers, mothers, husbans, wives, brothers, sisters, neighbors, citizens-Christian preachers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, mechanics, farmers, etc.

This is the sum and substance of their FAITH; and is it not Christian, reasonable, philosophical? Study it, believe it, practice it, and Gon will bless you now and forever.

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FALSE WITNESSES ANSWERED.

What is it which these witness against thee Mark 14: 60.

The Jewish High Priest asked our Saviour this question, as he stood a prisoner before him, in relation to the false witnesses who came to give evidence against him.

And the followers of Christ, have had repeated occasion to meet and answer the same question in almost every age. And Christ foretold that this would be their experience, for he said; "If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more, them of his household."

And if the purity of Christ's character did not deter false witnesses from testifying against him? how can his followers hope to escape their testimony? Yet it is no uncommon thing for those who give such testimony, to profess peculiar pietythough repeatedly guilty of disobeying the ninth commandment, which says in plain bold words "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."

It seems very strange that persons who claim to be the followers of Christ, who claimed to be the truth,

should deliberately tell what they do not know to be true, and what they do know to be false, in order to destroy the influence of those who differ with them in opinion.

The Universalist church has suffered much from the charges brought against them by false witnesses, and it is suffering still.

Many of these charges are serious in their import, and have had the effect to deprive us not only of the respect and kind wishes of our religious neighbors--but also, of common justice at their hands.

These false testimonies are often more relied upon to disprove the truth of our faith, and retard our progress, than sound logic or quotations from Scripture.

The sin of ignorance may be passed over, but any man who will deliberately and knowingly bear false witness against a whole denomination of professing Christians, is to all intents and purposes a deceiver, and an enemy to God and man.

I therefore ask your attention to some of the charges brought by false witnesses against our church, for sectarian ends; and the simple facts