"When once this weighty question of the after-life has been opened, a controversy will ensue, in the progress of which it will be discovered that, with unobservant eyes, we and our predecessors have been so walking up and down and running hither and thither, among dim notices and indications of the future destinies of the human family, as to have failed to gather up or to regard much that has lain upon the pages of the Bible, open and free to our use." PLAIN SERMONS ON A TOPIC OF PRESENT INTEREST BY WILLIAM R. HUNTINGTON, D.D. Rector of All Saints Church, Worcester NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 1878 C1245.3.60 VILE, 102.09 HARV DEC 24 1902 S. A. Green. COPYRIGHT BY E. P. DUTTON & CO., L PREFACE. Charles Frederick Hudson's Debt and Grace, and Edward White's Life in Christ, are likely long to remain, what they are at present, the classical authorities on the subject of conditional immortality. The mere fact that I am disposed to be a little less confident and positive than these writers in stating results, satisfied with likelihood where they seem to find certitude, or a very near approach to certitude, would not of itself justify me in attempting to add a word to what has already been by them admirably said. Agreeing with them, as I do, in their main drift, I ought, if this were all, to be well content to remain silent. There are, however, those whose attention cannot be secured for elaborate treatises unless some V |