The Universalist miscellany Author:Edwin Hubbell Chapin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: less misery, nor even limited punishment, in the future world. To prove the latter, it must be shown that men carry guilt at least, with them, into that world; a... more »nd to make out the former it must be proved that that guilt will weigh down the soul through eternity. The conclusion of the whole matter, as I view it, is, that when the phrase kingdom of heaven, and its synonymes, refer to a state of the soul, or the enjoyment communicated by the religion of Christ, or the opposite, it includes all worlds, future as well as present. It is confined to neither. In conclusion, let me exhort all to be good. Let it not be our effort to flee from an outward hell, and secure admittance to an outward heaven, either here or hereafter; but let it rather be our object to drive hell out of our own souls, and fill them with heaven, by loving God supremely, and our neighbor as ourselves. [note.—When I commenced this article, I designed to have made it more critical in its character; but I found, on arranging my materials, it would be too long a communication for this periodical, and I concluded to throw my general conclusions into an article of the present form and character. This is stated to inform the reader why my positions are not argued at length.] THE WORDS, DESTROY AND DESTRUCTION. BY REV. O. A. SKINNER. These words are of very frequent occurrence in the Bible. We meet them on every page. They are used in describing the fate of individuals, kingdoms and nations. Their meaning, though perfectly obvious to every unbiassed mind, has been a subject of much dispute. Some believe that they teach an eternity of wo for a portion of God's creatures. Such an opinion, however, must have been hastily formed, and without that careful examination which should be bestowed on all topics afte...« less