The Theological Tri-lemma.
We have received a work bearing this title, written by Rev. J. H. Pettingell, M. A., and published by Sherwood & Co., New York. It is a discussion of “the threefold question of Endless Misery, Universal Salvation, or Conditional Immortality” to which latter proposition is wittily and forcibly applied the Darwinian principles of “the survival of the fittest!” So far as we have had time to examine this work, we have read it with unfeigned pleasure. It handles the unscriptural dogmas of Eternal Misery and Universal Salvation as they deserve, and is a clear, concise, and forcible defense of the doctrine of conditional immortality or life only through Christ. It is written in a pleasing style, and the logic and spirit of the work are such as must commend it to every clear thinker, and candid seeker after truth. At this time when the old stereotyped creed of Christendom, on this question is being largely fused by the popular agitation of the subject, to be re-cast, we trust, in a better mold, we are glad to see a work of this kind from this source, believing it will be a valuable help in building up a correct public sentiment on this question. We can heartily wish it a wide circulation. Cloth, 286 pp., price, single copy by mail, $1.00. Address Sherwood & Co. 76 East Ninth street New York.