This extract is not given as a _correct_ exhibition of the views of this author, for it may not do him justice. It is given to show how vague and indefinite are the teachings of religious writers and preachers on this subject. Here is a book recommended for its _clear views_ by the highest class of minds. It is read and re‐read by an intelligent, well‐educated young man, who is studying theology in one of our first seminaries. He then gives this author’s view of regeneration, as that which he supposes to be contained in that book, and also as “_the one generally entertained_.” And what is this answer to the great question, “What must we do to be saved?”—a question on which the happiness of endless ages is suspended. _It is the pardon of sin_, which “is instantaneous and entire.” This is something which God does, and this, as it would seem, is regeneration. Next it is stated that “the moment a soul _believes in Christ and accepts his atonement_, that moment it experiences _a complete sense of pardoned sin_.” Here one must ask, “what is signified by believing in Christ and accepting his atonement? Is this also regeneration, and if so, does it consist in the intellectual assent to the proposition that Christ as God suffered and died, and by this act secured the pardon of our sin?” There is nothing given to decide these queries. Next, it is stated that this act of faith is followed by “_a complete sense_ of pardoned sin.” Is _this_ regeneration, or is it a _part_ of it? There is nothing given to decide this question. It is certain that the young man, totally failed in his efforts to secure any _clear_ and _definite_ conceptions of the author’s meaning, exactly as has been the case with the writer herself, for whom the above extract was prepared. It has been the privilege of the writer, often to listen to the preaching of Dr. Bushnell, one of the most popular of all our religious teachers. On one such occasion during the present season, the object of his sermon seemed to be to teach what was that _true knowledge of God_, which he urged on his hearers. He stated that it was not merely an intellectual apprehension of his character and deeds, but something which every soul must gain in order to secure eternal life, something, as it seemed, which he deemed _regeneration_. He finally enunciated this, which seemed to be his idea of this indispensable experience: “_It is the return of God into the human soul_.”