[65] Rev. Hosea Ballou, D. D. Reply to Dr. Hawes's Arguments against Universalism. It was nearly a half-century ago that these words were written. And now at this very time there comes this echo of them in confirmation of the truth of the prophecy: "Little by little the pulpit shrinks from the mediæval theology. Ministers first gloss it by new interpretations, then they prudently hold it in suspense, then doubt it, then cast it away." Rev. H. W. Beecher, in "North American Review," July, 1882. [66] Oration of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop at Yorktown, Va., October 19, 1881. [67] Rev. F. B. Hornbrooke, in Unitarian Review, August, 1882. [68] Titus, ii. 11, 12. [69] 1 John, iv. 19. [70] James, ii. 14, 26. [71] Rev. James Pullman, D. D. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Fifty Notable Years, by John G. Adams