reconciled to God.”[6] This is the middle position in which we stand, the _mean_ between your _two extremes_; and by God’s blessing, we will continue to occupy it, until we shall have delivered our consciences, and discharged our duty to a numerous, respectable, but, in our judgment, blinded and deluded class of our fellow-countrymen. And now, gentlemen, having taken such notice of certain allegations in your letter as it seemed impossible to pass by, and with the full purpose of continuing in the course on which I have entered, until, through the blessing of God, the grand object which I have proposed to myself shall have been accomplished, I remain, yours, for the truth’s sake, FIELDING OULD. February 11, 1839. ----- Footnote 5: See “Improved Version,” note on 1 John, i. 1. Footnote 6: 2 Cor. v. 20. --------------------- _To the Revs. J. Martineau, J. H. Thom, and H. Giles._ Gentlemen,—You state, in your letter of the 7th ult., that “your proposal of discussion through the press, though made for the third time, has as yet received no answer.” It was thought by ourselves and our clerical brethren, that as our lectures were to be printed and published, every facility was afforded you of replying to them through the same channel, and that thus the whole subject would be fairly brought before the public. In addition to this, we have offered to meet you in oral discussion; you decline the proposal. Anxiously desirous to bring the whole matter before this great community, so as to prove that we not only entertain no apprehensions as to the result, but are convinced that, by such an exposition, great good will be effected, we, the undersigned, on our own responsibility, ACCEPT YOUR TERMS of discussing the momentous question between us, in the form of a correspondence in some public journal or periodical, altogether independent of the lectures. We remain, Gentlemen, Yours, for the sake of the Gospel, THOMAS BYRTH. FIELDING OULD. Liverpool, February 11. HUGH M‘NEILE. --------------------- _To the Rev. Fielding Ould._ Rev. Sir,—The tone of your last letter makes us rejoice that, by the acceptance on your parts of discussion through the press, this correspondence may now be brought to a close.