A DISCUSSION

ON

UNIVERSAL SALVATION

AND

FUTURE PUNISHMENT,

BETWEEN

E. MANFORD,

Publisher of Manford's Magazine, Chicago,

AND

J. S. SWEENEY,

Fastor of the First Congregation of Disciples, Chicago.

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."-PAUL.

CHICAGO:

RAND, MCNALLY & Co., PRINTERS, 51 CLARK STREET.

BX 9946 1035

copil

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

E. MANFORD and ;, S. SWEENEY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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PREFACE.

THERE is a College in Kirksville, Mo., the President of which is a Disciple, one of the Professors is a Presbyterian, one a Methodist, one a Universalist— all ministers. Kindly they had often canvassed the points wherein they differed; and finally concluded to have an ORAL DISCUSSION in the Chapel of the College, on Universal Salvation and Endless Punishment, and secured the undersigned as the Disputants.

The Discussion was accordingly held, vast numbers listened to it with deep interest, and the following pages contain a report of the Debate.

CHICAGO, May, 1870.

E. MANFORD.

J. S. SWEENEY.