the pulpit, or defended in theological treatises? Why is it that Christians of every name, not even excepting Calvinists themselves, are now so ready to reject and disown it? Why, indeed, but because a new Sun has risen upon the moral world, making more and more manifest the things of darkness? Why, but because the heavens have been opened, and the glad beams of heavenly light have begun slowly to penetrate the dark corners of the earth, and to drive to their hiding places the creatures of the night? Why, but because this is the beginning of a New Age—an age of general and rational illumination—the day of the Lord's second appearing, which He himself declared would be "as the lightning, which cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west"? Why, but because the present is the dawn of that great and glorious day in which, as saith the prophet Isaiah, "a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty"? And as the light of this New Dispensation diffuses itself more and more abroad, it will fare with other doctrines, popular and in good repute at present, as it has already fared with the one we have been considering. Before the lapse of another century, the doctrines, as hitherto expounded, of three persons in the Godhead, a vicarious atonement, justification by faith alone, the resurrection of the material body, and others of kindred character,
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