Subtitle: Or Confessions of Universalism: a Poem in Twelve Cantos to Which Are Added Lectures on Universalism: Wherein the System Is Explained and Its Chief Arguments Considered and Refuted General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: E. Shepard Subjects: Universalism Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology Religion / Unitarian Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE AKGUMENT. The hero of the poem is a Universalist clergyman, who is at once introduced and described. His creed is summarily put down. The means by which he rose to eminence. He findeth occasion to publish his doctrine verbally to the world: he posteth up a hand-bill: he appeareth in the crowd: he takcth his position in a bar-room, before the decanters; commenceth his discourse; defineth his position; entereth into a long detail of hell and damnation; defineth what hell is, in the view of Universalists; giveth an account of his mission to hell; visiteth a ball in those regions; goeth a day’s travel further into hell; visiteth the palace of the devil, and is treated kindly; witnesselh a convention of Whigs and Democrats; joineth a wedding party; describeth the banking institutions of hell; beholdeth the internal improvements of the place; attendeth meeting, and preacheth in hell; seeth many physicians and lawyers there, with others; findeth and defineth the fire and worm of hell; describeth the location and boundaries of hell; asserteth the pharmacy of the place, and the therapeutic agents; telleth how it acts as a purgatory; and, having proceeded thus far, he confesseth the difficulties in the way of his doctrine. Unabl…
