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Show lleectaer Explains. Baltimore, 10. Henry Ward Beecher has written a letter to Rev. Mr. Morrison of this city in regard to his (Beecher'a) religious sentiments, senti-ments, in which ha says: " Fttr twenty-five years I have preached aud printed in every conceivable form the truth of the inspiration of tbe sacred scripture existence and government gov-ernment of God, doctrines of the trinity and divinity of Christ and the very God, the universal sinfulness of man, the atonement of Christ, the doctrine of a change of spirit, the efficacious influence of the holy spirit in regeneration and the doctrine of retribution, both here and hereafter. here-after. -It is true that the question of the nature of the sullering, the object of the penalty and the question of its duration, I have discussed with such light us I had, denying that all the' light had yet broken out of the holy scripture on various points that it contained. The charges of atheism, infidelity, umverialism, theism are made by men (hat know nothing and who take no pains to know anything. any-thing. Eyea have they, and my working sympathies go with " the Evangelic orthodox ministry. I refuse re-fuse to be held to consistency with any dogmatic system of theology of the past. I am with Calvin and against Calvin. I am with Arminiua and against Armioius. I am with the Episcopacy and againBt the Epia-copaoy. Epia-copaoy. I am with tbe Roman ohurch and against it; my object be ing not to build or defend auy system ef theology or government, but to bring holiness ol life." |