Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. (A.) The Eev. --, D.D., of the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Virginia, published in the Church paper of that diocese a criticism of the book, signed "Lector." The following answer to that communication--which the Editor declined to admit into his columns, and which was, therefore, published and distributed in pamphlet form--shows the points made in the criticism: -- Review of the Criticism of "The Death of Death," by "Lector," in Southern Churchman of Feb. 13, 1879. This writer has written kindly, and he shall be answered kindly--but completely. He has done unintentional injustice to the argument and the author of "The Death of Death" in various places. This must, of course, be exposed. First. He uses words without just discrimination as to their meaning, or the sense in which they are used by the author. In the very outset of his article he defines the position of the author thus: "He tells how he was led to the belief that eternal punishment is not taught in the Holy Scriptures." Now, the author has nowhere made such a statement, hit the contrary: he has only stated his belief that a hopeless punishment is nowhere so taught. The distinction between a hopeless and an eternal punishment is everywhere made by him, and on that distinction much of his argument depends. So far from denying eternal punishment, he says, on page 204 (after begging, in the name of both justice and charity, that he might not be misrepresented), and in the very next paragraph: "We believe, in our 'heart of heart, ' and here propound the doctrine of 'eternal' or 'everlasting punishment' in the terms laid down in Scripture," and then proceeds to define what he thinks them to mean. This is a sample of his kindly critic's inaccuracy. Other instances of...
