Among the consequences of Joseph's betrayal, were the deliverance of his father's household from death, and the upbuilding of the Jewish nation. Among the consequences of Christ's crucifixion, is the world's redemption. It must ever be so. Under the divine rule, it must ever be true, that the "wrath of man shall praise God," and the "remainder he will restrain."

Thus, with the broadest toleration of opinion, on the basis of the Bible, there is probably a larger measure of unity of faith and purpose in the Universalist ranks, than in those of any other Christian sect. Ours is the fitting basis of widest co-operation. Indeed, how can there be extensive Christian union, save in the broadest principles of love and hope for the entire race? A partial platform, no matter what it is, is necessarily exclusive. We may invite men to shut their eyes and leap upon it; but it would be an invitation to a leap in the dark. These very churches about us, that are talking so sweetly about Christian union and whose words are so delightful in our hearts, in this current year of grace are excommunicating from their communions venerable men and women, for the confessed and sole reason that they are Universalists and Unitarians. When this shall no longer be,-when their members shall be permitted to withdraw from them, if in good standing, without damage to their reputations, and to bear out from them as clean a bill of health as they brought in-we shall not only have a new evidence of growing union, but a better manifestation of that Christian love which, wherever it is found, reaches to every member of our common humanity. There can no more be union of churches on a basis of error, than there can be a union of States on a basis of wrong. Such a union, opposed by the reason and conscience of men, is opposed by the mightiest forces in the universe-forces that have their root in Omnipotence itself. The ground swell of truth and righteousness will, sooner later, shake every such edifice to its foundations, and tumble it into ruins.

But a union in the principles of universal love and hope, is possible. Such principles have their source in the common Father, and flow out to all his children. They are a prophecy of universal recovery; because that is the end they seek; and they can never rest until their end is gained.

God, in the infinity of his holiness, is the world's everlasting pledge for the extermination of sin. Such principles. cast out nobody; they embrace everybody. They subdue self, passion, appetite; beget reverence, gratitude, thanksgiving; strengthen the weak, the faltering, the tempted; recover the wandering, the wayward, the sinful; and lift the world into sweet communion with God.

To promote such ends, was the constant aim of Mr. Ballou's ministry. His doctrinal analyses were fitted to remove the obstacles to the recognition of these principles, that the gospel might be believed, and prove the "power of God unto salvation."

To this end he labored with a singleness of purpose and an ardor of devotion rarely attained. For years together his church in School Street was thronged; and both citizens and strangers listened to his eloquent discoursings with rapt attention and the holiest delight. Many of his sermons were issued from the press and circulated among the people before his cadences had died upon the ear. Several volumes of them appeared from time to time, and proved great aids in extending his views. He also published a most able work on "Future Retribution," which has run through many editions, and several smaller works on other controverted topics.

To these labors he added those of an editor for several years, and travelled more widely and preached more frequently, perhaps, than any man in New England of his

time.

Having discharged the duties of sole pastor of his church in Boston for nearly thirty years, early in 1846 he welcomed a colleague to his aid, and gave new evidence of devotion to his parish by relinquishing all claim upon its funds. Yet, simple and unostentatious in his manner of living, and economical in his habits, he always had means to indulge his quick and comprehensive sympathies with the poor and distressed of every class.

After so extended a paper, we must forego the pleasure we had promised ourselves, of narrating many little incidents, observed during the years of our personal intercourse with him, manifesting his rare goodness of heart. Suffice it to say, if scandal was abroad, he always made some char

itable suggestion. If the aspersions of ignorance or wickedness reached him, his meekness was more than proof against the assault. And during the years of our relation to each other as Senior and Junior Pastor, he was all to us that an own father could become. Never for a moment did we hesitate to confide in the ready, gentle, parental affection with which he counselled and sought to prosper us. Had we been his own son after the flesh, his aid could not have been more generous, or unselfish, or, in its sincerity, unquestionable.

Possessed of the keenest powers of analysis, of rare wit, of a genial humor, and of the most searching knowledge of the human heart, he was no less a profound philosopher than a convincing preacher. At fourscore years of age, he retained the zest and ardor of his youth; and crowds listened to him with scarcely diminished delight wherever he went. Early in June, 1852, at eighty-one years of age, after a ministry in Boston of thirty-five years, and a total ministry of more than sixty years, sickness found him with his armor on, and the angel of God called him away.

When this good man died, the "tenth wave of sorrow flooded all our Zion. The spontaneous utterance every where was, "Our father in Israel is gone. We shall never behold his like again.” And from numerous churches, scattered in fifteen of the States of our Union, there came up the authoritative command embodied in generous contributious, to symbolize their reverential love in a colossal statue over his grave. The genius of a native artist was put in requisition; the work was accomplished; and henceforth the name of Ballou, cherished in gratitude forever, shall be published from the classic shades of Auburn, till the marble itself shall crumble into dust.

A. A. M.

ART. XXIX.

Religious Feeling and Christian Character.

Ir requires but a cursory reading of the New Testament to be assured of the fact, that the preaching of Christ and his Apostles was generally followed by exhibitions of deep feeling on the part of those who heard them; and the sig nificant fact is, that these exhibitions of feeling are the prominent and distinguishing effects of the apostolic labors. We are not saying that the apostles were not, in the strict sense of the term, teachers-that those who heard them were not instructed as well as moved that apostolic preaching while it stirred the emotions of the hearers did not, at the same time, convey great and important truths to their understandings. All these points we should not only concede, but did occasion call-we should strenuously insist upon. Our position is, that the distinguishing effect of apostolic preaching was emotional; that the hearers were profoundly agitated; that the souls of those who experienced the true effect of that preaching, were flooded with feeling;-and we assert that information, thought, new intellectual conceptions and judgments, as such, though among the effects of the labors of the apostles, were of secondary and tributary importance. If we may venture a philosophical statement, we should say, that in those particulars wherein it is practicable to distinguish between the emotional and the intellectual, the apostles, for the most part, made a direct appeal to the emotional nature of the hearer, and only an indirect appeal to the intellectual na

ture.

Any attempt to prove the correctness of our statement by reference to the New Testament itself, will seem a work of supererogation indeed, to those who are familiar with its pages. From beginning to end, the New Testament is surcharged with emotion. So far as it is a narrative, it is a history of agitated souls-souls that were convulsed and revolutionized by the contact of Divine truth. Whithersoever Jesus went, great multitudes followed him, and were astonished at his teaching. Fishermen, without a moment's forethought, dropped their nets to accompany the new VOL. XIX. 34

Teacher. Sometimes crowds thronged around the person of Jesus, so much so that, as on occasion of his passing through Jericho, the curious publican .could see him only by climbing a tree. (Luke xix. 1-4.) The emotional effect of Christ's teaching finds an incidental illustration—and all the more instructive because incidental-in the case of the woman of Samaria. Her business was to fill her water-pot from the well. But the effect of her conversation with Christ was such, that she even forgot her errand. "The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city," to report the wonderful things she had heard! (John iv. 28.) So strange a forgetfulness can be accounted for only on the assumption of a new and unexpected agitation, driving from the mind all thought of ordinary interests. It was the special complaint of the chief priests to Pilate, "He (Jesus) stirreth up the people." (Luke xxiii. 5.)

If we turn to the apostolic history, what else have we except a record of the toils, the sufferings, the sacrifices, and all the indications of the quenchless zeal of men whose souls had been submerged in spiritual emotion? of men under the control of a feeling so deep and so convulsing, that all regard for worldly interests seemed to have been eradicated from their natures? Property, social position, friendship, the pursuits of ambition, family attachments, all the things which, under ordinary circumstances, men count most dear, were as though they had never been to the first preachers of the Cross-all were freely and exultingly exchanged for "the excellency that was in Christ Jesus their Lord." Under the pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit, the souls of believers were so excited, and their outward manifestations of emotion so remarkable, that the worldly looker-on attributed (honestly, we have no doubt) the effect to a sensual rather than a spiritual cause. (Acts ii. 12.) When Philip preached the gospel in Samaria, the necessary effect followed, "There was great joy in that city," (Acts viii. 8,)— that is, the people were agitated as well as converted. So the Ethiopean, meeting with the same apostle, on being made acquainted with the gospel of Christ, "went on his way rejoicing." (Verse 39.) The preaching of Christ stirred the community; and faith always manifested itself in exclamations of deep feeling. The gospel came to men more in power than in word. A strange enthusiasm