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LETTERS

TO THE

REV. STEPHEN REMINGTON,

IN REVIEW OF HIS

LECTURES ON UNIVERSALISM,

First published in the Universalist Union.

Thomas Jefferson

BY T. J. SAWYER.

NEW YORK:

P. PRICE, 130 FULTON STREET.

-44. 4319 01337.29.30

HARVARD COLLEGE

LIBRARY

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
P. PRICE,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern
District of New-York.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

The following letters originally appeared, at successive periods, in the columns of the Universalist Union. As this little volume may fall into the hands of some who did not see the letters in the form in which they were first presented to the public, a brief statement of the circumstances which called them forth, may be necessary here.

In the month of February, 1837, Rev. Mr. Hatfield, of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, in New York, took occasion to lecture on the subject of Universalism, from the text-Romans vi. 23:"The wages of sin is death," &c. This lecture was replied to by Rev. T. J. Sawyer, in the Orchard street Church, in a discourse from the same text, which was afterwards published in the Universalist Union of March 25, 1837, and subsequently issued in a pamphlet, entitled-" The Penalty of Sin."

A copy of the Union, containing the Sermon, was conveyed to Rev. Stephen Remington, then pastor of the Willet street Church, by one of his congregation, with a request that he should notice it in his pulpit. With this request Mr. Remington complied, in three lectures, on three successive Sunday evenings. An experienced Reporter was employed, but from some unavoidable circumstances, but imperfect notes were obtained of the first lecture-the second and third were obtained in full. In the progress of their delivery, however, the Trustees of the Willet street Church, and particularly the "Young Men of the congregation," became much interested in the lectures, and strongly impressed with the great good they were doing in pulling down the strong holds of Universalism, and were anxious to extend these benefits to the world at large. Meetings were held, the lectures applauded, for their "original, lucid and scriptural" arguments, and unanimous resolutions passed, requesting their immediate publication to "counteract the delusive error" of Universalism. At their close, Mr. Sawyer respectfully requested a copy of the lectures, for the purpose of replying to them. He was informed that the author was actively engaged in preparing them for the press, and that they would be out in a week or two, when a printed copy would be cheerfully furnished. It was

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