ON THE DOCTRINE OF

UNIVERSAL SALVATION:

HELD IN

CINCINNATI, O., FROM MARCH 24, TO APRIL 1, 1845.

BETWEEN

REV. E. M. PINGREE,

PASTOR OF THE FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, LOUISVILLE, KY.

AND

REV. N. L. RICE, D. D.

PASTOR OF THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CINCINNATI, O.

Taken down by a Reporter,

AND

REVISED BY THE PARTIES.

CINCINNATI:

PUBLISHED BY J. A. JAMES.
G. J. JONES. NEW YORK: J. S. REDFIELD.
LOUISVILLE: NOBLE & DEAN.

1845.

BX9946
P5

CERTIFICATE.

CINCINNATI, April 26, 1845. HAVING carefully examined the Stenographer's Report of the within discussion, and compared it with our notes and memorandums, we hesitate not to commend it to the public, as a full exhibition of the facts, documents and arguments, used by us on the question debated. E. M. PINGREE,

N. L. RICE.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by

J. A. JAMES,

In the Clerk's Office for the District Court of Ohio.

Stereotyped by J. A. James

CORRESPONDENCE

BETWEEN E. M. PINGREE AND N. L. RICE.

Proposal to Rev. N. L. Rice.

Louisville, Nov. 9, 1844. REV. AND DEAR SIR-I have recently seen in different religious periodicals the following

"PROPOSAL.-Dr. Robert J. Breckenridge, of Baltimore, Revs. N. L. Rice, of Cincinnati, and Wm. S. Plumer, of Virginia, will meet at any convenient time and place bishop Whelan and any two others whom he may select; or we will meet any three Roman bishops, archbishops, cardinals, priests, or deacons, and discuss with them this questionIs the Romish church the church of Christ?' The bishop and his friends may affirm, and we will deny. Or we will affirm that the Romish church is not the church of Christ,' and they may deny. Or two of us will meet any two of them on the terms stated above. The ordinary and equal rules of such debate to be adopted hereafter. The above is a standing proposal."

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In the True Catholic," published in Louisville, I also find the following note from your pen, copied from the "Watchman of the South :"

"THE DISCUSSION.-Although the proposition for a public discussion with the Papists, to which you did me the honor to attach my name, was originally made without my knowledge, yet, not doubting that the circumstances demanded it, I cordially sanctioned it. I had no expectation, however, that it would be acceded to. The Roman clergy have become too wise to expose their cause thus. There is in error a conscious weakness, which causes its advocates to shrink from a thorough investigation of its claims. Your proposition, however, will prove to the unprejudiced, that we have all confidence in the principles we advocate, and are willing to have them subjected to the closest scrutiny.

Yours, truly,

N. L. RICE."