19 MARCH 1864, Page 2

We publish in another place a somewhat remarkable series of

letters from both clergymen and laymen on the subject of " Eternal Punishments "—the one real theological interest of the day. To note how many shades of meaning are attached by educated and independent theologians to the apparently precise doctrine of Hell, —many of them quite compatible with the faith of those who, like us, suppose they are heretical in denying everlasting punishment,— is to apprehend fully for the first time how certainly the belief in that popular doctrine has died away among earnest and cultivated men.