Thoughts on Eschatology. By the Rev. Henry Wynne Jones. (Llanrwst.)—This
interesting sermon, written at the request and with the counsel of a very good man who has since passed "to the majority," and printed in memory of him, reviews the subject of immortality and future punishment much in the same way in which the same subject has been treated by the Rev. Edward White, who, as our readers may be aware, disbelieves in the " natural immortality " of man, and believes that man's immortality, when it is bestowed, is the reward of the life in Christ, and of that life alone. We cannot agree with this view of the matter, though we have the deepest sympathy with many of the elements of this complex and, as we hold, rather unnatural opinion. The very phrase used of our Lord as "bringing immortality to light," seems to us to indicate not that he conferred it on beings otherwise mortal, but that he revealed to them their real immortality. The sermon, however, is well worthy of careful study.
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