child. A short time ago in a large congregation the minister asked for
a show of hands on the part of any who had heard a sermon on hell during
the last ten years. Two hands were held up.

Some time ago a noted Methodist minister told me that the Methodist
ministers of Canada do not believe in Everlasting Punishment. A
prominent official of that church told me lately that he does not
believe it, but that if it were known he would lose his position.

The Presbyterian ministers seem largely to hold the same view. Is the
subject mooted at all in any Presbyterian Church? I know that ministers
profess to believe it; but they seem as apathetic about multitudes
dropping continually into eternal fire as if they did not believe it.
Privately, I have spoken on this subject with many ministers; and not
one of them professed to believe it.

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Now, my plea is for honesty and candor. Let us be assured that Truth
will not suffer by being avowed and defended. The matter is of the
greatest importance just now. It has a most vital relation to Missions.
I rejoice in the Laymen's Missionary Movement; but I fear it will wane
if this most important question is not approached, and if possible
rightly settled. For we want to know what the heathen are to be saved
from, if there is going to be an adequate and sustained incentive to
liberality and enterprise.

In all the reports of the meetings of the Laymen's Missionary Movement,
I have seen no hint of the alternative before the heathen if they are
not evangelised. I heard a minister lately speaking of them as