This is an admirable magazine. Among other matters, it enlightens the public as to the true condition of the much-discussed theory of Probation After Death. According to one able writer, the Andover Theory, so-called, is not that the heathen can be saved by the Light of Nature, for there is no salvation outside of a knowledge of Christ; but this: Only those are lost forever who reject the Gospel. As most heathen have not rejected Jesus, inasmuch as they never heard of him, they will be granted the opportunity of accepting the terms of salvation in another life. In other words, the final separation between the Goats and Sheep will not take place at death, but at the Judgment, which may not come till long after death; so the heathen, who have passed on without hearing of Jesus in this world, will still have a long time in which to repent and believe on the Saviour.
From another article we learn that there are a thousand Episcopal churches in London, besides six-hundred other Prostestant churches, and only fifty Roman Catholic churches. In nearly all the Established Parishes, services are held not only on Sundays, but during the week, and a vast number of charities are well maintained.
You can keep abreast of the religious times by reading the Andover Review. Houghton & Mifflin publish it; and it derives special interest from the fact that the editors are the professors in the Theological Seminary, whose Orthodoxy is now called in question, the chief editor among them being Prof. Egbert C. Smyth, who has just been voted out of the school for heresy. His removal, however, is not accomplished. He will certainly remain in office another year, and appeal will meanwhile be made, by himself and friends, to the Supreme Court, for a decision which will render invalid the action of the Board of Visitors.
