The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-11-08 00:00:00

ERYSIPELAS AND SCROFULOUS soREi.

I n all Irritation, of the akin, sores, ulee-rS.-ii-iin,-;. of 'rah":
eniargementa of any kind, Holloway's OinUnear,r
tuit
Soll
ready and easy means of cure. It manifests a
Aut the In restraining inflammation, removing stagintion. °—
heated blood, and checking all arimonisus and usliwitkl
discharges.

DOTU TUI OUITAUINT AND PILL" 1.1101:0 11 nisa 11.
row.con cumin
. flamers Fics Flash
Ocnitracied and Stiff isrs N:PPis
Joints :Sorr-threns
Itlephantiasie indiencs
• Fistulas neurrl
Gout s.ssnosi
Glandular Swellinp quesnic,
Li:tutors know
PIl
Wounds
s
Chapped Hands I ithstunatin. sin
Bold at the fistablishosent of Pannumea 521,
Galord-street (late 244, Strand), London; LO VI 17-61
Gruprista and Dealers in Medicines tnnicah.,...o •L",
1131. follonipt.pricen "
There o collaidzrable urn by taiiin;
N. 11.—Dirseilone for thsyrublanos • f patient, in
eZS staied to each pot_

Bad Lep
Bad Braude
Bunn
Bunions
Bite of Moachetoca
and Band-flies
Chieno-Toot
Chilblains

TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.
READ THE SECRET FRIEST.
DR. BialtNES has for twenty Parigi,"!
his ezeitudve attention to the trestmehirlerii;
of Sexual Melodies,bligityon's PH in•L'im
DEBILITY, LOSS of APPETITE, PAINS
BACK, DIMNESS of SIGHT, LASSITuf:r.2
INMUIiIiTION, IliP ,n.
MEETS to MARRIAGE, and nonarroto oiln"
meats caused by the follies of youth, 'duct, if
if &set. lib
result in 000mnruption insanity. or " el"-. I suatel
medical wort, the S'EET FRI EsiD.
with numerous Cases and Tostimoni.6 L'ij;;;lti
showing the way by whish they were mth— wbe
and manlizgour ; it is a true gunig
require • oure. .
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Address, Dr. Hairy Baal,

V

:3411446.0...Z.1. Irtritaut Errem.
Eva woweit,,,__he T olabor lat, the Rev. T. Neon delivered
ne Wen -wren* t_ y.borthester, ou the " Future State,'
Win thia'..the duration of future punishment.
MIMI gibsc. wwl n would he an snorer to the
loss *tit% lately delivered in therms place,
toited that the room was filled
mut HO Vint eneed, and awns hnndreds were
at.Mbliong*,.....
ml_ okePleintit -.won to obtain admittance. Nearly
lEft *eft n and the
erta ig% itit4.• FwelZtin.r reter of D' end
om
Milielog 0 ter their Mimi., Rey. J. II troll, O.
JO nil* thir,nlll4l • eitigri, were compeilwi to ask per-
"weft ......._
.wittlare committee, for pernib non
AtUrairiatlihs -"wilt Council Chamter
CM ft-Istg....ligLik". .1- E r4,the CUAIRMAI rose sod
6., ~._. --Al h I am quite aware that
awl:Chit Ws -...Tion to my end Mr. None, and not
segoo WIWI. * e-wrowy tbat I should say sonth,liolf
6ddrete oil the".ll4Wllabigheklbeth•rleir. :eery:l.:ow:du c'e''''' "."41
1/ It bdflh Itengtkleirat
t o__
_subject which I. before no, I unman
• have been soled by vow of his
• n.fteleitMe,'..,...:"Milli
the invitation e more
..„... -"WI the =.4.d th
ml that limn, are truths
Whe
tiniii
0... thill
Oft --Claill74".11411101,7' MiCt ot rpitem ; that there are
.men
"mitrolitaboed..._.. of their loird and Muter more hilfr
....... g0t....--weli and I nand hy my friend to nisfbi. _I,
sobisoi er• 6/44--"` kftvr. that If I were in ith place, be
druehd .i.t issis'Ztit na. With respect to the solemn
choose ash
a
to . aitizatemil to world inay intry It b.
lost l 111 Won 7 and w pleasure can
=rnelittrie I he, ,ot the everlasting Puisishwww of
iitb!
44
{64.llltrhactr.."-ac.,Tdoulpbo.nUerm; the
ortwilhoulowetrt .bistatitnooboo choose the point of delouse;
must meet them. To the
.
••• onftigeft.6l,..._ rile indeed no plealun to • Chrietlan
Wheel" "rnbilll...„„'"4"Wlesiting punishment of the loet,but
.. It an open quoellon,e. the truths coo-
t"'
rtalliell eggt..._-...°llatlntately and inesparably connected
ls, without endangering all the rest.
the Met Ige ---....wase know the history of the Church for
Pithhik...._ \ft to th...___.weer *to hove deeded the eternity of
••,-....._-__dOPPed u,,,,,-"wwerf_ ~ and just isenesquroce id sin, have
wwvwww• ft 11*---',...,.; the atonement and Godhead of the
rimed UHL •••_"l'ww W the Holy Spirit, have been next dia-
that, ei tat. „.....wee jpeat
Michael Faraday op,
2ittaildolgigt.;l,7 Wm itlrreePbsafid reel new wts eh the
the '".. Illit• homes) Comm the florin= hops:
the Olhetishain,... 41 da there Is no ground of holm to
unitarian be 4 ---•
~_ . and cameo member of the
b. exlslowd I. t*Teowerits the moment be was taught u
flew," WA dns deserved overloading torment,"
,„°." ahWelegig„ pti,gt• &Med in the 0.1-inen Owlet Jesus the
seer 5•16 're. non-eternity of punishment
it ere lime moat plausible popular
le and pular doctrine,
we akan ilign tida wird will come next litr Tr anup them.
" aaaelftel• 160 'Polecat ...sip and atep"l/ noP :thnli
" "417 l"Penind
alula°6 thilmlinen as .-11 at as (towel expiained way. It
doctrinal cos a., ____"0"1•111 4.1111 quulors. BUL then strange
hivegion miss.; ••••• wow mem oemoiatkoo. I
of deign. em.evuolia,trboheoone what I believe, on beds
and 7._.,_ .....• Wows sow Wow mot cols oboorfol
leurerwilsuei..- wereling in hope:" sad Roman acme who
gdogior7 g.7lol.olleve Seth. ~meow pooloWsoot of the
ail
_Toweee je...0.11" rigthat their wise unbedel is..• them
!la , _ Jigs, oo• n•-• •-•--.- -

- ---- -1 sr liii• : WiaTere—wea-170. hTrieS-fier- :ihere was
death Oat Sled them with terror • I would not
thandle. 14Y bid old like theirs. But. poet' seis—
lc al:, "smirmas thin' welt son, but hie age I cannot tad,
4°l .r° by Tars and months, where he is gene
.10.___dwell :
414 "I=nell letztoon months, his infant smiles were
AM 1141714 This Itrowen to earth, and went to It,. In
nallia.
allaMtlisve s 1861111148. . I if Una
matter. Down in the wed,
new teachers are right. But I
lIIIINGeb_ miereet la this vadat • log ildl Ilikther• ere two 11We rend. which for many
/OnisrlimelliNt Nei la my colod : I hare fondly hoped tett
elitsVb:llial Ilaitet Tuldel, te:d. Atragt:
pyre, twee belle shall rine to loin their immortal
Virile, Nry
ima tido_ kadoesessa..._ ilk mad .0 to be '.....r with to.
..._.
.epseUe tram Blrminstaam comet and
• a lismilelia ; but I cannot even at his bidding,
zz 12.1........, la flt_sialsesi_.,. es leaser tees peri.h ; .. 1 foot 111°
elm -----' "%___"•° I°lll4 I Ind eome better reason for for-
at
ars kg as I.llllllMber that these eubJecta are not
lelleder dleouceles—theLco often depend upon the
Proltle lemehre al words ; and Hebrew language is full of
.____.".P•Or: uently the mete word Is used In rainy rill,
Twit NUMB : a the great spiritual truths of the New
y!ebspie see Doomed In to. language of a heathre nation,
0dd1111411114 arks, spiritual Idea.. Scriptun therefore must
ever be bled wording to the "analogy of faith." But
ettrar.... amiably there I. neither Urns nor calmness to
......"..B,_ thinlex Teo lecture. therelore having been
dal"..e_lelelpport at the Chrhitadedpelan doctrine, we are
here maim so helm to Yr. NISYS in support of Christian
ductile.; said es We teeters will be printed. you will bar°
din* gigfrerhieW of Judging of Its manta Let me sat you
therelove le give tie lecturer that calm and serious attention
that a sebfeet to solemn demands.

711.111"' 1.• 'WY. mid. Mr. Chairman and Clingiest friend.,
IS le not UMW, fee me to oder soytrpology for my primes
b.....bas "MLitt When truth, or what we have boon taught
to regard m mask ead what bee been es regarded by the church
M God in all he Weary, le scornfully repudiated and spoken of
se having no foundation in the Scriptures themeives, but
imply bred on tradition or the fancy of heathen write. ; and
when Weed of the truth we hold, and which is conducive to
sub hiliti' WI-being of man as • chino of the world and.
NM o the next, we are asked to accept &ruiner which
'kind° Nell to the seri lowest war of Doing, and necessarily
strap hits of all meal mountability and render him an unlit
subject of villas and vim, It surely become, us to lift up our
roles howler trebly spinet doctrines es wild and disastrous ea
beim sra. brute to be imagined that I am here because of
any 'appall spode/ Strew to meet them doctrines, or to Au.
their voleashisosse and unscriptural nature. It is from no
sueb Main lb* I am bare: but ea It so happened that I
Illadadad to get somewhat mixed up with these question., I
suppose them who rampathies with my vim naturally ebbed
me to Mamas their mouth-proe by endeavouring to show the
Weser of the vim they were asked to embrace. That is
the Elm* Fuson of my presence here. Perhaps also the
fortrees Wag seything but a strong one, mil musketry was
deemed easiest for the attack; and, if thatehould fall, I am
glad to Wolk that we know where to apply to And heavy
artillery. One other matter as introductory. Lot it be borne
In mind that we met belt not limply sa controversialist.,
with the desire simply of *eking a victory over opinions from
(h i&we gtree We sr b... sw re what I. the teach-
ing of Ood's troth on the very solemn netters which are to
engage our attration. And for myself I cannot me how any
perm can Indar upon the discussion of such momentous
questions in say other spirit than that of deep and earnest
solicitude sad tandernme. We have to do with gumtrees
which cosmos the eternal interest, of our fellow erratum,
and bemuse Midi tomb their Meml weal or woe. Let us
Dow proceed to the examination et the question of roan's
future Ms with special reference to the duration of future
punietunera And the questions Mull we are necerstral to
argue Mew we the following The natural immorteltv
of man. Med. The separate 'Mem of the soul aster death.
▪ Aid Wit existanoe se eternal either in lumina.. or
misery. lbw we the three pespoitions which we have to dr-
am It in erred by those Moe opinions we are more IMMO-
dish* to bidder to-night, that we have not the least proof
tb. gaggibesee. whether Old or New Testament., for the
doctrines which we Shoe prologs to hold ; but Mut doctrine.
tbs very elleeree Ms there Waled. Our appeal therefore must
be to the acriptierse es to teach, let. That man is
sot ilimieretr. Blesti=e no conscious existence alter
death. liaL had Oil the Mena detration of the wicked L. no
whim taught lo bligesise hot the opposes,. vie., annihilation.
No. I, that those who pr-stem to be guided
by te• weed meintabi era such vim, when, as
we UMW. W gem you, tit zposite are so clearly
mg sash is the ore, end ore we must einem
itrrogggemesl Investigation of them truths let We have
to embier wisseber the Scriptures deny the natural nom-
,et tb...a. Whet thee Is the view which the advocates
dostiffee of annitdiatiou take of man In • weed
Of
Oa Ma hi bhp creation Is on the mune level with
they sant man. I. simply an animal, barb( so
toloLotif.ell...welookum aid, therefore, no
.suehlt NO ea we a:
abbo.utritt held by renders of the
t▪
u.!htaair—,„,,,tying Seeable( man's mere rem to be
".• ....A—giught, I soa 4.01, lanlvervelly, it rams the
taught %bares ty- -his distinct and eeperate
doctrine ed 1.0.•
tra.b.b. tower oreatures, by all the laws under
by the threats-wings as well ItA she
wbOOeae.edno of fatherly Interest In
prosillm...__ndiriams done to restore Wm to Him.
moan se mons ..beleses future. That In the tree of theee
sail, sod MX:a% .rigifi- as on • level with the lover
bida DIM • blank atheist should
anieseds, 1.411_,.. goy the existence of Clod Llinuelf,
hold suesh views. "6.° tato more deed matter which has in
rad morale reneged to live, would oot be at
▪ un..."..2reest . believer In the inspiration of the Bible
all strange of the human intellect; sad yet
should Is In:. bold the 'away. those who hold
q.t. the following - Man' It is maid, "Is
th▪
orn ....?"';....6.14,11:very em I u le is • mortal
destitute of I energised and eustalned in
ca,a4un gni" biro ood, which he sham in corn.
Wog h 7 Ws( under the sun, and which he only
m with mare of throe wore 3 ears and tea,
holds oe ther"-tia," b. gives it up to thin from whom ha
st tee sod us sh,s rotted whence he originally
received 11, Oblanoldie is obliterated In
Woe, and a.m.L.74. here end% statements ea--
the gra ani tbe men themilm"
Tbe -..tny similar statmenta se these, it
:01,0freetwd dismtiora troupe.
lu slimly
'abuse ; that oh. 7, wog eimply=is respect on a
dedded Ladd that._Zansaaele. Who poems the me life that
I.va vita the „wows puha e• exactly of the ems
does, Tub is the doctrine of materialism,
temporarl maw no higher or bettor than the
whiali ilsoket.."-_,..0. • then the to which animates other
lows. for.' shit aniniaiee most. Now, If we had to
tb. moos ....rest who denied the authority
axistrome yob
&MA thia aadd be emoted in • vary long, end, 1
• Godh Woru. ; but as we are to mettle
tb. Scriptures, it well not be
fear, weartemais
this matter b 7 w Wet. say general argument. Although
for a. th. mummer os natural grounds which
jr.s.wer2ght tiamaterbliletic theory are such as
have been weret,_MP---a,..t.etree to ref over Ist, on whet
.... impuseeemnsTr. obit matte; has the Inherent power of
ground ma it be •••-• T Mos are the facts which dela-
Owsught, or bong-twe is • Coaftioun thinking
rialtos and all the discreet°. of
(ILIA mt. " tng tb. afraid vb., it is man can think
bAng. Now, suPit.'d
rime have . rise of metier ; andthe.higbeet
and MIMI, eidlK7 i„e Inotandee inu , the F araday,
admitted the *nand° exist-
scientific ittlls.l4l*Brineeter, or= those who affirm
and Sir matt. ; gut of the great chain
ence of aid tfew
brae iteeif through the inter.
fer al homes
whichbes,;l7.; the, owes to the queetlos of
of oceatlosi -b.( us that science Mils to ex.
mumble aglidisqtrollr. ...meg beyond miser; and,
man se a OW hi
it soul. Or wireless Immortal
M. the bigeolle to revelation, have no
thrr.= ohs claim the highest of
p▪
rinel wand, materialism ; and
sora
t.gintala_,...alaa..7-aaborlty of the Bible, yet tell us
aelentif
• tbcre who mg." —bored matter ; matter dr. not
/bat 'b.. b samst.nowiiro.. to ma's being. There
maid be urged spinet this
sad now* osgisi• that you are largely sc-
am meal .162.1.11-sholl 06PP... II sr les •h u then.
vS doodling ; beireesei abin got dwe
a..r2
aaullaan
at a
q usioted with Wit and way that we have
We he.. Psi =sr' mind is distract f
thinking petnefact "
the hinhast ta,twirth•wha:kiili
L Wilma" r Law.
body le mutlisiod.M.ll.l. oga
moo WMwere the feiselpis
Ira:place In his trona 5.0 ehaage had
fallow that iben that
of M. and thought. el, POW.* would be b./...d
orrotima was Worm... avena that our Material
that lathe some
tram see in a oonstent alhaa %AM" ma the Memel of the
Of a fan yawn, not 05-55 d
meet be oomesoMy
body mns or. Oa 11" . 101111Callu Phaassfq.
meld Moe nopeedbility or
siseZrgigeop of SOVIOW Or Winn-
aceotintability MA los A.. 11.111 a. them an
Due would wasessalill b• our whole
emeeted with our past ..111, Mem imeoltalMeso ad
Mate life lodinates Its ono wig& Isol.eriaboa ere
6. hails Mel tbe .......thet• mid indeed can- .
mesh, se in sii—...egees her &combo the
Ism=se. stres....4--tbles like a imonatre
further do mem elm to retedsum=aosZolplea 4. But It
mierelealleg ad .had, es we now coutand
deW WIWI QM Me PrionPll.. sew Mimi es le man
b alla WISTA"!1.87.1.°1.11=01.1418;
._....111.1010 tint
bedesehlar in thus Om

Butler, in his maim% semis to hint at the possibility sef • i
future for the lower oriabures, suited to their inferior ,
nature. Let It be obremed then that there i• such • ,
t thing as animal inteillseince, but it is no -mall at the
, beet, that the animal can nes er take the same platform of lits
' with roan, and that the two forms of lite from the very
beginning were distinct in their character ; the one
for the preent and the other for the future. 1.
Man as distinct front the lower anim•is, is a self.
conscious being. ll* not only exists, but toms that he
exists. Hs Is ounicione of himself, and this involves
his immeentrable superiority and indeed hi. immes.,:ity, 1.
, Man is • creature of the past and future. The lower •nitnals
live Imply in the present They have no consciousness of Use
ma, they never think of the future. Man lives to Use future,
hie prima Is the mallet part of his life, ml. priodp4,, of
self-conscloasness, of reflection, of re-conetructing the pea, in-
volves Me immesumbly superiority of man, Ufa hie being to
a hi & Then ream b medal being. if. Is
ll= Ifs polo lumen under authority to • best Be
builds dike; Ines for the general good. But no such principle
I. in the unreels; they mourn notice their dead,or leas it is of
short duration ; they neeer connect themselves with the
honours of their ansetors, they build no eepulehree, hare ne
sense of imenortality,of • creatoent • future: are under no motel
law, are never punished for moral offences, are never dealt
with 00 0.0 ; have no sews of vice or eirtue,
have no self controL Thus the Inc of man, as
distinguished from the loser animals, implies the
mimeos* higher life which pertains to man than to the
anhaide. On principle' of natural reason, therefore, we should
be justified le epistle, of man se • being vastly superior to the
tower creature ; and the seamen% is indeed so strong, that
lumen society, during all ita history, he been based on mei
an und ing ; and I am quo' sure that it Is too late in the
day, for an insignificant class of min, to endeavour, or to dream
of is the established onariction of the loftiest spirits
wine God sent upon the earth. But as our argument bee
not to do with naturei reason simply, although Nose is net
to be demised as lath, manner of mine, but is to be regarded
" as divine gift, and that where Scripture is dent, mason
s• but aMour final appeal must in every no be to the
iti.ans, we proceed now to look at the position which
I. there &reigned to man at his creation. And lm. It Is
to be observed that the whole narrative Imprimis
us with the trmicendant being which mums to man as die
Ungnished from all the other works of Go I. We seem to realise
in the very Donative which NM forth the creation of man that
God ma now about to create • being of summing glory and
honour ea distinguished from all the other 1.10,101 of -His hands,
and without whom the world would have been simply
a magnificent failure. Thee of the creation of 111•11
alone is Its all, "Let us make man in our imam
and after our likeness." Time simple words do
Indeed indicate that God 11111 now to perform His highest
wort. What are the beta tonight is respecting 1110.0%. creation.
Genesis li., 7. "And the Lord God formed men of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into hie neetrils the breath of
life, and be become • living soul." These words teach on the
following things :-Ist. That man has • two-fold being, body
and soul. Tod. That his body did not give the life of the soul
but the soul the life of the body; and 3rd. As the life of tie;
soul Ina distinct from the body at its creation, there is no
reason why It thoald Dot be separate from It slier the death
of the body and exit Mr ever. These are the simple truths
width this roman teaches on. The whole form of the
nerratin gives us this bnpremlom The language need denotes
ma% superiority. And the Mete of thence clearly eines with
the Scripture narrative. Thus for example Hugh Miller in his
▪ TeOhnogy of the Booth' speaks at for tapestries sad
ether dose, which are identical th the forms of lesell
emeabs, thus proving that man Is Intellectuals in the creative
.!..0:0L- Gad The word which speaks of his creation
every expremin one, meaning to mike ertistically,
life The potter; and the word, living soul can oely swam to
on the Idea of the moral and inlellscteel nature with Mich
man me endowed. The sad is bare the thinking nab:seal
principle in mem, by Mich he is word
"Deplamh" Is than trequenGy ssnpioyiT is akin to the word
which is used to denote the spirit of hireseil. The word
It la admitted has various appliesilons, but as und In this
Mama and taken In connection with the whole history, it
unquestionably denotes • the rational and immortal
principle in man. TM life of the lower animals
lies in ite aemsnian • but the ills of man Iles
In his ; so that dealt; with hien is not extinction. This is
the plain grammatical remising of the name. The idea is
further confirmed by the expresioa of Paul, who speaks Mom
life as • soul Ills; seeming that our if. is distinct from the
animals as being &soul life, and when it is said it is "sown •
natural body" he means that Use life ib. lost la the one which
the soul imparted, but not moaning the soul Itself. The over-
Intlof e dmin.stion has led the them of iste annihilable
W their extraordinary blondes. Then as to the language
Paul, wherein be ens, " It is *own a, natural body it is
! Mined • spiritual body • there ia • natural body and then is •
ritual body ; " If thefldletinction between man's being be •
flerrect oos,tand that the death of the body doe not nesmarily
teach the spirit or mil, it follow. here of course UM the
natural body as mown doss not implyas is sfarniod,the &isolate
extinction of being; and that thls is so is evident from the
fact that if Ithe natural body be equivalent to living soul la
the following rens, spiritual body must be equivalent to
quickening spirit; so that Jesus Rust was nothing more than
"a Writhed body." The alourdity of such • conclusion speaks
for Seen That such is the life which belong, to mats at his
creation is certain from the language used, when it is mid that
man was made in the image of God and after Ilia Wtenses,
BOW are 00L0 understood this language? Now, our opponents
don't seek to rive any expansion of it at all. I suppoes it was
better for them to take no notice of it. IS. Thes it means
that men was made like God in Ms bodily form cannot be, for
God is a spirit although male have formed the strange fancy
that In creating man God sammed a human form in view of
his own Locarnalloa, but obeiouely We would have been for
God to mete biased in man's image and not man
10 Ills ; or that it insane that now was made like God as
having dominion, can as little meetthe mac, because he, end.
had that dominion because of the posemion of the Image; it
was not the image. 3rd. The only true view is that man was
se like God am • morel and intellectual being. Hence
His superiority to all Use other Worka and creatures
of God. This constituted Him immortal And if he
had not tinned, be would have remained as he was crested for
seer, only advancing higher and higher In oxidises. He
would not has died. Death we. no part of his original MS-
lion, and therefore immortality was hie original and Math*
chancier. So far, therefore, the argument derived from the
history of man's c.eatlon is altogether against those who deity
the immortality of man, and speak of him simply on one of the
inferior creatures whom masseuse is to terminate with death,
But we are ken reminded that nun limed, and that, there-
fore, his whole condition was altered. The queetion then is,
what le num'. Sate after sin? did be lose his immortality I
Effhellerier eesrer we return, It cannot favour the doctrine of
the son-Immortality M the soul, because originally and before
elei entered the world, such ws his Sate they say. But the
Ms of Adam did not involve him in sleuths death, because, on
• tteT f fact, he lived, and his posterity lives, although we
an told that death reigns through Adam in all his posterity.
What was that death be eillered 1 for mark you Maw did
suffer death consequent on his In. "in the day thou west
thereof thou shalt surely die." And Use threatening
wee fulfilled. Now if we revert to the original constitution of
min, • body and a end, we shall have no diftulte in ascertain-
ing what this death we. Adam's highest life consisted In the
favour of God, holding Intercourse with his Creator; sad his
highest passim consisted in such fellowship. "I. his favour
is ;" •od Adam found it so sor. every Mon..-- sma.. to
as' use see the hue whim Adam lost, and which Christ mane
to moire, the lit. of God's favour. No punishment could be
gimlet to Adams than the lom of UM bleming ; temporal death
would have been a small punishment compered with this, sad
so would annihilation ; and in the future world the conscious
1.. of God's favour, and the endurance of Ills wrath will be
the awful element in the punishment of Um wicked. Spiritual
death, therefore, which implies man's conscious sena* ofOodb
favour,was the death which wee threatened against Adam, sad
which oaremilent on hia sin he died. He then beams the
subject of sorrow and remorse, As to the death of the body
which is spoken of, " Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return," this prophecy was not the penalty of sin. It follows
the mention of • deliverer, Sri chapter, Inth verse, nee 16th
vers.) But even If temporal death were the punishment
Inflicted on Adam, this Melia that previous to the inflation
he must have been Immortal and if • promise were mode to
him he must likewise hare beset immortal to reap the benefit
of it. The serpent was cursed, but we cannot believe that
God should cure. • dumb animal. It was Satan that was cursed.
And the rest was evidently symbolical, to teach our first parents
She ultimate degradation and deartectlon which should cans
upon their gigantic destroyer, so that every time they witesseed
the serpent, they would be reminded of ths coming degrade-
boa through the seed of the woman. But just as they needed
an outward symbol of the destruction of their enemy, so did
they
amides an outward symbol of their own fallen condition,
gas it to then in the decree of death. There is no
sawn why Use body should not bane been immortal, end it
would have been If they had (Men of the tree of life from Miele
they wen mercifully excluded. If they could have lived in
Eden, amid It. pleasure, without any seme of pain, or without
the sense of entering the world of *rite, they would have fer-
Ci4al! about their hike state, and have lived on in their
Immortality of sin. This death is • merciful disease/am to
man as • sinful being. Death, therefore, dose not touch the
• nof inmertallty ; it only touches the quertlon of his
body • but as we new that he had a life distinct from the body,
so when the body dim that life may and doss exist esparately.
Thus ear, therefore, the argument me derived from the tertimone
of Scripture is, that man was made immoral, and remains
Immoral, as • !alien being, even as he eras when unfallen.
But here we are met with mother objection, which
ha thought to be destructive of our doctrine of Use natural
Immortality of Us* soul. It ha this, if man was created
Immortal, and remained no, we should expect to God the
belief of it set forth in the Old Testament Scripture ; instead of
which it is aMrmed the testimony I. all the ether way; and
that the descriptions which are there given of life imply
that those who used then were altogether unconscious of their
immortality and looked upon destis as the destruction Sall
lite and being. As this is a very favourite argument, we lad
better Wend to it fora little. We are referred to such ex presdons
as the following. "In death there is no rementheranoe of thee:
there is no week, now device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom
in the grave." Eccles. Ix. 10. "The dead pram not Use Lord
neither any that go down to silence. 0 man me that I may,
recover my strength before I go hence and be no more." helms
mils.. 6, IS and IS. "While 1 live I will prase the Lord ; I
will log prebee unto my God while I have env being." Nelms
exist 2.; which is supposed to Imply Meld did not believe in
any being after death, although he Ind sung on another orem
don, -moue I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear DO evil ;" and further had mid, "I will dwell In the
bootee of the Lord for ever." Then we are reminded of such
expremions on, "AC flesh is ammand all the gosidlines thereof
as the Sower of the grass," fic... from which it le confidently
argued that no ante of immortality or of • future life could
mime with such expressions as thew Now to my the leas of
it, this moms • very weak foundation on which to newt any curb
moment. And should we be found to interpret any other
author In much • manner/ Take any of our poets, and the re.
=shone which they make of man ae to his frailty and the
of his existence, and I ask should we Interpret their
words sa thous above "Wear, such stuff se dreema are made
of, and our little life Is rounded with • sleep' But does
Shatmeare teach therein the doctrine of ennihisation or non-
mimeses What then of that "undiscovered country from
Mum bourne no traveller returns, which pussies Use will, and
makes an rather bear theme Ills we have than fly to others that
we know not of. Than conscience doth make cowards of ise Sl.'
Of what could them men speak when using such 'anytime, but
efthe termination of earthly existence,bot surely not necessarily
of the analhilatioa of being. If this had been their naming,
it would have been in very different teems they would haws
moken. But Is it not the case, that we 011f101•04 are con.
stoutly ming each language, a• that we are dust and she,
grain that withers, that our life is Sa an bandbreedth ; but do
we thereby imply that we believe In the utter destruction of
being? The very reveres is true; from the fleeting character
of this life, we Esther resews for thinking mpremely of the
future; and that such were the views of these ancient mints is
wrath from other language, which we shall now look at for a
little. For I do observe • eingular disposition on the part of
our opponents to confine themselve, to one dm of lametes.
Let me give you another. The Old Testament argument for
• future Sate That the doctrine for • belief in the future
life le clearly taught In the Old Tegument Scripture Is aa
evident aa that God's own existence is referred to. The argument
Indeed la so very conclusive that I 0•0 only uttor my wrest
astonishment that any one who pretense to he winded by tee
Bible should fail to me it. L 44 U. 'tau the ponages which
teach it as Pimply and ea clearly a. possible. Of mune If man
were only mortal, and if the ecpeeeloemlwhich they use, and to
which we have already referred, simply taught that and that
they believed in nothing elm, we should not expect to find any
evidence in the belief of • future stale. ht. We learn that the
befief in • future state we. • doctrine commonly aught and
=ted in our Lord's day This we learn from the contro-
which elitist bad with the learned men of his day, as
for examrls that mentioned in Matthew xxil 23, ii. "The
same day came to him the Badducees which my there is no
resurrection, -they were the materialist, of their day, and I
should think Use advocates of annihilation have leaned their
&thine from the fiedducen-who say there is no spirit nor
asgeL But Christ in the Interview tells them that they neither
merry nor are given in marriage, he. Thus the doctrine
of a future 1114 WWI clearly known before Jess MUM and
preathed the doctrine of the resurrection. The question le
where did the Pharisees get the doctrine of the future life?
Obearly tom the Old Tenement Scriptuns; but how could they
have learned such • doctrine there from sock word. on that
MIS WWI dun and ashes; they went down into the grave of
krgetfulnees I Were the Pisarthee not commitUng a groin
Mother when they sought to learn any sath doctrine; and
were sot the adducean the only true interpreter, of the Old
Teibnatit, u the Christadelpfdans are now? No For Jame
Methione their teaching, and, ea we shall me, condemn their
SWIM fallowere This belief of • future life we by the low
Jim hold vary tamolously, vo that they beautiful 4 celled •
ellislary the hams of the Brim, as our modern phrase glib it
"God's acre." Now, that the Jews learned the &Moe Meth
the Ilempturee is inoontestable, unless we m 4• that they
It from numunding heathen bathes ; but them nelieneereilig
see the truth so clearly as the Hebrews Mt, aod lb lalla met
underwood by them gesenilly, but 00 the contrary esernedl
them. Nor ean we suppose that other natter with Meth
advantaget of nature, ehould be empamed by • p• 091, who
were not oosspicuom lor their esthenese and mental enpanorlif.
We are, therefore, forced to the conehmith that they boned
Ws doctrine trom thetr mud book& Led OM Ws woo the

sae Ii certain frees the further feels recorded. 2.—We And for 1
examide from ono of the imsdred eaten, that. the Patriarch"
enjoyed the kuowie.l4J, of • future 'date thrUlgil 11. revolation •
Paul says re lu to. liabnora :L. where, after enumerating tho
, of abet, Enoch, Abrobant, Ntah. he my*: "mete +II
dial in faith, not having received the promisee, but havin..; emit
than J,r off," etc_ confessed that they were strut zer, md oil.
rims on the earth. For they that day such things &clue
plainly that they sleek a country (their native country); but In
the theory of annihilation they seek Judy death, and know of
hough, elm. Thin p.stip d.MoflArAteL incoolestably that the
doctrine of • future life. and • lit- of heavenly bleerednee, wet
known to the Patriarchs, and ammo, that. ;2,, no ont., one
po,ajwy deeirey such • belief. On this ground, Clidat also
'Mans that God is not the God of the deed, hot of the living;
and to try to explain that of the living who are to be, would
be to do the gTvnoet violence to human apeach, and the plain
thew. aord ; and the mine truth wot taught 17 Got
to Home at the bush, where he swam of Abraha.j. i.e. ow
J scab, but if they had mated to exist no duet and ashes, can we
suppose such language to he employed? lit reference to the
above , see Ilea. xxii•, 32. "I am the God of Abraham,
and thrniof Isaac, and the God of Jacob, God ht not the
God of the dead, but of the living." Dean Alford my., "It I.
an amertioa which could not he made of an annihilated being
and Luke ex., SS, after smarting the fact that the dead are
rased, the chief point of dispute with the lisrlduceve, he say.,
" For He a not a God of the Ilead, but of the livinx ; all
live unto him ;" on which latter words the learned writer above I
grated vas. " Here is We el all living and dead, in the sight of ;
God, ao that none are annihilated, but In the regard of illiu oho
inixabiteth etemlty, the being of all le • living one In all it,
changes." I—Here we might refer to events; recorded in the ;
Old Testament, where the deetrine of • future state woe clearly ,
astt. We are familiar with the lane concenalny Enoch. In I
Jude we learn he was • preacher of God's agog judgment ,
(16th vers) aghast the ungodly. Loa clearly taught
the doctrine of • future life, and in It punishment to the
wicked ; and when he wee taken from the earth without tasting
death, when be weed noiselessly and with silent step into the
unman world, so that "be was not, for God had taken him,"
what would the world that then was think concerning ?
Would they not have ooncluad that God had taken him to
that world .4 which he had ken, and which he had urged
them to seek? Thor the 4ecli4sse of future life, of rowanl and
penal:at, mug have been clearly and fully enuociated in ;
the Old Testament period. The same aeons are to be learned '
from the translation of Elijah. 4.—Beyond the.° evade we ;
have the moat distinct natements respecting • future life in
the Old Testament. There Irs the word "Wed" which mend
ineas) the grave amply, tint which means the future abode
of the good 'Wrath Tide is clear ha such stetemente as men
being gathered to their When, which =mot mean their
being buried In the male grave. This, Abraham we gathered
to his fathers; but he Wa4 buried in Ilacphelah, hundreds of
Mille from hie father'. sepulchre. Anal, also, when Jacob
mourned for Joseph. and raid that be would go' down Into the
' grave to his moo, that eyelid not mean that he was to be buried
• with Joseph, because he believed that Joseph had been torn of
wild bees. It could only mean, thearefore, that he would go
, where his spirit was, thereby indicating the belief IR the
existence of the soul after death. The same facia are true of
Moses, who eas buried In the land of Moab, where none of
his brathree were buried. (Deut. xxxlv., 6.) 6th. There is
1 one very Important passage where this lane doctrine is taught,
• sad, a• it Is used to uphold the theory of nnn-existenee gar
• death, let us look at It it for • little. (Secants di-, II).
"Who knowleth the spirit of human beings, which amendeth ?
from above) ; and the spirit of the bone, which deseendeth
,(it from below) to the earth r lath. content the writer le spank-
of death as eommon to man and back and commenting
on the folly of Woes who simply live fee the nate, and
, who do not perceive in,thh that they are ng Gunnel vs
, on • level with the bath BS however much they may
• steeples the fact, there Is yet • rat dalnetion between the
• whit of esen and the beset, for the one asenieth and the
oar deemsdat and Is anolltHated. This rendering Is sup-
by erionber presage (chap. xii., 7). "Then shall the
1 sup-
sorted
return to the mirth ma It was• and the spirit shall return
I unto God wbe yes IL' Thetestimoesyof thh paint /e e
/Mare life, that Is admitted on all hands and Oren rem
who have every Werra In denying it. ind from the way in
which the ponage is introduced, Ma claw that it must have
been generally knows and believed In tits writer'. day. It is
net eat forth as • discovery, but as a well-known truth. eth.
Thus is another point to which! with to refer here, and that
Is that purges are found in which death, though common to
all, wee yet aught with very different smite to the wicked
end the good.? Thee, In Numbers xxifl• 10, o Lets. die see
&Mb of the righteous, asd let my lae. end be like hie." Whet
o can Such haus* mein but that Batman lielleved that death ;
was an unepeakablehlteling to the righteous, while it would be ,
an ungamkable misery to the wicked. But in the doctrine of
annihilation, death would be the mane to all. Nutaisrom
; other purgos ought be added, saJor example, Job's teamony
respecting the future, aids could only ma his belief In mall
• suite ; I,ut It Is not necessary to add more. Thor the Old
Testament clearly announce. the doctrine of • future state, as
one of reward and puniahmeet, of bating and cursing.
" liehold,"says Moss, "I put before you toolay ilfe and death,"
I which he explains, Wang and cursing. is it sot tit:account-
, able, therefore, that with Nub tertinaonles before tot any one
j should deny the examme of a future life, or identify man's
Iles with the brutes, and speak ef both as making a comson
•*ad, viz., extinction, senlMistioa ? It. The argument from
the New Testament in proof Of the immortality of the soul,
j of itel maxim= existence site the death of the
body, and of Its continued Wawa ease In a state of
• misery or basednem IT in the Old Tenement we find proofs
of these fact., surely we right exact to find them more ex-
, Okay enuociated on the New Testament, and that this is sole
evident from an examination of Lite following pages of
Scripture. Ise In prod of the distinctive character
of mui ae an Immortal being, and as destined to survive
• death, we might adduce a few genes' to:iodation, bears we
Iproceed to the direct proof. And the h4hert consideration of
, all is derived, 155. From Christ's own We. We believe Christ,
• to be God and man—very God, and very ma Into any proof
of these facts it is not neeemeary Inc me to atm. Christ lived
• real human life, and the We which belongs to US belonged to
Jesus also. He roommate our humanity. He was mode in
the likeness of man, and was found In fshion aa • Man, Now
the question that I have to ask here i., was Jew u a Mall
made limply mortal? Base if be were, then the race whom
be represented were mortal also ; and that when he died he
MUM have awed to eat, This le ths teaching of the
; avocets of analathre • they tell us that Josue
• wee nowhere at his death, Ind was thus on • level with
the lower creatures The doctrine is so horrible and blahs
was,., that I shudder to pet It in words; end even the advocates
of such • doctrins has odd.. Ugh about It as partible, even
they themselves seem to feel the utter baphemy of such • con-
ception. But if Christ, as man, were immortal, had a soul
We am distinct from the body, le must the race whom he
recreant+. This tomy mind la the most conclusive argument
which could be used- I shall not dwell on the fact that Jose.
brought life and immortality to light, which Implies thatea-
mortality must ha been known before, but that Jess gave
It such Minoan that it may be rid to be • disosery by him.
Men thendore have this immortal la which It WM Mast's
mission to brie( to light. And immortality is something
different from lila The We bore mean, all the Wang, of the
salvation of Jesus, ani not Nadler exigence simply, er that
' while man Is immortal, he does not thereby have Wawa. •
there may be an immortality of woe as of blemeinem ; bui
; Jesus brought life as well as immortality to light. 2. Another
general coonderatiou is, the papa of Christ's mission. It
, wee to week and to mare But this imposes that ennewin
wwo r re ftsci nO
mortal life, If be were to pariah at deals, U that were he;
original constitution, what we ask did he love, that it abonld .
require to be raved. Here Om it is palpable that something
of infinite moment was lost, and that we,.life which Jest '
Mee to restore, the llfe• of God in the soul. Hence we can
understand the language of Chrlet,"wluct shall it profit • man
if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul r —his hen
,hilc. Here the soul, or life, is put in contrast with the univas
each man,therefore, pone= thet white the univerm cannot equal,
. and what can that bell it he not that life what snakes him sump- I
tibia of eternal weal or wow But If he has ne life higher then
the brute, then Meth language would be equally tree our the
brute no of an ; what all it prat it, if it gels the world, and
lose inelf ? Who dos not see the utter &Mouthy of such
atoning, and who does not see in Christ's words, and In his
whole treatment of man, each a dignity alibed to him, even
as a fallen being, se can only be understood In connexion with
the greatness of the being which God has given hlm—a soul
life—that which makes hire like God, and fits Wm for glory or
for shame. Thus all them peewee which refer to man's perish-
Ing and being lest, can only, al we shall ass, rehr to the low 04
that higher Ills without which an's future la shall be • thin
of misery, and sin, and death—(is 10.4 ev). Let Ile proceed
now shortly to ethane some of the proofs which amen man's
future exams and thatellstenst es eternal either In misery o
aware A word of explanstion as to the resurrection, for her:
our opponents think that they have • very strong case for their
theory of perishing; but anark—lg. The whole argument is
. an ahrument for the resurrection of the body. and not for the
soul. Now we have men that the pours existence Ls distinct
from the body, so that we don't need to repeat the argument
. here again: 2- But if perishing Is the doctrine. vie., snnigli.
. ailon then it would follow that Christ would have perished
. else tf he had not been raised ; .5516th rine,'lithe dew!
, rim not then is not Christ rad, Le., he is annihilated. This
Is the Decemery result of the theory; and Christ would have
• perished although he was ohm. S. Therefore the doctrlee of
the apostle is simple. We look to Cast as the athosenent for
sin; Clariet's rising Is the midair:l it, ; but If be did not rise
. we have no prospect of that life which be &mothers; we shall
j not have the life of blessednass In our 'loran bolleabut must
undergo an immortal existaoce of sin and misery. This le the real
point. See 44th rerse, "It U sown a natural body.. Here it
Is argued that We whole life which Adam had is burled- But
eall you conceire• more haat disregard for language It Is
the body which is sown, and the epithet Is supposed to include
, that which gave the life as sown with it. Now singulert
enough WU Is the very error puma ire which could to used
to support the very opposite theory. It Is a awl life thet the
• body has—not an animal life .imply. This body is • glorious
Going after all—it it lifted above We creatures that perish, as
, haring life from the soul, at that it. form and banu•y cons-
, pond with the soul that animates it But to argue that tie
soul is sown with the body that Wats it le so extraordinary
ed,,,,,licedino of agnate that It seems to me Impreehla
for ahr ....an to be guilty of It Then with =dto sleep.
How me this meth 411111hIlatma Lawns la to, to
; imply death. What of the peas •• the meld in
1 a deed but sleepeth r Wm-plain the one by the
• other, is., according to analogy of Scripture. We
might naturally input that the prod of the future state—
. the immortality of the al, the CollaCtioUt exigenee of the soul
after death, and the eternal duration of ouniahment world he
still more explicitly taught, but her, again we are aasured. Ist.
That there le no proof of future life after death 2nd. That
r that Ills Le confined to the resurrection, and 3rd. That then the
righteouseicked arsonityo..be
wultatteexid
andlyhoth.:flea:.:lnd.tanhapnhilhilinsla...tbiede—eixt.hattLiuttonet
r there is no proof of immortality In the New Tesament of •
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. let me quote the words of those who hold this doctth thiole Gas atate that now..
rine....
" Heath is • total *clime of being, • complete obliteration of
• our conscious selves from God's universe." That hearse' raid.
for the good or hell for the wicked after death is here firmly
denied. and thia le true of all, without ex..eptlon ; and It must
have been true of Jews Christ also. This Is the noway to '
which they are driven. They must bold that Jesus I
while he was in death was totally and absolutely anni-
hilated. Thus we read from tam who bold this doctrine.
"Clearly Wee Christ's soul we. not is the paradise of popular
belief, nor a paradise of any kind, owing to. the te,,,p.,„..y
, victory of death over ha" What does this mean?
; Of sures that Jesus was annihilated during his desch --did not
exist until the rerurrection. The author of such sentimental is
. afraid to put these blasphemous utterances ill wain words: eh.,
could believe a doctrine which leas to such frightful Suer am
thou? But let an came to the 'haw% whether such a eta
/ does skid after death. ht. Here 1 might show you that the
• Scripture, do resogoise the ethane/ of spirit. apart from the
• air. The narratives are nemesis In which evil spirits were .
, cast out, and it is mid that they stroke and held convene. were
o coned.. wing.. And to affirm of such that they were simple
rso many for= and munpulatiou of phyaical disorder, le
to rob the Scriptures of all boost teaehnx together.
But I will not dwell on thou thing; but prooxd to
Invite station to those Mager which most clearly
demonatrate the fact of • future We auoceeding death. I will
not travel over the whole Incidents that might be mentioned;
lot ue mks • few became they will many lot, L., .„ begin
with the mina.. .1 the tranagenetlon, MAI* Ix, t Males and
Elias wen talking with Jess. The question here Is, did Mass
and Ear really apart If they did not then Jesus was deceived;
h... water with wino who had no existence. A rag 'n-
abet might tell you this this was • high state of excise:int,
, virtual rapture of Christ, and that he simply thought he was
• bolding convene with thesillostriou spirrts. Can • believer
Is the New Teter:tent believe any_ well thing. And If not,
. what must we believe but that Noses eed Eta,, were con.
o giously present with God, enjoying his favour. which I.
• We. If thia be not the plain understanding of this
, thou I ma derma of underanding ague,. et,
I Than we caw to the twain of the tide( ee the ere..
. St. Luke :hit. 43. What sold possibly to mom ortleat than
. that Jesus was speaking then Of the tines happiness that retry
• day, and every attempt to prove that that day meant some
very far off day, mud he fatal, and Is rejected by all .0..
patent authority. Of ewes ase men are driven to a
difficulty It is analog what shifts they win sake, Here then
, it Is affirmed, that Chris sad not he ege.gme, of p.,,a;
• for that day, because it Is said he did not enter Paradise that
, dap', bat was In hell, and as Par alai,
' rafts In prase As also, when lag rose fie eid—,j7.th.
' I sien pot yet scolded I. my Tatar." Now It may —is
enough to my of all them otiperlons, that th,y are ware than
answered by Christ's own verde," I uto thy hands I commend
, my spirit." IS that congaed with the Idea that
we annihilated far the Wing Who could possibly
accept any such doctrine Then as to his preaching to the
aribe in prison—that Is ceaferedly • moms difacult page—
nay allising that it rare to Noah's preaching, ad that
Jew preached through Nash 10 18. mess of his day—but may
rider to the of the Goat after Chat aresenelon—
according to Ifs. prophecy, as it la" loop.. the pita doon,
to let the eating° ha; Bate'.. lt rehrot them Vlinia, it
may be mid, that Jac could have tone and preached
sprite in the tuters seem, and bore let it b. often red that
there wore *Ms to prier to, but 0.1 Ul4ltheory we are com-
batting, there were no mires, sad this LI by are
isreeight audited—it is not a fewinrobleprow and
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spirit, and preached and d have been In radii° and 11° hare
5111.1 the promise to le (Wet. Thin may ry ern is the
leiew taken by Doan ALlN—ono .4 the best authorities on
oich • queetbni, and anesenderlng by any American author
!mu., Yield to hie. The...1:11 regard to Jesus's utterance to
Italy, I hare not yet ayohol. It refer. undoubtedly to his
I.eing bee ailed li, h. Knit; and priestly ..Mee a,etee, and until
lie hail Really extended I. Ilia position, he ref wag all worship
!ouch a. Mary seek, to on At all creole the fact of his not
haviiil; been sith his tether cannot iil thf reason of his
ref Lied, became the ilixplee touched him, Illtleen we mut.
P". 11, luni 'tone to Cof befit' he saw them—therefore we
I may suppre Chnot to se.-uoti't put of time. Mary. touching
i me, bit igo end r
ethe *elide. ; you will h .vu many oppor•
lunatic, of touching roe fore I ascend. This I may my is the
view taken by some of moot oninent echnlirtt and divines
3r.1. Then We t•tihrl ul thlilenth of Stephen, the ling martyr of
the churel., "Itecei re te viral" And hero 1( 10 orgued that
Stelfb4l dinnly me sue tit he was rasigrog back ihe gift of
Id.. But what a poor idectaim, and what an imentlefactory
explanation ,4 coy evency grand and gititioo.. Who doss
Inot feel that the per-on gm makes Mal • reply Is driven
to the 'mitten...unify for greyly. Brides It i. quite 000eces-
-1 eery for Stephen to dell* up his life, because the stoning
I would have dime that ter:eff i ectively If t sr oo that he war.
! only mortal and that he inereed no opirit as di Ainct from the
I looly "And he fell rleepehich is urged in proof of the above
explanation, but winch rm., WO luay well iix m expremi ve
lof the state it rexe into which he Intl entered after the
i trilnilation which be isi i tared (broach; this Is one
lof the souls beneath th alter, prating that God may
avenge hie elect. 4th. Then we ors. to Paul, 2nd Coo.
. V., 0,8. " Knowing Bra, se re confident and willing
. rather." The [anon age 1 peculiorly exprerive, " Absent
I from the Lord," wLere tare le an alludon to xijournlng in a
, enuntry far from home ; ad "lirrent with the Lord,"quitting
! that country to settle at home, instant migration. Phil. i.,
' 23, "Ti depart and to bewith Cnrist." Bt. Luke extra., 23
! and 23; Rail It admitted 4 all hoar to refer to the period
' before the resurrection. 1 teaches two facto—thet there i
• hell, and that mei i are cordieus in it. The rich man is Tyre-
, seated sa being net only In tplace of torment but the placed
! torment, Gehenna, see 25th iatthew, 41; Mark ix., 4$ and 48;
Rev xx., 11 and lb ; Luketed, 27 and 28; Luke xxilL, 43,
mew purges therefore indonbtedly teach that the soul
! pram inn. the unseen world is death, the good to Paradise and
the wicked to hell This rens without any twisting of
passages the plain granunatkal emus to be put on the word.;
the question now meete ua, what is the nature of the punish-
ment, lo It eternal or bit not/ Here then we meet the follow-
, ing difllculties let, It is got eternal. 25.0. And second the
, word which seems to Minty nordinsent cannot turn torment.
, Lot it. ex intim theme two Nati Here Our reference must be
' to Ude Scriptures, and that wires punishment le there taught
seems to me so . nelforldeit that I almost ynacgise for
. attempting to raise anj elaborate argument about it.
! lot. In the first place might I not appeal confidently to your
c• oilmen some in mama ..I duce solemn prows
of our Lord hinrelf, where he yore of the destruction and
enuiWiment of the wicked And il het the fact that the
church universal, and hided all readers of the Bible, have so
interpreted them words, toe of Amager evidemer of their
being intended so to be mad. Can we supper the least
poribility for mistake here/Would not euch a tact reflect on the
good remand wisdom of God/ Merl, that very solemn address
of Christ which an admitted n Womb the ler judgment by
all Outdid attics. There he describes the stale of the wicked
and of the good. (Matt. ext. 31). All nations whored
seporated one from the other--Yepherd dividing, the sheep
from thermic To the good B. sop • COON, ye blared of
my Father.' Now, Irk, do net such words r these convey
,to the mind the idea of elletteetitat blemodnees 1 It did not
need that the people should be standing by with dictionaries in
I their hyde, aii4irath all the apparatus of criticism to see
. whether this mak mean everlasting blemednese. It dote at
ore ampere us a. eternal. This, I venture to arm, is the
plain intelligible meaning which soy boort mind would put
on the WOI.: and here let it be °teeter that our opponents
.do regard It as such. But when they come to the opposite
We of —the.,
_•eme_.! taw, they change their green of interpreta-
tion. en Me 01.0011 it is aid "Depart from 010, ye cured,"
le not this the striders of the forme, nod whet is involved
, lathe ene meat equally be involved ix the other. Ails the
one we have evidence of Wm eternal, so in the other we have
the evidence of punishment etarniel—erbotevet that punishment
may be. The "depart' is the opposite tat the "come." The
" cursed" of" blared." "The kingdom prepared for you" of
"the Ire for the devil and hie angle." That the eternity of
the one and the eternity of the other to any reason•ble man
mems beyond the porbility of doubt. And In the len verse
the same truth is trll mere emphatically declared. "Them
shall go away Into everlasting punishment, but the righteous
into life eternal." Now, let trey here that the word describ-
ing everlaming le the same in both care Therefore, . f we
argue for eternal life we must argue for Emma death. But hero
we are met with the objection that everlasting is not necrearlly
Infinite and unending, Here, the.., we Meta Oen what the
word really does mean. It LI mid iet It is sometlmee used as
denoting • period of time, which cannot, therefore, mean
eternal. But it is to be observed that the word which is used
for eternal &lithe adjective ef the noun, always and without
exception mean. tiverlariag and eternal. And this by •
inference to the beet. Greek Laleautel would be found to be the
ire : but thole who reject he eternity of punishment only
iris e tom crying of the nounand withhold the meaning of the
adjective. This, if there were no other proofs settles the
whole quirky The meanie( thus given is sustained by the
following qu Arlen from Aristotle, who wrote 304 years before
the New Torment was written. Speaking of the gods,
whom he considered as Immoral and a. having their residence
above the heatalla he ear : "no Winne which exist there
net thee exist In 'Lace, nor &riling, make them grow old; nor
undergo they any changes, but pommeling an an-
changeable life, free from all outward hopremions
! pedectly
.hzy.d and eeld-sufilleilent, they continuo
! through all Mona) Mornay ; awl this the Locients
erably by the word Itself; and he defines eternity
ee taking lie name from always being, Immortal, divine. lilt
ret he shown that such is the meaning of the word, then
Oldet here teechee the isternlty of punishment. And the
Whole etteell4oo indicates Isaiah:lg. 'rake the deeerlptiou of
, the blared—. they enter the kingdom prepared foe (ben;"
: sad as there is no other state to succeed, it most follow that
they enter in • final and fixed star: And this the word teaches,
and that, which Is true el the or is true of the other • the
wicked like the good outer into an eternal Mate, • stele of
wired:men But It is argued that the eternal state of the
good is to be learned from other perces, and, therefore, they
do not argue from this purge. Why? Bemuse in arguing
from this purge for eternal Weirdness, they were compelled
to argue for eternal peat/AV:Peet on the other hand also. But
What an the purges which they appeal to for the eternity of
the good? "Tuoy shall never perish " hut never le surely not a
stronger 02Welettoll then eternal; said that It is rynonymous
with at is evident from the um of it. Take • few passages—
John vi., fei—Jeees is speaking of the need of raring his neeh,
which does not mean eating blared hedy, but eating spiritually
of the doctrines of ealvation, and this eating, he says, gives
eternal life; but at the teeth verse he explains or rather
reprte this Merrill' by saying that he who thus cats Christ
doll heeler ever. Now the one expromion Is
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the woe am the other, and if auything the Ant is the stronger
which ocayesponde to the Ono used of the nicked.
Another pawing* Menai to la the 10th chap. John
v. 2." I give Santo them (my sheep) eternal life end they
*hall never perish ;" where the simnel iffigle equivalent to the
never perish which is the mane eerier...lon So that the
to ee boo—. neo
with the one in Matthew which is associated with the descrip-
tion of eternal punishment What therefore can poseibly be
clearer than that eternity of punishment is taught in the words
of our Lord, and that a limited duration of punishment bath
not the least evidence In the New Testament I ought greatly
add to the force of thin argument, by the following weeders.
none Isl. By all those purgea in which the final stets of men
are referred to by contrast. These punnets are so numerous
and are so familiar to you all, that I need °WY refer to • very
few of them. " The hope of the righteous shall be traduces,
but the expeetationlof the wicks) shall perish." Proverb. x.,32,
" Thewlekcel is driven away in his wickedness% but the nghteous
bath hope in.his death." Prey. xiv.. 3- And many of them that
sleep in the dust shall awake sane to everlasting life, and mote
to sheme and evertaistlng contempt." Daniel di., 2. "Many shall
come from the Fast, and the West and shell sit down with
Abraham, lam, and Jacob, be the kingdom of Heaven ; but the
children ;of the kingdom Mall be met out into outer
dy.knon; thaw &MI be weeping and combing of
west," Meshes Bth chapter, 11, 12 'The son of
man shell land forth His angels and they shall gatherout of Hie
kingdom all thinp that offal:dud them which do iniquity and
roan east them into a furnace of fee; there shall be walling
and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as
the sun in the kingdom of their Father." Matthew
10th chapter, 41-3. These and similar plasm
with which we are familiar indicate clearly the re-
%motive eternity of the wicked and of the good. 2nd. Then there
are pumaes which teach Use sanity of punishment by impli-
cation. "The blaepheini against the Holy Ghost shall not be
forgiven to men, neither in this world, nor in the world to
coma." There le, sin unto death, Ido not Rey ye should pray
for it "It is Iniposnible again le renew them unto repentance.'
"The worm that dash not, and the fire that is uot quenched."
Thie peonage is frequently repented In a few yenta Mark lx.'
43 to the eel Rd- Then we might refer to those psalms. where
a chimp of heart is confined to the preeent life. How
numerous are those which affirm that men having
failed to obtain fitness for amen co earth shall aak font in
vain in the future. "Many shall e..-ea t• enter in and shall not
he able" Lord, Lord, open to us—heaball answer and my unto ,
you I know you not whence you en—depart from me all ye !
workers of iniquity—there shall be limping and enashing of '
teeth. Thus the evidence for the sanity of punishment Le eon- !
dative; and if this he not the neessaits of language, then sill !
my la, it Is imputable for us to attach proper meaning to worth
it al. 2nd, Out we are now ma with the objection that !
destracSon oUad punishment csamot nein everlasting torment. ,
That everlasting destruction must mean en end of being, or
I. other ',entait must mean iumidilabon; and thus we are shut !
up to the belief of the utter maihation of the soul after
death. lat: We must here observe that a word often times is
employed to roomy more than Its temple meaning involves.
It Is used to connote ae well as drone. So that the surd
Includes all that pertains to what say be referred to in Ibe
word. Take the word life. Eroded Iktlidle—Life in Ha elm*
meaning, doe. not Imply nem It
from Bin—future happiness tiarrat Yet these are the mean-
nr to be attached to it, as we know from the Beripturee—we
shall hunger no more neither llama soy more because we have
this eternal ills—end on the some pnociple punish-
ment is meant to ineitide the loft of SI that
pertains to life • end therefore to set forth ever.
laming pain and torment, And I, What elm can be meant
by the words of Christ, when he speaks of the fire that ahall
never be quenched, and the worm that never climb 1 Now,
whatever may be the meaning mach* to Ire and worm hero,
It unelouutitedly implies the confinuance of suffering in some
form or other—the unending life of death. That such Is the
meaning of the words is evident, because if entilhilation were
to take place, the fire and the I,lorlll must MM. How can
anything exist end came to tenet at one and the same time/
But this is the difficulty in which we are involved if we think
of annihilation. But we are here referred to the meaning of
tho word which is used to net forth the destruction ..f the
wicked, and which It is affirmed can only mean utter and abso-
lute annihilation; but to this it may, Ist, be objected, that If
Ibis word means anelhilatiOn, how are we to memento it with
the mono word weed which must of moomity involve conscious
existance, such as living in darkness, in the fire prepared for
the devil and his angels. Weepers and gnashing of teeth—the
fire net quenched —and many such expromione—how could
them experiences exist with annihilation 1 Therefore we are
shut up to one of two alternatives, be, that Christ did not
mean what his words imply In roe case; or, 2nd, that they
nomn the woe thine in both rase; which can only he the
element of conscious existence is suffering. And here we are
further corroborated in this viol, because the word which
is used for destruction is others.' employed, when no ring,r
It by annihilation would be Imporshi. Tate a few sawn..
, many might be given—" And goon into the wilderness, anti
seeketh that which was lost "—tin mme word—but the sheep
was not ennihilated. "Then lighteth a roadie, end soketh
that which was lost" - but the honey was not atunhilateel—
and so with regard to the Prodle.l Son. He sae hat; but .
he wee not utterly destroyed. Tierdore it is perfectly clear
that the word for elearue. ion mina by poniality Imply the !
utter and absolute lo a of being enh as is maids nod by the ,
edvocates of annihilation. Than argument. 1 have presented
in the briefest form—l have led no desire to exhaust the
subject to-night, but simply to 210 the outlines of the quedion
before you Whenever, therefore, words are employed by the
New Testament writers which romk of perishing, they cannot
refer to anything else than the Lee of the blemedneva which
Clod give° to the soul that believes in Jesus; and it is there-
fore the element of future misery that the lise, should endure
the synth of God bemuse of the r neglect of the gin, of if..
2. But, further, we are told that (twist came to deliver us from
the wrath to coma. But if we an annihilated, If we are to
perish like the beast., what watt) could come upon us?
Instead of enduring God's wrath, we rather receive the benefit
of temporary life through Christ to eider In and then to par
a way. But the belief is so encembered with difficulties aod
Inaccuracies that I deem it quite initemeary to enlanre upon
11. 4. Then the Mat point that mai to be looked at would be
the moral aspect of this questien. Would it be like God to
keep his anaturee in sterna/ tonteut3 But what right have
we to dictate to God ea to what ye think Is right or not nicht
for him lode. The question lure is teeth God so nestled
? Then we mwei b°. to Sit decision. 2. Then it is further
argued that God delights net In be sufbeings or the death of
the wicked. But doe, the fact if future puoidunwwiolrm
that he doe*? The very oppoits is true. It Is because he
does not delight in it that he wane men agaiust It. end hastehty of ,
eirlsalmilywP7sollths.b"aleranianhitheionu*r their
ni.A.4lllll•Thamt:the"l"deettlbdr:"lgit done that meo
this. They
have
sowed 6"
they must resP and surely Idle is nothing
but Juana, and God cannot be cheated with the remits of
man's own deed. 4. And Italy the ohdertinn inurn go
further; if it would be unjust lee God to I"ith ethrttelli,
It mast be unjust to punish at all. heesues I/ men
does not deserve eternal punishment, on what grounds does
God mean to puniro at all. If we were signing with the
rw"Thtionist, he would reply, ill nutnannent is corrective
end therefore Gel outdates to shha—iiien baser. But to my
nothing of the erroneounmes of tha theory, wadi equally mi.
take, the end of the divine (0,11111111.44 and 130tri relation lode.
the advocates of annihilation allra 'heaped pamees men by •
continuance in mitering fee las own waldecte b= he Is
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seems to tee no evidence for the doserine•ldch I have been now to Kr. Trim's, and resolved frees hm various articles ant Users
combating ; and I confidently leave the evidence I have placed for her -a Mewl, two crinolines, • bunch of lowers, par of
Wore you to make its own way in your minds ; and I may scissors onmb, tumble and robot.
also my that I believe you will not be led away with the Ulm 1 reeler :No letter,
and shallow arguments which ha' e been put forwerd on this Witness; I received • letter from Mr. Trim.
subject by these who poke to foilw truth, but who fan to Prisoner handed in • letter to tie magistrates, but she Wm
understand Its plainest statements. Now let me remind you to keep It, sod reserve her defence,
that this is not a subject for controversy simply. It Uromeariatined ; The letter I imeired from Mr. Trim we
dimply concerns us nil; and when we cootampleta this great
Issues which hang on our life. lam sure we shell all rejoice I rmorser : That Is upon your oalbl
In that lath of mercy by srhlch the soul may thus be delivered Witness: It was open.
and saved with an everlasting salvation. May you all reek P.C. Bartlett was then MOM.
that Saviour who alone mu save and who is willing as he Prisoner here put down her veil 1041 wept.
Ls able! The witnwe said that he received on the 9th a bottle of
sherry et Mr. TAIDeL Ile afterwards went tot, Bedsides')
The CHAIRMAN said: I think I may DOW venture In Cottage,,,, and ~,.k.d .frin. chimi...,.., sm. yr.smu.s.n.
the name of you all to tender to Mr. Nears our sincere Bunt, Vickery tald on Saturday afternoon primmer wee
thanks for the groat pains he has taken to master this lwought to the Natlon on • warrant. Ho ceuticood her, and
subject ant to place it before us in a manner so sena- add aim had been about Weymouth ome time; when she sidd
factory and conclusive. One word before we go. In she
10thcouloot, se slasecamer.q out of Dwcherister. Prlso.n. on the
the lecture you heard that the Lord attributed the them ond admit:: th., thus, weuested lfe hoih,e.:: that shedh.a
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crime of the Saiducees to their 'not knowing the them. He glowed her to keen some as thee were from her
Scriptures." See then that you don't err from the same solicitor. The other letters she mid fie had sent from Dag-
cause. You may know enough even for the salvation therier. She said she had not been oat of prison a whole west
of your soul*, anti yet not enough to resist false apostles lee seven Yewe, and that the dinner It the station was the only
sod (else doctrine. Let this controversy make you more /
erthble one the had had for wren sera fle went 0
Do sheeter oop Satarday, and hund that she wile die
diligent and prayerful in your study of them, and U on the 20th, having been *evicted in the name al
you •re rightly jealous of the dignity of your nature agbdialorenou Howard, for ohtstrthiggoods by base problems
as being superior to 'the beasts that perish," take care at Blendford. Prisoner asked for on• of the letters.
that you dolit make yourself lower than the Waste by BY lb. Bench: Witness thought she teal been here about a
the neglect or abuse of your higher gifts ; but rather waea afr..
be diligent to use them to the elm yof the Giver ; and I Remanded toll o'clock next Mondry.
think that In this case "good may come out of evil."
At lesst,we may thank the leetarer from Birmingham for
having brought together so large • meeting to hear the
words of truth from Mr. NOILVII.
The large assembly then separated.

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