The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-01-23
A Rft of The0Ioyv


Our friend STONE, of the H;qh School Jour-
nal, has got his foot into it now. He must
either own up at once and acknowledge him.
self worsted, or exchange gloves with a tho
rough theologian, who, in that department
we apprehend is more than his match. In
the High School Journal Of "Wednesday ap-
pea.ed the following:
We have been permitted thus far to listen
to the course of Bible lectures, being given,
at the Free Church, by the Rev. p. B. MoR-
GAN. In the course of these lectures the
speaker has enunciated some new proptsi-
tons; they are not only new, but we fear
difficult to demonstrate.
We think We should much prefer to de-
monstrate the most difficult problem in Eu-
cid, had we never seen treatise on Geome.
try, than to undertake to prove some of the
propositions laid down by the speaker
Some of them have not yet been proved, but
! if energy of purpose will answer for proof,
they will not lack testimony. One or two
Of which we will give substantially, to wit ::
First, that Nan is to inhabit the earth for
erer.
Second, that he is to inhabit it (the earth)
in his physical state mot spIrituaD.
Now, we do not wish to be understood as
saying that either of these propositions is
not true.
1t is customary in the literary, scientific,
and even social world, whenever new Meo-
ry is brought forward, or new proposition
proclaimed, to call upon the enuncator for
proof; especially is this so, wheneve they
are given out in opposition to those that are
well enured. Now it is well known that the
oh
opposition to those well established, there
fore the Onus proJandi as :he logicians say,
rests upon the speaker to prove his PROPOSE
tons.
The speaker afiirms that there is no place
in the universe, pointed out in the Bible,
where the Son Of Man is to dwell eternally
but this earth and that his soul is 10 remain
encased in this tenement OF clay for ever and
ever; and that tenement chained to the
earth while ceaseless ages roll on. We can
tell better as 10 this matter when the de-
monstration is given. We wait for the tes-
timony.
To which we are requested to insert the
following 10y way oil response:
Mn. STONE Sir II observe IN the Journal
Of " Wednesday, your notice Of our lectures
in the Second Congregational Church of this
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a rather unfavorable aspect. Believing you
had no design in giving any other-than fair
statement to your readers, beg leave to say
of those propositions:
First, that the earth, regenerate, or re-
stored to its primeval felicity, is promised as
the future and final abode of the righteous.
Second, that man is TO enjoy this with
resurrected (or channged) immortal, spiri-
tual body. But a: the same time none the
less tangible, no more than was the resYr-
rected and glorious body" Of our divine
Lord.
This view Of the subject, we believe, is
neither sensual on the one hand, nor does it
SAVIOR Of the GuoStic heresy on the other;
bat i the only CONSTANT manner in which
We can account for the necessity Of literal
resurrection of the dead.
OF your statement that !" the speaker af
firms that there is no place in the universe,
pointed out in the Bible, where the Son of
Nan is 20 dwell eternaliy but this earth i
wish TO say, if by the term q" Son Of Man
is ment the Redeemer, as in the scriptures,
wide Matth. XIII: 81, A. you qnite mistake
our statements.
And Of our being chained to the earth
while ceaseless ages roll on, permit me 10
say in that you again quite mistake our
view. In the scriptures we are informed
that in the reSurrected state the redeemed
- are as the angels of the Lord in heaven"
(Matth. XIII: 30.) Why then as the angels
in heaven the redeemed Of earth may not
20 on missions even to other worlds, [ do
no know, no more than because in this
world a man has home, il necessarily i'm
plies that he cannot perform a mission away
from that home
flrr he of
these lectures the speaker has enuncia,ed
some new propositions" Ofthe foregoing /
wish to say-you are | think 4
quite mistaken in saying they are ne,c Wa
wing all scriptural declarations-whi alone .
deem sufficient to establish any doctrine .
or point of Christian laith-these doctrines .
you will find upon examination, were most 4
taught by Ban nabas, Poycarpe, /
papias Justin Martyr, Ireneus, Tertullian, T.
Origen, Methodius, Lactantius, and by the
of Nice "a. d. $3.50 as also by Cy-
ril. jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the /
great Since the reformation, it has been /
firmly held and advocated by Martin Lather. /
VIM. Tyndale, Philip Melsncthon, John .
Calvin, Archbishop Cranmer, Joseph /
Mede, John Knox. Richard Baxter, John /
Bunvan, with the entire body ofBAPrIsTs in .
the time of Charles I. Matthew Henry, Mil !
ton, Increase and Cotton Mather, Andrew |
Fuller, Isaac Newton, DR.. Gill, Phillip bod ,
ridge. Bishop Heber, DR.. Isaac Watts, John /
W esley, George Benson, John Fletcher, DIR. (
Adam Clark, DIR. Coke, George Whitetield, 4
DR.. John Pye Smith, Edward Hitchcock, ID. /
D., Thomas Chalmers, ID. d., Thomas Dick, |
l.. l.. d.. John Cummings, ID. d., Ii. McNiel, /.
d. d., Bishop Henshaw, Bishop Hopkins, |
Presdant Lord, Mr.. Lord, editor of the /,
Theological and Literary Journal, and many |
Ottrsrs Rejoicing in the truth and hope of
the gospel, | am very respectfully yours,
p b. MORGAN.
From Europe.