Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-11-23

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/ End. The fact that tho Tree of Life was
planted IN the garden, shows the mortality
| Of Adam. If be was immortal, what need
| Of the Tree Of inmortalitys That The
4 fruit of the tree would max the BODY i'm.
mortal, is evident from the fact that afte,
! the fall, it was guarded 81 the flaming
I sword. Had man man remained holy. nc
/ doubt he would have been permitted to
partake of it, that it might asase him i'm.
mortal, # 50, then eyer5l l1naa after ths
| flrst, Vould, IN all probg q have been
Ineeessitated to eat OF It's fruit. sghefbe,
this be SO or not, the tree was there before
the tall, and its virtues we've to give eterna
tlife. And repeat if Adam was immortal
/ why the Tree of Life to make him SO?
3rd. The atonement was co-extensiye
with the fall. If then, hy sin, Adam be.
came subject to physical dissolution, and il
Christ IN his atonement filled up the breach
thus made, mended the whoze arrange
ment, it follows that every man who by re-
pcntance and faith is re-ingrafted, becomes
immortal. The doctrine that the atone
ment is co-extensive with the fall, or with
the effects of sin, is taught belieye-by
all orthodox christians. Then every re-
generate soul dwells in an immortal BODY,
IF SO be, Adam made himself mortal by
tfansgression. This is logical deduction
from the premises, and if they are falliceous
| am unable to detect in what particular.
Objections. 1st. Holiness and pain are
incompatible in the same eperson-thev can
not exist together. There can be no death
without accompanying or antecedent pain
Adam was holy, hence not subject of
pains, and therefore, not of death.
There is an error in the premise. that
holiness and pain are Incompatible. Ce-
lestlal holiness, or the holiness of the future
state, cannot be subject to pain-and this
IS the holiness that is in the minds of the
asserter. But terrestrial holiness is quite
another thing. Here the body has not
been renovated or made senseless-ther
1T has. Are we compelled to look beyond
this world for perfect holiness? Can we1
lind no instance of a man entirely free from
SIN or its influence? Surely the Redeem
er OF man was as holy while on the earth
as the angels in heaven-was as holy be-
tore the resurrection as after it, but the
nesh was different. Before he arose he
ward 1t was mmater1sraf fAdam-his BODY
he chose to render it 50 for rhigace-after
pose. - save as
The only question now to be setrrcu-,e,I
was the FLESH OF Christ subject to pain?-I
Would he have felt pain from an incision
in his flesh? Did the FLESH, or only the
spirit-the God, suffer pain from the nails
that fastened him to the tree. and the spear
which entered his side3 Did the thorns
give pain to his temples? Did the vine
gar pain his tongues If SO, holiness such
as this, has existed on the earth, and pains
are not incompatible.
If now, the holiness of Christ before the
resurrection, and that of Adam before the
fall, was the same, and if Christ was subject
to pain, then Adam must have been--if so,
then he was to death. Also, God said to
Eve-"I will greatly multiply thy sorrows"
not SNAKE thy sorrows.'' ..
Objection 2nd. The resurrection OF
Christ did make man immortal. That is,
the human body-and it aciU be raised to
Immortality.
I frankly confess inability to conceive
the idea that the body-which know is
every day decaying and must eventually
die-is immortal. I can readily believe
that it auill be immortal after the great re-
surrection. But the question isis it sc
,aow, or Immediately after regeneration p
It will not do to say that Christ filled ul
the aphote breach made by Adam, and ther
say part is yet to be accomplished-fo
this would be intineating, if not saying, tina
e he did not mean what he said, when ht
exclaimed on the cross, at is finished"
A difficulty flor I do not wish to kee]
: anything bach, ,asince | am writing for in
n formation1 Paul says, GAS in Adam all die
0 even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
It Using upothneskousi (the present tense {
o apothnesko)- which means 'to die" an
e zoopoietheso,sfai, (the future of zoopoieo,
!, which means 'to make alive" and hcnc'
n the passage may mean that all aCill be raise
5: from the dead. But an examination of tt
It context will show, that h Is the souh an
IS not the body here spoken of, for the Co
e, trary would prove that the wicked will n
re appear at the judgment, but only the
st spirits. ZETON.
or TERRIBLE DISASTER AT SEA-The Liv,
'. pool Daily Post, on the 9th October, pu
:. fishes intelligence received at late hour t
o' previous night, that the splendid vessel Re
ne al Charter, had been totally lost in Mu
Red Bay, near Bangor, Ireland. Upwar
n of four hundred persons were on board a
mo- only ten are said to have been saved. S
,ot had half million in gold on board WI
II the disaster took place is unknown. ]
=. telegraph had ceased to work, and destr
ai' tive storm prevailed along the coast. I
I'M same paper expresses the hope that the
of life had been exaggerated, some of the b
cal les had washed ashore.
no H A clergyman of Concord, N. 81.
ne saws the Statesman Of that place, met a
neei tie boy of his acquaintance n the cars,
did said to him, This is quite stormy day,
we'd son. Yes, SIR said the boy, this is a '
tbel net rain.' The clergyman, thinking to
ie y lbuke such hyperbole, asked if he ever K
ion of other than wet rain. The boy answt
had that he never knew personally Of any
,at . er. but he had read in certain book
the time when it rained fire and birthstone,
they ne guessed tha' was NOT . wei iA'h' E