The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-04-29

reIiet. The destruction OF amy pr'n-
ciple or hing IS its a4a,hQ,tioa." Is
not that true Of prin ples and things?
But are evil doers, principles or things?
And are they to be annihlated !? Your
proposition ttlirnls their endless wo
What then is the destruction of evil doerss
Aud if evil doers ar, destroyed, will evil
still exist But il Evil does not end, how
does the conflict end ? Does God be-
come reconciled to evil, or Evil become
reconciIed to God (?
IL. GLOW can the spiritual rebellion
end, while rebels still exist ?" You dodge
the question. l. Spiritual rebellion is in
the hearts of men, and il men are sinners
forever how does the rebellion end 2.
Do you mean that God will put the rebels
into hell and punish them forever by ON
nipotent force :! Have you forgotten that
you denied in your first letter holding
any such theory as that? 3. Has God
more physical, than moral, power so that
He can damn souls, he cannot subdue or
save This flatly denies his moral om-
Impotence From these difficulties you
can never escape. |. If men remain re-
bells forever the rebellion never ends. II
the rebellion ends, God must become re-
conciled TO the rebels, or the rebels recon
cled to God
III. | have shown that God has un
dertaken to redeem the world, and that
God must succeed or fail. You answer,
substantially thus, /. God has instituted
sufficient means to save the world, but the
meaus are moral, therefore resistable and
mag fail. Mark that. 2. In fact men
do resist God, and render his sufficient
means null and void. 3. If men remain
free forever, they may resist forever, and
never be saved. These are you're deductions
and facts. l. If moral freedom exists
forever, and men may resist forever, By
the same reasoning they may not resist,
ant! at all events, must be free forever to
repent and be saved viii you abide BY
this? 9. AS men are imperfect and
wicked now, against all the influences
which God employs for their redcaplion.
You call on me to show that these NOR
al influence, which fail now, will be more
urcpssful hereafter, or that more elficeui
aaeaus will be employed in the world to
come. answer that all men are sinul
now, under the Influences which God
employs for their redem mption, and BY
your logic, ALL MEN will remain sinful
torever, unless You can prove "that the
moral influences which now fail will b.
more successful hereafter, or that Col
will employ other and more ef1iaenl
means" in the world to come 3. Ii the
scheme Of God is Il moral scheme, look
ing to the development and training OF
moral and immortal minds, the plan must
be progressive one, there must be OBJ
stacles to overcome, and evils to be extir
pated and cast away but apparent de-
lays, or defeats, as they may seem to us
can neither disappoint nor BATTLE God. II
his wisdom and power, are infinite his
plan can never fail (4:) Proving,
from the Bible, the ultimate holiness and
happiness of all men, it will logically fol-
low, either "that the moral influences now
in operation," have in the end been effec
tual or "that other and more efficient
means" have been employed to secure
that glorious consummation
". God purposes the distractions Of sin
ro>cover up your faiuIe here, you say |
have Abandoned my proof text-and then
dart off to show my discrepancy"
relative to the power ofevi. ~ Your
definition Of a "verbal contradiction" is in
accurate, Bishop Horne, treating of dis
crepancies in the Bible speaks of many
seeming word contradictions where there
is no real discrepancy in language or idea.
And Bishop Horne, (2) notes the texts to
which | referred as cases of seeming not
real contradiction, (s.) In a philosoph
ic sense, Evil has no self subsisting force,
but lives only by its connection with
Good, as falsity lives only by connection
with some real, or apparent truths a2
But in popular or fgurative sense,
we speak Of evil as monarch, having a
kingdom, and striving for the conquest
of the world. And the death, or destruo-
ton of this monarch, is the annihilatiou