The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-06-24
MR.. WEBSTER TO MR.. NYH,
LETTER VI.

LETTER VI.
DEAR Sik:-That there will be time
agreeable to luke l3, 40, and Mat: Z
Ia; l3, 90, when men will "call" upon
the Lord and He will not "answer" when
they shall "seek Him" and shall not find
Him, when He will laugh at their colam-
ity," and mock when their fear cometh; .
when the "wicked.shal, be.driven away in
his wickedness-' turned into hell with
all the nations that forget Gods" is posi-,
lively declared in Ps. 8; II, Prov. |, 26,
20 and Ia, SO. But when is this to be,
while on probation, or after it closes ?
Certainly not until probation terminates,
after God calls and they "refuse" after
lie stretches ou, His hand"-to save
and they have "disregarded )" after they
have "set at nsught all His counsels" and
would none of His reproof:" then, and
not till then, will they be left to "eat the
fruit Of their own way and be filed with
their own Devices" and hence the exhor-
tation, Seek ye the Lord while lie may
be found.'-ls $50. Implying that there
would be time when He could not be
foana. Then it is, that they standing
without-the "master having shut the
door, "--shall say "Lord, Lord, open
unto us" and lie will say, Depart from
mo ye workers Of iniquity, never knew
you. And then it is, that they shall see
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom
of God aud they themselves cast away,
into outer darkness, where there shall be
weeping and wailiny and gnashing of
teeth. This is the "everlasting destruc-
ton" everlasting punishment" and the
"perdition" awaiting "ungodly men,
You refer to some strange remarks of
DR.. Whtby for relief Why did YOU not
call on your old friend Dr.. Clarke in this
emergency, who says the passage under
refers to the "day Of judg-
ment" and "endless misery ?" All! it'll
did not suit your convenience. Aud i'll
is only when Dr.. Clarke, Whilby and
others, whistle to your time, that their
opinions are respected. Or have any va
Iidty only when they can be used as
scape goats to bear away the sins Of your
system.
That my Interpretation implies "tha
there are tares, ana fishes in heapea' has
no. the least foundation. The passages
adduced were claimed to refer to .nr
same event, the judgment, and puhi h.
ment of the "wicked al ,he end of the
world" have no objection to interpret
ing the expression "end of the world" to
mean the "cnd ofthat age i. e., the gos
pei age or dispensation.
The term rendered Cost" and "perdi-
ton" in the case of Judas, is in the Greek
Lexicon, defined, destruction ruin, misftr
fune, and in the Greek TeStment, de-
siruction, perdition, misery, and eternal
ruin. Bro. Nye also says t, destroy,
means to deprive OF all vitality and pow
er to annihlate' Now to say the least,
how thoroughly demoralsed argumen.
Iatisely, must one be to say that all that
is meant by Judas being "lost," and a
'son of perdition" is, that he lost his
'postleship
NY argument from the declaration Of
Christ to the Jews. "ye shall die in your
sins, whit,ier | go ye cannot come. ~
John. 8:2l, is not met by the considera-
ion that similar expression is made to
lis disciples. For |, The denuncia.
ion was made against the Jews for there
Inbcliei and impenitence, while nothingf
If this kind was in the way of the disci-
oles. 2, The expression $50 now say
INTO you is one, which implies that al
iome future time they should come, to
,im," 5. This is expressly promised iu