The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-03-16
Written for the State Rights Democrat
Universal Salvation.



DEAR Sir Il observe you have open
cd your columns to an exchange of Thought
on Spiritualism. / viii say I know but
little Mohammet, jackson, Swedenburger,
Horace Greedy or Beecher, but | claim TO
be a SpirituaIist-that is, such an one as
the Scriptures approve ; and as | cast my
eye down your columns, 1t lit on several
broad assumptions, without any tangible
proof, as to the different conditions in the
next world of the righteous and the wick
ed. The wicked, you say, are in torment,
and all this, in the next world, Now all
this is easy to assume, but cannot be prov
ed from the testimony, from the fact that
the opposite can be proved-that is, the
final redemption Of the Adamite race ;
and you aud | ought to know that when
the true application is given the Scrip
right here we join issue. Now, if | prove,
by clear and conclusive testimony, my POI
sition true, her yours is proved what |
declare it 10 be-bare assertions without
proof. So now for the proof of the final
salvation Of all men, from the testimony
itself.
Anciently the question was PROFOUND
ed, "If a man die shall he live again ?"
This question was solved when Christ
died and arose again and assembled on
high, for he said Ut If / be lifted up
will draw all men unto me" (draw, not
force,). Christ conversed with men
who then sought and afterwards eruciied
him-of the resurrection. They were IN.
believers, and referred him to n woman
who had seven husbands, and asked, per-
haps sneeringly, Whose wife shall she
be in the resurrection ?" Now take the
Savior's answer. They were the yilest of
men, but he did not send them to an Or
thodox hell. He said "Ye do greatly
err not knowing the Scriptures nor the
power of God, for they that attain that
world and the resurrection from the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
but are as the angels of God in heaven"
Fake Paul next, in the 18th of 1st Cor
inthians, where he dwclls on the resur-
rection throughout. Observe that he
makes no distinction in characters. He
says: "Behold | show you a mystery: We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed in a moment, in the t~winkling Of
an eye, at the last trump; for the trump
shall sound and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed"
And so he goes on, "until this corrupt
BILE shall have put IN Immortality" 1t
appears as though you see characters of
the worldwide difference in the next
worId-as you call it but Paul did not
see that sight there. Take him again af-
ter he was taught of Christ, and felt able
to teach others, where he says "Having
made known unto US the mystery of his
will according to his good pleasure, which
he hath purposed in himself. that at the
d~ispensation of the fullness of times he
might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are In heaven and
which are on earth, even in him having
made peace by the blood of his cross, by
him to reconcile all things unto himself:
all things, 1 say, whether they be things
in Garth or things in heaven for 1t pleas
eth the Father that in him should all full
ness dwell, for of him and through him
and to him are all things to whom be
glory both now and forever. Amen"
I hope by this time you will see, as the
apostle did, that God had q glorious pur-
pose in the creation of the world and its
inhabitants, and that his purpose is re-
yealed so clear that we need not err there
in but we must decide by the testimony,
for if they speak not according to this
word, it is because there is no light in
them. | think that a man of your read
ing must be aware that all Gods holy
prophets since the world began have spo.
ken of the restitution of all thing and
now, we say, if all Gods holy prophets
have spoken of the final restitution of all
things, who are those who speak different
lyY We say they are but fallable, finite,
uninspired men their testimony does not
agree with the prophets. But once more
for we have not yet done-the creature
was made subject to vanity-not willing
ly, but by reason of him who hath sub
jected the same in hope, because the orea-
ture itself shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the children Of God. Not may
be, or fail to be, but shall be delivered In
to the glorious liberty of the children Of
God. Once more-!"B Behold the righte-
GUS shall be recompensed in the earth,
much more the wicked and the sinner
This shows a true recompense, both fol
the righteous and the wicked-and that
1t is in the earth, not in Eternity. Here