The New York herald., 1869-05-23

pays him the best OF Interest pays gold pays him
we :oa0s pnss Children
forty dollars for such results not think,
| throwing away ones money!
lie thinks the cheapest way young man can
spend the sabbath s TO rent seat and go to church
twice. There hundreds who pun away more
money cigars than would pay for such privilege.
Ten dollars year is twenty cents a Sabbath-which
VIII not go far IN six cigars. To cut on the extra
smoking on sunday would pay not only for his own
seat but for one Tor some poor fellow who cannot
e arree Ss ten co doaeS @ase the smokers
do not smOkel the almoners Of such
nna TO provide sttlngs for tine poor The
spent for Sunday riding, billiards. and beer-drnk-
ing. by giving these up there would be \ large
tion to this saving Is the gain which such persons
make in the estimation OF their employers and the
tion The expenses Of amusements including the
opera ana theatres which the newspapers praise
Carriage hire dresSes and IVs oer
dentals, are also commented upon. One nights ex-
penses at the opera would pay for six months pew
He concludes that the Gospel Is to-day the cheap
est OF all institutions aud commodities within me,l's
reach.
'sLef There be Lisft'' ON Religious Hawtcrs.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Having seen an article In the HERALD entitled
''M0re Light Wanted" on spiritual matters. would
answer the same through your paper, 1t being the
medium of light to the public by asking the question
man, shall we go to the preachers of the day shall
so to Him who said "let there be light and there
was ights" Gen. l., 81 If he brought forth light
for the natural world viii no not give light to the
spirituals Is not His word as lmmutab!e as when he
said by His Son 81 the light of the world ~ Jo ohm
viii, H., And If HIS Son be the light OF the world
that must be the source to which we must CO.
Is it not true also that he said II am the
way, the truth, the life ?" John XIV. 81 1t fol-
lAx,-, f,aN
get the truth and life; and II we are TO
get life through Hin, have we 1t within
E IS the s M a9e
again, Except ye eat MY sesl and drink Ny blood
We have no life IN you: he that catheth My nesn and
drinketh My blood hath eternal lie. and will raise
him up at the last day." John vi. 81 and 54l II this
be part of the light He sent into the world how dark
must be the teachings OF those that say 10 man
'You have eternal life; every man. woman and chlld
born OF Adam;n thereby making direct conrradic-
ton to the word OF God and making it OF none effect
by their traditions They forget the record that God
hath hath given @ to % us-eterna life; and this lie Is IN His
Son. He that hath the Son hath life; he tnat hath
not the Son OF God hath not lie: llst John " II and
law to lsrael-"BehOd set before you tns day
life and death, good and EVIL; choose which
TO do away with the laws No; but said tnat not
jot or little OF the law shall pass, till all be fulfilled
none other things than hoses and the prophets did
say should come. tActs XVI, a. Now, If lie and
u
gotten through Christ how say our preachers that
all have eternal life that must live IN happ-
ness or misery forever Is not this contradictory
Which shall we believe, God or manS 1 prefer to
believe the word Of God. which llveth and abideth
forever. Peter |, 23.) Some say that life means
happiness and death means misery. Very singular,
TO be sure To say If one man kills another, OH he Il
not dead he is only In misery. Would the law be
satisfied with such an excuse. and will God be sat
isfed with such teachers OF His word DID God say
10 Adam, In the day thou eate5t thou shalt surely
die Genesis ill., ID, or did He say he should go into
what did Adam transmit TO his posterlty- ty-anythlng
more than what he had himselfs answer no. What
law, then, does Adams p0sterity come underr Paul
sdys-'Wherefore AS by one man sin entered into
the world and death by SIN, 80 death passed
then, that the law that Adams pOsterity under Is
one OF death. Now, has God provided any means
God says yes; through HIS Son, who came to
BRING lie aud immortality to light by the Gospel
to Adam and Eve in the saying, ''The seed OF the
woman shall bruse the serpent's head Genesis Ill,
the food, but none Of that generation gave
heed to II, 80 the waters came and de-
a type OF Christ, and was saved, because he had
prepared 1t as God had told him. The apostle says
cao o be saved ba 81 @ OF
Christ. The question now arises How shall we get
have been baptized into Christ have put on Christi
and If ye be Christs then are ye Abraham's seed and
heirs, according TO the promise Galatians, Ill., 21s
He told him that he would give him certain tract
OF land-(Genesis, KILL IA to 17)-tod him to walk
through the length and breadth OF 1t: gave him the
boundaries Of it-tGenesis, xv., Island said:-To
thee ana thy seed Will give thus land forever. He
christ Galatians ill.,. isj Stephen said that Abra.
ham never had so much as to set foot upon. (Acts
vii. 81 Tie reiterated the same promises to
was for the hope OF the promises made
10 the fathers that he was judged, facts XVI, g.
should a christian believe In the promises made by
Cod Should they have the same hope that Paul did
and he says there Is one hope. one faith, one bap-
Erh ttr md had 70 IN than
Abraham had faith In them and II was accounted to
hm for righteousness But is this the faith and hope
has an immortal soul, Ithe definition OF which |
heard learned ID. d. say a few weeks ago WAS an
uHete1ial substance which Is nothing al an which
goes TO heaven at DEATH and this In the lace Of what
Christ tells his disciples. that he should go 70 the
33d.) But II go VIII come again that whereI am
We may be also. John XIV J. Paul also says of Christ
| That lie Is King Of Kings aud Lord Of Lords,
| VINO only hath Immortality dwelling In the light
| which no man hata seen nor can see nor can ap-
proach unto, l Timothy. vi, 18th and 10th. In
The Of this testimony they will tell us that
they go right to heaven at death; and this IS the
light we get from them. Christ truly said II the
bind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch
One might ask how can we inherit the promises II
| we have no Immortality | answer BY resur-
for Paul says as IN Adam all die, Christ
! shall all be made alive. But every man IN ms own
order Christ the first fruits then tney that are
| I'D verses. Paul further says:-Some man VIII say
how are the dead raised up and with what bodies do
| Noii'' "ysu Y" ~" ss,oNo,
| And goes ON to show that there Is natural
| body and there Is spiritual body. How
| belt that not first which Is spiritual,
| but that which Is natural: and afterwards tnat
which Is spiritual. 1 Corinthians XIV, ~, AZ:
"Ihe first man Adam Is OF the earth earthly; the
| second man is the Lord from heaven" This SHOWS
that our father Adam was Of the earth earthly, aud
| therefore the penalty that God put on him for his
sin IN saying, dust thou art and unto dust thou
shalt return Is literal fact, for he was not spirit
| ual IN any manner. One might ask what II
| spiritual body, l answer Christ after his
resurrection, for he was raised from the dead by
| the spirit OF God; he said himself that he flesh
| ana bones. Luke, XIV, 80: "For flesh aud blood
cannot inherit the kingdom Of Cod John Ill., 6, and
| l Corinthians, xv., so: "rhe life OF his body
the spirit OF God the blood was before his death:
! ~ IL ~ with us now.r "And he shed his blood
ike unto his brethren In all things, yet without
SIM, that he might be mercul high priest In
things pertaining TO Godr-IIebrews H.. II. Paul
says:-"BehOld, show you my stery.n We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed In moment,
in the twlnkng OF an eye, at the last trump for tue