The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-27

cause OF death; man by grace is the remedy for
sS4Sasn the e. d vsss and
I %HS wore 1 bitten BY as!y ssTesn,s ana =;
upon pole. persisted in the wilderness. '.How can
we escape II we neglect 80 great sayationr, God
IN rev words easily understood by all who not
deceived by the teachings OF the devil who teaches
rents. God told Adam that the day ne eat thereof
ne should surely die. He now teaches Adams de-
and drakeih my blood hath eternal life, and VIII
ra'se nun up at the last day." Eating that which
produced death In Adam. Eating that which we are
s Sy s me rssurTss01 Of TS the dsS ,sxs;
Eve and she taught Adam by saying, II
you eat you shall not surely die, which was directly
teaches Adams descendants that 1t is all useless
ioolsnness about eating to obtain eternal lite "by
thou shalt not surely dle-is taught to-day In the
doctrine of rne everlasting life OF all, whether they
Except We eat the flesh OF the Son OF Man and
drink His blood We have no life in your II there Is
no life in you there be resurrection for you
MANY, therefore. OF His disciples, when they had
heard this. said this is hard 50, ing" and from
and walked no more with Him." These
disciples were OF those VINO went after
bur a not ccep nem rSy of class
winch he mad In view when He said, 'Every one
not shall be lkened unto a foolish man. Many are
wiling TO hear, but few are willing to do Faith
comes s by hearing ana doing by an 50 ,n they That
necessary TO make true disciple of Chrlst-'a wise
man." or the ten virgins who were the repre-
sentatlve5 OF natural purity I'VE were wise ana Ave
foolish The foolIshness OF the i've consisted IN
their having but one Of these two things. gen.
uine disciple OF Christ can admit no human teacher
to be the lord OF his conscleDce neither he per-
nit his conscience to lord 1t over Gods word. His
and teachings Of sChrist That In ali things de
might have the pre.emlnence." K
Is Man Immertnle
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Your correspondent "a. B. C), in his advocacy
of the souls mortality, appeals to Solomon for
support, and you, in your editorial Of the 10th
inst, make o like appeal to maintain directly con-
trary opinion. Now Solomon not penman Of
holy writ; but Peter, who was, tells us 'that no
prophecy OF the Scripture is Of any private interpre-
tatiOn."-II. Peter, L., 90 "For the prophecy came
not IN the old time Dy the Will OF man, but holy men
OF God spake as they were moved by the hOy
Ghost'' verse 2l) The private opinion Of Solomon
had therefore better be disregarded especially 1t
conflicts with Scripture. When Christ opened the
understanding Of his Apostles, that they might I'M
derstand the Scriptures luke XIV, "A, 45l, He
said unto them, These are the words which
spake unto you while was yet with you. that all
things must be fulfilled which were written in the
law OF Moses, and in the prophets and In the
Psalms concerning me-" You see that Christ (whO
was God) waves the writings OF Solomon and why ?
1t is because the wisdom Of Christ spiritual and
heavenly; but the wisdom Of Solomon was rational
and worldly; unlike that of his father David,
whose spiritual wisdom emanated from the nature
or Goa, and therefore is acknowledged by Christ.
But "SOlomon's heart was turned away after other
gods, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord
his God, as was the heart OF David his father.n-I
Kings XII. 4.
Having thus swept away the unscriptura doctrine
OF Solomon (Eccles. Kill, y, which has always been
a stumbling block in the way of truth, we open our
subject by asking, What is the sou9 We answer,
The soul Is life. Let us prove 1t.
1t is the general belief that men and women beget
bodies and God sends souls to inhabit them. 1t is
scarcely possible to imagine any other hypothesis by
which the doctrine OF the SOUPS immortality can be
defended for no one is so ldotc suppose that
noran p9oe e can eegeI immortal souls But this
naplt mortal bodies, supposes continuance OF Gre
aSn n, which Is utterly opposed 10 revelation, for
true If God, through all past time, has been creating
Quence mo doubt overlooked by its advocates) far
too horrible for belie-namely. that God creates and
the issues OF adultery and forDication What shall
God attend upon whoredom and crown unlawful
lust with spurious iSSuep
In Genesis xii. 5-"Abram took his wife, and
Lot his brothers. son, and the souls that they mad
H.
T-"And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said,
unto thy seed Will give this land. Exodus l., 8
were seventy souls. for Josenh was in Eavnt
already Genesis XVII, 26-"Au the souls that
came wh Jacob INTO EGYPT which out Of MS
three score and stX.'' Now II souls do not come
from heaven land we have shown the wickedness Of
such hypothesis whence come they? The quotations
show tnat they come out OF the loins OF man.
Hence be It understood That the immortal breath OF
life which GOD Dreathed into Adam In the day OF his
creation became mortal through disObedience.
Genesis H., l0, IL" And the Lord God commanded
mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge
OF good and evil thou shalt not of IT. for in the
that thou thereof thou shalt surely die"
The penalty of disobedence was forfeiture OF mmor
tally. Adams immortal life became mortal life.
sas hs words Tas sS is ns and e seed
ARE nsr ey p%S 6Say
souls Without nodes and therefore, when
God said, 'Be fruitful and multiply" He spoke to
epaaSs Sdns him TO epensn the
earth' With children Of his own begettng, whose
thus seen that through sin dor dsobedience is SIM
our first parents forfeited immortality and became
mortal subject 10 death And as like Degets It's like,
''every seed las its own bodyn H., Cor. XIV. $751;
| II follows that me mortal seed or soul OF Adam
begat the mortal soul OF Abel 1--WE take no present
notice OF CAM the first born oil Eve, who the
son Of Adam, as we naay hereafter rake occasion to
show, and after the murder OF Abel by his maternal
hundred ana thirty years, and begat son In his
own likeness, after his image, and called his name
StlH.' NON, III is uOb dDpdIeuL Iudt Lue SOui anu
body Of man are provocative essence, conc eived
and formed in the womb from the invisible life
which is concealed in the seed (which comes out
OF mans loins" and which. In obedience to the first
great command OF God, BE fruitful and multiply
comes forth IN Its season In the form and likeness OF
that which Degat it, Does not beast convey life 10
beast? DO not all living animals multiply by the
provocative life which Is invisible in their seed9 And
is not the fruifuness concealed in the seeds OF
vegetables l. Genesis, VIII, 12-"And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind
whose seed is In itself upon the earth; and II was
so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb
yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding
fruit whose seed was In itself, after his kind; and
God saw that 1t was gO0dn o, blind man shall
all the inferior creatures animal and vegetable.
propagate souls and bodies by virtue OF the hidden
lie IN their seeds, and natn the al-wise Creator
withheld provocative virtue from the seed OF man,
who IL the noblest OF all created beings
The Scriptures are very positive as respects the
death OF the soul. They show conclusvely as Is
well possible that both soul and body form iv-
ing and dying essence; TOR Is the INVISIBLE lie In
| seed, both animal and vegetable, that begets the
body, which Is the visible image and form OF its In.
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