The New York herald., 1872-09-15

and hopeful and inspiring to be hastily thrust
aside Ifyou cannot understand 1t all at once put
doeth Gods win shall know Of the doctrine"
mend you to adopt when the language OF the Bible
does not appear to correspond with the generally
S truth Take uu
meaning by that STANDARD. For instance
"God is love-" Now, any creed or any theory that
represents God to be anything else, or that He will
must be The problem rob Of evil
may be readily solved on that ground. we all
know tnat m sv1i exists by Gods permission m Il tenn
God we can easily imagine how its disciplinary
results may be strictly in accordance with love;
could be no love manifested In permitting
It to exist. A limp is broken. The surgeon am.
he did it merely to produce the pain he would be
end. but In doing it to save the patients life and
restore him to health, his act Is the result OF the
If a hint OF this kind should induce "Logos" to
attempt to reconcile apparently conflicting points
herculean task OF overthrowing book that has sue
cessfully withstOOd the most learned criticisms OF
the ages, have, no doubt about satisfactory re-
suit. U. H.
The Immortality or the soul-The Ques-
tion Settled ON tho Testimony OF the
Bible.
"F. g." says the doctrine OF the Immortality OF the
soul is not taught in the Bible and must go "beg-
ging for defender" Now, If you please, let call
two or three witnesses-infalble witnesses-and
hear what they say.
First, the Lord Jesus; and He says:-There was
q certain rich man, and that this same rich man
died and was buried, and In hell he lifted up his
eyes, being In torments and seeth Abraham afar of,
andh cried and said, "Father Abraham, have mer-
cy on me- and send Lazarus to my Fathers house,
for have five brethren, that he may testify unto
them lest they also into this place OF torment"
Abraham saith unto him, ''They have Moses, and
the prophets let them hear them." and he said,
"Nay, Father Abraham, but II one went unto them
from the dead they will repent" luke xvi, 19.
Now 1t was not the body Of the rich man that cried
and talked with Abraham, for that was buried,
neither was it the body of Abraham that answered,
for Abrahams body was buried by Isaac and Ish-
mael Genesis XIV, Q, 10Y. Then 1t was their llv-
ing, immortal souls that talked and reasoned to-
and alive to their situation. The rich man had his
whole soul soul alivemwil memory, understand
oossse ns the and 5 al wscn
and Abraham's soul the same. think
this witness s pretty good proof OF the immortality
he says:-"I saw under the altar the souls of them
that were slain for the word OF God and for the tes
Voice, % saving, y How long, Q. LORI Lord holy and true
dost Thou not Judge and avenQe our blood on them
that dwell on the earths And white robes were
given unto every one OF them and 1t
was said unto them that they should rest
yet little seas0n."-Rev. W., 9-1O. Again this
that were beheaded for the witness Of
Jesus, and for the word OF God, and they
lived and regned with Christ t"-KevelatiOns XXX,
4. Now II these souls are not immortal souls and
did not inhabt their bodies before death, then let
"F c." prove 1t and call his witnesses from the
Bible. But we have one more witness to hear,
'Paul the Aged" He says, ITO be absent from the
body Is to be present with the Lord, H. Corinthians
". 8; and "having desire to depart and be with
Christ" Philippians L., 20. Then 1t was his i'm
mortal soul that desired to depart from his mortal
body and be with his immortal Head, Christ the
Lord. And ''by the mouth of two or three wit
nesses every word shall be established" even the
doctrine of the immortality or the soul.