Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-07

this happiness and misery is received
6efore the resurrection of the dead, or
this sufferer would never have trisd TO,
send warning to his still liUin5 five
brothers cat his fathers house" 4.
That this condition is fixed, the ''great
gulf" cannot be passed by either party
to reach the other 5. That as dead
body before burial, cannot see, hear,
feel, speak or think, neither caL it after
burial, therefore it must have been the
" spirits" of Abraham and the rich
man that were engaged in the CONVEX.
sation reported BIZ the Lord, "whe did
no sin, neither was guile found in his
mouth. ii Peter. 2-22. Therefore,
in thus revealing the immediate state
between death and the resurrection, he
did not deceive us, and we have moth
ing left but to hear Moses and tbs
prophets" and believe the testimony
of Jesus, as to these things. Moses
states that at the burning bush, the
Almighty declared unto him: 81 am
the God of thy father, the God OF
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob"-Ex. SO, and our Sa-
vicur, after quoting this declaration,
adds to it this ''For he IS not God
of the dead but of the living, For all
live unto him'-Luke 20-3S, and as
this was even before his own resurrcc-
ton, it cannot mean ''dead bodies but
"living" spirits. Again, "Sodom and
Gomorrah, and the cities. round about
them in like manner, giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after
strange flesh Gin the year 1893 3. 90
are set forth for an example, suffering
the vengeance of eternal fre"-so
written by the apostle Jude, A. ID. 66,
or about 2i75 years after the sven
geance of eternal fire" fast fell upon
them, and he says by authority of the
Holy Spirit which revealed these
things to him, that they are still SUI
fering. Since he wrote 1917 years
more have passed, and the esurrection
has not yet come, so they must have
found their condition, since their death
3992 years ago, suffering the ven
geance of eternal fire, a very satlstac-
tory proof to them Of their ability to
endure in conscious pain and life a
death that never has died for them,
and is no more likely to die yet than it
ever has been. 4
John saw (in96 A D. in the won
derful revelation made to him -four and
twenty eders'--Rev. A, who sang
praise to him who hast redeemed us by
thy blood'--Rev. SIS, 'he also saw a
great multitude, which no man could
number, of all nations, and kindreds,
and peoples, and tongues, stood before
the rone'-Rev. TO, and says these
are they which came out of great trib-
u,ation, and have washed their robes
and made them white in the blood OF
the Lamb Rev. TIA, and who con-
stitute the general assembly and
church of the first born, and are the
spirits CT just men made perfect
Heb. 1928, of whom Enoch the sew
enth from Adam prophesied' (about
the year 1917 B. G. saying, Behold
the Lord cometh with ten thousand OF
his saints to execute judgment upon
altitude Ia. Or, as Paul says, at
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
with all his saints.'-1 Thess. 3-13.
As the resurrection is not to take place
till he has come in the clouds of heav
, en-, those who come with him : that
is all his saints must come as they are,
ready for the great change about to
take place by which they shall become
as Christ, clothed upon with immortal
interruption, as they have been, in i'm
mortal spirituality with him in heaven,
patiently waiting for the restitution OF
all things
This brief reference to the abundant
testimony Of the Word, in relation to
the intermediate state Of the dead, will
Justify those who believe in the doc
trine of the Immortality of Soul, or
Spirit (call it which you please, so
long as you understand the main point
to be the existence of the immaterial
image of God in man, after death, and
before the resurrection) to hold fast
to it. For thus saith the Lord, Stand
ye in the ways, and see and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and
walk therein, and ye shall find rest for
golr souls.'-Jer. 9-l6.
Perhaps brief reference to the pas.
sages referred to in IAN open letter.
and statements made concerning the
words immortal and immortality,
will not be deemed out of place in this
reply.
The writer says the word Immortality
is found but five times in the Bib:e, and
no sacred writer uses it but Paul. Of
course, he refers to the King James ver-
sion of the Bible, as the word Athanasia,
meaning Immortality is used but three
times in the original Greek of the New
Testament, once in Tim, Gle, where it
speaks concerning Christ who only hath
athansia or Immortality then concerning
our mortal bodies in Cor, Is So and 81,
this mortal must put on athanasia or i'm
mortality and this mortal shall have put
on atAanasia or immortality 1T is evil
dent from these quotations that this i'm
mortality can only refer to that which is
mortal about Christ aud Us, and what that
mav ha paul tells ms when he saws "Lst