Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-05
Religious Department.

Mr., BENNETT i notice ia your
issue of Jan. tn another letter on
The Soul not Immortal" ans also
my letter answered by l.. H. Bow
den in Jan. 10Th, both Of which
will reply TO briefly in this lester,
Abiding to E'rles. 9:A 10, /
should understand the writer to re-
fer to the body alone, buff his ex-
planation ef the werd body is cor
rect may be mistaken; the same
may be saidsof the word sesal, how
ever. think the writer had better
study the Bible prayerfally and
carefully for year or two before
he undertakes to teach the world.
In the case of The man with a
broken skull, reason was suspend
ed for the time being on account of
the injury done to the brain ; to say
that he had 40 immortal soul seems
TO me 10 be absurd; for while the
man lived he was compound being,
a body end soul The case of Hez-
ekiah is cited, and think will bear
very different explanation. l
think he did not weep because of
any umwillingness to die, but the
govermment was at that time in a
very unsettled state. In the fourtU
year of Hezekiah's reign, Shalman-
cser king of Assyl'ia came up against
Samalia and took it, he also carried
away the people into captivity, the
Lord having permitted it because of
their disobedience. In the four
teenth year Sennacherib, another
king, took from him nearly all the
fenced cities of Judah and had so
reduced him even to state of slav-
cry, that he said, THAT which thou
puttest upon me will | bear" He
wrung from him three hundred tai
ents of silver and thirty talents of
gold (about one million two hundred
and fifty thousand dollals) even all
the silver in the house of the Lord
and the treasure of the kings
house, also the gold from the doors
of the temple, aud the gold from the
pillars which He2ekiah had overlaid
with gold; moreover he had sent
him taunting, defiant, blasphemous
MESA se against God and his people.
Neither was this all, for he had no
son to leave the government to
consequently he was in deep dis
sress, has confidence in God was
shaken, and in his agony he sent to
Isaiah, and God comIorted him by
the Prophet. See Kings Is and
10 chapters.
History tells us that it was in the
same year in which he was thus
tried that he was sick and swept
sore" Now who will be surprised
that he was unwuling to die i'll this
state of affairs, why it would be but
natural in the best of men "and God
added to his days fifteen years"
think that it might be said of him
AS well as of the Virgin Mother, "a
sword shall pierce through thine
own soul"
Many parent has endured I'M
told suffering on account of the
wickedness of a chi d and it might
be said il sword had pierced through
the soul, but in the case of the Vir.
gin Mother it was because of the
sutferings of our Lord Jesus Christ
that good old Simeon said this
Your correspondent tells us that the
final end of the sinner will be eter.
nal extinction Of conscious being
and that this view does no injustice
to the sinner, it is in accordance
with the revealed will of God !; thu,
mercy and Justice unite in saying
let the sinner die. This may be tn,
teaching OF Adventism, and thinl
it is twin sister to inffdelity, but
read in the Bible that the wicked
shall 90 away into everlasting pun
ishment but the righteous into life
eternal, if one is forever SO is thu
other Again, "the weeping ant
crashing OF teeth" very plainly SHOW
the great pain and misery of thu
wicked in the world to come.
The doctrine taught by your cor
respondent just suits the depravec
nature of man, and | am reminded
of that class of men among whom
God will send strong decisions.
Thes. IL.
That the reader may prove thu
words ''soul and spirit" to be syn
onymous terms let him take gooC
concordance and the Bible and ex