Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29

draw back into perdition, but are of
them that believe to the saving of
the SOUL" Tor person.) The body
without the spirit is dead"-Jas. 2 F.:
70. The spirit here he thinks means
soul. Let us try it. "The body
without the immortal soul is dead !"
again, "They have all one immortal
oul."-Eccl. 3; 10. Foy the cor
rect meaning of this text, we will
introduce another: "The things of
God knoweth no man but the spirit
OF Cod Is the spirit of God DIFF
terent from God, and could it exist
consciously and intelligently seper-
ate from God! l speak with due
reverence-if it were possible for
God to die, could his spirit survive
If, say, wood produce fire, when
the wood is all destroyed, will the
fire still exist! Thus you see, my
friends, that all the scriptures quot
ed by my friend are against him when
critically examined. If one passage
OF scripture contradicts a theory, it
is false and worthless. Let us then
look at few facts which must be
halmonized with my friends views.
First. "While the bridegroom
tarried, they all slumbered and
slept. Matt. %: 5. Again, "And
many that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake. Dan. II: =.
Here the dead are said to be asleep
and that, too, in dust of the earth,
from whence they are to be called
up at the resurrection. Not a word
about their being in heaven or a
spirit land.
Second 1t is positively declared
by the Lord himself, that whittier
he went they could not come; that
so far from their going to him at or
before death, he assured them as
the ground Of their comfort, that
he would come again unto them.
Paul speaks of us as waiting for
the Lord from heaven"
Third. In the second chapter of
Acts, Peter stated that David had
not assembled into the heavens, but
was there in his sepulchre at Jeru
salem.
Fourth. Our Lord himself says.
Rev. 3: Il, "To him that overcom
eth will | grant to sit with me in
my throne, as | also overcame. and
am set down with my father in his
throne"
Notice the fact that Christ is
seated on his fathers throne, not on
his own. The saint cannot be with
him while in the relation to his faith
er. Let my friend compare these
four facts with job, David and Sol
ONION, and he will find that they are
not very great fools after all.
Many of the advocates of the i'm
mortal soul philosophy are becom-
ing so We'll convinced that it cannot
be sustained, so far as the soul is
concerned, they have shifted the
ground and contend that the spirit
is the immortal part. But the evil
dence OF the one is no better than
that OF the other. Both alike-rest
on nothing better than the vain
philosophy of this world. The set
and popular phrases, immortal soul
and deafness spirit, have been so
long hacNneyed that the mass Of
mankind have taken it for granted
that they are Bible phrases. An
other scripture is offered as proof
that the soul is conscious between
death and the resurrection ''But
as touching the resurrection of the
dead, nave ye not read that which
was spoken unto You by God, say
ing, | am the God Of Abraham. the
God OF Isaac, and the God Jacob (!
God is not the God of dead, but the
living.-Luke 20: 81, 80. This
statement of our Savior was made
for the purpose of refuting the the
DRY of the Sadducees, that death
was the endless extinction Of life.
The Sadducees did not believe in
any resurrection of the dead, or
future life.-Luke 20: u. The
Savior did not attempt to prove
that the soul was immortal, or that
man could be dead and alive at
the same time. But Christ silenced
the Sadducees and proved the ne
cessity of a resurrection, in order
that the patriarchs, who were then
dead, might inherit the promises
na1n thnm while nil1ri1ns and