Daily Republican., 1875-07-31

Cno AoTu COMetn tuRE snail burn as all
oven, and the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day
That cometh shall burn them up,saith the
Lord OF hosts, that 1t shall not leave
them neither root nor branch, aud they
shall be ashes under the solss Of your
feet" and when you have found The con.
scscus ashes Of the S0d0lnites, you NAV
reason abou. the everlasting conscious
suffering" OF Malaehi's ash 'heap. Has
God illustrated the condision Of the final
~ impenitent by that Of s.thorps. y s.stub-
bic, " "tares," sschafi ?" He has. And
were his resources % limitedthst be could
find nothing but combustlble things to
illustate an indestructible, immaterial
NEUROLOGICAL and falsely called immortal
SOUL? Nay verify. And this 10 the rea-
son why there As an eternal discord be-
tween Gods truth, and human tradition.
The Bible says, the defined penalty y
s5ods iaw, ~ retugA % ne dust. The
soai sna: sl beth Shall die; tradition
denies this byLAying "the body goes to
dust, "but the soul eau never, never
die," and to cover up, and hide from
view This palpable contradiction, thev
have invent,d spiritual death theory.
which Christ never suffered, to redeem
bis people from. Then, The Christian
may fall asleep in Jesus, and never die !:
put the man who falls into,, and uL Lder
the dominion Of death, as the penalty of
Gods law, must eternally abide under
that penalty and mot see life, ,"-he must
"be as though be had not been"
His punishment, now prospective, when
inflicted, will have been thing Of the
past, completed, finished, final state OF
unconscious dust, t,and the eternal harmony
0fthe divine attributes, stand unchalleue-
ed and unimpeached, the admiration and
loving alteration, of all intelligent clea.
ton. And now wo solemly appeal to all
who have any interest in the momentous
Questions, to tell US, If 1t be dangerous to
tell men that they are dying mortals, and
that God has sworn by himself, that he
has no pleasure intheir death, but would
rather they would turn aud live ? Is It
dangerous to tell the world that be gave
bis only begotten Son that whosoeyer b,.
leveth in him shall not perish but have
everlasting life ? Is it dangerous to tell
them that Jesus says, "Thls Is the will of
him that sent me, that every one that seeth
the Son and believeth In him that sent
him, shall not come into condemnation
but is passed from death unto lifep" Il it
dangerous to remind them ofthe promise
Of his coming again to receive In person |
the fulfllment Of his Fathers promise and
Oath, the throne Of bis father David, and
their final possession with him OF the
Kingdom appointed him by the Father,
that, according to the promise of God,
christians are looking for new heavens.
and q new earth wherin dwelleth Rieht.
Can this be heresyp Did those
doctrines ""Originate in hell?"' as has |
been said Of some at least, Oh show US
L you can, the reasonableness, of ever
lasting "conscioals suffering" Of myrlads
of beings whom God passed by when he |
choose the elect. Show us II you please
how . "dead soul," when aDimsl life be-
.ame extinct is capable Of consciousness?
Just let Us know how there can be "no
Of life In death" and vet
he Ego have . continued conscious
existence, apart from its material FORM"
ind then lastly, toll u how it Is that the
material form Of man may remain In
act while his Ego is entirely unconscious
# all that transpires about him?
And II his ego can lose It's consciousness
,nder temporary mental process of the
brain, by what process Of logical reason
ng can it be demonstrated that when
he brain ceases TO perform Its functions,
~ reason of death, that bis ego 10 not
hen In state of unconsclousness? What
5 this ego9 Is 1t the spirit, over which
solomon says, "nan hath no power 10
etain In the day Of DEATH" If man be
,reature made Of dust, as tho record
.learly shows, then bis ego, bis identity
annot be separate conscious thing from
limself hence, when mdn lieth dopn,
md rises not, till the heavens be no more,
lis identity, his ego, must be where be
), and bis resurrection must be one of
'ersonal identity, and upon this fact,
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