The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-11
MIDDLEBURY. VT. JANUARY II, 1876

that toucheth the dead soul oil any man.
Loviticus vii 20, "The soul that eateth
the flesh Of the sacrifice" GAS cold
water to a thirsty soul" "lf the priest
buy any soul" They traded the souls
OF men" "If q man be found stealing a
SOUL" Flee out of the midst of Baby
lon and deliver every man his soul"
Mr.. Bosworth says that "soul, mind
and spirit are all used to denote the think
ing principle OF man, and are opposed to
the body" We suppose he means inde.
pendent Of the body, or immaterial,
What is immateriality but nonentity ?
There is not one particle Of proof to cs'
tablish it. 1t has no way TO manifest it.
self to any intelligence in heaven or on
earth. 1t possesses no property or power
by which to make itself manifest TO any
intelligent being in the universe Rea.
son can never scan it or conceive of it.
Revelation never reveals it. 1t cannot
be felt, heard, tasted or smeled, 1t is
neither liquid nor solid, soft nor hard
it can neither extend nor contract it
can neither ac. nor be acted upon; SO, if
it docs exist, it car be Of no possible use.
In proof Of his assertion he says, "Our
Saviour, in answer to the cayil of the Sad
ducees, gives us an incontrovertiblo argu.
ment, to which no obicctor has ever at
tempted serious reply, and that decision
should be considered final. Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob are now still living, but
their bodies are long since returned to
dust. Will not those who set this aside
reject all the evidence Of scripture 2"
We will now turn to the 22d chapter Of
Matthew (Which he has quoted) com.
mencing ut the 23d verse, and examine
his iuconiovcrlblo evidence that the
dead are alive The same day same to
him the Sadducecs, which say there is no
resurrection, aud asked him with regard
to the woman who bad had seven hus.
bands, whose wife she should be, not in
death. but IN the resurrection" Jesus, to
oriect their error tells them that in the
resurrection they neither marry nor arc
given in marriage, And to prove beyond
all controversy that there would be q
resurrection from the dead, he quoted
from their own scriptures what God said
to Moses at the burning bush, al am the
God Of Abraham. and the God Of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob God is not the
God Of the dead, but of the living" In
Mark, 18th chapter and 25th verse, "For
when they shall rise from the dead they
neither marry" etc, "And as touching
the dead that they rise, have ye not read
in ihe book Of Moses ?" etc. Would Mr..
Bosworth have us believe that jesus was
trying to prove to those who denied the
resurrection from the dead that the i'm.
material, Immortal souls of Abraham,
Isaac aud Jacob had risen from the dead ?
Can Immortality die? Certainly not.
Consequently the resurrection of an i'm.
mortal soul is an utter impossibility.
That which cannot die cannot be raised.
Jesus and the apostles based all their
hopes of future life on q resurrection from
the dead. Jesus said, John 5: 2S,)
The hour is coming in which all that are
in their graves shall hear His voice and
come forth they that have done good
unto the resurrection Of life" Why
promise them life if they were immortal
and could not die? Paul declares that
immortality is given "to those who, by
patient continuance in well doing seek
for it." (Romans ii b.: p Again, Paul
says, if there is no resurrection Of
the dead They, also, which are fallen
asleep in Christ are persisted" Docs
peIishe1 mean "gono to glory p Web.
stor defines perish to mean "to waste
away" "to die" ito depart wholly" Ito
be extirpatod," "to come to nothing"
Such, then, is the condition of those who
have fallen asleep in Christ, if the dead
rise not; but this cannot be true if the
real man moves away at death and goes
to his reward. Mr.. BoswortE says ali
man is wholly material there is an end
Of all theological science" We say let
us adhere to the Bible if it destroys all
the theology and science of men, In
Genesis ii: 7 it is said, "And the Lord
formed man of the dust of the ground
""i t-.~tLod into L;s -e-..:i- Al L. e~sr
of life, and man became living soul.
The question arises, did the Lord form
man of the dust Of the ground as q prison
house to put him in? The Lord says il
was man. If man was not made Of tht
dust of the ground then the account o.
his creation is not correct. 1t will bt
observed that nothing was added to mar
after his creation but the breath OF life
hence the breath must be the man, if tht
material organism Is not, But the Bibl'
declares positively that the accountable
intelligent being, called BY the Greater
d man, was made of dust on the sixth da,
: of creation, If he was immortal, ani
> existed before that day, the record is no
true, and we are left to guess at hi
0 origin.
s The reporter Of Mr.. Bosworth's sermon
says, ait was grand effort, and hi
= friends we're undoubtedly taken by sur
: prise" We confess VIC fail to see an
!. grandeur in an effort to sustain any doc
i trine th.t is entirely without foundatio
s in the Bible, as is the inherent immor
It tality of the soul and are only surprises
l. that men protesting to be Bible student
u should publicly mako assertions whic
y they cannot sustain from the word {
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