Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-01-02

OF Bin 10 Adam ahd Eve was splfill
Or moral death In the day OF trans
gression, Ifthey did not die durin
tho same day In which they slime
+. then the serpent told tho truth IN
God told ialsehood, Ispeak tire,
: erenlly, God said TO them, SIN III
5 day thou eatest thereof thou shaI
surely die" ! believe that they di
die IN that day as God told them the
would.
My view of this passage is this
"The wages of sin Is spiritual or mora
death All sin aud all die OF rcceiy
their just wages, Afterwards, through
faith in Christ and repentance all vii
come into the possession and enjoy
mcnt OF the gift Of God which is spir
itual life, But, if the sinner deserve,
to be dead eternally, he could never be
made alive in Christ except in viola
tion Of justice" DR.. Adam Clarke,
tho great Methodist Commentator,
says Of this text, "The word opsoaia,
which we here render wages signi-
fed the daily pay of Roman sol
dier So every sinner has a daily pay,
and that pay is death he has misery
because be sins. SIN constitutes he'll /;
the sinner has 4 hell in his own bos
om all is confusion and disorder
where God does not reign every in
diligence of sinful passion increases
the disorder, ana consequently the
misery of u sinner Comment in loco
How can you prove that any will sin
and die after "all are made alive in
Christ 7" This is the point Of differ
ence between you and me,
The Bible as we'll as reason teaches
that God is just and will by his laws
give to every soul according 10 the
merits and demerits of each but, il
you teach the annihllatlon or burning
up Of all uubelevers after the reSur. |
rection then every sinner is to be pun
lshed alike-the child who commits
only one sin and then dies unconvert,
ed is TO be burned into nuuihillaton,
endless death, uuconsciousness, and
he greatest sinner that ever lived will
% punished no more, but be burned
nto nonentity Is this your idea Of
impartial justice ?
We believe that "Ile that soweth
o the flesh shall Of the flesh (not in
he immortal worldly reap corruption"
" "the wages Of sim but he that
'beys the divine spirit shall of the
pirit reap spiritual life. Gal. 6: 8.
t is all previous to the resurrection in
he future state. People generally
cap the fruit in the same field where
hey SOW the seed. Thus, analogy is
gainst you. Now, please give me
ne text that speaks OF sin and woe,
I Of any perishing or being destroyed !
to the time when Christ
ives up the Kingdom TO God the
'ather that God may be all IN ALL :
st Cor, Is: 22-2S.
You close by quoting Matt. 16: 2s. r
heard you cite that verse in one Of !,
our discourses, but then as now, you q
id not dare to read the next words ;,
hich completely refute your notion =
lat the coming of Christ in his King 9
ON is now future. More than 1900 -
ears ago Jesus said, "For the Son of :,
an shall come in the glory Of his II
ather, with his angels, and then he 4
lall reward every man according to 4
S works" That is, he shall then +,
the work of rewarding all ;s
en- according to all their works, fe
10Th good and bad. In the very st
xt verse, the 2Sth, Jesus emphatl. sc
lIy declares, "Verily, | say unto III
III there be some standing here, who ar
all not taste of death (or dle) till fo
ey see the Son Of man coming in al
kingdom. Thus, it is plain that ea
at generation then living, did not W
IS away until the second coming of tb
lrist took place.-Matt. "a: "a. III
Yours for the Truth, nj,
ELI BALLoU. NJ
So. Woodstock, VT, Dec. 2S, II. hu