The Morning herald., 1878-03-16
Communicated |
IMMORTALITY ALONE IN CHRIST

| AMMVh lALll1 ALONE IN CHRlSI
MEssRs. ED1ToRs.--Being requested by
some of your subscribers % give oommu.
nication on the above 81 t, fnr .e peru
sal of the many readers o. Your good paper,
hope you will give space in your columns
for the same. It seems to me that there is
no question of more importance, and OF
deeper interest to man, than the destiny
OF his race. Untold millions have come,
and for short time they would traverse
this green and beautiful earth, and have
wants he'd away like the morning cloud or
early dew. Is it the last OF thems Shall
we ever see them again? Shall they live
again Is all dark forevers When will
this dark night have an enda All these
questions arise in our mind, and the world
with all its boasted wisdom, cannot answer
satisfactorily.s~ Nothing but uncertainty.
Again comes from our hearts the question,
how long shall Death, the tyrant, reign and
triumph over the just? And q voice comes
to us from revelation, saying, To the law
and the testimony. So we turn to the word
ofGod as our only sure and SAFE guide. And
when and where there do we hear 1t saving
man Is immortal and destined to live on for
ever. We say we have failed to find it. Does
it says man has an immortal soul9 1t does
not. Does it soy he is in possession of in
mortality! It does not. Then why are we
taught that We have immortal souls I Does
it use the token at all? Not once. How
strange out Of the great number Of times
the words, soul and spirit, are fouod in the
Bible, 1t is never once declared to be immor,
tai, deathless, endless, nor never,dying,
although SC common and 80 often found In
our hymn books, and on our tongues. But
we find that souls have been stoned to death,
been killed with the sword and destroyed 80
we are persuaded with Paul, that the whole
man is the soul, foe when be was made be
was called living soul, and Paul being ac-
quainted with the fact, says,-1st Cor. Is
chapter, 45.v:-And so it is writ en- the first
man, Adam, was made Lying soul. The
last Adam was made quickening spirit. |
Now let us see what God says about i'm |
mortality, as 1t is mentioned five times. |
only, in the word of God: 1 Tim 6 16, we
read, God, only, hath Immortality. Iu the
glowing language OF theology of every man |
has 1t atm l,1O, we read, Jesus brought
1t to light through the gospel. Rom.s,y
We are exhorted to seek for it, Coz. Is
a,65, we are told we shall put it on at the
resurrection of the just. First, God only
hath It. Second, Jesus brought IT to light
through the gospel. Third, we are COM
manded to seek for It, Fourth and aftb
we are told we shall put It on at the resur-
rection.
30 much for immortality, and the word
immortal, which we have so often spoken
from the sacred desk is but once found In
the Bible, ard then it is applied to Cod |
Tim. l-ln, What then is man mortal 2
Gen. 2, 2, and the Lord God formed man of
the dust Of the ground, &C., JOB, H. 10
But man dieth and waettth away! Yea.
man, giVeth up the ghost, and where is h. :
Alb, this is an important question, and job
answers this question himself, but widely
does he differ from modern theology, which
puts him in Heaven, paradise, hell, or
purgatory, which utterly destroys he arsu,
ment wherewith Paul and Jesus proves
'ne resurrection. Yes, they are .nhades.
the grave, Job, IA, II. As the waters fai,
from the sea, and the floods decayeth and
dfieth up, so man lieth down and risetb not
pl the heavens be no more they shall not |