The true northerner., 1878-03-15

~ The cafnal mind ~ not sud- ttt 70 tue iaH
OF God, neither ia deed can ba GoundeF-
take to define Gods moral government py lho
law that governs the physical universe of to
regulate mans moral character BY the rules
and motives tllst aciaates him 10 an upcons
ysried state ia q Astrological impoaqipiiis ex,
cepi man 30 horn agah, heepnnei eee the
hingaom OF cod-John li. a--mneb less teach
Ii. Why SO much aspailiyenesA about the
word Hell5 Mr. seadea ii bic sermon takes
inst about the same course hat al others have
who are opposite to an active and independent
Judgment, and punishment Of the npalIy, in
perHiatantin in an other world He goes direct
to Hades and TIE valley Of Hinnom. and to the
big fish that swallowed Jonah, and tells % that
he'll, as applied to these places, does not mesp
place Of future punishment OF the wicked,
and gives as examples from Job XIV, 19, and
Ps. XVII. lowell. All this We know and admit ;
and there are other passages where hen inn
plies the grave, or, place Of the dead, Is in
Rey.l, 1s SO be that liveth and was dead
ana behold 1 am alive for ever more, amen
and have thee, keys og bell and Of death. yes--
glory to God the father and the Lord Jesns,
the bars Of death and he'll we're broken asundef
when Christ arose from the grave and led
captivity captive, but hell has a different mean
ing in other places in the Bible and the sense
Is 70 be determined by the connectiOnin which
the word is found-ths design fer which it is
used This is the only rule OF Interpretation
in reading sonptures or the laws OF man, words
are arbitrary things and mean only what We
make thsm to mean in their use and the pro-
priety Of their use is to be determined by the
sense they give. Now let us take the word
Hell as used in Ps. 9, 1.-THE wicked shall be
turned into hell and all the nations that forget
God. Does the Psalmiht mean IN the use Of
hell that the wicked and all the nations that
forget God, ahall be turned into the valley OF
Hinmon. II that is the meaning. what an inn
measurable pile We should see thsrs the bones
alone would make pyramid that would outcap
Mount Ararat, pat visitors to ihAt place don't
tell us Of any suchwohder there, and i cannot
mean that they shall be turned INTO that valley
At the end OF world for it viii Be burned up
with the rest Of the world. and then there viii
be no suck place that Is 20 But does i not
mean that the wicked shall be turned INTO the
grayeS It might il it included tie good ana
righteous. but II doesn not and all the gogd aud
righteous that ever lived and died on earth are
left TO bleach IN theopsn fslda without grave
which is not true in fact Therefore the word
he'll. 70 the passage last quoted. must mean 3
place Of punishment n the next world aeperate
from the place Of the righteous. Why then
make the valley Of Hinmon and Hades 80 cons
spicuons in the discussion. for there 3 nothing
in the two places, nor hen, when applied q
them to dinapproye Of the doctrine Il place
and state OF faturs pnnIshment. and ~ thia
usual furry. ii tAllt 20 my mind the story Of
II. ". Beechers dog that Kept barking at an
empty hole in = tree near the house and when
Alt Betcher Acolded the dol <. telling lmm 70
step barking and come away, that thero was no
squitrel there, he walked away, seeming to say
By his actions. / know il, only want to show
my doggshnsss.
There is an AmencAn bird called the whip
porwill or night-hawk-- this bird always ap-
pears in the gray Of the erenlng, neverin the
sunlight, may Be seen sostlns abbnt Oyarhead,
now and then swooplng down At the head Of