The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-25
acknowledgement
,rurther Theological Chit-Chat
among the Methodist Ministers
OF Chicago.


Tribune Of Tuesday.
The Methodist ministers held their reg.
MAR weekly meeting yesterday morning,
p,s.iding Elder Willing in the chair.
g,.ides the large attendance OF ministers,
there was present no ANAL sprinkling OF
theological students and laymen, drawn
together by the prospect OF hearing the
discussion as 10 the way the Church shall
teach the doctrine Of future punishment:
The Rev. S. Earngey, Of Woodstock, led
in the devotional exercises.
The Rev. s. II. Adams, who was reques.
ted at the last meeting TO prepare a paper
on the subject, How shall We teach the
doctrine Of future punishment 2" proceed.
el TO read what he had prepared on the
.nbitct. After speaking OF the Importance
of lie theme, aud the necessity for enter.
ing upon il dicussion with q heart full
Of love TO God and tenderness TO man, he
said that ministers should preach it clear.
IL, a. it WAS taught in the Bible, and yet
with tears. 1t was u question whether
the terrible mode Of preaching this doct:
rine 10 the past had not been a fruitful
cause Of ~inidelity. The Methodist min.
liter should not preach it in such a way
a. to cause doubts and idle ~questionings.
lie should disclose the Bible teachings
on the subjects as he honestly believed
them, with Il heart full Of love 10 God and
man, II man didn't but half believe in
il. he ought to let il alone. Heretofore
the Universalists had appealed to prejnd.
ice. and mere feeling, triumphantly asser.
tinp that a merciful God could not forever
puni,h sinners. In teaching the Bible
doctrine the minister should distinguish
between feeling and reason, and the APP
real 10 the former should be ruled out.
Hell was an awful reality, and God had
intended that all feeling should be against
il in order to deter men from committing
sin. lie could not interpret " aionios "
a. meaning anything less than I" eyerlast.
Ing, " although there was just a shade OF
doubt about that. Canon Farrar and
others held that 1t meant age.long, and
he should always cherish them as broth.
rr workers in the cause OF Christ. Was
the Methodist Church bound up 70 tightly
on this matter by a creed that it could not
wiggle? II there was any thing like that,
he did not know OF it. How should the
Bible doctrine be defended from the doct-
rine Of unreasonableness? The first OBJ
lection to it was that il was opposed TO
dods mercy. But Methodism was not
CaIyinism. That was dead, and Method.
ism had had a large share in is death. 1t
indicated no advance thought to get very
mad aud kick this very dead corpse.
Beecher'A late sermon amounted 10 no
than that. II might have checked the
waning OF his popularity and helped the
newspapers 10 get up q sensation and
make money, but it contained nothing
new The Methodist minister should teach
that there must be ut least a great gulf
fixed between the saved and the lost that
without holiness no man should see God
and convince by reason that no man who
died impenilent could dwell forever with
GOd. He should lay more stress on the
guilt Of sin and the need OF conversion !;
preach often on the cross Of Christ and
endeavor to correct a morbid, sickly SEN
lhnen'AllSm whicn waS sa, mIN 5 Nm" na".
way IN fei'Sious clrcIes; lug hhomLI O ha
rlne oil iu!ure punishment shou.u NC
should be warnings TO men TO desert their
.ins and flee the wrath TO come.
The paper was received with applause,
anu 'S puC!icatiVn leIue''eu "'
H''sr" '"'''''o" Au'oea'e
THE REV. 8. II. M'cHEsNEY
desired to he thoroughly understood on
the question Of future punishment, and
he therefore moved the adoption Of the
following resolutions, drawn up by him
self, the Rev. DR.. Edwards, and the Rev.
Mr.. Trusdell:
WHEREAS, The subject oil the proper
mode oil teaching the doctrine Oh reafiTn'
uoh mas oeeh Pelore 'his meeting 'of u'S'
custom sT%Ttetore, .uL.., =, ,ho
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mini,,srs ,SIEsJ ,Le move would tbe in
ference On ON, ,hs, ,hSv wsrs divided nm
The ,ubisct y" ~
The Rev Mr. C,uldwe,I moved IN post.
nome action on ,La r]ssoJn.inns mill The
neyt mast;nS y" in orJor IN g;vs Vii The
mini.,s,s an nnnos,nn;,v n yots nm them
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I'll REN'D DR. EpwARps
opposed n p~Ostponement. The latter
stated that All nnaccountable impression
ministers were in doubt on this subject.
II necessary to record the opinions Of all
the ministers, a second vote could be
taEen next Monday morning. He believed
II quite proper to pass the resolutions.
nov, 10 order TO show how far the Meth
odi't ministers had advanced in the dis
ca''lon Of this question, really old, but
now brought up by certain diyines as
something quite new,
The motion 10 postpone was Withdrawn.
rup my Nh cRAPrs
believed in fn,nre nun;.hment. Otbers
hal thar Jorh,. 81 no thor,ht me