Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-02-02

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you, continued the preacher, very
spleinnly, where would be the
popular teachings about hell If NE
calmly and deliberately erased from
our English Bible the three words.
Damnation, hell, and everlast-
ing?' Yet / say unhesitatingly-I
say, claiming the fullest right to
speak with the authority Of knowl-
edge-L say, with the calmest and
unflinching sense of responsibility
l say, standing here in the sight Of
God and of my Saviour, and, it may
be, of the angels and the spirits Of
the dead-that not one OF those
words ought to stand any longer in
our English Bibles; and that being,
in our present acceptation of them,
simply mistranslations, they most
unquestionably would not stand in
the revised version of the Bible if
the revisers have understood their
duty"
After explaining the original mean
ing Of the words, he closed by say
ing that finding, neither in Scripture
nor in anywhere, anything to prove
that the fate Of every man is ct death
irrevocably determined, he shook
off the hideous incubus Of atsnrious
conceptions attached by fal69f the
ology to the doctrine Of final xotri-
button. But neither could he speak
'doginatically On ths ctksr st1ss He
could not preach the certainty of
what was called Universalism-that
all will finally be saved-though
that doctrine did, indeed, derive
much support from many passages
of Scripture, and had been held
by some of the early Fathers.
Neither could he accept the spread.
ing belief in conditional Immortality.
His belief was fixed upon the living
God, and his answer to the question,
what is the fate of dead sinners =?
was, with Thomas Erskine, that we
are lost here as much as there, ard
that Christ came to seek and to save
the lost. His hope was~hat the vast
majority Of the lost would at length
be found.
If any hardened sinner, shame
fully loving his sin and despising the
long suffering of his Saviour, triAed
with that doctrine, it was at his
own deep and awful peril; but to
those longing and anxious souls
who were striving to creep nearer to
the light, he would say: Have faith
in God. There is hope for you
hope for you, even if death overtake
you before the final victory is won.
" Say ye to thu righteous that it
shall be we'll with him, for they
shall eat the fruit Of their doiug:.
Woe unto the wicked; it shall be
i'll with him. for he reward Of his
hand shall Be given him" But say,
also. - Christ's Own apostles I'D
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