Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1878-03-23
Reply TO l.. IL. Nelson.

belief in The ",1-raile,i' U,iv.r-al Savarinn
Of all men | aI-o noticed your invitation
TO reply. Now, do cot profess to be- anx
ions to reply. as have plenty 10 do o'her'
wise: bat thinning that might say "a w"ri
that might do him some good, and being de-
srons to 10 %. | thought would pen few
words.
Let. | presume he is among that class of
Universities who admit the Bible, and heuce
shall 50 consider han. 2ud. | suppose he IL
Of thar class that deny all "Po>Im"rrrm pun
i,hment." This last infer hom has own
words, where he confines hell and lis de-
struc,ion 10 time.
F-om the first portion of lis article | I'M
dersrand him to admit that there IL ii hell. but
denies that it is eternal, from the fact that he
can make one he'll destroy aHorher, etc. Tie
whole argument, Of argument it can he
caled) Is based npon The meaning o! 'he term
he'll, and all he proves j. This, that it can not
ALWAYS mean endless punishment. Wha,
Sabba;h..choo hoy is there among rs that
does not know the sauiet Now. assume
tina, he either din or he dad HOf Snuw this II
he did not. then he ought not To have written
as he did-yea. he ought not To bave written
at ALL Ii he did le has wuiu'iy kept back a
part Of the truth. ! wish it understood that
Tins scroll is intended as a reply only 10 his
article and not treatise un the sat J ct al
all: for wbole volumes are written ca HAT
subject by ADLER pens than mine.
lie, u. inrn 10 Webster, tirsi and see what
he saws about the W.. ri lie says: Irli-lsL
The place Of the dead. or ot souls after d' ail;
the lLw er regions oI the grove; called 1" lie
brew sLeai, il Greek. hGdeS. End. The place
or ,,are of punishment for the wicked after
death; the anode Of evil spirits.
Without frliowng Ibis matter any further
il is PLAIN 10 every unbiased mind that he'll
Is "A term used TO reier. Doth III aud out ui the
scriptures 10 other i!irgs Iiian hell, as l. gerI-
erally understood by the term; hence, IN order
10 understand its 'rue meaniu. you must lo)k
al i,s connection. There are words both in
the Old and New Te>tanents IIlat refer
fret, 10 the grave; secondly. 10 the di>en-
bodied STATE; and thirdly To the place oi
endless suffering, .ome mems assertions 10
the contrary Notwithstanding. All must die
,here'is a place for our b''dles, the grave: and
while our bodies are there our spirits are gone
10 this separate recepce for the -oul o: splrIt,
sh,ol (Hebrew) hadrs. (Greek) Ii is the
MACE of the di.embodied dead These facts
will also appear more iaily when We nd'ice
that prophetic passage IA the 10Th Psalm, 10Th
verse, referring To our blessed L"Id. and
ouo,ed al.o by Mr. n. "For thon Wit tot
leave ny .oul in heir (sheoO-ihat is in the
inteymediaie STATE, where Cbrists s"ul went
and n here all souls go. both good and ba;!, IA
soon as death takes place-"nor sniier time
holy one Ia see corruption. That IL. Aill
not suffer his soul To remain IN that stale lons
enough for bis body which was 10 he IN tire
crave. .,o see corruptlon From his il .,
very Obvious that MIR. n has mi>arpled tn
whole Passage. The evidence Is abundant
that this is the mesnin. OF This and Kindred
passages Rev. 2U-I4, "And de Ii, he'll
(badfs) shall be cast into the lake ui bre,
which is tie second oeaih. , First, death,
OF the grave. shall be no more; il sha be- de-
s,royed; there SHAH he no nore any place
found Tor il; and (shooO the d>e,ubodied state
shall be- 10 more, shall be destroyed
What now becomes Of Mr. Ms theory?
Where is his one hell destroy iug anotheI!
He appears ." grow very eloquent aud bold
his wonderful discovery, when hell here doe-
not have reference to the place of endless
suffering AZ all Surely the wicked feeiii
when TO man Tnreueth. then shalt he
brought 10 pa.s that saying o! death where
is thy sling o! grave (hades) where is 'iy
victory IL clearly follows &c all rejecting
minds that as al, The dead shall be raised, 80
there eau he no more cea,h. or grave; and as
there can be no more death. or crave. 81 there
can he no more any hades. di,embodied STATE
To show that this view l. Ioi altogether my
own ON thus .ui ject, | shall quote from an
eminent critic: "Tbe word seheaRG, occurring
inst twelve tunes in the New Testament,
means the place of torment reserved iVr the
punishment of III. " icked in the future state.
In ten there can be no doubt; IN the other TWO
the expression, II hgnrative, is taken from
tina, state of misery which awaits the lmpeu-
itent, ~ here the worm dieih moi and the hire
is not auenched." Another word, hade-, o.
cures frequently m the Old Testament and IN
eleven places IN the new. In the New. les
lament il is translated hell in all places except
one-Cor. lI-55. here it il translated grave.
We. therefore, come toSthe following con.
illusions: LIT. That We have natural bodies.
which are subjected TO natural or temporal
death, which is sometimes called the grave;
-
mortal and spiritual, and therefore can not be
subject to decay and death, and as the body
returns TO dust as II wa. 30 the spirit goes to
haoes. or the ,!isenbodied state. 81 There
is time coming when death shall be no
more. The grave must give up the dead;
and when this is accomplished, The spirits
coming from hades, Uhe disenbodied siaie)
then hades, or that state, shall he no more
Hence, then. there can be more place for
d. a,h, (,le grave and LADIES' the disemlodied
state. Bui may here ANTICIPATE question,
and answer it before | further proceed. Do
YOU not believe that the good go iune,Iia'ely
90 heaven aud the wicked to bell when they
diea Most assu,edly do. Then how about
the hades Of which you speak, UNDERSIGNED;
the spirit must ga TO God who gave 1t, ire
specti,e Of its character, good or Lad, at death.
There is but one state Of the di>embodied.
and that sia,e Of the soul or sriri is cut OF The
body and in the presence (siehO Of God tut
The Sc,t - either lcrpi or miserable. accord