Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-02-06
Correspondence.
nlder pamsn's Reply.

Ebiiph hpEl-hH hh'h bthcc you nav
acted as chairman IN this profound dis
eussion between Mr., Ballou and myself
wish 10 address you again on this subject
In No, 2 Of Mr., Dallou's last letter +
the public, he quotes Romans 81 10, Il
which we have made no reply, but vii
now, ~ we have room for 1t. 10 get tn
true sense OF II we will quote the I'LL
verses "For II by one mans onenc
death reigned by one much more the.
which receive abundance OF grace and o
the gin Of righteousness shall reign II
life by one Jesus Christ" Therefore, ~
by the offence OF one, Judgment came up
on all men to condemnation; even 40 b,
the righteousness Of one the free glf
came upon al men uuto Justification o
life, For nv by one mans dlsobedlcnc,
many were made sinners, 80 by tho obe
dance OF one shall many be made right
e)us," Justification OF life comes to al
men through Christ, but all men are no,
Justified because oil men do not receive
Christ; therefore Christ said, "Ye will
not come unto me that 70 might have
life" Paul, In Romans o. |, tells US how
men are justified, II Is by faith. In %
Thcs. 3i2, he says, "All men have not
mith;" hence all men are not justified,
neither have peace with God,
The many made righteous are the same
rs In the l7th verse, who received abun.
dance Of grace. We sometimes read OF
vessels being lost ut sea, and many are
lost and many arc saved. DO we under
stand that the many that are saved were
those which were lostI Nay, but there
may be more that was lost than saved,
yet II Is true that there were many, fur
many, Is an indefnate number. To speak
Of them as the text expresses In the 18th
verse Us many as had on life preservers
were saved. So as many as have Christ
the christians life prcserver-wlll be
saved eternally. II men reject this gift
Of life the result will be just as Jesus said
It would in John 8: 81, "Then said Jesus
unto them, 90 my way, and ye shall
seek me, and shall die In your sins;
whittier go ye cannot come.
In No. 3, he says have not mentioned
any text that shows the time Of Christ's
coming. have referred to Matt. l3:
S7-44, which shows plainly when 1t is.
Christ, In John 6: $40, when speaking
Of the resurrection Of his people, says
ut shall be at the last day" Now II the
resurrection of which the scriptures
speak so much, Is nothing but conversa-
ton, then 1t proves that none will ever be
converted until the last day comes.
We have shown in our former articles
that Chrlst's coming and the resurrection
were identical. See lst Thes. 4 l6.
Furthermore the time of Christ's coming
Is shown by Paul in I'd Tim. 4: l, to be
identical with his kingdom and that was
not to take place until "The kingdoms Of
this world became our Lords and his
Christ's, Rev. II; l5. From the time
that these words were spoken until
between the years A. ID. 357 and 1856,
there was bat one kingdom Of existence
and that was the Roman which ruled over
oil the then known world; and between
the dates as given above, it was divided
into ten parts and from that time to the
present there have been kingdoms, (plu-
raj. In Daniel q A, where the prophet
interprets Nebuchadnezzer's dream Of the
great image coming down into the divid-
ed state Of Rome, the Iran kingdom,
says: "In the days Of these kings Cor
klngdoms) shall the God Of heaven set up
a kingdom, perfectly corresponding with
Rev. II: IT," and many other scriptures
which we will not mention now. Mr..
Ballou would have it appear that we are
afraid to reply to the many texts which
he mentioned, but not so.
That Christ came to judge the world at
his first advent, we think has not or con-
not be proved.
Paul says in Acts II: 81, "That God
hath appointed day in which he will
Judge the world by Christ" I'd Peter 2:
,. "The Lord knoweth how to deliver
The godly out OF temptations and to re.
serve the unjust unto the day Of Judgment
TO be punished" In John 10: Al, when
speaking of the object Of his coming into
he world, then said: "And II any man
,ear my words, and believe not, judge
lin not, for came not to judge the world ,
,ut to save the world" But In verse AZ
ays, "He that rejecteth me and receiveth
lot my words, hath one that judgeth him |; ,
he word that have spoken, the same
hall Judge him in the last day." Luke
Z: 30-36, gives no evidence that Christ
ame in judgment at the destruction Of
erusalem, for at his coming he said 1t
hould be as it was the same day Lot ,
Vent out Of Sodom, but no such event
ook place at Jerusalem. 1t was destroyed
y an army; but Sodom by fire that came I,
Iown from heaven. 1t was judgment
indeed inflicted upon Jerusalem and the
ews, but not on the world. Matt. 10:
s refers to the time when Christ sent
ut the twelve on their first mission, two
y two, and told them not to 90 In the
'ay Of the Gentiles nor any city Of the Q
amaritans. But IN their last commission
ley were commanded to 90 into all the I
orld. Marx l6: l5-l6. See also N att. q
|: IA. In Matt. IL: l, we read that
hrlst began to preach and teach In the a
lme places where he had sent his disci- j