Daily Republican., 1879-05-12
WILL THE WICKED BE RAISED ,

The Nom Resurrection OF the Wick
ed Dead Observation-Disclosures by
Elder Geo. r. Kramer.
Yesterday morning, Rev. Mr.. Kram-
or of the Household OF Faith, preached
very able sermon on the Resurrection
and Judgment of the wicked dead, TAX
ing'for his ext Ecclesiastes IL; IA, "For
God shall bring every work into judg-
ment with every secret thing whether
it be good or whether it be evil" Our
space permits US but a brief notice. A
verbatim report only could do JUS
tice to the theme and the speaker.
He said that from reading Acts "a;
u. "There shall be resurrection OF
the dead, both of thej just and unjust"
it wonld appear that truth that is so
plainly taught as the resurrection OF
all mankind would not be the subject
of controversy, and he wished to say
that he had no intention to enter a
controversy on this narrow point, but
as the subject had been introduced, he
thought il well to notice it in the light
of Gods word.
The speaker then noticed the leading
passages in the Bible which the non
resurrectionists claim as favoring their
theory. All these texts were bat infer
ential, and they had to be twisted out
of their meaning in order tomake them
imply that the wicked dead rise net
There was not plain, positive asser-
!, , tion of the kind in the Bible. If we
! wish to know its teachings on the sub
iect. get a concordance, look up the
: word resurrection and read the pas
= sages together with the contexts where
u it occurs. Those who deny that the
. wicked dead will have a resurrection,
Y base this objection upon the character
of God. 1t is said that God is love,
g and He cannot consistently with his
. character stir up the wicked dead from
{ their slumbers and destroy them again.
II But where will this logic lead us?
;. A man is sick, to all appearances,
- Just ready to die; but he is restored to
), drag out an existence of pain and sut-
. fering. Now, we ask, why did not the
. Lord let him die? We say it would
u have been a great deal better for him
. to have died then. Sometimes an in
" FAINT is restored when it is apparently
y >, about to die; we see that it comes to
IA bad end, and we ask, "why did moi
the Lord let it die?" Why does the
t. Christian often so suffer in his death
u If he must 60 to the grave, why not &C
y as easy as possible? Why so racked
s with pain Why linger SO long Why
. does God allew this We ask, was II
< not incom patible with the divine char
- - acter to have Christ die such an lgno
O' minious death? Why subjected to SC
!, much torture and pain Why did moi
the Father allow him to die as easy as
Il possible. But the fact is that Chris
IL died death of the deepest pain anc
o darkest sorrow.
70 TO all of this can only answer that
D the "Judge of all the earth will az
>, right"
'r The divine character demands the
y resurrection of all, for its vindication
= Many of those wicked persons go dow
Il to the grave with blasphemy on thel
50 50 lips, and thinking they can sin agalns
Is God with impunity. Will God perml
y, Ss them thus to go down to the grave, an
vi never teach them otherwise He teach
ie es that he will reveal that characte
III to the wicked, by bringing them betor
t. the Judgment. "These things hav,
g. they done, and kept silence, but vii
d, d, set them in before me, | will reprov
su "a them" "Every knee shall bow to m
iS &c. Some say that christians war
people to be raised to be singed. ThF
is no argument. What we want or d
IS not want has nothing to do with til
in wicked. The question is, what doe
5h the word of God say?
re Some say, what is there to rails
lie the wicked If life only comes frol
OF Christ, how can they be raised "
OF answer, the power Of the Lord" A
BIZ the Father raiseth up the dead, al
pi- quicker eth them, even so the Son quicl
ne eneth whom he will.
I'd. The speaker then noticed the nun
7as erous passages teaching the resurre'
he ton of the dead. Among them:
'ed Peter, 2: 8, "The Lord knoweth no
riff to reserve the unjust unto the day
ar, Judgment to be punished. Ecclesla
The tics II: 8, "For all these thinge &c
ide will bring thee into judgement. sec
de- says He will do it, the non-Resurre
of ton theory to the contrary notwitl
to standing" :.
by Mark 6: II; Matt. 5: 30, 80; Matt. l.
ny, 36; Matt. 10: 20; Luke II: Is; John
of 20; Acts 5: 25; Rom. 2: Is, l6; Rev.
the II; and many other passages were gu
'at- ted, as teaching plainly and dellnlte
the doctrine Of the resurrection OF I'll
nd. wicked dead, of their Judgment and
as their being. consumed in the lake
in. fire, which is the second death.
ing In conclusion he stated that the do
a trine of the on-resurrectlon OF u
wicked, was not an out growth OF II
OIL, Advent Church as many believed.
the was first promulgated by Mr.. Walsl
vas several years ago. He afterward four
his his theory was not tenable, so forsoo
TIA it, and adopted the theory of the etc
nal torment of his embodied spirits, b.
red the Advent Church had ever clung
ris- the old truth that sit is appointed un
riff men once to die. and after this IL
lad judgment"
)le,
ing Large f""o'
'he The funeral of Alexander Eglinto
in residing at 427 East Fifth street, toe
the place Yesterday afternoon at 2;
. o'clock. Services were held at u
I. IL 49, Al,n