The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-06-10
Is UnbIushingly Confessed BY Score or
More of Methodist Bishops, Editors,
Professors and Ministers.

When minister preacher disseminates publicly
or privately doctrines which contrary to our Ar
process be observed in of gross immo-
raiy but if the minister or preacher so offending do
doctrines PUBLIC or private he shall be borne with
| which shall determine the matter
The words established standards" :"
as used above, refer to the Sermons
and Notes of John Wesley, and possi-
bly, to certain writings of other early
Methodists which, by the recent action
Of the General Conference are made
the infallible Interpreters, to the de-
nomination, Of the Bible
The great mission Of Methodism
woodward has been to warn sinners to
flee from the wrath to come" There
is only one condition previously re-
quired Of those who desire admission
into these societies-''a desire to flee
from the. wrath to come and to be
saved from their SINS On no one
point are John Wesley's sermons
more explicit than upon that Of the
modes of that wrath. With what ter
rible emphasis he announces the ma
teriality of hell-fre, let tie reader
Judge from the following brief excerpt
from his sermon "On HelI:"
But it has been questioned by some '.Whether there
there be any fire, it is unquestionably material For
what is immateral fire: The same immateria
water on earth Both the one and the other is absO-
lutte nonsense; contradiction in terms. Either,
therefore must affirm ii to be material, deny
all there, what would they gain thereby? Seeing
this is allowed all hands, that it is either fire
f And rsa s1Sssr I m snx 9
DOUBT this Is 1t possible then to suppose that the
not so? Does He design TO fright His poor creatures
it % b,Ts GrTg & M tn n a shadows o6S
so! impute no such folly to the Most Hight
burn aIwa1s For b1 the imm9fabie law of nature IL
consumes whatever is thrown into it: And, by the
same law as soon as 1t has consumed its fuel it is it
1t is most true that in the present constitution of
Of IRE does not dissolve and consume Whatever is
thrown into it, But here is the mistake The present
and the earth shall flee away the present will be
t6iay y ehangea and win me present M o
this great change nothing will be dissolved, nothing
will be consumed any more.
Therefore, if it were true that fire consumes all
things, now it would not follow that would do the
that vast universal change.
say if it true that fire consumes all things
now" Has it not pleased God to give already some
proof of what will be hereafter? Is not the LiHRm
ASbcStRm, the incombustihle flax, known in most
parts of Europe? IfyOu take towel handkerchief
made OF this Gone of which may be now seen in the
British Museum) you may throw it into the hottest
fire. and when it is taken out again IL VIII be oDserV
grain of its weight Here, therefore, is substance
tion of things-as if il emblem of things to
Many writer's have spoken Of other bodily torments
added to the being cast into the lake of fire. One of
have melted gold poured their throats,
and he supposes many other particular tormens to be
himself supposes the inhabitants of he'll undego
variety of torures not to continue always in the lake