Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-02
COMMUNICATIONS.
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 To the Editor of the JOURNAL. AND COURIER:
 A contributor 'eB," has supplied to your columns discussion concerning the word translated everlasting" and the like in our English Bible. His conclusion is that such words as endless and s'eternar' cannot be strictly applied to sin and punishment, but only to God and righteousness.
 There is an obvious oversight in your con- tributor's conclusion. The Bible is for con- mon people and for all and is written in or dinary language. Now in every language the words in question have limited or un- limited signification relative to the subject i'll view. Thus if one should say, '"The nation which has a system at once of good educa- tion and of sound morality will be forever prosperous, D no one would give to forever" the same unlimited signifcation as if the speaker had said, ''The soul of man will en- dure forever"
 Endless, D forever and the like have al- ways a meaning simply co-extensive with their subject. When the Bible speaks of the 'ever- lasting hills'' it of course means lasting as long as mountains can by the conditions of their establishment and duration. But when it speaks of everlasting ife'' or of lever lasting death" as applied to the soul, the meaning is of course as unlimited as the soul itself in duration.
 Accordingly the unsophisticated reader never finds an obscurity in such language used by the Saviour or his apostles; and any reader, however sophisticated, can dissi- pate any apparent question simply by apply ing little COMMON SENSE. Chancellor Crosby's " Spectrum 5 of Tenn
 perance Ideas and Procedures. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 Judiciously considered, it cannot but be &C., counted suspicious to the prospect of 8 sound and stable legislation concerning the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors that Dr. Howard Crosby has come forward, publicly and emphatically, as the advocate and exponent of truthful and discriminating views and principles upon this great and most imminent topic. So demoralizng, im- poverishing and unspeakably brutaEzing is the traffic. as now conducted, that re- formers in their zeal and honest de- mand for oppressive measures, can hardly escape the error of allowing their ardor to override wise discrimination. It is not without precedent for reformers to assume and act upon the idea that any assertion or measure which to Heir oaon j,stlgnae,at ap- pears favorable to their good cause and up right intents must in itself be good and up right. Commingled with this reformatory mass-about as copieusly perhaps as hypo- critics in the churches-there will be sprink- ling of quackery- loving imbeciles or subser This is the class, perchance, that upon occa- sion becomes prolific of little objurgations supplied to the "odds and ends" of certain religious newspapers.
 One of the most obvious and self -subvert- ing fallacies of the now dominant temper ance leaders is in the attempt to found prac- tical operations upon mere chemical propor- tions i. e. because the alimentary use of all cohol in concentrated solution is destructive, the same must be true of it's very dilute in fusions produced in natural products, or m malt liquors. As reasonably might such re formers insist that because concentrated heat will destroy the vitals, therefore all meats and drinks at higher than the body's natural