The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-07-23


his light, Socrates, of course, for we
challenge its production from the
scriptures. And we. have already
shown that he and his disciples are
fdpls-the spirit being the judge.
Did yotir limits Of an article permit,
we would demonstrate at length, from
his own words, the speciousness of
his pleading; rs it is, we shall only
indulge in remark or two.
In his answer to the Sth query he
says: mo one claims, nor are we
taught, that the soul car at the same
tune have immortality and be subject
to DEATH" While in his answer to
the Tth he says; $50 long as the soul
is subject to sin 1t Is mortal aud sub;
ject to death, and when freed from sin
it is freed from DEATH" After hav-
ing just instructed Mr.. N. that he
must remember that the soul is i'm
material and mortality cannot be
predicated of it as of the body. Ac-
cording to which we have material
mortality, and an immaterial mortal
lily; sinful souls-souls subject to
death-mortal souls; sinless souls
souls freed from death-immorta
souls; and souls that are at one time
sinful, subject to death, mortal-and
at another time sinless, freed from
death, immortal. While mortal it is
subject to death, and yet has an eter-
nal existence and meyer dies; but
when it becomes immortal is not sub
ject to death, has an eternal exist
ence and never dies. So that it
makes no difference whether the soul
sinful or sinless, subject to or freed
from death, mortal or immortal; it
has an eternal existence and never
dies, and its being subject to death
is ruled out Of the question as to its
existence. Again, although we are
referred to Ezakiel XVIII from LIST
to 10th verses, liz which included the
statement that "the soul that sinneth
it shall die"-"so clear that way
faring man, though fool, need not
err therein, I've are told that though
the soul Is sinful and sinless, subject
to and freed from deatl, mortal and
immortal, and material and inmate
rial, it has an eternal existence and
never dies. Such is the logic not on
ly OF Mr.. M, but Of all men illumin-
atcd by the light of Socrates, Plato
and philosophers of their class, whose
writings students for the ministers for
the ministry in the theological instu-
tions of our day are instructed to
study to cIable them to make known
to a perishing world the way Of life.
No wonder the clergy and their dupcs
are the sport Of such men as Vol
taire, Paine and Ingersoll.
The difficulty caused by the ques-
tions, is that whoever Mr.. N. intend.
ed to puzzle by them, he has succeed
ed in puzzling Mr.. NJ, forced him in
to undertaking to answer what he
does not understand, and caused him
to disclose his ignorance Of script
ures on a fundamental principle oil
the truth. In evidence, we refer you
to his answer to the 18th query, where
he says: "Nowhere does God say
mans soul was made Of dust'-a
clerical way ofputting it; the script
ural doctrine is that man is the soul
Turn FOR moment to the 81 chapter
of Genesis, 7th verse, where you will
find it written, "And the Lord God
formed nun Of the dust of the ground
and breathed into his fiostrils the
breath Of life; and man"-(the dust
Of the ground formation, the thing
brcathcd into, not the thing breathed)
-"became living soul" And for
further evidence against Mr.. Ms as.
sertion. When the living soul man
sinned, transgressed the law Git is the
soul that sinneth and consequently
| dies) and was summoned for the pur-
pose of passing sentence or judgment
upon it, it was said: "In the sweat Of
thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou
return unto the ground, for out Of il
vast thou taken, for dust thou art
and unto dust thou shalt return
Gen. III:19. No doubt this is ma
ked lefprmity and meanness of mind
| out Of all measure on the part of the
'Eleohim' in the estimation of Dir
M, but he will have to settle the ques-
tion with them,and we may add that
eve know Of heathens who would
laugh Mr.. M. to scorn, if he should
set before them his absurd denial"
There is one point made by Mr.. NJ.
that we feel constrained to do him
the justice of asserting to, viz: That
the doctrine of congenital or inner
ent Immortality in mortal man is the
prop that stays up the world, (see
answer to 4th queery,) but that be-
ing lie it is confession that the
world religious is proped up by a lie.
1t is the foundation, the corner stone,
upon which the Mother Of Harlots
and the denominations Of the earth,
and all her idciatrous and adulterous
daughters Of every name and demon
nation have erected their super
structures-termed by Gibbon the
cdifice of the Church, and to under
mine it would bring down the whole
fabric with a crash about their ears,
and bury them beneath the debris
of their delusion-the lie which they
have believed, that they may be damn
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