The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-28
4CHURCH CHIMES.
The intermediate State Be-
tween Life and Eternity.
THE THEORY Is NOT A NEW ONE
Our Usual Grist of Sunday Readip 6
for Church Going People
General Notes.

Public worship will be conducted in
the various churches to-day as follows
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
S4INTS-salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus NJ
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose, eounselors. Meeting
will be held in the Tabernacle at O'Clock
AID in the Ward meeting houses in the
evening at the usual hour.
METHODIST CHURCH.-C. L. Libby, pastor
The pastor will preach at IL q. m on 1.-THE
Minister for the tfmes,' and at 730 pm. he
will lecture on "The difficulties in making
a revelation, and the evidence that will
authenticate it."
ST. Marks CATHEDRAL.-Holy Com.
munion at 7.90 am. Sunday school at IS
a. m. Morning prayer and sermon at II
a. m. Bible class at 80 p N. Evening
prayer and sermon at 7.30 pm.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. - The
worship with sermon by the pastor at II
a. m. Sunday school at II Is. Young
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor at
6p.m. Seats free and public welcomed.
NOT A DOCTRINE.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:
Under Church Chimes" last Sunday
was an, article taken from the Provi-
dence Journal, which would lead the
readers of it to think that belief in the
intermediate state was of recent origin
and that it came in with the school of
the New Theology" The fact in re.
gard to it is that the Christian doctrine
and belief of the intermediate state is
as old as Christianity itself, and is en-
bodied in the Apostles Creed in the
clause. He descended into hell Z"
There may be some Protestant sects
that teach that the souls OF men at
death pass Immediately to the final
state of an eternal heaven or hell, but
there is no branch of the his
toric church of Christ that holds
to such belief. The Christian belief
has always been in state intermediate
between death and the resurrection,
where disembodied souls wait the
second coming of Christ and the final
judgment. The human soul of Christ
was in Hades. the unseen place, or par
adlse, while His body lay in the rock
hewn tomb; He did not ascend into
heaven until after His resurrection.
He said to Mary after He came ouI OF
the grove, Touch me not, tor am OF
yet assembled" However, He said to
Nlcodemus, ruler of the Jews, that
mo man hath assembled up to heaven
but he that came down from heaven,
even the Son of Man which is in
heaven
The belief of the early church was
that Christ was the leader or new
head OF the race and that His fol-
lowers or members are to follow Him
in death as in life; that they are in the
same state between death and the
resurrection that He was in from the
time that He died on the cross until
He rose again from the dead; that the
final state of glory or of shame is not
entered upon until after the resurrection.
To this belief she still holds the doc
trine of the intermediate state, then
is both apostolic and Catholic. The
medieval Roman doctrine of purgatory,
is neither apostolic nor Catholic; no
more is the modern protestant DOC
trlne that at death men pass at once to
their eternal award.
The pious commemoTation of the
blessed dead In prayer, and in the cele-
bration of the Sacrament of the HOLY
Communion did not originate with the
belief in purgatory. It was a practice
of the early Christians and is found IN
the ancient iturgies long before the be-
lief In the Romish doctrine of purga-
tory had fastened itself upon the ad-
herents of the papacy; it is grounded
upon the doctrine of the Communion
OF Saints" as contained in the Apostles
Creed. s**
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