The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-21

and as all have both obeyed and dis.
obeyed, all would deserve endless hap
piness and endless misery, both.
5. Sin is gagged by the light and
knowledge of the sinner, and not by
the character of the lawmaker. A
mother judges and Furnishes her child
rem of three months, three years and
thirteen years, not by her own character
but by their culpability, SO God gauges
sin by the sinners light and knowledge.
6. No cause can produce an effect
greater then itself. If sin is infinite it
must have had an infinite cause, and
God is its author But man, finite
being, is its author, and it is therefore
finite.
Z. If infinite all sins are alike. This
contradicts the Bible John v. 1917
Luke xii. At 4s. Every page of the
Bible declares that the punishment of
sin is graduated by the character of the
sinner.
s. If true, the doctrine should have
been stated when the law was promul-
gated, Gen. ii. II, but it was not then,
nor since. Is it not strange that on a
proposition that must be proved by the
Bible, not word of Bible is given
9. The word infinite only occurs three
times in the Bible, and is only once ap-
piled to sin, Dob xxi. 81 and then
Eliphaz the Temanite, poor ignorant
heather, announces the doctrine that
sin is infinite and in xiii. Z, we read
that the Lord was angry with him be-
cause he had not spoken the thing that
was right. If this false, unscriptural,
absurd metaphysical speculation was
offensive in the mouth of a poor heather,
thousands of years ago, what reception
should it have from the mouth of pro-
fessed Christian, after nineteen centu-
ries of light and knowledge ? and what
has it to do with the question
In reply to DR.. Hanson's argument
from the Resurrection, Mr.. Hall said
all our Lord meant was that people
would not marry in heavenl He quoted
Dan. xii. and John v. 80, concerning
the resurrection to damnation. 1t had
already been shown that Daniel did
not refer to the final resurrection of all,
but to a moral anastasis for it is not
all but only 'many" who are to come
forth, and our Lord expressly de-
clares (Matt. XIV that the resur-
rection Daniel meant was to be in that
generation, a moral uprising. DR.. Han
son also showed that the resurrection
in John v. is the same.
1. 1t was then, "now" "a, 25. 2. 1t
was not of all, but only those in 1.-The
graves" as in Eek. xxxvii. 8. 1t was
of only part of mankind who
had actually done good and done evil.
This excludes more than half of the
human race, who had never done either.
4. Either children are annihilated at
death, or the resurrection to life and
damnation here is a moral one, in this
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obeyed or disobeyed the call of Christ
to the Christian life,-namely, adults.
5. 1t is parallel to Eek, Dam, Eph. ii.
1-6; Matt. xiv. 1915, and was fulfilled
in that generation, Matt xiv. "a.
Men are to be raised in their own
order, objected Mr.. Hall. Reply. True,
but that does not affect the fact Of the
resurrection of all.-The objections Of
Mr.. Hall to DR.. Hanson's argument on
the Resurrection left it intact
Much of the time of Mr.. Hall during
the last day was occupied in irrelevant
objections, misquotings of Scripture,
and perversions, causing DR.. Hanson
to say that while he could not believe
that his opponent deliberately intended
to put himself on record so unfavorably,
he must have mental strabismus, in
tellectual obliquity of vision, to be
guilty of such conduct. Following is
glazing instance: Had Jesus, Mr..
Hall said, intended to teach universal
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question duke xiii. 23) ''Are there
many to be saved?" so yes, all man
kind" In order to give point to his
attack, followed by tempest of violent
words, he changed ''few" to "many,"
and 'areo or "being" to ''to be-" The
question was, "Are they fe,O that are
saved" or ''are being saved?" The
question entirely relates to salvation in
this world. Again, he accused his OPP
ponent of advocating forcing men into
heaven. Reply. How much better to
force them to their profit, than to force
them into hell to torture and torment.
But as the audience knew, he did
neither. Man would be willingly
obedient.
Mr.. Hall made an argument for end
less woe in the language punishment
worse than DEATH" and tainted DR..
Hanson with not noticing it, claiming
that such a punishment must be end
less. DIR. Hanson referred him to Rev.
tx. 5, where five months of torment is
thus described.
In carrying on his side of the discus
sion Mr.. Hall read page after page, and
made point after point from Halls in