The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-31

What I was coming at was this, the mistake
which the clergy so often make OF giving .no
friends and mourners at a funeral 10 uhuor-
stand that the body Is to be put In the grave
but that the spirit has gone to heaven
Bosh. ,ho
p,hle IN that . fleet? III there is 4 would ike 10
have some one send me the text which proves
IL. IL may be a good argument 10 use 10
soothe the feelings OF the bereaVed' oue 40
sure as YOU are born. it is nothing more nor
| less then religious con. The BLDG says WIN
| YOU are dead you return to dust ana iur.nei
saws that you remain so untii the ~ ,m.
Nowi IL that is not SO the Bible Is a No. III the
Bible Is a lie, religion is a humbug and not 10
DO relied upon. s
But the Bible, as has been proven beyond
| ALI manner of doubt. is not a lie. IL has Will
| stood the higher and lower Criticisms Oh 'ne
people of the world for many many years anu
is stronger today than ever. true 'hsre III
come things contained therein which man
| cannot interpret TO his own worldly. satis'ac-
| tion. But that is not strange. Man Is pretty
ANAL potatoes, as compared with the creator
of a universe, yes, or a fiy's wins.
When I arrived at THE NEWS once tne
next morning after the above ar'icie
appeared / was handed the following com-
munication and instructed to give IL
space In the column which 1 turnisneo'
To THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS:
DEAR sniff thought there were TO be
many such articles written for your excellent
paper as was seen In the "Corbett' column IN
last nights edition, l for one would drop IL us
1 would a hot potato.
IL was an insult to a Christian community
and you would be counteracting the influence
gained last winter during !2e meetings held az
Music Hall and elsewhere, by allowing such
stuff To appear in tho columns of your ably
conducted paper. IL the writer OF said article
had been better acquainted with the BOOK
he criticised so severely he never would have
written IL.
Respectfully,
Providence, July %, 1894.
OF course there is no answer to make II
REPUTATION to "A Subscriber" as tn
above will plainly show. / may have
criticised men, but not the "Book."
AS / requested a tex TO prove that
was mistaken, included in my mail was
postal card reading as ollows
Tn accordance with your request in Tn
| NENS Oh July - DiboNO aVpN
Ecclesiastes XII. z. and the six verses proceed
ing the text,
have looked and read. IL my frien
could explain what the spirit was befor
man received it and whether or not b
does not fall into the error OF assumin
that the text refers to an intelligen
righteous spirit then there would be n
need to refer him to Ps. 1i6, A Eccl.
5-6 and Job IA, II. The troubl
is we must not look through on
lens Of the great Biblical KALEIDOSCOPE
When a man dies good or bad the good G
bad spirit must necessarily remain bar
ished from the sight of the Creator unit
according to the text, Rev. Xxx: 5-7, tt
Resurrection. The first for the just an
the second for the unjust. 1t is not fc
man to give his ideas as regards what IL
Bible ought TO say, but rather to confori
to what 1t does say. IL good and ba
spirits unfortunately go to heaven I'll
divine destiny Of mankind as it has bee
revealed In the Bible p%recludes the nee
OF a redemption and subsequent resul
r~ection.
Just as / was about to turn in this cor
along COtlCs huobhOi oPoh' w.
subject from q correspondent who take
an opposite view Of the article referred Il
Here Is his letter:
To the Editor of the "Corbett Column:
1 was highly pleased with the sentimen
expressed in your Fridays column. In regai
to the state Of the dead. for Ii shows to II
mind that the Bible Is still the guide of son
people. How can the reader Of your column
do anything but accept the truth of yo'
statements when he reads such texts
Feel. tx, 8, o. 10; Psalms cxlvi., ..
and Job XIV, Il. 81 The dead ma
knows nothing. feels nothing. thinks nothin
remem bcrs nothing, but sleeps in the graz
till Christ shall come. God made man out
the earth, and breathed into his nostrils u
breath Of life, and man then became a liviI
soul" Gen. II. Z. However. this breath
life" which he breathed contained no ment
activity, for IL was common TO beast
well as to man. Gen. vi. %: Feel. iii, 1870.
In view of such strictly Bible argumen
who would dare but agree with the article b
fore mentioned? Let him who does not, rei
his Bible again. BY whomsoever this doctril
be contradicted. to such a one the Bible ca
not be but a lie and religion n humbug,
else he = ignorant Of its teachings.