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believed, and to paint them

generally believed, and to paint them
on church walls, as was done in
Europe, and to write them in their
creeds and hymns, and to so pervert
the Word of God as to seemingly give
a Divine support to the God -dishonor-
ing blasphemy. And to-day it is
received as legacy, not from the
Lord or the Apostles, or the Prophets,
but from the compromising spirit
which sacrificed both truth and reason
and shamefully perverted the doctrine
of Christianity in an unholy ambition
for power, and wealth, and numbers.
External torment was unknown to the
Patriarchs oipast ages ); it was unknown
to the Prophets of the Jewish age; it
was unknown to the Lord and the
Apostles and was unknown to the
world until between three and four
hundred years after the Saviour's day,
but it has been the chief doctrine of
nominal Christianity since the great
apostacy. 1t has been the scourage
wherewith TO lash the ignorant and
superstitious of the world into servile
obedience to tyranny. Eternal torment
was pronounced against all who offered
resistance to Rome usurped authority,
and its infection in the present life
was begun SO far as she had the power.
1t may be asked, What is the penalty
for sin? Imperative law says DEATH
but the sentence in the first penalty
was cancelled by redemption, and the
final penalty (if incurred) will be the
second death, which would be an
impossibilty without second life and
the second penalty could not be
inflicted without a second trial. Both
have been secured by redemption, which
guarantees a resurrection back to life
through resurrection from the dead.
The opportunity for the final trial will
be throughout the incoming thousand
years millennium, or the sage Of the
restitution Of all things" when satan
will be bound with that chain which
John saw on highly favored "Pat-
mos" and King Emmanuel, in COM
pany with His Bride, will be on His
Millenial Throne, when, for a thousand
years, both the living and the resur-
rected dead will be on trial for ever
lasting life. Not on account of what
Adam has done; that was all settled
by virtue of the atonement, and all
who, throughout that long and favora-
Bile trial, prove themselves worthy Of
life, will have it throughout the blissful
ages of eternity and those who refuse
to comply with the easy terms then
offered, will be /" cut off from among
the people," and deprived of life for
the second time, when the newly
created body given in the resurrection
will return to mother earth," and
the esprit to the God who gave it,"
We all know that the spirit of the
wicked man comes from God as we'll
as the spirit of the good man, and
must 1t be supposed that He will tor
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forever to accomplish no purpose ?
Reason says No; common sense says
No; inspiration says No a.; and if satan
could be induced to tell the truth his
answer would be No the admirers and
supporters of traditional theories to
the contrary.
In about eighteen years from now the
long predicted impending "trouble, p"
now brewing between capital and labor,
will be due to burst in all its fury
upon our devoted world, when every
thing of human origin will be burst
up and broken to pieces like a
potter's vessel" and be driven by the
whirlwind of Divine wrath across that
stormy sea of Unprecedented trouble.
Then the doom of that accused mas
terpiece of satanic ingenuity-eternal
torment-that blasphemous libel on
the sacred name of a merciful God of
Love, will be forever sealed.
Your very humble servant,
RICHARD MARSTON.