The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-09

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| ask these questions will refer you, in
answer TO any queries you raise re-
garding their own cherished philoso-
/ ply of progressive development, &c
| balderdash stun furnished by the
| diurns of modern inspiration like the
/ following:
There is an infintesmal influence
of sympathy between mind and mat
ter, which permeates all beings, and
pervades all the delicate inches and
| interstices of human intelligence.
| This sympathetic influence working
upon the affined intelligence of an af-
finity coagulates itself into "A corpo-
reity, approximating closely to the adj
umbration of mortality in it's highest
admenturation, at last accommodating IN
an accumulation Now, that is sub
lime beyond all appreciation. Take an
other specimen and actual quotation:
" In the 18th hour, the holy proce-
dure shall crown the triune Creator
with the most perfect disclosive illu-
mination. Then shall the creation in
the effulgenee above the divine sera-
phernal, arise into the dome of dis
closure in one comprehensive reNolv-
ing galaxy of supreme created beati-
tudes.' There, if any of you fail to
comprehend this transcendental EXPOSE
ton of spiritual developments it is ev-
identity because you are not sufficiently
surcharged with the divine afiiatus,
and for the benefit of such the follow
ing translation has been given: Then
shall all the blockheads in the min
coop dome of disclosiVe procedure,
above the leather fingers of Peter
Ncphinnygo, rise into the dome of the
dsclosive until co-equaled and cock
tensive and conglomerate iumuxes in
one comprehensive mux shall assimi-
late into nothing, etc. and reVolve.
This is about the sum and substance
.f rot oil Nal tinnS in
relation to the spiritual world
we set over against such nonsense
the plain common sense view which the
Bible authorizes.
one of the most reasonable things in
the world is that there are distinct and
separate localities in the eternal world.
One of the most unreasonable things
would be that there should be place
for the righteous and not one for the
wicked. Being a heaven, there must
be hell. 1t is inevitable. No other in
telligent conception is possible. 1t is
not in the power of the human mind
to conceive how it could be otherwise.
1t is not within your power to conceive
of such a place as heaven without at
the same time thinking of its limita-
TONS its relation to space, and the pos
sible existence of earth and hell and
the gulf between. Contrasts in the
moral world are just as reasonable as
therefore proof of hell. Argument
against hell is argument against heav-
en-. If there is an upper there must
be lower. If zenith, there must be
a nadir If there Is light, there is
darkness. If there is life there is death.
If glory, there is gloom. God finds no
more difficulty in arranging the moral
spheres than in adjusting the planets
and suns of the material universe. AS
Saturn and Jupiter and all the planets
distinct localities. SO God has
fixed in the great adjustments of the
world to come the localities of heaven
and hell.
In the second place. our text sug-
gests another law universally recog-
niZed, viz: That of proprietorship or
ownership 1t says that he might go
to his own place 1t was his own. not
another's. His title was valid We all
Of us understand this law of owner
ship. sometimes by Inheritance. some
times by purchase, also by labor pro-
is earned Judas place
was his own by virtue of the eternal
decree that connects character and des-
tiny. Probation and retribution are
therefore consistent with reason and
justice. Man by this law becomes the
architect of his own destiny. There Is
no place in hell natural for men. He'll
was not originally prepared for man.
The Son of God tells us it was pre-
pared for the devil and his angels,
Presumption gives the right of possess
sion to satan. But the rations of sin
is death. and the equivalent of a life
Of sin is Il place among the habita-
tons of the damned. Deep pits were
used as cemeteries for the
dead, and as the living eXeayated
places for their bodies when dead in
the sides of these pits, SO the sinner
by a life of sin cafves out his own
place in the sides of the eternal pit of
and woe. The psahnist evil
IDENTIFY alluded to this momentous fact
when in speaking of the omnipresence
of Jehovah he says: If [ make my bed
in hell thou art there job says; If
wait. ! have made my bed in the
darkness
Not only does the sinner prepare his
own place, but he boards his own treas
ures therein. As the righteous lays up
his treasures beforehand in heaven. in
like manner the sinner stores his treas
ures beforehand in hell. Paul SO de-
clares. But after thy hardness and
heart treasures up unto
myself wrath against the day Of wrath
and the revelation of the righteous
judgment OF God. who will render unto
every man according To his deeds. EV-
cry man Will find his own place where
his treasures are boarded and natural
~ goes where his treasures are. This
brings us to notice that in our text we
find another law, viz: That of moral
gravitation and spiritual afiinities.
That he might go To his own place
Going does not mean being driven. We
are all going somewhere. Every man
goes, Is not coerced, not driven against
his preference. or voluntary choice
The law of gravitation attracts heavy
bodies downward. Lead is heavy: gold
is heavier; but that which has the great
est specific gravity in the universe is sin.
The soul loaded with sin has fearful ten
denotes downward. Ii is to be observed
that the unregenerate sinner is especial
~ the subject of this law of moral gray
itation. The real Christian. regenerate
and forgiven. has been redeemed from
the curse of this law. His great burden
Of sin has been lifted borne away by
the sacrificial lamb of God he ascends
with wings of faith and love, seeking
those things which are above. His vo-
ition has been won. and he is drawn
upward while looking To the Christ. who
has been lifted up for this very pur-
pose. He follows after holiness. His