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A Wrong Conception Of Death.
GOD NOT THE AUTHOR o 1T,
WHICH Is A DELUSI0N
TO MAN.
Mr.. Vincent Marshall, Latter Day
Thinker, Has Solved the Problem
Man Does Not Die, Only the
False Belief in Him Dies
or Disappears.

MEXICO, Mo-, June 5..-In a recent
Leader l saw short article with
the heading "The Fear of Death"
would like to say few words. This
subject, to my mind, suggests that we
have had wrong conception of what
death is. In the last paragraph the
writer says the Christian has already
passed from death to life; he is already
saved; he is beyond the power of
death 10 hurt him; he is in possession
of victory; he has no fear of death;
when it comes he will enter into the
10y of The Lord. would like to know,if
he has passed from death to life, how
death can come to him. If death is as
real as life, how can there be any i'm
mortality or eternal life, for life is
divine principle emanating from God,
and life is the real and the eternal.
Death ia the opposite to life. Then
death is not real and eternal, for it
never came from God, for God is not
the author of sin, disease and death.
Then, if God did not make or create
death, what is it for? God created
everything that was created. Now,
brother, what is it? Is it not deius-
ion, false belief, a deception, false
hood? 1t cannot be anything else. l
will tell you why l believe that is
right: In the beginning God created
man in his image and likeness, and
mortal, sinful, dying man is not the
image and likeness of God. Robert
Miliigan, in his book called "Scheme
of Redemption" in speaking of the
man that God made in his image,
says: "It did not consist in anything
ply steal, for God Is spirit" And
agaio, il speaking OF the agency of the
Holy Spirit, ne quotes the sixth chap
ter OF Genesis, third verse: "And the
Lord said, My Spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also is
fesh." Then adds, COR rather by his
erring he become flesh, q sensual, COR
rupt, perishing creature" If Bro.
MilIigan is right, and think he is,
man gained fieshly, mortal body in
the fall. Then God is not the author
of it; then there is no life In the flesh.
1t came by or through a delusion or
false helief-a belief in the lie that the
serpent told, belief in a power apart
from God, for God is all powerful.
Then there is no power apart from
God il God is all powerful. How can
there be more than all? Now, brother,
when man believes there is a power
| apart from God, is he not believing In
another God, and when he believed in
another God he fell, and death by the
fall, without hope and without God in
the world. Now is that death?
think so. Is not that all the death
there is? Christ says he that lives and
believes In me shall never die. Be-
iieveth thou thls? Do you believe
that statement of the blessed Master?
II you do, you have passed from death
unto life, born again; you are in the
resurrection and in the life, and if you
believe and abide in Christ you shall
never die. But, says one, will not the
body die? He says you will never die.
Do you believe it? No; there is no
life in the flesh to die. That delusion
or false belief dies or disappears. AS
1 said in the beginning that life was
the real and eternal and death was its
opposite, then death is the unreal, for
if God did not make or create death,
which he did not, it cannot be real,
for all things real come from God for
lGod Ia the real and the eternal. The
unreal and the temporal never ema-
mated from the real and eternal. We
do not gather figs from thistles.
Christ came to bring us to life, or to
give US life, for he says if you have
the Son you have life, and if you have
not the Son you have no life. Can
words be palmer? Then if you have
no life, how can you die?
have not written for controversy
but to bring out the true light, and
would like to hear what you think
about it. V. MARSHALL.