Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-21
YOU DO NOT DIE.
AN ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF THE
SUPERIORITY OF MIND
OVER MATTER.
Vincent Marshall, the Latter Day
Sage, Relterates That We Have
a Wrong Conception of
Death That is,
Physical Death.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

or mine nave expressed q desire to
hear something more on the subject
of"A Wrong Conception of Death,n SO
I thought I would say a few words,
beginning where / left off in my other
article. If you haven't the Son of God
you have not life; then we are dead
already. But, says one, that is spirit
ual death. Did God make man subject
to two deaths3 Would men die what
men call physical death if he had not
died what they call spiritual? Do we
have to die a physical death to get
back spiritual life? Is death a friend,
a passport to glory9 My Bible says 1t
Is an enemy and it will be put under
foot some day. Then how will people
get to glory when death is destroyed?
We do not have to die to get eternal
life. Christ came to give Us life, not
death. Did God make an enemy a
passport to glory and then destroy His
own works? That would be a house
divided against itself.
God created everything that was
created, and it was very good then He
did not create death an enemy, for
death is the wages Of sin and the
wages of sin cannot be a passport to
glory, for death is the opposite of life
and life is the real and the eternal;
then the opposite must be the unreal
and temporal. Christ says, ST am the
way, the truth and the life; then there
is no other way, no other truth and no
other life, and He also says He is the
resurrection; then there is no other
resurrection. Martha said, "Master,
if Thou had been here our brother
would not have died." But the Master
said, "He shall rise again." She said,
~ know he will at the resurrection,
the last day." looking away in the
future az people do to-day. But He
said, 81 am the resurrection and the
life and he that believeth on Me,
though he were dead, yet shallhe live,
and who liveth and believeth in Me
shall never die; believeth thou this"
Now, if we are in Christ we are in the
resurrection and in the life over which
the second death hath no power. Then
how can we die if We abide in Christi
Then the second death must be a de-
fusion. Yes, when our life is restored
back to US q soul, spiritual sense,
spiritual understanding of what life is
and what death is, then you are in
Christ, and If you are in Christ you are
in that divine principle of life, truth
and love. Then If you abide in it you
will never die, but the same satan that
said to man in the beginning, God
knows you will not die, changes his
tactics and says, Yes you will die, death
Is a friend, a passport to glory, you
cannot get eternal life until you die.
If satan did not profess to DO good and
be good he would not be a liar. He
told man in the garden, Your eyes will
be open and be as Gods, knowing
good from evil. Man believed the lie
and got into bondage or death.
Now Christ comes to give back our
life, our soul, spiritual sense. Satan
processes to be a friend and says, Yes
you will die, trying to keep man in
bondage or death. The Master says,
81 am the living bread which came
down from heaven. If any man eat
of this bread he shall live forever and
the bread that I will give is My flesh,
which l will give for the life of the
world" Now, If you partake of that
divine principle of life, truth and love
you partake of his life; then you have
life in you and not until then. And
again he says, Whosoever eateth My
flesh and drinketh my blood hath
eternal life, not that he will have lie,
but hath it already. Again He says,
ssIf any man keep my saying he shall
never see death. Verify, verify, I say
unto you, he that heareth My words
and believetb in Him that sent Me
hath eternal life." If a man hath
eternal life how can he die. He can
not If he abide in Christ. Is there any
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life or death7 The Master says His
word is spirit and life. 1t is the spirit
that quickens the flesh; profits nothing
if the flesh profits nothing. How can
life be in or of the flesh? The Apostle
Paul says there is no good thing dwell
ing in the flesh. Then there is no life In
it, for life is good emanating from God
and not from the flesh, for the law of
the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of
sin and death, for God is not the God
of the dead but the God Of the living.
The Master says again, "He that be-
ieveth on the Son hath everlasting
life and he that believeth not the Son
| shall not zee life, but the wrath OF
| God abideth on him." Do you not see
| 1t is life that Christ came to give us,
to raise MS from death that we are al
ready in? v. MARSHALL.
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