The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-28

TINS IN Second Corinthians iy 12"
ne Things which are seen are tenn
poral, the things which are not seen
are eternal. Must not eternal have
nAeu enoless sense as it stands op-
posed TO the word por Anv
one with ordinary intelligence and
candor will understand that. Rev.
IT. huntington was an Universalist
o.! rare ability and scholarship. In
INC "olh entitled "Calvanism I'm
proved, he said: Does not the
5lole plainly say that shall be
ment! 1t certainly does as plain as
language can express or any man, or
even God, cal speak"
n late learned ana DISTINGUISHED
Rev. DR.. Thomas O. Summers, an Eng
lIshman and a professor in Vanderbilt
University at Nashville. Tenn, on his
eIudlte, able work on Systematic
Iheology,' embodying lectures before
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. another lee
ture or chapter to the discussion of
eternal punishment" filling sixteen
pages in the first octave volume. I
canot draw from this hasty examina-
tlon. | might quote what he says Of
the terms rendered hell in the Au-
thorized Version of the Bible-sheol,
hades, gehena and Tartaros. But now
l Will write only what he says of the
terms rendered eternity, everlasting,
etrnal. He says the Greek word above
occurs 122 times in the New Tesla
ment, 400 times in the Xxx, Aeonios
also occurs 100 times. He says aionios
is we'll represented by our Latin-Eng-
lish word Eternal, and our Saxon
English word, Everlasting, which has
the same meaning. He cites Matt.
XXX: 46: And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment (aionneoS} but
the righteous int life eternal
(aionios)." h same word is used as
to the duration of both life and pun
ishment. But l have not space now to
follow the argument Of the ~theologian.
Read his entire lecture if you would
see its force and fullness. But the
theological books are full of this sub
ject. The Bible has most convincing
and unaTswerable citations and declar-
ations.
The truly great and sincere Chris
tan, the late eminent English states
man, orator and leader, William e.
Gladstone, wrote this: "A1l I write,
and all 1 think, and all 1 hope, is
based upon the divinity Of our Lord,
the one central hope Of our hayward
soul" He was indeed a devout. sin
cere believer in the Lord Jesus Christ,
as the Son of God. There was no fool
inc and nonsense in him or his theol-
ogy. Behold the contrast in the unfor-
tunate, conspicuous leader in New Eng
land, DR.. Eliot, late president Of Har-
ward University, who breaches betray-
ing dogmas and distills sectional non
sense and thinks he is wise and true.
But the man at Harvard does not real
ly believe anything and absolutely
knows nothing. What a tremendous
contrast with the Christian, noble,
consecrated Gladstone of England.
The able, scholarly Atlant Presbyte-
rian says:
"D1: Eliiot's new religion. starts
on its career with a merry ran
Bile of negations, telling the World
what it must not believe. 1t will not
be founded or authority, either tenn
poral or SPIRITUAL Therefore,, this
new testament Of the Harvard prophet
will have no foundation to rest on
I am not exactly up in American
stories of this last quarter Of q cen
fury. My reading in that time has
been much confined to the English
productions, much more thar a oecaoe
or two before. I wish to say here that
with such limited reading among
I recall now that I have read OF
American authorship is, with the ex-
ception only of Nathaniel H~aWthorne's
'"Twice Told Tales" is "Old Chester
Tales" by Mrs. Margaret Deland, VINO
is, / think. from Pennsylvania. Ihey
are 1nueeO very SA0NSt ~
suggest in their purity, simplicity,
idyIIic freshness and charm, Mrs.
GaskilI's classic, SO well known,
.Cranford." The humor Of the vol
ume is delightful and there is a pa
thos IN many Of them that cannot be
resisted by a sensitive, refined mind.
descriptive words given it by a
Northern literary journal are Well
taken-"simple, strong, sweet, remin-
iscent, comfortable" They apply Well.
-@;1 !
Some very pleasant things were SAID
~ i soon after it was published. She
has not been forgotten but by a later
production has kept her memory
.ereen" Mrs. Deland is really a mark
edIv distinguished American novelist,
h having secured real fane by her
.-ahJo nTohn Ward. Preacher |