Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-10-21

The article by DR.. Barnes in the
News last week and directed at the
head of the Editor, contains a great
many things which are so wondrously
erroneous, that although we greatly
dislike controversy, we feel that in
justice to our readers we should make
ssome reply to them.
Let us proceed at once to the prim-
mum eremplum of DR.. Barnes vascila-
tions. In the article entitled "His
Purgatorial Views he gave us to
understand that all peoples would be
reincarnated in the millennium to be
instructed in righteousness, made per-
feet, and divers other things. Let us
quote his exact words, which are as
follows: "When it is seen that
restoration Ito earth) is indispensable
and that man is to be restored TO
LIFE ON THE EARTH (the capitals
are ours), instructed in righteousness,
purged and cIeansed from all sin,
made perfect and fit to live as the
original Adam vas, then the false
idea of being transported to some
far away place of torment loses
its hold upon the mind. Then let us
place in juxtaposition to this his words
of last week. ''We do not claim that
any except Adam and Eve will ever
come back for second trial" If
this instruction in righteousness is not
second trial, what is it, People to-
day are instructed in righteousness to
the best of the ability of an army of
ministers and priests. Why not start
righteousness-instru now, if not
already started? And if it is already
started, what would be the use of 60
ing over the performance in the mil
lennium? Mr.. Barnes is wobbly over
this point, but we will take his last
statement that Adam and Eve are the
only ones to get a ''second trial. and
! are glad of it ourselves-for we are
undergoing this trial under very har-
RAISING conditions-but very sorry
for Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Primusfamil-
ius, that they have to undergo Sec
4 ond trial.
Mr.. Barnes, while staggering about
\ trying to answer our question as to
n what the people of the millennium
n will be composed of, replies "tlesh and
blood, with great changes-not in the
con.positioR-bu in the powers and
usefulness of the human body, and
4 says that man will be restored to what
he was in the original Adam, and
\ lays stress upon Edenic conditions,
4 such as trees of life that would have
supported him eternally. And right
here arises a different point Was
Adam any different man before Eve
abetted in his fall by partaking of the
forbidden fruit, PHYSICALLY, we
mean, than his descendants are todayY
Il Did he not have to eat, even to live
II eternally, and did he not eat? Was
II not his eating a cause for his fall?
If he had possessed a perfect (I) body
that did not subsist by eating, would
he have fallen2 And was he not given
dominion over the beasts of the field
" and the fowls of the air and the fish
" of the sea before he erred, just as men
enjoy today That meant that he
XII could have eaten them if he wanted to
and we suspicion they would have
eaten him if they could have gotten
hold of him Adam undoubtedly hus-
III tied for his living like any COW, horse
cat or dog does now. He might have
had finer sensibitities, though he did
II not write any book of poems-but
N there was one thing in which he and
the animal were formed alike, they
WI had no practical knowledge of results.
|N What was this pre-sin condition that
Nj DR.. Barnes tells us will prevail when
n the Millennium is over and the Judge
meut is done, and the world is given
no to the habitation Of the JUST In
one dizzy breath he tells us that there
Twill be resurrected both 'spirit-begot-
Nten ones who are resurrected spirit be-
IIings,'' and the ''just of men who had
utbeir trial before the age of spirit-be-
1|' getting,'' and that both will be res
fIIurrected perfect MEN" Right here
HIVE bang up against the same old piece
lsof granite. If the former have been
V"evoluted'' or evolved into spirits or
\ Ikpirit- beings, why fasten the harness
Iof flesh upon them anew? Even if it
jlwill be such perfect flesh condition
las Adam possessed, as DR.. Barnes
n IIc,aims, why tack it onto them! We
A jlwill wager that every one of those
h |."spirit- begotten' ones would stalk
ysbout discontentedly quoting Shake
a iIsneare. 30 that this too, too solid
/ Ilsesh would melt, thaw, and resolve
Y .k,self into dew - And we wouldn'
n 'lhlame them either. Not one particle
u ,lThis flesh that has to be fed Is haras-
N }l;sg and would be even more 30 to
N t.nirits who had tasted the joys Of such
IN, uutrammplled existence that the
n F,nost rerfect flying machine yet to be
lIINvissd would be nothing to it. NoI
there any proof that Adams flesh
Iravious 10 his fall was any better in
<.rsl,ty than Mr. Barnes or the Edi'
gor's He a.. f.areutlv subsisted on
I.ii d. and iuuu .ust rs we do now.
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