Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-09-23
DIVES AND,LAZARUS. IN HELL
(ComlHaed from Ist RagsJ

Suo SouAo VI hVh ~ uliOSbig w uedNtns
or Gehenna, as soon as they discharg-
ed from the body. My position is that
the souls of all men are conscious af-
ter death, and that there is an eternal
punishment for the wicked aftor the
judgement, and that the righteous en-
ter their final reward after the Judge
ment, and if space would permit l
could furnish abundance of evidence
along these lines. l stated in one of
my articles to the News that Gehenna
was beyond the resurrection and be-
yond the judgement. Any intelligent
man could understand my position,
and | am sure | am not discussing it
for the other class, and an honest and
fair minded man would not knowing
ly misrepresent me.
Mr.. Barnes says that the spirit
(breath) returns to God, who gave it,
and then being swallowed in him, it
looses its consciousness, and of course
its essential identity, and that the
body returns to the dust. David says,
Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
(sheOl, the unseen world, the interme-
date state) neither wilt thou suffer
thine holy one to see corruption. F"
According to Mr.. Barnes theory the
spirit (breath) returns to God who
gave it, and the body to the dust,
and David says the soul of Christ was
was not left in hell (SheoD, so this
makes the three worlds, namely, this
earth where the bodies of men are de.
posted, She0l, the receptacle of souls
from death to the resurrection, anC
the final Heaven where God is repre-
scented as being on His throne.
David, in his both Psalm, says IF
ascend up into heaven thou art there
if l make my bed in hell (She0l, the
unseen world, the intermediate state
thou art there. So you can readil,
see that David refers to two worlds
beside the one in which he was thei
living, and both of the other two wer
possible to his entrance. I'm hel
(sheOD even there shall thy hand lea
me, and thy right hand shall hol
me. Does this sound like he woul
be unconscious after death? What sat
isfaction would there be in leading a
unconscious soul about in the spiri
worldY
q Read for yourselves the 28th char
t ter of 1st Samuel. See if it sound
like the souls of dead men are COZ
! scious after death. Saul, king of Il
real, had become wicked, and afte
, God had forsaken him he disguise
+ and went in the night time to won
an at Endor, who had familiar spi
, it, to inquire of her concerning b
q impending fate. Nov Samuel WI
dead, and all Israel had lamented hi
10 and buried him in Ramah, even h
q own city. Ramah was So miles fro
Endor Here the inspired word stat
\ the attitude of the woman when 81
/, saw Samuel. She was scared in
- Mysteries, and this was done to sho
e her that her art had not prevailed
the present instance, and what W
now taking place was wholly ind
pendent of her incantations. The S
cred Scriptures say positively tn
10 Samuel conversed with Saul. N
a Samuers body of course, for that W
o. lying in Ramah, but it was the ES
10 that which is immortal and conscio
u after the soul and body are separate
is The human soul is not product
"a chemical elements oh the wondro
Or soul of man, that stupendous emaI
no ton of divinity, that towers above
III thought and enfeebles the utm'
lg flight of imagination. This is
part that assumed form and said
Saul, "Why hast thou disquieted
to bring me up?" And Saul sa
"God has departed from me" D.
a. this conversation sound like that
a one that is unconscious The cow
nd sation does not stop here. Sam
, told Saul that he would be defeated
y the next day by the Philistines, a
er the prediction met its event. Coz
an the "breath' that is unconscious
cd does not even know it ever had an
istence, as Mr.. Barnes would have
100 believe, predict in an intelligent w
e and that with the greatest accura
in what would take place in the near
20 ture. A thousand times no. w
else did Samuel say to Saulr 50
Vi morrow thou and thy sons shall
he with me-. Was Samuel referr
re- to the soma body? No, he XII
mr. that the bodies of Saul and his s
would not be buried at Ramah, VIII
his own body had been laid to r.
We're Samuel and Saul, the aposts
congenial characters, and entitled
p ,s1S the same portion after deathT B
ars Samuel and Saul, and Saul S sc
it'll were in the spirit world, (SheOt,
Iay des, internus, hell, grave-these
lre words refer to the same world) as t
aid had lived in this material world
gether. In SheOl, the souls of all
die were received without respect
their goodness or badness, their ha
ness or misery. 1t is a tempol
i'll abode, but they abide not toget
are There is a gulf fixed, a great gulf
ay. impossible gulf between Dives
Lazarus, and all who die fall res
lively into their classes, San