Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-08-26

years OF burdens here cursed with every
conceivable temptation, then makes him
die. then bottles his soul up in trance
condition to await the millennium
when 1t 10 reincarnAted to reign with
Christ for . thousand years In an Alleg-
cd sanctined state, and 1T the same time
work out its own salvation without any
grievous temptations, for does not DR..
Barnes prove that, from the shrewd
manner in which he arranged text upon
text? II we consider that Jesus Christ
will need = thousand years to set all
things right, he will be = very slow
workman. II he should get rid of the
sin feature in the first hundred years OF
His reign, they just might as we'll be in
heaven the other nine hundred years
as on earth. OF course the wicked
won't enjoy it, because DR.. Barnes
texts prove it will be torment" for
them. II the bodies OF all peoples are
to be resurrected for this millenniAl
period, OF what are they to be composed
the present clay or glorined bodies?
II of clay on what are they to subsist?
What will be done during that lengthy
period? Will there be buying and sell.
ing and lAboring the same - nowr
Moreover where are the great multi
tudss OF people 30 be located2 Are they
to stand in their tracks day after Day?
II 90 it will be awfully tiresome. But
perhaps there will be something 10
ing ell the time"-Father Abraham
make . speech, for instance. But then
most of the people would not under
stand bis lingo, OF course there would
be lots Of fun tying up the beasts"
and other MONSTERS regular halle
lujah time! II the editor OF this sheet
is there, wearing the same or about the
same body as he has now-it changes in
every seven years you know-and is as.
signed to tie up one OF those "bessts"
in payment for little SHINING we did
in Life No. /, we are going to respect
fully decline unless they promise to
furnish us at least two big barrels OF
good Imminent.
The more you look at DR.. Barnes"
theory the more idiotic it looks. 1t is
far simpler to follow the Catholic idea
of satisfaction for sin, and believe that
the souls OF the just and unjust await
the general judgement in middle
state,-s logical one-the just being
purged from the finer taints OF sin, and
the wicked in the torment which they
necessariallY would feel anyway,ev il
placed on the throne beside God Him
self
And here we wish to say that DR..
Barnes does not understand fully the
immensely OF sin and the hatred that
God, as being perfection, bears toward
1t. A pl7ce of white paper is no longer
| spotlcss when even one slight stain is
visible. and so 1t is with God. II He
tolerated the entrance of one sin into
Heaven, it would not be the perfect
place mentioned so frequently in the
Scri ptures. Lucifer, the brightest and
best OF the angels, for one single act
of disobedience to God, was condemned
and, today, unrepentant, seeks revenge
| against the God who gave him an i'm
mortal soul, and who by his spirit OF
| justice, does not obliterate it, as DR..
Barnes would have it, in death. 1t
would not be an immortal soul il such
an action were possible, and likewise
with the souls of men.
The Catholic idea of satisfaction for
sin is mystery to many who cannot
understand it. Satisfaction for sin
means full payment OF penalty for trans
| erosion. David felt the force OF the
the idea from God long before the Cath.
Ollie Church was esta blished. Catholics
do not believe that any man or collec.
ton of men could satisfy for one griev.
Gus sin against God, for 1st Tim. IFS
says: "For there is one God, and one
Mediator Of God and men, the man
Christ Jesus" Hence said the Council
OF Trent, Neither is the satisfaction
which we discharge for our sins so much
ours as not to be Jesus Christie, for we
who can do nothing OF ourselves as Of
ourselves, can do all things with the
cooperation of him who strengthens
us. Thus man hath not wherein to
glory; but all our glorying is in Christ
in whom we live, in whom we merit, in
whom we satisfy" Catholic "satistac
ton for sin" commences where the
saved by grace" doctrine leaves of
and means perfect balancing OF the
penalty Of transgressions.
We admire DIR. Barnes arrangement
OF texts. 1t Is scholarly. But we diff
fer with him as to their meaning. Fol
instance be defines sweep" as meaning
TO purge" This is not so, for the hal
does not purge" away the refuge o.
lies. Topurge means to cleanse, and
there 10 . big difference in che result
between cleansing and sweeping away
and no dictionary at our command give,
them as synonymous. torrent from
. broken dam sweeps away things IL
its course but does not necessarially
cleanse them. A lightning Fash may
sweep away the branches from q tower
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