Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-10-14

fear to be serious. However we bad
good laugh at his forethonght for "two
big barrels of liniment. No, dear
Editor and friends, you will not need
anything of the kind then, because
the Great Physician will be in charge
and the ''oil'' of the holy spirit will
be poured out on all flesh is the prom
Use. No, we are having OUT expert
ence now with liniments. pills, etc,
and we see no permanent good in
them. The patient is growing worse
day by day. Bnt then we will have
no use for these because the great
''Sun of Righteousness" will have
arisen with healing in his beams"
NAL. 4:2), chasing away the miasma
of sin and death. and bringing light
and life to all mankind. Then there
will be no more sickness and no more
death, the Scriptures declare, and the
inhabitants shall not say | am
sick, etc. Then there will be no oc-
cupation for the undertaken. No more
IN. DIS. and ID. DIS. However
we may esteem these now, the best of
them are mere quacks, and in need of
the great physician's balm, and the
leaves of the tree of life, and the una
dulterated water of life and truth,
which will soon flow for the "healing
of the nations Rev '22:2.
The Editor knows we do not teach
that the dead are i'll trance. A
person is not dead in trance. We
hold with the Scripture and reason
that the dead are dead, but that the
/, mind or character of each is preserved
in the mind of the Creator, who has
promised, and who is abundantly able
to reproduce them, not with the old
/, body, tat with new one-a spirit
body for those who have been begotten
to SPIRIT mature, and human body for
the human race.
In a figure the dead are represented
as being asleep. AS the Scriptures say,
"The fathers fell asleep" Stephen
''fell asleep" Our Lord said, ''Laza.
rus is not dead but sleepeth; then they
laughed him to seorn, and he said
plainly, lazarus is dead The figure
ofssleep is used to suggest the hope OF
resurrection. Gods power to retain
and reproduce is we'll illustrated in
the minute reproductions of nature,
and we see the wonders that man car
do. By the use of the great X-ray ht
can penetrate Opaque objects and pho
tograph the unseen, as for instance
bullets or gravel stones in the human
body He can talk across the CONT
nept by wire. or wireless. With the
great phonograph record he can store
up his voice in song and speech and i
can be reproduced long after he il
dead. The question recurs, "can man
and can God noty" The answer is
''There is nothing covered that shall
not be revealed; aud hid that shal
not be known. - 1.-The dead shall hea
and live.
We do not claim that any excep
Adam and Eve will ever come bacl
for "second trial" None who get
fair trial ROW will ever have another
And any who would wiGfully vast
the present opportunities and presume
for future ones would be receiving th
grace of God in vain, and If his en-
lightenment was clear he would dl
hopeless. But one full, fair trial TO
each individual is all that will eve
be given. But nome except those VIII
4 are enlightened by the Gospel are fair
ly on trial now. All others, the en-
tire race, is under the original capita
sentence inherited through Adam
failure; and they cannot be on tria
for life until that sentence is revoked
Z either by faith, or actually by a res
toration. The great nIass of mankin
! are in the tomb, and comparativel
few have ever heard of Jesus in orde
to exercise the required faith and be
lleve and be saved. And all will con
cede that faith is necessary. for with
a out faith it is impossible to pleas
q God" As Paul says, faith comet
by bearing, and hearing by the wor
of God Therefore it stands to req
. son, and Paul declares that one cannO
hear without preacher, and one can
not preach unless he is sent. All mus
h hear and understand before they ca
( believe. (Rom. t0:13-15. 1t is an aw
4 full blunder to claim that all who sc
ar own a Bible or catechiSm and 90
4 church occasionally are on trial, be
! cause the most of these are only natuI
al men. not begotten to a spirit ma
ture. not consecrated. therefore 'spir
itusl things are foolishness unit
them. neither can they know them be
cause they are spiritually discerned.
i Cor 2:l4. Then beside this mai
nfal blindness, many who are SINGER
Il and feeling after God are side
tracked 10y the false doctrines and III
certain souuCs of the Gospel trumpt
which are delusive, AMI tue result
Babylon. confusion.
In view Of tiis ve look to the Bible
4 and the Bih,r rnmisttkabiy points 4
ina future a-c dis "u.atiou whe
4 al shall hear ard uVcrr igDd--ye'