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No-HeIIism on 0bIiteration

OF the favorite dogmas of the -Nohell-
ties. They frequently quote from
Nal. 4th chapter, "Behold the day
cometh that shall burn as an oven,
and all the wicked and all the proud,
and all the gay shall be stubble, and
the day that cometh shall burn them
up, saith the Lord of Hosts. Ye shall
tread down the wicked; they shall be
as ashes under the soles of your feet. "
This is one of their favorite scriptul es
which they roll between their lips as a
sweet morsel. They imagine this
Scripture furnishes them hiding
place from God. and a refuge from the
penalty of their black crimes and life
of sin spent in the service Of hell, and
under the black banner of revolt
against the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
Annihilation is from the Latin nihil,
nothing. 1t is obvious that this Scrip
lures gives no support whatever to
that dogma, nor is there hint at such
thing found between the lids of the
Bible from Genesis to the Apocalypse
of John, and equally untenable from
any rational hypothesis in the realm
of philosophy. In the Scriptures re-
ferred to we see the wicked are repre-
sented by stubble, and equally repre-
sented by the ashes resulting from the
cremation of the stubble. This Scrip
ture is really the strongest argument
the No-hellites can produces in favor OF
annihilation. And the proper examin-
alton Of this Scripture, and explained
in its true light, will not give them q
solitary inch Of support. Let us probe
into this Scripture and see what will
be the logical conclusion. Ashes are
as real and substantial as stubble. 1t
is thoroughly and incontestably de-
veloped fact, unequivocally corrobora-
ted by the scientific world, that it is
utterly impossible to annihilate any
thing. Hence this rotton dogma is a
whitewashed lie, and such an interpre-
tation could have originated only in
the mind of demon.
God is the author of both the mater
ial and spiritual universe, and chem
istry has abundantly established the
impossibility of annihilating anything
in the material world. From this a
similar conclusion as to the spiritual
realm follows as logical sequence.
All common sense. philosophy. expert
ence, and the Bible. are against the
annihilation theory. The question
might be asked, Cannot God annihi-
late, for He is omnipotentf We must
remember that omnipotence cannot do
everything. When the simple question
Of power is in the mind, there is moth
ing impossible, nor even difficult for
Omnipotence to perform, yet there are
some things which God cannot do.
The Scripture says He cannot lie. God
cannot contradict and antagonize His
own attributes, nor counterfeit His
own immutable majesty, integrity,
truth and holiness. If annihilation
we're possible with God, verify be-
lieve He would in mercy annihilate
the devil and all fallen angels, as we'll
as human beings who hopelessly cross
the deadline and prove eternally un-
salvable. II God can annjhilate one,
He can annihilate the other. If God 8
love is as great as expressed in the BIZ
BILE, and SO much agonizing and suf-
fering as was necessarily involved in
the atonement, could God of infinite
love for the souls of dying men and
women, suffer an agent to operate in
the world that is antagonistic to the
government of His kingdom, and
whose agency will result in the final
destruction of so many sons and daugh-
ters of Adam, who otherwise would
swell the number of happy redeemed
souls in the upper kingdom. Would
God, were annihilation possible, suffer
the devil and his angels to be turned
loose on innocent victims to be de-
voured as by roaring lions, and to op-
pose His kingdom in the world. I
think not. When once angel or man
eminates from the created finite, he
has inherited Gods own immortality.
Another one of their fsvorite script
ures is found in Tim. 8:16. "God
alone hath Immortality. Perhaps a
better Interpretation would be, God,
alone, hath power to impart immortal
ity. God is represented as being the
father of spirits. So it has been in
contestably proven that the thing in
the material world which begets, i'm
parts its nature to the thing begotten.
II the same reasoning holds true in
the spiritual world, which begets, i'm
parts its nature to the thing begotten.
If the same reasoning holds true in the
spiritual world, which we have no
reason to doubt, then God imparts His
own nature to every spirit which has
eminated from Him, then every son Of
Adam has inherited immortality.
This is just as reasonable as the doc
trine that we have inherited inbred
sin, or q depraved nature, from our
father Adam. The deduction, from
the same premises, and conclusions are
based on the same law of reasoning.
But let us look into this passage a
little further. ''God. alone hath i'm