The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-31

also or LONDON, uellNefeu au'
dresses to largo audiences at the
GaIesbure Chauiauqua today. His top;
les were: "Whore Are the Dead +
and 1.-THE Judgment of the Great
White Throne We report the FOR
mer. Each address lasted for nearly,
two hours, but so deeply interested
were the audiences that they seemed
not to note the flight Of time. He
said:
No other question could be of deeper
interest to thinking .pT%ER people than han the the
Deadf'' Our ancestors, our neighhbors,
our friends, are dead or dying, and our
selves with them. What Will be our
ers outf I have no new revelation on
this subject. 7 have merely for my
guide what is recognized by all Chris
tians as the divine revelation on this
subiect--the Bible / hold that there
is no other source of information com
parable to 1T.
Before presenting his own findings
on the subject, in the Bible, Pastor
Russell reviewed the findings of 9th
tic view, that there is no life beyond
the tomb, he could not entertain He
believed that mans organism, so much
higher than that of the brute, implies
not only an allwise Creator, but His
benevolent intention for man IS future
He examined the Catholic view, and,
while according full liberty TO every
Catholic to believe what to him seems
reasonable respecting the dead, Pastor
Catholic teachings. He summarized
their view to be that n very sanity
few were fit for heaven and that they
went thither He complimented the
justice Of their intentions, that com
paratively small number Of humanity
were worthy of eternal torture.
For his own part, he could not imag..
ino any human being, on account OF
any human weakness or depravity, as
meritiug endless torture. The Catho-
lie view, that all hcathen and prac
go in death to purgatory, he could not
agree with for two reasons. First, he
finds no Scriptural authority for such
q view, and secondly, his mind cannot
accept the thought that an all-wise,
adjust, all-loving and powerful Gre
ator will torture his creatures for cen
turtles in any such manner as Catholics
generally believe, and as Dante's great
poem, ''lnferno,' 80 graphically de-
picts.
Our Protestant View Is Worse.
Pastor Russell declared that he was
Protestant, in large measure be-
cause his parents were such. But he
declared that while he secs many
truths both In Protestant and in Cath
olic teaching he considers that the
after of the dead the most diabolical
conception to be found on the face
of the earth. the grossest hlasphemy
against the divine character and pro.
vision for humanity. Had he nothing
better to offer he would not be adj
dressing his audience on the subject.
Perplexed and disconnected by his
early teachings. he had, when youth,
discarded all human creeds, and the
Bible as well-believine that the latter
was the basis for the former 1t was
a happy day for him when he learned
that this was q mistake-when he
ages are diametrically opposed to the
teachings of God Word. Now his
Bible has become to him a new book
the most wonderful book in the
world. It's teachings he now sees to
be, beyond all comparison, the most
logical-the only rational presentation,
and most glorious one respecting
man-explaining his past, present and
future as prearranged by wise, gra-
clous and aL-powerful Creator.
Two Protestant Views
Protestant views respecting the here.
after are various, but two in particular
represent Protestant thought in gen
eral: Q) The Calvanistic theory; (2)
the Arminian theory.
Five centuries ago there were no
Protestsnts-all were Catholics and be-
lieved in throe places for the dead
heaven for the sanity few; purgatory
for the general mass of mankind; and
hell, everlasting torture, for the incor-
rigible. Luther and coadjntors got to
studying the Bible, and, finding moth
ing there respecting purgatory and
mass for the dead, they threw these
out, Figuratively, they smashed com
pletely the idea of purRatory, A little
later they were perplexed and said to
each other, We have smashed purga~
tory, but now what shall we do with
all these thousands of millions who
have been there in our imagination
for centuries-roasting, sizzling, and
hoping some day to attain an eternity
of bliss.
The thought of their responsibility
in connection with the thousands Of
millions blanched their cheeks and
made their hearts quail, They looked
at each other in terrified bewilder.
ment. Their noble. generous hearts
led them to desire to put the whole
mass directly into hesyen, but, as they
searched the Scriptures on the sub
ject, they found. as they had always
believed as Catholics, the Bible teach
ing that only the sanity, the footstep
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