Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-27

AhlOnS JOu lhdt tuttc 10 no lCoultGC-
ton Of the dead? " III Christ be not |
risen. then is our preaching vain and
your faith is also vain: then they |
also which are fallen asleep In Christ |
are persisted" The speaker said
Bibles Have Been Read Too carelessly.
For years Gods people have had ex-
celent Bibles and thus been blessed
far in advance of brethren who lived
during the Dark Ages" We have
read our Bibles too careiessIy and Of
ten have most of us wondered at the
great stress St. Paul laid upon the
resurrection. Rarely is the subject
ever preached upon now and rarely Is
1t ever thought Of except as an absurd
aty.
The reason for this is not far to
seek. From childhood we have been
taught that nobody Is dead. that in dy-
ing everybody. good and bad, gets more
alive than ever before. that this alive
ness to the sanity few means spiritual
powers and an immediate entrance
into heaven. death being swallowed up
in life. The insanity masses also. we
were told. would have quickened sensi-
sbilities after dying; that they became
more alice. more able to appreciate and
suffer pain.
Our Catholic neighbors told us that
the majority would Immediately go to
Purgatory. there to be tried by various
sufferings and tOrtures-later on to en-
ger heaven. Our Protestant teachings
were to the effect that the insanity
masses. unfit for the presence of God
and the holy. would be consigned to an
eternity Of torture and made very much
more alive to their awful sufferings.
Thus we were taught to believe that
death is a portal or door into an In
tenser life-thGt nobody is dead. Many
of us perplexed ourselves and were
perplexed by others with questions re-
Specting how there could be a "resur-
yectiOH Of the dead" if nobody is dead.
We avoided the question. OF gave the
answer. Mystery; go run and play"
Now What Do We Find?
When once we see that "the wages
of sin is death" and not eternal tor
ment: and that the Bible hell is the
tomb and not a fiery furnace; and that
all mankind go to sheOl-tO hQdes-just
as did our Savior: then we begin to
see that what we all need is to he
saved from sheol. from hddes. just as
the Savior was. A resurrection saliva
ton is thus the salvation hope of the
Church and of the world.
What a relief this gives us as re-
spects parents. children. neighbors,
friends and the heather. who have died
out of Christ. insanity. What com
fort it brings to know that they are
sleeping in the great prison-hOuse OF
death. unconscious Of the lapse OF
time. waiting for the Redeemer. who
will set up His Kingdom in glory, as
sociating His Bride with Himself 70;
the blessing of all the families of the
earth
The bringing forth Of the prison
ers out of the prison-house of dealt
will be to set before them, under the
glorious provisions of the New Dispen
sation. an opportunity for life eUerlast
ing by obedience to the laws of thu
Kingdom under the assistance of thu
heavenly One-the alternative being
not eternal torment. but death-Secons
Death. from which there will be NJ
hope of recovery.
All Souls Go to Sheol.
Some one may say. Pastor Russell
what about the soul? If the body goe
to sheol, hades. the tomb. where goe
the soul? | reply that it is the sou
that goes to sheOl, TO h0des. the 0rdUt
the tomb. the state of death. Although
the words sheol and hades are translai
ed grave more times than translates
hell, nevertheless they refer. not {
the mound of earth. which is in tn
nature of a monument. but to the st
cret, hidden condition, preferably style
the tomb. the abyss.
As Jesus descended into hades, so d
all mankind. As the Father raise
Him from the dead on the third day
so it is promised that He viii raise Vi
the Church. up from the dead. Nor
than this. the unjust also. those VIII
have not been approved OF God In tn
present life, shall all be awakened frOI
the sleep Of death. They will com
forth informed respecting sin, havin
lived under the reign Of Sin and Dealt
They will come forth that they ma
learn the ways OF righteousness. ID
reward OF which Is life everlasting.
The gloriied Jesus and His glOrife
Church. the Bride. will be the Royi
Priesthood. whose special work for
thousand years will be the upliftin
Of mankind. not only from the toni
but also to perfection OF life. "eveI
man In his own order" or rank. II
uplifting will bless as many as al
dalton and meanness and imperfectO
into which all have fallen By on
man's disobedience. under the laws
neredity.