The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-18


among you that there is no resurrer
tion OF the dead? If Christ be not
risen. then is our prea ching vain and
your faith is also vain; = : then they
also which are fallen asleep in Christ
are perished." The speaker said
Bibles Have Been Read Too cere,ess,v.
FOR years Gods people have had ex-
celient Bibles and thus been blessed
Iar IN advance of brethren who lived
curing the Dark Ages We have
read our Bibles too carelessly and Of
ten have most of us wondered at the
great stress st. Paul laid unon the
resurrection. Rarely is the subject
ever preached upon now and rarely is
II ever thought of except as an absurd
ity.
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 sensf-
Dllities after dying: that they became
more dlire. more able to appreciate and
suffer pain
Our Catholic neighbors told us that
the majority would Immediately 20 to
Purgatory. there to be tried by various
sutferings and tortures-later on to en-
ter heaven. Our Protestant tea chinps
were to the effect that the INSANITY
masses. unfit for the presence of God
and the holy would he consigned to an
eternity OF torture and made very much
more alive to their awful sufferinss.
mus we were taught to believe tina.
death is portal or door into an in
tenser life-th0t nobody is dead. Many
of US perpleXed ourselves and were
perplexed by others with questions re-
speeding how there could be ..resug-
rcction Of the dead" If nobody is dead.
We avoided the question. or gave the
answer, Mystery; go run and play"
Now What Do We Find?
When once we see that the wages
of sin is dsafh' and not eternal tor
ment: and that the Bible hell is the
tomb and not fiery furnace; and that
all mankind go to shcol-to hades-just
as did our Savior; then we begin to
see that what we all need is TO be
saved from Meoi, from h0deS. 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 6iad
out of Christ. insanity. What com
fort ii brings to know that they are
sleeping in the great prison-house of
DEATH unconscious of the lapse of
time, waiting fer the Redeemer. who
will set up His Kingdom in glory. as
sociating His Bride with Himself for
the blessing of all the families of the
earth.
The bringing forth of the prison
ers out of the prison house of death
will be to set before them. under the
glorious provisions of the New Dispen-
sation, an opportunity for life erylost-
ing by obedience to the laws of the
Kingdom under the assistance of the
heavenly One-the alternative being
not eternal torment. but death-Second
Death. from which there will be NO
hope of recovery.
All Souls Go to Sheoi.
Some one may say, Pastor Russell,
what about the soul? If the body goes
to sheoi, hGdcs. the tomb where goes
the soul? | reply that it is the soul
that goes to shoot, to hddes. the grdUc.
the tomb. the state of death. Although
the words shoot and hades are translat-
ed Craze more times than translated
he'll, nevertheless they refer, not to
the mound of earth. which is in the
nature of monument, but to the Sc
cret, hidden condition. preferably styled
the tomb, the abyss.
AS Jesus descended into hGdes. so do
all mankind. AS the Father raised
Him from the dead on the third day,
so it is promised that He will raise us,
tue SuuTCD, up from the ueau. MOTE
than this. the unjust also. those who
have not been approved of God In the
present life. shall all be awakened from
the sleep of death They will come
forth informed respecting sin, having
lived under the reign Of Sin and Death.
They will come forth that they may
learn the ways of righteousness. the
reward of which is life everlasting.
The glorified Jesus and His glorified
Church the Bride. will be the Royal
Priesthood. whose special work for
thousand years will be the uplifting
of mankind. not only from the tomb.
but also to perfection of life. every
man in his own order" or rank. The
upliffing will bless as many as are
willing. lifting them up from the degra-
dation and mennness and imperfection.
into which NIL have fallen by one
mans disobedience. under the laws of
heredity