The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-22

Gathering few OF his own cult about
lures. He asked himself questions and
then searched the scriptures to find the
answer. For instance he said; What oil
purgatory? He searched the Bible and
could find nothing of H. so he cast pur-
gatory out of the teaching. And so on
with other theories and teachings. Soon
he was asked the question by the peo-
pie. What OF all the people whom we
believe honestly TO be in purgatory?'
II was then that Luther realized that he
had DESTROYED purgatory without consid-
ering all the countless thousands that
were there. He was at a loss what TO
say. He didn't want to say he didn't
know. He was afraid TO tell the truth.
II was then that John Calvin came along
and suggested his theory OF fore -ordina-
ton He suggested 10 Luther that they
charge God with the blunder by announc-
ing the teaching that from the beginning
God had intended that all those souls
should be in hell. and so they enlarged
hell and showed them all into IL. In all
this. Gods word had little or nothing to
do with the crecds set up. And so the
many theories have been set up. be-
lievc that the word OF God is sufficient
for man TO be thoroughly furnished We
do not need church councils, We do not
need new creeds. but we do need TO get
back TO the faith that once sufii-
cient II that faith was sufficient for
st. Paul it should be for us, believe
God knows all things. l believe II we
would read the Bible with clear visions
we would not be bothered by these doc
trines.
'The Bible does not characterize the
hereafter as an eternal punishment and
torture, as the Protestant belief holds
You canno, find where ii teaches any
such doctrine. When we study the
Bible. as we should, Protestant and Cath
olic alike. we will know the truth. | am
glad TO know that the pope has issued
bull TO all Catholics To study the Bible
more. Bad creeds are bound To give US
bad God. There is no help for IT.
Death Is Hereafter.
But. if neither teaching is satistac-
tory. then what does the Bible tell us
of the hereafter. There can be but one
truth. Death is hereafter The Bible
says dead man knows nothing. The
scriptures tell us these things plainly.
AS in Adam all men died. In Christ
all men Will live, But death in the
punishment. Death is the end 10 the
unbelIever God delivered that message
TO Adam when he ordered him from the
Garden OF Eden with the edict that he
made him"
Pastor Russell told the story of the
rise and fall of man and Of the final
a,onement. the resurrection and the sec
ond death. 1t is in the first resurrection
that the elect END their reward SAL
walton comes to the world outside OF the
elect In the way of the establishments of
the Messiahs reign on earth. when all
who have not made their election and
calling sure may stand before the throne
Of God in judgment. II Is then the true
test OF the hereafter comes. Then, with
the true knowledge OF God, man has
The opportunity to he one of the subjects
OF the kingdom on earth. If he rejects
this opportunity he passes into the sec
ond death, which is oblivion, the brute
creatures die Not In any sense does
this second death mean eternal punish
ment. OF purgatory. II is the penalty
| for the first SIN, or rather Il sharing
in the penalty OF the first sin.
The special train carrying Pastor Rus
sell and his party OF nearly 200 Bible
Angeles