The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-04
|AssA|LS TENETS
]! OF RUSsELL|SM
4.
..1DR HOGE BREACHES ON .wHERE
s ss1 ARE THE DEADsr UNFOLDING
DOCTRINE OF HE'LL
/. QUOTES SCRIPTURES
UNDERTAKES TO REFUTE TEACH
INGs OF PASTOR Russell BY
REFERENCE TO SAYINGS OF
CHRIST AND APOSTLES.
QUOTES SCRIPTURES

REV. B. Lacy Hoge, pastor of I'm
manuel Baptist church, preached his
second sermon of series on Where
Are the Dead?" last night. taking is
sue with the doctrine OF Pastor Rus
sell, OF Brooklyn Tabernacle, and his
followers. He took as his text Second
Corinthians. chapter five. verses six
and eight.
Therefore we are always confident,
knowing that whilst we are at home
In the body. we are absent from the
Lord; we are confident say. and will
ing rather to be absent from the body
than to be at home with the Lord
DIR. Hoge started out with the state
ment that "Ruseiilsnr~ teaches that
death means Exclusively the cessation
OF being" that when Adam died he
ceased to be, and that when all the
race of Adam who have died since are
extinct--were completely annihilated.'
He then denounced this teaching as
contrary to that of the Bible. He said
in part:
What RusselIisn Teaches.
''Russeiism" teaches that Jesus
Christ was mans substitute and was
created over again. That the Christ
who was born OF the Virgin Mary, and
who died on the cross was annshii-
ated. that the Christ we now nave Is
only a spirit. In one Of his books it
In stated that Many Christians have
the idea that our Lords glorious spir-
,1tual body Us the very same body that
was crucitied, This is great mistake.
Our Lord Jesus is no longer man.
hut a spirit We know nothing about
what became OF his body. whether 1t
was dissolved into gases
a4aa Il es lis turn Ia The Btale, and see
this faarhfpy true false
1.-THE body Of Jesus was not dis
solved into gases for after his r.sur-
rection he appeared to his disciples.
When our Lord appeared TO Thomas
He said TO him. Reach htther thy fine
gers, behold my hands. When the
disciples saw Jesus and were alright
ed and supposed that they had seen a
spirit. the Master said. Behold my
hands and my feet. that II is I my
hath not flesh and bones as ye see me
have
Meanings or Death.
DR.. Hoge said that death has several
meanings In the Scriptures. There is
the death of the body and the death
OF the soul. Physical death Is the
separation Of the body and spirit God
said to Adam in the day that thou
eatest of the tree Of the knowledge OIL
good and evil thou shalt surely die.
The Bible tells us that he did die that
same day---not physical but spiritual
death --==...
Death does not mean extinction
az being or annihilation." declared Df.
Hoge, quoting freely from the scrip
lures 70 prove his contention. What
happens to men at deashs he contin-
ned. .Iet Gods word answer this ques~
ton. Here IL is. Then shall the dust
return to the earth as II was. ana
the spirit shall return to the God who
SgAve it,
Taking up the question of the ulti-
mate destination of the wicked. Or
Hoge said that ''the plain teachings
OF Gods word is that they so to a
place of punishment. quoting. among
others. from the gospel according 70
st. Luke. sixteenth chapter. verses ~
to "a. The rich man also died ana
was buried And In Hades he lifted
IN his eyes being in sorments. ana
seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in
hts bosom. And he cried and SAID,
Father Abraham have mercy on me