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Consciousness ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE GRAVE

Editor Pensacola Journal.
In Saturdays Journal, in which Mr.
Stanbaugh writes an essay on Breath
IN the nostrils in man and animal being
the same and in which he says spirit
is the same as breath, he quotes Fec
S:19. wonder why he did not quote
the next two verses. I will just quote
verse 21 and leave it to the public to
draw their own conclusion as to why
he did not: WHO knoweth the spirit
of man that goeth upward and the
spirit OF the beast that goeth down
ward"
Does that look like they are the
same, and that they go to the same
placer
I am like David, who said: Like
sheep they (rnen) are laid in the grave;
death shall feed on them. But
God Will redeem my soul from the
power OF the grave, for He shall re-
ceive me. Sela71." Ps. 49:14, 15.
I want to believe with Paul who said:
Therefore we are always confident,
knowing that whilst we are at home in
the body we are absent from the Lord
For we walk by faith and not by sight
We are confident l say and willing
rather to be absent from the body and
to be present with Christ" 2 Cor.
Sc, 8.
ssFor me to live is Christ and to die
is gain. For 1 am in a strait betwixt
two, having a desire to. depart and be
with Christ which Is far better: never
theless to abide in the flesh is more
needful for you" Philippians 1:21,
20. believe God to be the God OF
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and yet not
the God of the dead. but of the living,
as he said.
As 1 said in Fridays paper. would
write but one more article on this SUBJ
ject. Hence this is the last one. Now,
Mr.. Stambaugh. IL you will try your
hand in explaining even the two proof
texts given in my first article, from
mortal soulist standpoint, I will
promise not to reply to you. So the
fear you may have had believing I
would turn on the light If you did un-
dertake such a thing is now removed
believe you to be a gentleman,
therefore do not expect you to take
such an advantage at this late hour.
1 do not ask you to; however, would
DO glad If you would even write me a
personal letter giving me an exegesis
of proof texts above mentioned.
Now, word to the public about
| what they say of Jesus. On page 17e,
volume 1, OF books they say are so
a combination of the two natures, hu-
man and spiritual" 1.-THE human ma
ture had to be consecrated to death
before He could receive even the
pledge of the divine nature.
1t follows that He was not exalted to
the divine nature until the human ma
ture was actually sacrihced-dead."
The public may put their own con-
struction on the above quotations but
to me they teach that our Lord was
not Lord but human only. This de-
MES every personal claim which the
Son of God made in respect to deity
which to me seems to accuse him of
shameless falsehood and a deceiver.
The Christ who made the atonement,
according to my understanding of their
teaching, was not the Christ who lives
now.
They teach that his body did not rise
from the tomb: at least, that is my
conclusion drawn from a quotation
from one of their papers which is as
follows: I'VE deny that He raised in
the flesh and challenge any statement
to that effect as being unscriptural."
Mothers, do you want your children
to believe this tiding of dust or the
glad tidings of great joy? His flesh
did not see corruption "He is not
here but He is risen as He said; come
see the place where the Lord lay
/ thank The Journal.
E. E. RICE.