The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-01-02

Gu on the cross, heretore the Christ we
have now is different Christ from the
one who died and rose again. The
trouble with this new and self-exalting
teaching, is that it allows but one mean
ing to the word death, viz: cessation or
extinction of being, which means an
Inhalation.
That the Bible gives another meaning
to the word is clear from Luke 9:16 LET
the dead bury their dead But how
can one who is extinct bury another who
is not extinct. Here it means let the
spiritually dead bury the physically
dead.
In John sos Jesus said except We eat
the flesh of the Son of man and drink
His blood ye have no life in you. Yet
they were full of life-If one has no
physical life IN him he is dead. Jesus
was saying to them, they were dead, vet
they were alive, He was simply saying
that their death was not physical-if
not physical land they were dead then
it was moral, physical. judicial. There
is no cessation of being here. John 5:24
Says HE that believeth is passed from
death into life How? by faith. But
if death means only cessation of being,
how can he who does not exist, exercise
faith and pass into life. 1t is impossible.
But the fact that while he is in state
called death, he is exhorted to believe,
proves that he exists and hence death,
as used in the Bible has more than one
meaning.
Paul says, dead in trespasses and
sins. " These are in state of death,
that is moral and spiritual. But Paul
says, "You that He made alive" spirit
ually alive, in addition to.physical life.
John says Il John 3;14l We know we
have passed from death into life, because
we love the brethren. Here then is a
state called life produced by loving.
Tim. Sc ':She that liveth in pleasure
is dead while she liveth. | saw a book
the other day which teaches that death
means only cessation of being ceasing to
exist and the book is peddled around
| from house to house all over the country,
and sold for triie or given away. Ac-
cording to the author of this book, Paul,
though inspired of the Holy spirit was
mistaken and should have said 'she that
exlsteth in pleasure, hath ceased to
exist while she eXisteth. This much
advertised book is without common
sense in this matter, veritable hotch-
potch of inconsistencies and erroneous
, teachings, misleading and dangerous.
/ The Bible use Of everlasting "disproves
the idea that death is limited to cessation
of being. The devil has everlasting
being but he shall be tormented for
ever and ever but he has not everlasting
life, for that would put him and the
saint on the same plane. everlasting life
is everlasting well being The christian
has this well being. five do not have
this, we have everlasting i'll being which
is state of moral and spiritual death
The resurrection disproves the theory
of cessation of being" what ceases to
be cannot be raised up. The person who
] dies is the one who is resurrected, hence
his personality continues between death
and the resurrection: As that is the soul,
| it must continue during the interval.
So we might go on and show that
this pernicious doctrine is repudiated by
the words of Jesus in Matt 1923; by the
term Second death" and by direct
revelation of the Bible; by the story of
the rich man and Lazarus. But this is
enough. II. A. NJ.