The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-11-20
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
"ham" Says Hr. Bart0n'S Vie ws nay
Be COMFORTING To Some.

him, but that does not prove that they
are in accord with scripture. We pre-
sumo they are in accord with Russell
ism, which he represents. If SO, his
views are unscriptural. All Bible chris
tians believe that the body of the be-
lever will be raised up like the body of
Jesus, a literal glorious, resurrection of
the body that will be recognized a
spirit body, for there is no such thing
but a spiritual body Mr.. Barton's is
sue teaches that we do not know what
became of the body of Jesus, it may
have become dissolved into gas, that is
the annihilation of the body, and. of
course, there can be no resurrection of
that which is annihilated. 1t is con-
tradiction of terms, it is contrary to
reason, it is a clear denial of an obvious
fact to talk of resurrectirg what has
been annihilated.
How the cult which he represents
loves to harp on the word hell, as mean
ing Hades the place of the dead and not
future punishment. All scholars know
and knew it long before Barton saw the
light of earth, that the word translated
hell, in our Bible, means the grave or
the place of the dead, and every church
recognizes the existence of place called
hell, as the place of future and eternal
punishment, for sometimes the word
hell means the abode of the lost, the
place of punishment, where the worm
dieth not and the fire is not quenched,
This is "gehiema" the word used to eX-
press the place of punishment, See
Matt. ): 20. 30; Matt. 10: %; Matt. 10:
9; Matt. %: Is, SO; Mark: 43, As, AZ;
Luke II; 5; James 8: 6.
He processes to believe everything in
the Bible about hell and may be he
thinks he does, but he evidently does
not. Jesus taught the existence of a
hell of everlasting punishment, yet Bar
ton teaches that the punishment of the
few incorrgibles" who who will be
lost is humiliation.
The Apostles also taught that hell
does refer to place where the lost suf-
fer amending misery. In proof of this
he says good people went to hell at
death as the bad and Jesus also went to
hell according to Acts 2nd chapter. He
went to the abode of the dead, though
this corrupting ism teaches that the
body of Jesus was and so the dead are
annihilated He'll is place, as truly as
heaven is place.
1t is a place prepared for the devil
and his angels, the final abode of Satan
and the impenitent.' A death the spir-
its Of the wicked depart into that por-
ton of hades reserved for the wicked
dead, where they exist in conscious tor
ment. duke 16: 29.31.) Then at the
great White Throne judgment they shall
be assigned to their final condition of
torment. Rev. 20: Ills and q: Is. Then
they enter into their final and fullest
suffering, for they shall be clothed upon
with a body, perfect counterpart of
the lost spirits that inhabit it and par
take with it of all its misery.
But Mr. Barton says, when proper
ly understood the Bible teaches the an
initiation of the wicked, - and quotes
II Peter 2: y.
Peter means that the false teachers
whom he is describing, who act as IRA
tional animals. This is not humiliation.
You cannot annihilate the being of those
who die without having accepted Christ.
That the future destiny of the WICK ed
is a condition of unresting, amending
conscious torment and anguish is the
clear teaching of the Bible: Jesus teach
es it in Matt. %: Al, 16. Depart from
me; We cursed, into everlasting fire pre-
pared tor the devil and his angels.
These SHALL go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into life
eternal" Read Rev. 10: 20; 20: 10.
Rev. 81: reads, But the fearful and
unbelieving and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers and
sorcerers, and ldolaters, and all liars
shall have their part in the lake which
burneth with fire and birthstone: which
is the second death" So the tortures
of hell constitute the second death and
not annihilation which would be inf
nitely preferable to the impenitent.
The expression forever and forever"
used of the lake of fire prepared for the
devil and his angels, to which the per-
sistently wicked also go, is used twelve
times in Revelation.
Three times it refers to the duration
of the torment of the devil, the beast,
the false prophet and the persistently
wicked. II Tim. ] 10 shows the ever
lasting punishment of the wicked from
glory of His power, But what does
destruction" mean? In Rev. II: 8, IL
we are told that the beast goeth into
"perdition, " which is derived from the
same verb as obstruction. If we can
find out what the beast goeth into, we
shall know what destruction" means.
In Rev. 10: 20, We find that the beast
was cast alive into the lake of fire with
birthstone. Rev. 20: 10, we find that at
the end of thousand years after the
beast was cast INTO the lake burning
where the beast and the false prophet
still are, and that they shall be torment
ed day and night for ever and ever. !"
This, then, is what destruction means
in the Bible-a portion in the Lake of