The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-12-18
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
Ham Replies To Mr.. Giles.
To the Editor of The Renublican.

Now comes a Mr.. Giles, of North
Carolina, offering to elbow in some of
his surplus cash for proof of "any i'm
morality on the part of Mr.. Russell.
Has he any regard for testimony of
court where evidence was produced
showing gross improprieties of the man,
and evidence sufficient to justify the
court in granting his wife a divorce
Of course he would not accept the ac-
count as given in Mr.. Ross little book.
1 would suggest that he get it and read
and ponder it. 1t will take only ten
cents of his 81 1000. Who are few of
his many and great men" who claim
Mr.. Russell is the greatest Bible expos
tor on the earth? The rank and file of
the great scholars and expositors of
the Word are unalterably opposed to his
hotch potch exposition, and there are
no Biblical scholars of a national repu
tation, nor expositors who have any re-
cognized rank among Biblical scholars
who can or will accept his theories,
which are supported by Juggling of scrip
ture and fanciful Interpretation which
all acknowledged scho larship brand as
unworthy to be credited. 1t would be
interesting to know Mr.. Giles great
men.
His offer of cash premiums is simply
a bluff to catch ignorant and simple
minded persons. Granted that there is
no text which says in so many words
that the soul is immortal. Neither is
there any which says woman must OBJ
serve the Lords supper. Would he ar
que that they are not to do this?
If the soul is not immortal it must be
mortal. If it is mortal then, like body,
it dies and death according to the teach
ing of Mr.. Yates and his cult has but
one meaning, viz, ceasing to exist, be-
coming extinct, therefore annihilated.
Yet, with absolute assurance, they talk
about resurrection. How can thing
that is extinct or annihilated be resur
rected? He evidently fails to see any
distinction between resurrection and a
new creation. The universal feeling
that man is something else than moth
ing animated by another gives rise to
the confidence that death does not close
mans existence.
Cicero, who lived before Christ, said,
"There is, | know not how, in the
minds of men of cetain presage, as it
were, of a future existence, and this
takes the deepest root, and is more dis
coverable, in the greatest geniuses and
most exalted SOULS" He voiced the
feelings of his age. 1t may be said that
Immortality of the soul is not taught
philosophically by Jesus any more than
the existence of the God.
Jesus assumes sthls as He assumes
the existence of God, hence does not at
tempt to prove it. Why should he? Will
Mr.. Giles explain why savages of every
country and age have an unquestioned
faith in Immortality?
Go into the jungles of Africa and the
savages will not argue the immortality
of the soul. They say 1.-The dead do not
really die" 1t is not doctrine but an
instinct. 1t may be diversified and gro
tesque in its MANY manifestations, but
1t is a notorious instinct, surer indeed
than the instinct of the bird that is new
er deceived in it's migrations.
Darwin admits this instinct of immor-
tality among degraded races of men,
Sees it as a mighty moulding law re-
veallng creation; sees it unmeaningly
causing the swallow to shoot south for
the sure sunshine and the flowers. Yet
by strange inconsistency drives it to
the mighty soul of man. "The thirst
for the Infinite proves the Infinite"
Emerson well said, II hold that God
who kept his word with the birds and
the fishes in all their migratory instincts
will keep his word with man." Jesus
Christ brought life and Immortality to
light the gospel"
Paul in Rom. % Seek for glory.
immortality. Immortality of the soul
known by the light of nature Believed
by the heather. Reasoned out by phi
losophers. Assumed in the Old Tesla
ment. The hope of Patriarchs. Gen.
Is: Is; 1878; Job 10: 1921. The soul
goes to be with Christ at death Paul
says, "absent from the body present
with the Lord" Acts Z: SO; Phil. l: %.
l have already shown, in a previous
article, that there is no probation after
death or second chance for those who in
this life have rejected the offers of sal
walton through Christ and need not take
up your space now. In the Millennium
there will be an opportunity for saliva
ton for those living then, but not for
those who reject the gospel in this age.
What if the word "Trinitv'' is not
found in Bible text. That proves moth
ing. If Mr.. G. will open his mind to
the plain and clear teaching of the
Bible, he will find that the doctrine is
taught in the Bible and that without
| doubt.
1t seems to me he is reduced to severe
straights when ne has to resort to
such a nonsensical and childish bluff to
try to bolster up his tottering ism. If
he will wait until Oct, 1914, he will find
out about the correctness of MIR. Rus
sells Bible chronology.
| Mr.. Yates, too, evidently needs to
take course or two in Bible study and
Interpretation. How were people saved
before the first advent of Christ? How
will they be saved after the second ad-
vent or during the Millennium? 1t is
well to give heed to the study of God S
Word and not the creeds of the dark
ages. The inference here is that he and
his cult are studying the Bible while all
the rest are strdying the creeds of the
dark ages. True he says that none will
get second chance. "a chance is now
being afforded the church." Then &C
cording to that unheard of interpreta-
ton, all who hear the gospel now, be-
long to the church, for the church only
has the chance, therefore all who hear
are of the church. Does he not know
any better? The church is composed
only of those who have received Christ s
offer and are united to Him by faith
All others have rejected the offer of
salvation here IN this life, how are
these to have "chance to believe and
| attain perfect life' in the Millennium