Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-10-29

death can set on FIRE any tongue, there
fore no grave, nor no state OF deaf
can be hell. No never Tue ia
mates of sheol-hell possess conscious
ness and faculty of speech Isaiah ID:
l6) as did the rich man in hades-hel
luke t6:23-3t) and these facts settl
1t that neither the grave nor dealt
state can be hell in any sense. z. Al
three departments of hell, the hades
gehenna and tartaros, possess in then
fire, so says the Bible, and we know
that neither the grave nor dead state
possess even animal heat. much les
fire, and this fact. alone, plainly
shows that neither, nor both together,
are hell in any sense.
8. "Aunt Belle shows both hel
Russellite ignorance and "uu.veraci
ty, " by trying to take me to task fol
my rightly spelling the Greek, "Tar-
taros. . and fatty says l call it, "taur
os," for "Tartaros" is Greek, and
''Tartarus," being only the latinized
form of that Greek word, which the
English adopted. As it was demon.
strated in open court that Russell
could not read single word in Greek,
and as Latin uses same kind of letters
English does, I reckon he can copy
them whether he can pronounce the
words or not, and as be writes it in
the Latin English form, "tartarus, =
and poses before his folks as Greek
scholar, "Aunt Belle" ignorantly
supposes it is Greek. when it is not.
4. She also falsely says of me,
''builds the top story Of 1t, "hades, "
which means that built top story
to, or upon, "hades-hell. which is not
SO, for I only showed that God built
'tartarus'' as the lowest hell "ge-
henna" as the middle one, and
Grades itself. the top one.
Her ignorance of the composition and
etymology of words keeps her from
knowing that "knoweth-eth implies
continuation, so much so, as that if
Christ had plainly said: "Charles T.
Russell, nor none of the Adventists in
the Goth century will know when
Christ will come again until they, see
Him coming That would not have
been any palmer than he did express
it. The claim that Russell knows in
advance when Christ will come, is all
false, and so far..as his proving any of
his distinctive doctrines, he does not,
nor cannot prove one of them II you
think he can, you bring him here to
debate with me, soon as regain my
health, and | will fully expose all his
false doctrines
8. sse the printer did set me as
writing "tauros, for ''tartaros" in a
former article, AMI if SO wrote it. it
came about by my Investigation of
another subject, at the time was
replying to her, in which the Greek
word, "tauros," occurred, and turn
ing from it to finish my reply to her,
having "tauros'' on the brain,
might have wrongly SO written the
wrong Greek word, and only thus
could l have made the mistake, but
the ros' part of it is right
N. W. BLALOCK,
Dunlap, Tenn, Oct 25, 1914
EDITORS NOTE we are al always
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side Also we want moderate lam
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people who understand their positions
would debate in an assemblage of cul-
tivated ladies and gentlemen. We ap-
preciate the argument offered and
hope that each side will restrain their
exuberanee to the bounds of parlia-
mentary usage.