Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-10-01
REVIEW OF AUNT
BELLS" DEFENSE OF
PASTOR RUSSELL

Editor News:
Please permit me to answer AUNT
| Belle thus:
!. only said some things "Belle"
wrote were "lies,'' but hoped she
thought they were truths but now she
30 plainly makes herself out a liar by
noticing my writing again as to de-
stroy all my confidence in her veraci-
ty. AUNT Belle" you yourself, not
l, have done it, and You are only half
compos mentis, you know it.
2. AUNT Belle only displays her
ignorance of God and His Word by
her sacrilegious TRADE against my true
definition of hell, for following reas-
ons: ~ l gave only the true defini-
lions of the Greek words translated
hell as laid down by the Standard
Lexicon, and it is only her ignorance
and Russell's lies that makes her COM
NIT such sacrilege. (2) Even the En-
glish scriptures plainly maintain my
former definitions. for in Deut. 1929
God is made to say "For a fire is
kindled in mine anger. and shall burn
unto the lowest hell. and shall con-
sumo the earth with her increase, and
set on fire the foundations of the
mountains" which word "lowest,"
was SO translated from Hebrew plur-
al word, meaning at least three bells
in English, that hell is three stories
deep. If God had said. ''lower hell, ;"
we would know there were but two
stories in hell, but God said, ''lowest
hell" and of that word Webster's En-
glish Dictionary says: "Most low;
deepest, and the Hebrew word,
"tachtiz" (takh-tee), means lower
most, the depths, lowest pats, neither
parts, twixt upper, neither and sur
rounding fires, and so my three story
hell is plainly shown in the English
Bible, and anybody who has only half
sense, and is only half honest, can find
it, see it, and understand it Just as
do, and the Greek New Testament
calls the highest department, "ha-
des. - the middle "gehenna, and the
lowest one, "tauros,' with it "as far
below" hades. the topmost one. as
"earth is below heaven" Whoever
heard of grave that Deep
3. Christ said: Therefore they
shall receive the greater damnation."
Matt. 23:14), and If there is great
or damnation there is bound to be
lesser one, and that they are in these
lowest and highest departments of hell
is too plain to doubt for the physically
"dead in their graves know not any
thing" (Eccl. 9:5), and of course can
not receive their greater damnation
In their bodies in their graves. SO,
both God and Christ taught depart
ments in hell, just as do, and it is
no imagination of mine, as has been
ignorantlv and lyingly indicated
against me.
4. The statement that 'Pastor"
Russell is to the second coming Of
Christ as was John the Baptist to His
first coming, is such a blasphemous,
sacrilegious lie from Bible stand
point as TO forever damn the asserter,
if not repented of with godly sorrow.
This is plain for following reasons:
~. John was so prophesied of in
NAL. 81, and spoken of in Isaiah 40:31,
and attested by the New Testament,
Mark 2:3; Luke I rs to II, but there is {
not even remote hint anywhere in
the Bible that Charles T. Russell or {
any other man or angel should so an
nounce Christ second coming, there !
foie Russelps claim is all lie Of his !
own make. (2). If as Russell styles S
himself, "Pastor Russell, and as J
Belle" so calls him, too. he is
pastor" he cannot be a prophet fore
telling the second coming Of Christ,
because Eph Att, shows that pastors
and prophets are different sorts of off,
,ers, and God revealed His will only
20 His Prophets and Apostles (Eph.
s:5) and so if Russell is Pastor"
ls he and "Belle" say, be cannot be a
prophet to- foretell the coming of
Christ. e OF Christ's second com
ng He Himself said: ''But of that
lay and hour knoweth no man. no,
lot the angels of heaven, but my
Father only" Matt. 94.36) and,
But of that day and that hour
no man, no, not the angels
which are in heaven, neither the Son,
Christ, but the Father" MARX
$780, and right here Christ plainly
avs, both in the Greek and English,
hat no one, neither man nor angel,
Tor Himself even, knows the time of
lis second coming. That God the
father alone knows that, and to say
hat Russell knows it, is to put him
lot only above all men and angels but
is lying effort to put Russell
bove Christ in all points of wisdom, 4
and understanding, which 4
8 downright blasphemy, hell-bent
acrilegious lie Of the deepest die.
Were / to assert that Russell knows
he time of Christ's second coming, OF
hat he stands to Christ as John the
n