Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-10-29
DENIES SEVERAL OF AUNT
BELTS" ALLEGATIONS

Editor News:
As "Aunt Belle" cannot write about
the "end of time, nor about the
death of her sister, Lucinda Cunning
ham, without noticing Blalock, after
saving she would not, thereby putting
herself in error. piece permit me tC
disprove some more If her assertions.
/ There is a seeming truth in hel
last article, aad that is l should have
said she vas ouly half compos mentis,
when in fact said: "If you are only
half compos mentis you know" etc,
but the printer, by mistake, failed to
set up MY ''if, thereby changing both
what l said, ana my meaning
When "Aunt Belle, 'of me says:
"He (D takes toe Greek word 'ha-
des, which he III admits only
means the grave or state of death, and
builds the top story of it, !" she eyre
eionsly errs twice, for l never admit
ted nor did any such things, and she
knows it, as following reasons clearly
show. ~ have all along contend
ed tbat tue proper name In English
for the Greek word, 'hades,' was
hell, a place of "tire, flame and tor
mept," as is evidenced by what Christ
said the rich man said of 1t after be
got into "hades," for he said: Faith
er Abraham, have mercy on me. and
send Lazarus that be may dip the tip
of his finger in water and cool my
tongue. for am tormented in this
fame" (Luke 1924 and we all
know this flame was flame of fire,
and we furthermore know that no
such fire exists in grave, and if it
did, the dead body could not feel it.
Chri t right here settled it that hades-
hell is a place of fire and torment, and
that all those in it are conscious suf-
fsring beings, and no amount of Rus
ssll's lies and adulterous sophistries.
can get around it. icy True, some
Of the Greek lexicons appellatively,
that is, by common name, include the
"grave and death" in their definitions
of dhades," but only in secondary
and metalepsi4 sense, as we say,
s'Hore, in English, is of common gen.
der, and may comprehend the male
and female, " and so mare, by com
mon name, ia horse. but a horse is
never a mare, and so of 'hades," J." and
the grave" Grave is never hades,
which il would be if they were both
one and the same thing. OF appella-
tive Webster says, ga common name
in distinction from proper name. A
common name, or appellative, stands
for whole class, genus, or species of
beings, or for universal ideas Thus
man is the name of the whole human
race, and fowl of all winged animals,
etc" A proper name, on the other
hand, stands for single thing, as
London, Philadelphia, Boston, aud so
of bell, 1t being the one proper Eng
ish name for the Greek name, cha
des " and it is wholly unscriptural,
uuchristian, unfair, illogical, unphil-
oligica aud dishonest and untrue to
try to define or call the proper name
Of the Greek haies by any other Eng
lish name than hell, for that is its on
ly proper English name Christ six
times used the proper name of Fha-
des" for hell every time, and never
did use it one single time for grave,
nor for death, and four times used it
in close iuxtaposition with death, so
as 10 show their plain differences, In
Rev, 1918, 6:6, 20:13, IA, calling
each by their proper names of death
and hell, not ''death or hell, as He
would have had to have done if both
were same thing, and this proper usus
loquendi of Christ forever proves that
neither grave moi death are not eth
er hades nor hell in aLy sense. So ]
am with Christ, while "Aunt Belle
is with Russell, and he is with the
devil. g. God used "sheol' in its
proper sense, In Isaiah 14:9, when He
said "Hell from beneath is moved
for thee" for "moved," was so trans
lated from Gods Hebrew word, era
goz, anl it means "to quiver with
any violent emotions, especially anger
or fear) be afraid. stand in awe,
move, quske. rage, shake, tremole, =
all of which shows sheolh hell possess
os Satanic life and power, neither of
which Goes any grave of earth possess,
no grave can be hell.
The "sheol hell" was prepared for
the devil and his angels, Matt 25.4t,
but when so many of the DEVILS SER
wants and children got to going there,
Hell hath enlarged herself" Isaiah
5;14), so as to make room for them,
every single one of the many millions
If them therefore we know this, She
'l'hades-hell does have satanic power
hei, consequently no grave can be
lell. because no grave has that power
While Hinnom was in some re-
poets type or figure of the Gehenna-
lell, yet the latter possesses a power
ilnuom never did have. and that is
he poTer to "set on FIRE TIE tongue"
Jas. 3:6)of some people, ike it did
Aunt Bellies" tongue, mind, heart,
ain and RON r,ba,, .ho .a;d. fgua I