Year: 1869

sermon at tho University by Bishop Snow.


Bishop Snow pre- achcd in the University yesterday
attlrce r. NJ on the .Resnrrectlon OF Life and Dam
nation" His text was John ", 2S, 29:-"Marvel not
az this for the hour is coming in which all that are
in the graves snail hear His voice and shall come
FORTH they tnat have done good unto the resurrec-
ton Of life and they chat have done evil unto the
resurrection OF dannation."


He commenced by reading q sketch Of the dis
course Of Rev. d. X. Lee lii the BleecKer street Uni
yersalist church, delivered the previous sunday,
the same text, showing its 1aacies and falsehoods
IN manner not at all complimentary to the clergy
man or favorable TO his doctrine. He then showed
that the text was plain and positive declara-
ton Of Christ that at some future time, all
the call Of the Great Judge. All the dead are
divided into two general classes-the righteous and
ter 70 damnation. II was ably argued that these
words prove the resurrection OF the body. He next
considered some Of the objections and arguments
against this doctrine, reading in this connection the
attempted exposition OF Professor Bush.


Having shown from the text and other passages
that the bodies Of all the dead will De raised, he pro-
ceeded to show the imperative necessity for the
resurrection Of the just and the unjust. He argued
this necessity from the allimporant TACT that there


is no future life for the dead bnt by the resurrection;
consequently, II the body do not rise there can be
no future rewards and punishments; for, as 1t re-
taught by Moses or the prophets nor by Christ
or his apostles. IL was merely Pagan
fable, taught Dy PlatO anu tle other
heithcn philosophers and he would not go to those
neathens to learn theology. We are taught by an in


spred apostle that Christ abolished death and
brought lite and Immortality to light. This was by
HIS rising again from the dead Therefore 1mmor-


taty was not brought 70 light or made manifest by
the dogma Of Plato concerning the SOUL


Tho Apostle Paul, than whom there IL no better
teacher among the doctors OF this day, frequently
speaks Of death sleep. But II the body Is not 10
rise again and the resurrection IL Of the soul at


death what Is " that seepsy Not the soul heaven


surely. Nor can the body be said with propreiy to


sleep, unless Ia hereafter 10 awake aud arise from
| the dead. And II the soul Of the redeemed Is en-
| joying the bliss Of heaven there can be
| no need Of anything more. But The soul
| Is not In heaven any more than was that
OF our Lord before he arose ana came forth from
the tomb. His soul was In hades according to the
testimony OF David and Peter; aud that does not
mean In heaven The word h translated hell mean


ing the pit OF darkness-the place or state OF all the
dead. That Is the condition OF The soul OF every
one who has died, and II is totally unconscious unt
the resurrection. But al the dead WILL he raiscd
from the grave, or hades; the redeemed az The
coming Of Christ, IN the first resurrection and me
remainder Of the dead ut the end OF the millennium
Revelations xX. Those who have part in the first
resurrection win be immortal. like their Kedeemer


But the Others will he subject to the second DEATH


which Is eternal. Thus the righteous raised to
inherit eternal life and the wicked inherit eternal
da1nnatton. This IL the doctrine OF the text and of
the whole Word Of God. Therefore we preach the
gospel which the Apostles preached, Jesus ann the
resurrectOn.r