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SEORETARY.
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" The Wages of Sin is Death; but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

No. 5.

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FEBRUARY,

1881.

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The Truth about Hell " His Soul withiu Him" Giants-Ancient and Modern .. A Lesson-Judges viii. 4-17 ... " The Lord Himself shall descend." Notes and News Members' Berean Class Correspondence Extracts Correspondence ... Question and Answer Church and Mission News ...

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body in eternal torture, but d.estroying both it and the sonl,-the 1Jfatt. xviii. 8, Mark ix. 47, "Wherefore cut them off, and cast them from thee; into everlasting it from thee; that everlasting fire.

life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast And if thine eye offend thee pluck it out, and cast for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather fire." than This passage shows IJIatt. xxiii. 15, "Ye yourselves. IJIatt. passages it is better

than having two eyes to be cast into Gehenna

fire, and Gehenna are synonymous.

make him twofold more the child of Gehenna xxiii. 33, Ye serpents, ye generation damnation, passages (Greek Kriseos, where this word occnrs), condemnation,

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Greek word for Sheol, which denotes a hollow abyss, or cavity, as does the English word" Hell," and "Hole,"-Germlln, Dr. Young in his Anylitical the unseen state. Ps. ix. 17. dition, rather it occurs, exalted
Num, xvi. 30.-"

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Sheol is variously translated

the word of God wonld lead to the conclusion than a place or locality; Matt. xi. 23, Luke x. 15, "And thon

the following are the places where down to Hades." Matt. xvi. 18,

unto heaven, shall be brought Luke

"And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." Acts ii. 27, 31, "Because wilt Thou with him." xvi. 23, "In Hades he lifted up his eyes.'!" neither Rev. i. 18, "And delivered up the thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, Rev. vi. 8,

suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption." Rev. xx. 13-14, "And death and Hades

have the keys of Hades and death."

"And Hades followed

dead which were in them, and death and Hades were cast into the lake

THE

TRUTH By J. C.

ABOUT
AKESTER.

HELL.

of fire." them; In the but

A careful perusal of the above passages the last passage especially

ought to convince the in any of for in it we are translation)

most bigoted, that the eternal torture

of the lost, is not taught

proving the contrary,

THE word hell occurs twenty Greek, three rendered character, bound

times

in the New Testament. very different

told, that death and Hades, (hell according to the common

words are used, having

significations,

gave up the dead, that were in them, not the souls that were in torture ; in the latter place; again, they are both said to be cast into the lake of fire, so that if Hades be hell, we have the cast into itself. Turtaros, 2 Pet. ii. Sheolor absurd statement, that it is

mostly in our translation and conveying a meaning

by the word Hell; of such terrible

a word that has import, that I feel by from one of The three "Grave," of the from the the xv. 8.), the

become, by the inflated preaching of the day, of such an awful, ominous to quote every passage in full, so that the truth, as taught vindicated

"For

if God spared not the angels that sinned, Bullinger says,-" 'I'artaros is not Not the abode of Nor is it where the wicked

God in His word, may be seen, and His character the foulest aspersions "Hell" Hebrew words used are, Gehenna, nine times, and" "Hell," twice, and Hades Hell-fire" aud Tartaros, once. of

but cast them down to =Tartaros." are to be consumed or destroyed, men in any condition. world. The extremity that sinned, see Jude vi. Eph. ii. 2, and of which darkness of this world,' taros' its coldness." That

that the devil has ever cast upon it. Hades is translated Hinnom, (Josh.

Hades, where all men go in death.

Gehenna is translated

which is Gehenna.

It is used only here, and here only of the angels It denotes the bound or verge of this material which Satan is the prince. 'the rulers of the 'Tarin aerial regions.' is plain Scripture and, 'wicked speaks as having spirits of this lower air,-of

eleven times.

Gehenna is the equivalent was not derived

word Ghe-Hinmom;

or valley

scene of the Moloch worship. refuse of the city of Jerusalem,

The name

worship of Moloch, but from the latter use of the valley for burning also the bodies of criminals, kept constantly bnrning. If it was intended as a figure of the eternal failed entirely,

&c. by fires it

is not only the bound of this material creation, but is so called from there is a place of punishment from such "This as JlIatt. xxv. 4.; 2 Thess. i. 9.; Rev. xx. 11-15. will have an end." 1 Cor. xv. 24-28. worthy "The That punishdevil himself in

hell of the theologians,

Scripture ment shall punishment

as it was only the carcases and not living bodies of ani-

is according to works. be destroyed,"

Luke xii. 47-48.; Rom. ii. 12-16.

mals, &c. that were cast into it, see also Isa. !xvi. 24. The following passages are those in which the word Gehenna is used: Matt. v. 22, "Shall "For perish, it is profitable and n9t that be in danger for thee, of Gehenna one fire." Matt. members v. 29-30, should that of thy

Heb. ii.' 14.15.

., And all his works," 1 John iii. 8. of God,-ushered

'I'he outcome of which will be, a kingdom

thy whole body should

be cast into Gehenna."

*For a. complete exposniou of this passage, read "The Rioh Ma.n end Laearua;" Bd. by W. A. Hobbs, Oondiuoual Immortality ASBOcia.tion"
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by a new creation,-the pictured. not the act. in Matt. xxv. 46. glory of which the wildest fancy of man never

STANDARD.
The passages in question body. Fortunately must present considerable

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difficulty to those inside a the diffi-

A word or two as to the meaning of" everlasting punishment," I would urge that it is the results that are everlasting, word is used in connection Heb, v. 9,-Judgment, place, Redemption with Redemption, But no ono Heb. vi. 2. The same

who, like Mr. W. F. Grant, imagine

that man is a soul living for the truth,

for them, but uufortunately

culty has been in great measure concealed from them by our translation; the more exact rendering that is, where it has of the original being relegated us. to the margin; no second been given at all, for in some instances

Heb. ix. 12,-Salvation, Salvation Reader, throne, has taken

would contend for a moment results will be everlasting.

that each of these would go on for ever, no! and Judgment will, and the If not, and the

reading has been furnished given; amount

No fault is to be found with the transrendered the word nephesh where it Still it would should in all cases

lation of these texts, as the real meaning of the original has been correctly Lamb's book of life"? indeed, had our translators as correctly of misconception these words,-"And I saw a great white for them. And I saw occurs elsewhere, as they have done in these places, a vast rendering

is your name written in the"

ponder, deeply aud thoughtfully heaven fled away;

and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and there was no place found

would have been prevented.

certainly b~ desirable that the more literal be inserted in the margin. Num. xxiii. 10, "Let Judges xvi. 30, "And Philistines. " Job xviii. 4, "He Job xxxi. 39, "If

the dead, small and great, stand before God; and another book was opened, which their works.

and the books were opened;

is the book of life; and the dead dead which were in it; were in them; death. and

my soul die the death of the righteous." Sampson said, Let my soul die with the

were judged of these things, which were written in the books, according to And the sea gave up the delivered death and hades up the dead that and they

teareth

his soul in his anger." thereof without money, or to lose their soul." in youth." with fetters: his soul was laid in prayer book version of the psalms has

were judged every man according ever was not found fire." Rev. xx. 11-15.

to their works.

And death and hades And whoso-

I have eaten the fruits souldieth

were cast into the lake of fire; this is the second

have caused the owners thereof Job xxxvi, 14, "Their

written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of

Ps. cv. 18, "Whose

iron."

feet they hurt

The Church of England

"HIS

SOUL WITHIN
By RD.
PHILLIPS.

:HIM."
has made a his flesh He

" The iron entered into his soul." Pro. xiii, 8, The ransom of a man's soul are his riches."
P7OV.

xiv. 10, "The heart knoweth the bitterness hell hath enlarged

of its soul."

MR. F. W. GRA.NT,in his work"

Life and Immortality," him

Prov. xxiii. 2, "If thou be a master of soul." Isia. v. 14, "Wherefore mouth without measure." Isia. xlvi. 2, "Their souls are gone into captivity."
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great deal of these words, which occur in Job xiv. 22. upon him shall have pain, and his soul within prints that the sentence thus,-" "Should "his His soul within

"But

her soul, and opened her

shall mourn."

him; " and insists upon it, apparently, shall mourn," of no "or

these words prove that Job considered man to be a soul dwelling it be," he asks,-confident, his creature him," "his desire within him," "his person THA.Tthere compare "There and it

within a body. within what?" him,"

one being able to answer him,-" life within

GIANTS-ANClJ~NT AND MODERN. ByW. J.

is nothing days giants truly be in in new under which the said the sun, may truly be said, when we we earth there live with in those are giants the days of Noah. vi. 4,) the days," (Gen. the were may

Now such language as this from one who can quote Hebrew is and shows either gross ignorance of the original, or culpable in not consulting it; for one is loth to think dishonesty in taking advantage that he could of what he knew

inexplicable, carelessness

be guilty of downright to be a mistranslation.

in these

days,

only difference being that those were physical, and these are intellectual. The Word clearly points this out to ns; in 1 Tim, we have the term, a term "The latter times," but in 2 Tim. iii. 1, "The last days,"

That this passage is wrongly rendered to those strikes and who. do not understand one on turning him," "upon are the

may, I think, be made apparent The first thing words "upon alaiv. that him," The

the original.

referring

more particularly

to the end of this

age, and we are told in can be all this, and puffeth up; men

to this, is that the English translation or "over

verse 2, "men proud, &c." even think iutellectuality

shall be lovers of their immortal?

own selves, covetous, boasters, knowledge

"within

of one word, him or it"; alaiv teval)

How is it that man, a fallen creature, himself It is because physical is the cause of this self-exaltation

word means, passage

OVe?'

him or it,"

and the whole should be read, to die, as the people of

(aph b'saro alaiv yikhav v'naphsho most probably, the alaiv

that characterises

Su1'tly his flesh is pained it; the it being, aval alaiv amm? stated iu v. 20. "Ri thereof Scripture nephesh rendered entity. Exactly

over it, and his soul, (i.e. he himself,) fact of his having yaghiloo). grammar translated "For the same construction ookhinaraiv and

11l0'U1'?tS in these last days, just as through We have the Lord Himself testifying when we contemplate last very near at hand. In the Antediluvian the painful

power in the days of Noah. as it was in the and of the

(Luke xvii.) that"

is found in Hosea x. 5. rejoiced on it" and analogy

days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man," fulfilment of what is predicted days, it surely speaks to us that

shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that Grammar analogy,-the I have therefore, are against Mr. Grant.

the days of the Son of Man are was not of

or over it.

period, when the sword of government

In each of the following texts, by the English

the Hebrew word have of

put into man's the world,

hand, Satan could

not be the ruler of the darkness creatures

word soul, by which word our translators by this word, an immaterial

in the way he now is, for there were not then governmental that to Adam, for we find no trace of the sceptre or the sword over or subject to one another till the days. of "whoso sheddeth Man had to

it in tha above passage, and in most of the other instances understanding and "liIe,"" In the following instances,

powers to corrupt ; it was only power over the inferior was entrusted among men as ruling

its occurrence; by pronouns, to read their

and immortal it as to get

the Hebrew word has been rendered Had they translated instead, o~ trying

self." "appetite." into. Scripture;

Noah, then it was that that principle was established, man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed" what was in, his heart; and how these be tried without Law for having broken one law;

below, it would ha ve been. a rude shock to many who are accustomed own meaning, out of U, God's. meaning

(Gen. ix. 6.)

he was leIt to manifest

16,56 years (i.e. from A.!1amti!.l

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schools.

THE

BIBLE

STANDARD.
invite correspondence on Mark ix. 49 :-"
FOl'

The priestly party have entirely failed, in their effort made in restoration. As an illustration of the dewe may add the complaint of one of shall we put meeting in its

evel'y one shall

be salted

the Senate, to secure their the school-children-when -" place." American

with fire, and every sacrifice shall see January

REPLY

be salted with salt."

H. GOODWYN.

For his article,

basing tendency of image-worship,

issue.." l'URIFIEDBY FIRE," page 6,1,.

BY GENERAL

the police were removing the plaster figures With reference observed. "meat plaster crucifix" of a recent the good God." from an Ward Albert Ward

They have taken away the good God, and what This needs no comment-a the following The leading paper. report

to Mark ix. 49, I remark

that

the context

m~ to the The The thing;

The Lord, in addressing

Jews, drew their attention His precept.

_We extract

offering" of Lev. ii., in order to illustrate

speakers

were the Rev. Henry

true force of the passage is, " For everyone fire [of the altar], word "pas," tion, "gar," of the" in Greek, may mean everyone FOR, relates

shall be salted TOor FORthe person,

01'

Beecher, and Col. Robert Ingersoll, a noted Infidel Lecturer :-" Dagget was called upon to preside, but he gave way to Henry Beecher, who said:

even every sacrifice shall be salted with salt." everyone is, in the dative, " puri."

'The man who is to speak to you to-night is not to variableness or shadow of turning. In the

and the word for "fire"

The Greek conj p.ncwhereby the

speak in a conveuticle or church, but he is one who has done valuable things for the right without name of common humanity took his hand, tableau. brilliant underneath 'I'hen and and true faith and true liberty I give him Mr. Beecher turned said that tongue Mr. Ingersoll in any land to Mr. Ingersoll, applauded was the the most As

to the words of Divine morality, eye."

Lord had been enjoining the observance of moral purity, at the cost even hand," the" foot," or the" of God; Salt was the emblem of inof this purity, worthy of as in verse 50, according to the and we To corruptness, as instituted and to the significancy

the right hand of fellowship.' Mr. Beecher

both bowed, while the audience

emblem the Lord refers, enjoining a life of sacrificial. the altar of God. (Rom. xii. 1-2. consistently orthodox carrying

Leo. ii. 13.)

of "Salt,"

speaker of the English the brilliancy

on the globe.

Let now the final words of the Lord be considered, on the meaning teaching of Mr. Murray's companion,

of the flame are solid coals of fire, so underliving coals of stream of off his

neath the lambent soundest truth. "Iugersoll revenge. thousands

fire of his wit there are imperishable apparently,

now exposed; themselves!"

are required to understand at such a gushing pastor, and as he arose he seemed to meditate said: 'The world waited such absurdities

that the fire of Gehenna is " good," and that observers

felt awkward,

the disciples were to have the fire of Gehenma "in of Tradition! For the meaning of verses 44-45, sufficiently explanatory. worm" feeds, and"

praise from the Plymouth

is the Holy Word engaged by thoughtless

He worked his lips, wiped the beads of perspiration

brow, and seeming to wink at the reporters, long time for another.' you that your intellectual Then Mr. Ingersoll is large

the last two verses of Isa. lxvi. is caj'cases" that "their Then all that Dec 31st.

of years for Henry Ward Beecher, and the world will wait a dashed off into a speech. 'I want to thank your sky broad enough,

It is on putrescent"

dieth not," as long as it finds food. dust"

G. J.

Later on Mr. IngersoU, turning to Mr. Beecher, said: horizon enough and studded you.'

the worm leaves, the fire consumes, and is " not quenched," i.e , not put out, but dies out when nought but"
REPLY BY MAJOR

remains.-Read-ing,
VAN SOMEREN.

with stars enough to enable you to grasp the hand however much he disagrees with At the for obtained a vote of thanks In January's who, quoting

of a man in the cause of humanity, close of the love feast NIl'. Beecher

issue Mr. Murray tells us of his having met a "minister," Mm'k ix. 49, as warrant for his belief, said (a) "the Its purpose is not to destroy the sinner, Why, it is as plain as possible. with fire;' that Does it means,

Upon this there was another tableau and great cheering.

lake of fire is a purifying fire. but to purify and purge him. not say, (b) 'Every purified by fire.

Ingersoll, and Ingersoll got three cheers for Beecher." We are glad that all Christian rev. gentleman. Master, and the Truth of God. discussion, as to the truth people are not in this like the above A Member of our Association, Mr. Allen B. this bold blasphemer Or rather, to public to of Holy Writ. to be exact, he That some still cherish regard for the honour of their

sacrifice shall be salted

(c) Salt was offered with the Jewish sacrifices to render

them pure and acceptable to God; and so the sinner is to be made acceptable to God by fire." You, sir, ask for "short seasonable" papers on this subject. Others

Magruder, of Virginia, has challenged

has accepted the challenge of Col. Robert Ingersoll, and undertaken prove the Bible to be the Word and Will of God. . discuss with one of the keenest wits and most eloquent

must judge whether this is seasonable, but premising that a reply cannot, on such a subject, be given in half a dozen words, I will be as short as practicable. First, let me test the" minister's" lake of fire is a purifying this assertion? death.
fire,

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What warrant has the "minister"

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The Word says, "the

This is the second would surely be

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his part in the second death." undergo any pain in ridding fire is not quenched."

Again, our Lord, in the verses preceeding themselves of anything that may offend. dieth not, and the There Is there up, does

the text at the head of this paper, tells His

He then speaks of the Gehenna, "where their worm we read of the "carcasses"

The words are quoted from Isa. lxvi. 24.

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burned to ashes or left to moulder, and be devoured of worms. any suggestion here of purification. it for preservation? death." "the second death" The Word When chaff is burned us that shuts "the that operation suggest the idea of the farmer tells

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wishing thereby to purify wages of sin is Thus is "eternal."

THIS month we confine ourselves exclusively to the replies received in answer to the suggestion of the Rev. H. B. Murray, that we should

The Lord tells us that the punishment is eternal, and that

out all hope of being

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of a sinful sacrifice, or the purifying, whether by salt or fire, of a sinner. In one case the fire burns the offering as a sweet savour to God, in the other the sin offering was consumed, "without the camp," and no word of sweet saVOUTis associated with it anywhere. The point I desire to urge is, that as salt was used in the sacrifices and oblations which in their nature worshipper, contemplated the offerer as an acThis cepted and purified the thought of salt being a type of fire, sinner, cannot be admitted.

purifying and purging the impenitent position is strengthened It is in the same chapter

by the fact, that while both salt and fire are And how beautiful it is ! but they shall not Lev. xxiii. 10-11, of Leu., (ti,) verse 12, "As for the oblation Compare

used in such sacrifices, there is one exception.

of the first fruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord: be burnt on the altar f::ir a sweet savour." harvest thereof,

" When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to the Sabbath the priest shall morning' the first fruits." He was raised the on the morrow after harvest unto the priest: be accepted for you: wave it:"

The first fruits, "Christ,

morrow after the Sabbath, eighteen centuries fulfilled the last of the offerings. more the Holy One who has passed through shall" "Christ coming. The Lord, in Mm'!> ix. 50, says, "Have " minister" must understand "salt"

ago, and on that the refining

What has fire to do with trying any furnace, who for us : at His If, as the then we the And see, the priest are Christ's

has been raised and who was taken up in glory? the first fruits, afterwards they that

wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you,"

salt in yourselves." flre of Gehenna,

said, salt typifies the purifying

in verse 50, as in verse 49, and, I write that

words with pain, are we to read verse 50, "Have fire in yourselves?" have in himself. Apostle Peter when" Salt is something Now salt preserves exhorts, (chapter

the purifying lake of vegetables. The his hearers that

the child of God was to

flesh and earth-grown

It also gives them a flavour. suffering

"Be at peace with one another." iii. 14-16, of first epistle,) sake," to "sanctify

for righteousness

the Lord God in

their hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every mau having a good conscience." (chapter with iv. 6,) to let their" that ye may salt,

asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear, The Apostle Paul exhorts the Colossiana, speech be always "with grace seasoned know, how ye ought to answer every

man." These words are a paraphrase of 1J1ark ix. 50. We are called to " endure hardness"; to "fight a good fight"; to "have a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man." the part of a Christian, eye," if it offends. the flesh must many a wrench, demands the cutting off of "a hand," To do this requires, on struggle;. it many a terrible

"a foot," the taking out of " an

It is only thus that we can prove here, in the flesh, Thus only can we do what yam' bodies a living the

that we are God's children, that we have the Spirit of Christ in us, and often suffer greatly. Apostle Paul calls npon us all to do, " I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that 1. If the" ye present sacrifice, Rom. xii. Indeed, it holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." salt hast lost its saltness," and soberly before God" what is it good for? is no light thing righteous, to be called a Christian.

May we all walk godly, the author and we any

looking unto Jesus

finisher of faith," and so we shall prove our calling and election, and He will give us both the power and the reward, who died for us that might have life, and "that we might have it more abundantly. Jesus Christ gate is strait, let ns who are of the light, see that we enter it. man sin we have an advocate with the Father, eous." clesnseth "But fellowship one with another, us from all sin." "If "The

the RightHis Son

if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have and the blood of Jesus "The blood of sprinkling" Christ closes the cata-

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logue of what we have "come to." That cleanses the sinner, and God, which is your reasonable shows that such sacrifice shall service." certainly And here, in verse 49, Christ be required of them: "For (as the Levitical sacrifices " washed in his fellow's blood, the living bird went free." never have his part in "the lake of fire. but he shall be raised" we all attaiu to that. In response month, incorruptible," London, January
BY !VIr..

He shall May

This is the second death," "like Him."

everyone (of His followers) shall be salted were, but) with fire," 12.) The Levitical (" The fiery trial sacrifices

"immortal," 1st.
LAING.

which is to try you," 1 Pet. iv. them, for they blemish;" is "without

were salted, not to purify

REPLY

WILLIAM

were already (if according to command,) animals for last of the nor to preserve but" "salted them, for they were immediately the Lord." to make a sweet savour unto

to the suggestion made in The Bible Standard I beg to submit the following as explanatory

afterwards consumed; And the believer God a sweet savour of it be tried with fire

page 6,1"

passage in question. Like Mr. Murray, I had been accustomed support of the idea that quenchless flames; meet." And the of Universal Restoration, punishment

with fire" of trial, (" for we are unto perisheth,

to find the passage used in existence in

Christ;

") " that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than though and glory at the appearing of

the doom of the lost is perpetual is another illustration

of gold (or animal sacrifice,) that

but. that it is used to support the opposite doctrine of the adage, " extremes to refer to the of a common fact ef the language being understood at all, is another illustration

might be found unto praise and honour Jesus Christ." (1 Pet. i. 7.) Lincoln, Jan. 5.
REPLY OF MR. R.

of the impenitent,

J. HAMMOND.

practice of using the language of Scripture, for a purpose, which the context shows, it was not intended to serve. Albert Bames, in his notes on the passage, justly remarks that" main scope of the passage was not to discourse on future That is brought in incidentally." Let the reader The punishment.

The difficulty in lYla?'k ix. 49, surmounted steps. Step l.-IIeb. Note-" a" consuming xii. 29, "For fire." Having

in seven easy and regular

our God is a consuming fire." or tormenting, or pU?'ifying, but such a God, we expect a kingdom (v. 27 and things therefore, to secure that kingdom, we

Our God," not a preseruinq,

turn to the context

from which the text in question is taken, and he will find that the Lord is enforcing, by the most expressive language, the necessity of the sepfrom the disciple that cutting off a right into life" hinders his entrance hand, or plucking into out a aration of everything

28) which cannot

be shaken, froln which all evil persons

have been removed=-coxstms: Step 2.-Deut. jealous God." Note-The Love; iv. 24, "For

hold fast grace, and worship with reverence and godly fear, acceptably. the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a of God; jealousy is inju?'ed fire: "For

life, however valued that thing may be, or whatever amount of pain the cutting off may cause,-like right eye. the fire of Gehenna, quenched." Anticipating, immediately "where the It is better to "enter thus, than to be cast into

consuming fire is the jealousy

their worm dieth not, and the fire is not enquiry, "Why such severity?" He

God is Love;

erqo, God is in His Nature a consuming

Love is strong as death; perhaps, everyone shall be salted with fire, and every Step 3.-Zeph. fierce anger; jealousy." Note-Gad's anger. vengeth;

jealousy hard as sheol ; the coals thereof, coals Song, viii. 6. all My with the fire of My pour upon them Mine indignation, shall be devoured

of fire, a most vehement flame."-Sol. iii. 8, "To for all the earth

adds, "For

sacrifice shall be salted with salt." "Fire," to quote again from Albert Barnes,-" Fire, here, therefore, denotes self-denials, sacrifices, trials, in keeping ourselves from the gratification of the flesh. said: of Look at the sacrifice on the altar; to be presented to Him.
PRESERVATION,

As if He had of
PURITY,

Love being turned

by sin into Jealousy, becomes a dein indignation is jealous, the Lord and fierce will take and the Lord re-

it is an offering to God; about So you are

vouring fire, and is righteously As also see Nah. the Lord revengeth,

manifested aud

It is sprinkled with salt, emblematic

i. 2, 3, "God

and of fitting it, therefore, for a sacrifice.

is furious;

devoted to God. "Doing

To make you acceptable offerinqs, everything must be offerings, and be saved; was right, without the

vengeance on His adversaries, the wicked; the Lord hath Step 4.-Lev. when all the (x. 1, 2), "And

and He reserveth

wrath for His enemies.

done to preserve you ham sin; to purify you and make you fit offerings." this, you will be acceptable Minister this, you will be lost." The Universalist Baptist

The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit His way in the whirlwind and in tbe storm, there came a fire out from before the the burnt-offering. and and the fat: faces." fell on their and the clouds are the dust of His feet."

in understanding

ix. 24, "And people

language as denoting a purifying

process;

but he was wrong in projectThe purification was not for "Salt is salt

Lord, and consumed

upon the altar saw, they

ing that process, beyond the life that now is. not perish, but enter into life eternal; it?"

shouted,

sinners, after they die, but for disciples in the present life, that they might hence the Lord adds, good; but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season (The Lord knew nothing of "The Jan. 4th.
REPLY BY REV. G. P. MACKAY.

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and them not. them, and they

them his censer,

offered strange fire before the Lord, which He commanded And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured died before the Lord." Note A.-A ceptance flash from the Shekinah

Larger hope.")

"Have

in yourselves, and have peace one with another." Edinburgh,

between the Cherubim, kindled

the wood on the altar, and the savour of the offering ascended with acthe wicked shall to the Lord. who thus approved of the offering, and rejoiced Another flash from the Shekinah, but iu jealous, righteous lifeless to take to the earth: away the life (See the people.

As previously stated, some believe this means be purified shall (for final restoration) (for eternal be preserved torments) by it,

that

by " Hell "-fire, and others, that they and the opinions of may be pointed out. does not lie Reading from just as Paul, in

anger, and not in lov~, smote the two priests Note B.-The into it), but rather Isa. lxvi. 24.) Note C.-Couple Step 5.-2 Kings lake of fire is not needed

our brethren are desired that"

the happy medium"

they are taken out (see vel'. 5) in their coats, and buried. of the wicked, (though some, perhaps many, or all, may be cast alive soul and carcase.

I beg to submit that there is no "medium," anywhere between these- two notions. v. 33, we see that Christ is urging

for the truth

The passage has nothing to do His disciples to be ready to make by the mercies of

with the wicked, nor with the fire of future punishment. sacrifices (of themselves) for the sake of life eternal; Rom. xii. 1, says, " I beseech you, therefore, brethren,

to utterly, eternally destroy with the above, Num, i. 10, 12, 14, "And

xi. 1, where the same fire there came down fire from

of the Lord burned in the Camp, when the people murmured.

God, that ),e present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto

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heaven (the fire of God, ver. 12), and consumed him and his fifty." brimfire from the Lord out of heaven." not the electric fire meant life, fire. This one force is convertible, xxv. 41, "Depart Rebellion burn of Satan here? Jude 7, " Suffering the The triune force, light, in manifestation, one in into (the) of the which all his

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that man, with home, the the

Gen. xix. 24, " Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah stone and Note-Is heat, three. Step 6.-Matt. everlasting righteousness will and must Note B.-If everlasting Step 7.-Mark off; it is better Note A.-The himself. from thee: everyone with salt." being "And Note A.-The from Me, ye cursed, forth into fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." brought a display and of God, even His just jealousy, till it utterly outburst consumes of His nature-Love, him (Satan) essence. vengeance of eternal fire." electl"icity,-light, Threefold

will go, like the beast, Paul does, IF there Thus:'

to his eternal

xii. 5, in Hebrew and Greek) ; and recommends is no resurrection,

Compare make his written

Eccles. ii. 24, with 1 Cor. xv. 32. soul enjoy good in his labour.'-' we die.' How is this compatible

There is nothing better for a for to-morrow 1" directing the

man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should Let us eat and drink; with the Book of Psalms,

according to circumstances,

about the same time, and expressing We invite attention correspondence letters

clearly resurrection-hope

hereon, for our March issue; to the regulations

of correspondents

at the head of this section.

The remaining

ou Matk ix. 49., shall also appear.

aiders and abetters, and then God shall be " all in all." another ix. evil could thee be conceived, to offend, the fire would be necessarily for thee to enter exercised re-kindled, to consume it. cut it having two to

CORRESPONDENCE

EXTRACTS.

43," If thy hand cause

into life maimed, than

hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched." soul casts off a member, in self-judgment, be destroyed by the everlasting fire, rather than finally to be cast into it it out, and cast it should "For hell."

[As we receive in our General Correspoudence much i.n!ol'mation tha.t (though not Intended for publication) would be useful and apprecmted. by ma!lY of our .readers, we purpose making a judicious selection monthly, under this heading.-Edttor]

Bundaberg, " WE have much pleasure brethren not forgetting

Queensland,

Sep. 13th, 1880. to the

if thy right eye offend thee, pluck body

in sending a word of encouragement

for it is profitable for thee that shall be salted with

one of thy members

engaged in the work, in whose writings we are deeply interested; the able and worthy Editor (Rev. W. Leask), and others, one copy of which has found its Wriqht, Nov. 6tl1, 1880. features in connecDoors There are

perish, and not that thy whole

should be cas' into

fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted had its acceptability should inereased by or This

whose names appear in the Rainbow,

Matt. v.29; lYI{wk ix. 49. every burnt-offering with salt, so every believer be embued, See Step 4. useful

way here monthly for nearly four years."-Joseph Auckland,

Note B.-As seasoned seasoned

New Zealand,

" Since I last wrote, I have had many interesting

with righteousness;

a fire like that of Leu., chaps. ix. and x, the evil. acceptable to God, and to the

tion with our New Zealand work, and 1 am more and more convinced that it is the will of the Lord that I have come to this far-off land. help us,' for the harvest is truly great, but the labourers are few. are openings on every hand willing to listen. enough. standing Last for faithful labourers, are opening on every hand, and I must begin to cry, 'Come over and and the people

which approves world:

of the good, and abhors

righteousness,-salt,-fire,-is light of the world,"-to Note C.-Salt modern. palatable

as ill Matt. v. 13-14, "Ye are the salt of the earth; give grace and knowledge to the world. anything. was not used to preserve

ye are the

This use of it is

The crowds still come, and our place is not half large Sunday night we were completely packed, every inch of I am in hopes I believe

Its office. was just and nutritious;

simply to give a saVOlW to food, to make it

room was taken up, and many had to go away.

Note D.-The in its entirety (literally,

BURNT (or Ascension) OFFERING of Lev. io, was placed (skin excepted) on the wood on the altar, and fumed and by the fire, till all the savout was extracted, victim. (See Lev. v. 9, 10, 11.)

soon to be able to write that we are building a suitable place of worship, a place which will hold, at least, from 900 to 1,000 people. this will yet be accomplished. all manner of evil against me. consistent cannot day by day. I have many very bitter enemies, who say These things are hard to bear, but they I

incensed)

passed off in vapour; make room for a fresh the meat offering,

the deshen, or fatty residue, was then removed to As concerning The sinof Lev., chaps. ii. and iii., part only was of chap. i., and fumed with it. was wholly burnt to ashes, on the ground on the one, the which

will only drive me closer to the Lord, and make me resolve to live more My enemies will not meet me face to face; but, notwithstanding all their get them on the public platform;

and peace-offerings on the contrary,

placed on the burnt-offering outside the camp. in wrath uttetly Note E.-By destruction

efforts, the Lord has raised

up many warm friends, who are to me a waiting

The fire which fed, with complacency, that the

source of great comfort and consolation. " Since I last wrote you we have baptised 33, and others are to obey the Master in this ordinance. hope to organise a Church; and our ground will be 'Faith I think Open Table, and break 150 partake with us. To-morrow morning (Sunday) we

destroued. the other. showing NATURE of God necessitates argument, the purification analogies.

of the wicked, we destroy the Universalist things-God's

we shall simply call it a ' Church of Christ,' anc1 Obedience in our Lord Jesus Christ.' We have all. some 100 to one

says that the Nature of God necessitates We have the two immutable against human feelings and fine-drawn London, Jan. 6.

of the wicked.

Word and God's Nature,

that we shall start with from 60 to 70 members. bread each Lord's day morning; Our morning but profitable,-praise

Service is a very interesting

We have received two other having already made serious we might be strictly impartial have inserted standing rule. communications,

replies, which we unwillingly demands upon our limited in our treatment in the order

hold over, That we

indeed, and not only interesting, His great I expect

the Lord for I c1eserve ! Bible Standard Standard, but

space.

goodness to me, more blessing far I do enjoy than to issue the first number of the New Zealand

of correspondents,

of date, which will be our for their communications, equally thoughtful Treasurer :-" and A

next month, dating it for January, it costs double the English price.

1881. The price will be 3d. per copy. I am in hopes that it will be a great I hope to have

We thank our correspondents by month,

It will be twelve pages, the same size as our Home Bible help to the work here, in fact I have no doubt about it. a full account of your Conference at Liverpool Rev. G. A. Brown, Corresporuiinq Mel1~ber

and trust to receive, month helpful. We have received qU81yfor next Bible

others

the following from our esteemed Stomdard, Solomon,

by the incoming Mail. .'-

in Ecclesiastes,

knows of no

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tion. "Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." 1 GDr. xv. 21. The death of Christ, then, has accomplished something at all events: had Christ not died and risen again, no man would ever have j'isen from. the dead. OJ' lived again? Let us then take account of the value of 'this fact: Suppose you are sued in court for a debt, say of twenty pounds; it matters not whether justly or unjustly, the case is decided against you, and you have to pay the money, you forfeit twenty pounds: but a friend who is interested in you, gives you the money; you are thus recouped, and you have suffered no loss. Has not redemption accomplished a similar result for mankind? Man'S life is forfeited through the sin of Adam, (we do DOt stay to discuss the wisdom of this arrangement, or otherwise, but note the fact.) Christ, in His great compassion, as the Lamb of God, takes away the sin of the world, (i.e., original sin, or the sin of Adam,) and in consequence thereof. every man, whether penitent or otherwise, hashis life restored to him, his subsequent treatment proceeding strictly upon the grounds of his own conduct; if he accepts the gospel, the atonement secures for him pardon and eternal life; if impenitent, he suffers the second death, the result' of his own guilt. Now, if the life forfeited through the sin of Adam be restored to every man through the Cross of Christ, and man be reinstated in his condition previous to his death, surely man has suffered no damage, and it is a most important factor to keep before us in considering this question. These two corrections therefore alter the whole gist of the query propounded above; in the first place, death is not OU? puuishment, and in the second place, the life lost is restored by Christ, and man sustains no damage. My own impression of death is, that to those who experience it, it will seem to them but as a swoon, a temporary unconsciousness; the long time that intervenes in the knowledge of the living, is unknown to the dead, and were the restoration to life to be accomplished, say within a week, death -that is, the article of death-would be regarded altogether as a matter of slight importance, I mean as regards time, similar to a fractured skull or a temporary fit of paralysis. The servant of the high priest suffered but little damage when Peter cut off bis ear, since Christ immediately restored the member; and so, if resurrection followed rapidly upon death, we should feel with greater force the fact that the Saviour's death had brought about the restoration of man's life. It cannot, therefore. be said of any man that he dies, in the same sense as he would have died had there been no atonement; death in the latter case would have been an eternal forfeiture of life. The question, corrected, stands thus: If Christ bore the sin of Adsm, (which sin brought death, eternal death, upon his children,) why do Adam's children (for all of whom Christ died) suffe?' the loss of life for a time? Stated in this form, the question presents no serious difficulty to a Bible student.-I remain, dear sir, yours very truly, Charles Underhill. Oxford; Jan. 10th.

" Mr. Lesslie, and Toronto,-as Committee

Toronto, neither

writes that

the Rainbow

London, Dec. 27th. is not to be sent any Ottawa, Kingston, by the is allowed

longer to the Y. M. Christian to lie on the tables.

Association,-Montreal, Standard
l

it nor tbe Bible Intelligent

men

!"-Rev.

W. Leaslc, D.D.

, ,

" I have had four nights' own Hall on 'What Essay before the two evening's pleased English 'Berean

discussion Institute,'

with

Glasgow, Dec. 30th. 'Christadelpians,' in their I have to read an week, which is to have our dear Lord is

is the Gospel of Salvation?' on Tuesday and I have still or four evenings, one else.

discussion; us some

to occupy the Hall, grunted unless

me gratui tously for three to send brother

I do wish we could get some able in this, the second deal of good."-

to give us one or two of the nights, I think it would do an immense

City of the Empire. T. J. Hitchcock,

" One of the principal

Nonconformist

ministers

Hull, Dec. 31st. in this town recently and

advised his flock to read Ed. White's book (Life only in Christ), spoke very highly of it."-J. C. Akester,

CORRESPONDENCE.
To THE EDITOR OF THE" BIBLE STA.NDARD." Sir,-Permit me to ask Major van Someren the Scriptural warrant for such a statement as the following, on page ~3 of the last issue of The Standard. Alluding to the moment of the Translation of the Body of Christ into the Firmament to meet the Lord, he says, " The living shall go through the same process of putting off the Adamic body that their brethren had gone through before them, the only difference being that they do not lie asleep." I ask, because 1 Cm'. xv. 52, which he quotes, seems to teach that, instead of the living going through "the process" of dying (which I presume to be his meaning) "as their brethren had gone through," the words imply that they "will be changed in the twinkling of an eye," a space of time so immeasurably instantaneous as not to admit of any intermediate "process" whatever! Such " process," too, lacks the element of exigency; there is no valid reason for it. Other Scriptures, moreover, are as precise as to the nature of the event as the above, In 2 Cor. v. 4, Paul expresses his desire that he might" not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality, (his mortal body) might be swallowed 1tp of life," i.e., the change above noted. Finally, let The Words of the Lord decide. John xi. 25-26, " He that believeth on Me, tbough he were dead, yet shall he live." This is Resurrection. "And whosoever liveth and believeth on Me, shall never die." This is the contemplated chauge; tbe whole in illustration of the words" I am the Resurrection" of the dead members of the body, " And the Life" eternal of those who will be changed. Yours faithfully, Reading, Dec. 30. H. GOODWYN. To THE EDITOR OF THE" BIBLE STANDARD." Dear Sir,-Allow me to suggest a further reply to the question dealt with, in the interesting paper of Major G. J. van Someren: "If Jesus bore our punishment, why do His people still die, and undergo that curse? " There are two fallacies wrapt up in the question which, if corrected, will give much greater force to Major Someren's remarks. 1st. The question assumes, first, that death is 'our punishment: ' now this is not the fact! Death. comes upon the children of men through no fault of their own; in proof of this, infants who have committed no sin whatever, are subject to this infliction: the Scriptures also distinctly affirm th at we suffer death through the sin of Adam : " By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin."-Rom. v. 12. Death, therefore, is not OU1' punishment: the more correct way to state the proposition would be, If Christ bore the sin of Adam, why do we, Adam's children, and who in no wise participated in his guilt, still continue to suffer death? 2no. The question affirms yet further" that God's people still die asui undergo that curse." Now, this is not a correct statement; neither does it present us with the whole cas- : if we are to form a sound judgment of the wisdom and justice of God in His dealings with men, we must have before us the whole plan of the Diviue procedure. God's people still die? True I But what happens after that? Why, just this, that their forfeited lives, and not only theirs, but the lives of all men, are restored to them through the death of Christ" at the resurrec-

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[This column is statedly devoted to replies to such questions, objections, and suggestions as may be of general interest. We only undertake, however, to reply to such communications as may commend themselves to our own judgment, simply acknowledging the receipt of others. We are personally responsible for the answers given.-EDITOR.]

A.-C. Skinner. It would serve no good purpose to reply to your communication. Until we dwell somewhere nearer together than the Antipodes, we will agree to differ, not discuss.

A.-G. T. B. We thank you for the pamphlet, which we have carefully read and marked for reply. Owing, however, to the pressure upon our space, we must defer our inten tion tlll March issue. Q.-" Will you tell-if the dead sleep-the meaning of the third verse of the 17th of Mattheio } I have been asked the question."
A.-In December Bible Standard; page 54, you will fiud an answer to your query. It is too far-fetched an argument against the unconsciousne ss of the death-state to cite two such sinqula eases as Moses and Elias, one of whom had not seen death, the other not corruption, (which we understand by the expression Deut. xxxiv. 6.)

Q.-" May r ask what is your system of Church government? Have you regular Ministers? If not, why not? Do you practise Immersion, and why? or why not, if not? Can you tell me of any good work on Baptism? "
A.-I. Ours is not a Church Organization, but a simple Union of individual believers and separate Churches. We only unite to spread the truths of the Life and Ad vent, retaining our personal and church tenets and cnstoms on all other points. 2. Thus, we have no "regular Ministers,"-that is a matter for the separate Churches, as such; we have Agents, Lecturers, and hope to add Evangelists and Colporteurs, when funds permit, but it forms no part of our calling or purpose to create a "Ministry." 3. As an Association, we know nothing of Immersion, but as individuals and separate Churches we exercise our liberty, either as Baptists or otherwise. 4. Perhaps some of our readers can assist you/in your last query, i;f so; we will insert the information, in our next issue.,

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