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TO continue our review: On page 15, J.R.J. says, on Ra/n. vi. 23, "For the wages of sin is death,"-" Wages are never paid to a dead man, nor can they be to a person annihilated: but invariably to a living intelligence. The meaning is Death may be wrought for, and as wages, is earned; but the nature of the death so earned is not even hinted at ever so remotely." True, wages are "invariably paid to a living intelligence," and it is as a living, bodied intelligence that man stands before God in judgment to receive his wage, and that wage (of sin) is DEATH. When, however, such wage is received, life and intelligence ceases-death follows. It is not necessary that its nature should be "hinted at." It is self-evident. The word conveys its own meaning. A meaning with which men from Adam downwards have been perfectly familiar. We light candles in the dark, not light. We need meanings given for parable and allegory, but not for simple lexical teaching. Death here is clearly the antithesis of life-ceasing to be. On page 16, J.R.J. remarks, on 2 Cor. ii. 15: "We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish; to the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life nnto life." "Those who are saved pass from lower to higher degrees of life, and the inference is, forever; while those who perish, sink from death to death, with the same inference, eternally. Nothing can more clearly indicate the utter dissolution of that tie which would otherwise have bound them eternally to the fountain of life and felicity; but which being dissolved, permits them to drift off into a starless eternity of unrelieved sorrow and anguish, than this oftrepeated declaration-they shall die!" J.R.J. will suffer us to remind him that the Word of God knows only two lives-soulical and spiritual -the (present) natural, the (future) spiritual: his inference of an eternal succession of lives is therefore his, not God's. Also that it knows only two deaths (except the figurative one of the present state of the wicked). The first death (natural), and the "second death" (at the judgment); his inference of an eternal succession of deaths is also, therefore, his, not God's. As a gospel of J.R.J. we may recognize his teachings, but not as "the Gospel of the Blessed God." The words above cited read: thanatou eis thanaton (of death into death) zoes eis zoen (of life into life). They need no comment-such as that supplied above by J.R.J.-to the wicked (the Apostle declares) the Gospel-ministry is as a savour of death here to death hereafter; to the righteous, of life here unto life hereafter,-the death figurative to the death real; and the zoe of promise unto the soe of fulfilment; the life of the sanctified flesh into the life of the glorified flesh. On the same page a quotation-as follows-is given from" Pauline Theology"-" Oh what shall that life be, which shall know neither grief nor gloom; and which shall be interminable as the years of God! And what shall that death be whose darkness shall be unbroken throughont the mighty roll of everlasting ages!" J.R.J. irrationally and rudely says-" To which sublime twaddle, we reply, 'Nothing, literally nothing, since annihilation is meant thereby; nothing but the blank, empty, much-to-be-coveted Paradise of every defiant rebel against the sovereignty of the King of kings! ' The mighty roll of everlasting ages,' may be a very poetic phrase, but it conspicuously fails to educe a, something out of nothing." We almost feel it a degradation to put pen to paper to answer such a flippant writer, but since good may come to the cause we espouse, we proceed. According to J.R.J. the destruction of the wicked is "nothing, literally nothing." How different to Milton's conception thereof (book ii. 140.) To be no more; sad cure! for who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, these thoughts that wander through eternity? ' How dwarfed becomes the believers reward, if to lose it is "nothing"? How

unworthy our attention becomes the Gospel of "good tidings," if to lose it is "nothing?" How puny the love of God" God so loved the world,' since to lose that love is "nothing." How worthless the gift of Christ. " He poured out His soul unto death," since the loss of what His death purchased is "nothing?" How undesirable hecomes the proffered gift of "eternal life," "I give unto My sbeep eternal life," since to miss tbat life is "nothing, literally nothing?" But who is it that thus asperses our most cherished convictions, and robs us of our hope? It is John Robinson, jun., the accepted champion of Methodist Theology; who thus takes from the Christian his reward-spoils the Gospel of its "good tidings."-the love of God of its power-the gift of Christ of its vital charms-the possession of "eternal life" of its value! But did he mean this? Certainly not. His hatred of Scripture. truth-because it contradicted Methodist-tradition-e-led him into the use of an expression which means more, much more than he had thought. But which also serves to advance the cause of the truth-he kicked against-by showing how terrible is the loss of the sinner, involved in his future destruction; so that it is, indeed, the reverse of J.R.J's. flippant" nothing, literally nothing." Moreover, J.R.J. is thereby placed in the position of con tradicting himself! On the same page, he says, in response to the question-"What shall that life be, which shall know neither grief nor gloom; and which shall be interminable as the years of God! ""glorious and happy beyond conception." So do we say a180,but clearly, to forfeit that life, is something more than J.RJ. has thoughtlessly described it! Something other than a "much to be coveted Paradise." To be eternally cut off, by the Divine sentence of Capital Punishment, from a life" glorious and happy beyond conception," is not to "educe a something out of nothing." We purpose to continue the consideration of this subject in our next issue.

JERUSALEM AND CONSTANTINOPLE. By ALLANB. MAGRUDER. PART n.

HE Turk utterly fails to comprehend, far less to move, in the march of T Western civilization, or in those ideas of union and co-operation of races and nationalities which impel modern nations to unity and consolidation for common defence and protection. A gloomy, irresponsible, stationary despotism, holding by a long-tolerated usurpation the gateway between two continents, and controlling that high-road of the commerce of the world, they have desolated and destroyed where other nations would have built up and blessed. Stern and intractable in nature, like their kinsmen, the Jews of old, they remain" uncircumcised in heart and ear." The whole world has witnessed a recent illustration of their stubborn resistance alike to argument, persuasion and remonstrance, addressed to them by the great Powers of Europe, before the breaking out of their late war with Russia. These warned her of her utter defeat, if she rejected the terms of peace offered-a result now realized, and to be charged to her own persistent obstinacy and folly. That the march of events and the progress of civilization is now drifting eastwardly is daily becoming the confident discernment and the certain conclusion of those whose opportunities best enable them to study, with advantage, the several phases of political, social and international movements as they appear in the unfolding panorama of current history. The long bondage and the cruel persecution of the children of Israel, their banishment from the land of their fathers, their dispersion among all nations, their singular preservation and their peculiar isolation, with their distinctive habits and even their personal and physical dissimi . larity to all other people, is now and has been for centuries past, a marvel, a miracle explicable only on the conceded exercise of omnipo-

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the land of their fathers, for we are now on the eve of that period, which is the set time to build up Zion," and to restore" the waste places of many generations." It is not, however, with reference to this special result,-desirable as that is,-that we advert to the subject here. It is in connection with great and world-wideevents, associated with the coming downfall of the Moslem despotism as a part of the European system of international polity, that we are chiefly concerned at present. This event is the initial blow which breaks in pieces that system, and in its consequences, involves the grand finale of the times of the Gentiles, and will end that great epoch in history and prophetic chronology, and thus close up one and introduce another Bible era. Thus the fall of Turkey forms the seoond stage of the opening Eastern Question, and necessarily works the liberation of Palestine, Jerusalem, and God's ancient people, the Jews, from the Moslem rule, and effects ultimately the emancipation and enfranchisement of the whole Eastern World. It is this that gives it supreme significance in the eyes of enlightened men, and invests the subjeot with deep interest to all intelligent observers of events now looming up in the Oriental hol'izon-events which, interpreted in the light of prophecy and history, become the harbingers of the speedy solution of the great problem of the destiny of nations. It is not to be supposed that these stupendous results of the future about to dawn on us-this new Genesis of organization-is to occur with out due notice and warning in the Divine Reoord. Thus to conclude would be to ignore that solemn assurance in prophecy, "Surely the Lord will do nothing, but He revealeth His secrets to His servants, the prophets," and that other admonition of the New Testament, equally explicit: "You have a more sure word of prophecy to which you do well that you take heed, as unto alight that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts." Accordingly we are not surprised to find the coming fate of these children of Ishmael and Esau, the modern Turks, and of the country whose dominion' they have so long usurped, prefigured to us in prophecy, now translating itself into history. The recent tragic death of Alexander n, Czar of Russia, removes an obstruction in the path to the speedy culmination of the Eastern Question; and the accession of the Emperor Alexander Ill, who, it is well known, is both aggressive and belligerent, will rapidly hasten the end. Meantime we watch and wait. Virginia, U.S., America.

tent power. It is the Divine will whioh has brought about such unusual results, and it is only when we turn away from the impotence of human learning to the sure word of prophecy in the Bible, the only source of infallible truth and wisdom, that we are able to solve the mystery. What" Moses in the law and the prophets did write," history records as true, and we Gentiles, as well as the descendants of Abraham, are witnesses, however involuntary, of its verity. Look, too, at the land and country of this wonderful people. Where else on the face of the whole earth, do we behold a land dispeopled of its native inhabitants? Onoe the glory of all lands, teeming with all the elements of fertility and wealth, the birth-place and the cradle-land of the human race, sustaining in the prodigal abundance of the fruits of the earth, the densest population on any soil, the scene and theatre of the grandest events iu human history and the home of the most renowned race of whom tradition gives us any record, this land is now, and for more' than eighteen centuries past has been, a desolate wilderness, an arid desert, a blasted monument of Divine wrath, a wreck and ruin, unfit for human habitation. Yet, history tells us that this wasted land, by reasou of its holy memories, its sacred assooiations, its marvellous history, has been coveted as a prize, and its reooveryand conquest ardently desired by mighty kings and imperial monarchs, who, during its long desolations have sent forth numerous well-appointed armies, inspired by the most earnest oourage and the most fervid superstitions, commanded by the most renowned kings and oonquerors, to rescue its possession from the Saracens and Turks, and to restore it to something of the fame and grandeur of its ancient glory. Yet all these almost superhuman efforts have failed deplorably, ending in signal disaster and overthrow, with the loss of millions of treasure and the sacrifice of hecatombs of human viotims to those who have attempted the vain task of its recovery. To the student of Divine Prophecy the failure of the crusaders to recover the Holy Sepulchre and to achieve the rescue of Jerusalem from the infidel Moslem is no mystery. Success in such an enterprise would have been a clear and open contradiction of God's word, declared in prophecy, that thus it should be. Had the lion-hearted King of England with his allies of France, Germany, Spain and Italy, been duly informed of this prophetio word, Europe might, at that day, have turned a deaf ear to the fanatical appeals of ambitious Popes, to the ardent harangues of Peter the Hermi t, and to the superstitious exhortations of the grossly ignorant clergy, and thus have saved their unhappy subjects and soldiers from the impoverishing exactions and the wide-spread sufferings of these destructive crusades. Such, however, was not the Divine programme, and such have ever been, to kings and peoples, the sad consequences of ignorance of the Holy Scriptures. As they would not be fore-warned, how could they be fore-armed? Thus we see the cause of the failure of the crusades. It is found in the Bible fact that the time for the emancipation of Jerusalem and the restoration of the scattered people of Israel had not come. But as the time is now come, according to the sure word of prophecy which declared that "Jerusalem should be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled; "-that "if the casting away of Israel be the reconciling of the Gentile world, what shall the receiving (restoration) of them be but life from the dead?" the era of her redemption and rescue, long foretold in prophecy, is now at hand. The second crusade, inaugurated by the pending downfall of ~ Turkey in Europe, will be crowned with success, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. It is at Constantinople that Jerusalem is to be delivered. The expulsion of the Turks from Europe, the pending mission of modern diplomacy, or the stern arhitrament and mandate of war, now almost in process of execution, means the release of Palestine from the Moslemyoke, and the consequent restoration of the people of Israel to

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that the word Hades is imported bodily into the text of the Revised English Version in every instance of its occurrence in the Greek, the ordinary English reader will be better able to form a correct idea in regard to the state of the dead between death and resurrection. If the Revisers of the Old Testament followthe same rule with regard to Sheol as those of the New have done with Hades, or even if they note it in the margin wherever they do not insert it in the text, the evidence for forming a judgment will be complete. "What's the meaning of the word Hades?" will now be the question, My answer will be-a poetical term for the grave. But," will naturally be objected," it is spoken of as a place of life." Undoubtedly, but speaking of it thus does not make it so. All the nations of antiquity-both Jews and Greeks and barbarians, spoke of it as a populous underworld, and no doubt came to believe this. It was a favourite subject with the-poets,being indeed a creation of the poetic mind. And yet it is quite the exception in Scripture to find it spoken of as a

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place of life. There is only one such use of it in the New Testament, Luke xvi. 23. And how many in the Old? About two. And that is, and let us mark the significance of the fact, out of about 73 instances in which the words Sheol and Hades occur,-(62 in the Old and 11 in the New Testament). In only three or four instances is it spoken of as a place of life of any sort. It is quite true that there are instances in which a sort of life is attributed to the dead, but such language is plainly poetical and rhetorical, as I think can be easily shown. Thus:Isaiah xiv. 9-11, "Hell (margin the grave) from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: THE WORM SPREAD NDER IS U THEE,AND THEWORMS COVERHEE." T (15.) "Thou shalt be brought down to hell to the SIDES OFTHEPIT." The word hell, in the 9th and 15th verses, and the grave, in the 11th are the same in Hebrew, Sheole-Hades.c=by which it is represented in the Septuagint. Again:Ezek. xxxi. 15-16, "Thus saith the Lord God; in the day when he went down to the grave . I made the nations to shake at the Boundof his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth." xxxii, 21, "The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword." (27)" And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are GONE DOWN TOHELL WITHTHEIR WEAPONS OFWAR:AND THEY HAVE LAID THEIRSWORDS UNDER THEIRHEADS, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living." In these verses also the word Sheole-Hadee-c-is translated the grave and hell. Can anything be more plain than that this is poetry? The great fact of the overthrow of these kings and nations has been thrown into this solemn, and startling form, in order to make it more terrible and impressive: and to carry it home to men's minds and imaginations in a way that sober language would fail to do. The words which have been printed in capitals ought to prevent any misconception on our part, as to the nature of Hades. Now this Old Testament use of this kind of language has a most important bearing on the story of Dives and Lazarus. I say story, because I do not consider it a parable any more than a narrative of facts, but a pictorial representation of solemn truths; the imagery being borrowed from descriptions of the world of the dead, common among the Jews at this period. "But," it will be said, "if it is as you say, such languag1 is very misleading." I answer: so is all language on such subjects, more or less. God follows men into all the errors in which they have gone astray, and treats with them,-where they are and as they are. Christ found men holding this belief, and left them holding it. He did not lead them at all in the matter, either into it or out of it. Moreover, have not the words "This is my body" misled millions? But," it may be said," If the language is not misleading, it tends to confirm the hearers in, what you consider, a superstition," undoubtedly, if they misconceived the object and purpose of it. But what is to guarantee us against misconception if we are taken up with the sign, rather than the thing signified; the frame, rather than the picture; the human garniture of language, rather that the divine body of thought? "But there is nothing in this story to guard us against taking it literally, such as one finds in the passages cited from the Old Testament." This is not so. In the latter the slain multitudes are represented as going down

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bodily into Hades, whole and armed; nothing is said about souls and spirits; and it is the same in Luke, nothing is there said about the soul or spirit of either the rich man or Lazarus. How can this be explained if Christ is here drawing aside the veil from the unseen world, as some suppose? How much more reasonable it is to understand that our Lord is here appealing to men's fear of the future, through their imagination, in the only way in which it was possible, under the circumstances, to give His audience adequate conceptions of the gravity and solemnity of the truths to be taught? Let us turn to Rev. xx. 13, " The sea gave np the dead which were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them." What can be plainer than this, that Hades is simply the realm of the buried dead! If it were the world of departed spirits, as some vainly suppose, would not all the dead come from thence? But here Hades contains a part only of the dead; that is those who have been buried under the ground. Those who have been drowned or buried in the sea are not in Hades; and those who have neither been buried nor drowned but burnt to death or devoured by wild beasts, are represented, not as coming from any locality, but as given up by a power that has held them in secret captivity.-Bristol.

THE

COMING

KIN

G.

No. V.

A Lecture delivered. in Mint-lane Chapel, Lincoln.

By

REV.

H. B.

MURRAY.

UTthen there is another word used in Greek for Lord, the word Kurios, and Liddell and Scott give the meaning of this as one "having power and authority over men, one who is principal, or chief," hence, kuriotes, signifying power, rule, dominion. So the word Lord, as applied to Christ, points Him out as the principal or chief ruler, the one who is soon. to take up and exercise supreme power and authority over men. He IS to be the "Lord" of the whole earth, for "God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name; that at the Dame of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus the Christ is LORD(kurios), to the glory of God the Father." But He is not only our Lord; He is our Lord Jesus; our despotic Master died for us; He loves us intensely. If He were merely a mighty despotic sovereign, we might dread Him, but when our Lord is also our Saviour, we learn to love Him. You all know the meaning of the word "Jesus." It means" Saviour." When Gabriel came to Mary, he said, " Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins." So, to confess we believe in Jesus, means we confess we believe in a Saviour, and that implies that we have realized ourselves as condemned sinners before God, for if we have not fully realized our guilt and condemnation before God, we cannot intelligently be looking to the Lord as our Saviour, for it is evident that none but sinners need a Saviour. To own the Lord, then, as "Jesus," is an evidence that we are looking to Him, and trusting in His precions blood for eternal and everlasting redemption; thus He is Lord, and Jesus, and the Christ. The meaning of the word Christ we have already considered; thus we see that there is a complete round of truth in the very name of the Saviour. To clearly grasp and act upon all that is contained in that great name, will make us earnest, active Christians. We shall obey and serve Him as our Lord. We shall lovingly confide and trust in Him as our Saviour. And we shall watch and wait for His coming again, when He shall be manifested as "the Christ," the anointed King of Israel and of the world. These are the things concerning the name, Lord! Jesus 1 Tbe Christ 1 This is the grand confession of the Christian religion, and if, clearly grasping" the things concerning the name," we can say from our hearts, I believe in the Lord, Jesus, the Christ-that is saving faith. And now, dear friends, there is a great honour and a great responsibility laid upon us. We are called upon to be witnesses of these truths, and we ought to delight to seek to spread them, for we have a message of joy and hope for the world. The night is dark, but as the Lord's watchmen we cry, "The morning cometh," when the beams of holiness from the morning sun shall scatter and disperse the night mists of iniquity and sin. All true men will delight in the message. There are some Christians, I know, who seem to be just a little timid about the Lord's coming; bow strange l=-timid about the rising of the sun; timid to think that faint beams of light are already streaking the eastern horizon, and that soon the day will break, and tbe world will be flooded with light from on high. Why, 'tis only the bats, tbe night-owls, and

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night-hawks, that dread the return of light 1 The flowers lift up their heads, the birds sing, and all nature seems to laugh when the sun rises,-" Weeping may endure in the night, but joy cometh in the morning." "My beloved is mine and I am His, until the daybreak and the shadows flyaway." Dear friends, in connection with the truths we have been considering we may see a very blessed sign of the times. You know our Lord said" This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness, and then shall the end come." Now our orthodox friends when they send out missionaries -preaching " eternal hell- fire and the love of God for men," think that they are fulfilling that Scripture. Brethren, they are doing nothing of the sort. The Gospel which they preach is not the Gospel of the kingdom, and it was the Gospel of the kingdom which our Lord said was to be preached in all the world, for a witness, before the end could come. That, Gospel, has not yet been universally preached. But blessed be God! the sound is now going out unto the ends of the earth, and that is a sign that the end is near. We have a brother-dear to many of us-who is busy over in New Zealand preach. ing this Gospel. We have brethren in Australia, brethren in India, brethren in Canada, all proclaiming it. God is raising up men to declare it in our own beloved island. In America there are tens of thousands of brethren proclaiming with one heart and voice the coming of the King to set up His kingdom. They are uttering the dsar old apostolic cry-" Repent, for the kingdom is at hand." But Christ will not come until all the nations have been warned that He is coming. "This Gospel of the kiugdom must be preached in all nations for a witness, then shall the end come." Thus, dear friends, there is a grand work for us to do, for inasmuch as we seek to spread abroad the knowledge of His coming, we are really helping to bring that coming nearer: and surely every true-hearted man, who feels the sad. ness and suffering of the world, will delight to think that he may be doing his part to hasten on the coming and kingdom of the Lord. Just one word, brethren, don't forget that this Gospel is only to be preached for a witness. You must not expect everybody to believe your testimony, they will not; therefore do not get downhearted if you do not see large results from your witness; do not think because there are not immediate results that there will not be ultimate results; we have nothing to do with results, we have only to sow the seed. You know, brethren, the farmer sows his seed in faith of a future rising up. Tbe seed is lost to sight, the wintry winds pass over it, the storms and floods beat down upon it. All seems bleak, barren, and hopeless, but the farmer waits on, and hopes on, and bye and bye the sun shines out, and at last the glorious golden harvest comes. So it is with us, let us sow our seed in faith, nothing doubting, and bye and bye the winter will be over and past, the time of the singing of birds will have come, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings, and the seed so long sown and buried He will cause to germinate and fructify, and fill the world with its fruit: and then God's promise shall be fulfilled, " the world shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the bed of the sea."

[From the Chorley Standard.]

SIR,-In Bishop your issue of June of Manchester, 4th you published two letters from the to me, on " The Immortality of 18th, you were candid enough to Sickness and other causes but the medium of your addressed

the Soul," and in your issue of June prevented me replying

publish my reply to the Bishop's first letter. now, with your permission

at the time to the Bishop's second letter; I gladly do so, through his Lordship that

columns, that my reply may have the same publicity as his letter. First, then, I would remind the arguments my mind, very wicked charge almost anything." of our confidence; that he has not met any 01 can be made to " prove of my first letter, except with the very general, and to the Bible If the Bible were such a book it would be unworthy and if so, why did not the Bishop with his ' ingenious

method,' and all his learning too, try to prove my position unscripturalj And how is it, too, that though 100 reward was offered publicly, at one of my lectures in Blackburn, tality of the challenge Pharisees immortality claim side? this soul from the reward, to anyone Scriptures, this who could prove the immorno one has yet appeared 'ingenious method.' This are notoriously 'lovers ignorance,' charges to is

by trying

strange, to say the least, nearly always begging;

since the clergy

like the

of old (Luke xvi. 14, new version), yet, though his Lordship to be conditional, with 'absurd

of money,' and us who hold none of them Is it

ventures to meet us, either to do battle for the truth, or to make good a for the money they evidently Let' us see. The Bishop, stand in need of so much! possible the special ignorance think it sufficient contends has
NOT

mentioned with

may be found on the other

for his argument admits been held'

wonderful naivete, seems to (?) to say' Look,' at such and such that the doctrine that for which he to his

texts I And yet he indirectly This is an important believe in the natural Lordship

by all sections of the Church of Christ.' and implies of the soul. we may belong thank of a bishop even, and yet not I sincerely made; I believe The first and by a (v. 9) as There is

admission; immortality

, The Church of Christ,' in the estimation for this admission, Well, suppose

even if it were unwittingly

it to be true, though I cannot say so of the converse of the proposition, or vice versa. v. 9 shows that' we now look at texts adduced. in Isaiah xiv. means pictures prophet 'the the grave;' dead' given is ' the picture of hades' The marginal reading of

ADAM.
By

hell,' or sheol, simply

S.

BARIKG

GOULD.

beautiful figure of speech the

WHEN saw not;

God made Adam of the dust of the earth, Adam lay on the ground without life and motion. There were the eyes, but they the feet, but they walked not; the ears, but they heard not;

rising to welcome the reception of the fallen king of Baby Ion. much less of an undying, or an immortal that the whole account was a 'proverb,' shows, also, that it was uttered shades, or disembodied lie in 'the grave,' with' ghosts! one. The testimony

not the shadow, or shade, of a soul, or of a ghost, in the whole' picture.' declares or a parable (v. 4) ; and it

the hands, but they handled not. Then God breathed lived and ears heard moved; into him the breath of life, and all at once man and saw things plainly; the the leaves; the eyes looked about

some time before the death of the king. dogma of immortal 'weak,' 'Lazarus,' and had to Next, we in Luke or of If there were such, they must have

Yet a bishop quotes this in support of the Egyptian been of a different kind from his; are asked to ' look' at the' parable' xvi. for they became of Dives spirits, and

the sound of the birds, and the wind rustling

Adam started to his feet and walked; put forth his hand and grasped the fruit and the flowers of Eden. Years passed beautiful away. One day Adam lay down on the earth, his eyes he ceased to hear. The the breath of life closed, his hands and feet became motionless, machinery had been withdrawn. hear, and act? It was the breath of God in him; without together. parts.-From The breath and that breath was his life,set him in motion and it he was a mere piece of beautiful of life was that which clock- work, put skilfully He was dead.

worms' spread under them! (v. 11).

Well, we have looked, and looked again, but we fail to see a word either of

of his body had ceased to act;

about disembodied souls, or unclothed an immortal nature. Perhaps

a mortal

this is owing to the fact that we have

What was it that made Adam live, and move, and think, and see, and

cast aside our theological spectacles, for there is no doubt they are to be seen, and sincerely seen, by those who wear episcopal ones ! But here again we have a parable. ing to Whitby Babylonicum.' unseen the same In the The Bishop parable admits it is a parable. contained word 'hell' in the Accord'Gemara' was

new version, the

is properly submeaning the The same

kept him in activity, and made all his members perform their allotted

stituted by the word' hades,' or covered receptacle

from a not and ideir to see; of the dead, i.e., the grave.

S. Baring Gould's "Village Conferences on the Creed." Selected by H. Brittain.

writer who gives this parable says that

when the town of Oapemaum

THE
should lie buried in ruins the rich man into Abraham's (Judges men 'died' it would be in hell,

BIBLE
Now and away of two

STANDARD.
for the word' persons; vengeance. is anything persons.' (1 Peter iii. 20. and Exo. i. souls, and therefore they

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:>.)
were Now these souls dead souls, or

or hades (x. 15). was carried mean?

and he (not his body merely) was 'buried;' &c. and Now what different does this

are said to be 'slain' blood," just

the beggar, too, ' died,' and he (not his soul merely) bosom, besides . teaches something Jotham dead Parables from itself. incongruous

and they are apocalyptically (Gen. iv. 10.) But

said to" cry to God to avenge their blood is said to cry to God for 'blood' forcible is said metaphor, that to cry, and to ignorant' theory as to suppose H

A parable

in the same way as Abel's because and

The parable this represents than the

ix. 8) represents

trees as talking;

speak (Heb. xii. 24), is anyone

so 'absurdly must be the hasten the

as speaking;

is one more

other?

more than a beautiful Weak and tottering supports I But I must I suppose

0 tempora!
requires lastly, such 'The

are not always based on facts, no more than lEsop's to the lesson, or the moral, inculcated. who were covetous (v. 14). Lazsrus

fables are; Dives reprethe

o mores.
questionable prayer

we have to look

on to notice,

sents the Pharisees,

represents

of S. Stephen.'

Bishop

refers to Acts

vii. 59.,

class who are poor in spirit, and who shall be in Abraham's shall possess the Kingdom, it up again (Acts xv. 16). rebellious figurative national were IW~ __ their -i'olitically torment, figurative representing go into parable Scripture can When the the kingdom death; death state their restoration state and lost they King. was taken of the (Rom. amongst Moses,

bosom, i.e., to build from the

when the Lord Jesus Christ returns

though I find nothing here about any S. Stephen; the historian simply denominates him plain' Stephen.' Now when this good man prayed, he said nothing rather entity. whatever about his supposed immortal spirit. This is unfortunate for the episcopal position, of spirit, since the question nature is not one and in

Jews they suffered a national language, says that reviving from this by being in the unseen. (which nowhere language, the be calling political scattered In this

and Paul using the same Jews will be a xi. 15). the They for their nations;

about the existence

but about the immortality

of this supposed as Job's; I Contained

Surely Stephen's

spirit was of the same

'buried' national

Job says (xxvii. 3.) that the breath he breathed. (' ruach ' which is often Job says if God gather 14, 15.)

his was located in his nostrils

were to be tormented describing

sin of rejecting

The lower animals have this same spirit, translated' breath,') (Eccles. iii. 19,21.); and it back to His own' all flesh perishes,' (xxxiv. Now heard See Gen. vii. 21, 22, margin. The adds, Lord 'when mercifully

is said to be ' eternal torment,') it an 'inflamation,' number, every direct

uses similarly burning,' one man again point of the of

an 'extreme

It was so at the flood. or spirit

&c. (Deut. xxviii. 22), and also uses the singular whole class. details; explained affirms minute which

Step hen was in the agony of death, and he naturally take away his breath, his prayer; he (Stephen, when man's immortal himself, breath 'he' (pneuma.) immediately for the historian

wanted the Lord to he had said this This agrees and

But want of space will not allow me to with that of the the teaching

let it suffice to say that in harmony that 'the Soul

not his body merely) (ruach) goeth forth,

'he fell asleep,' (not

sinneth prophet

it Shall Die,' I stand against The bitterest professors not the

with the teaching entity)

of the Deity by the Psalmist (the man) Many of them 'REturnethto

(clxvi. 4.) who says, that as an individual his earth;' the same xii, 2.) about or and 'in important

(Ezek. xviii. 4.) opponents of religion; at the'

And to this testimony Scribes or Pharisees of the Messiah He taught (John iii.36.) spirits, stated

all the chief priests,

in the Church. "he that

of the doctrine nevertheless in prison.'

were always great believeth

that very day his thoughts perish.' truth when he says' shall awake' Thus, immortal then, at the' Resurrection

Daniel teaches of the dead.'

that

which sleep in the dust of the earth (Dan. passages S/Iys a word

Son shall Not see Life," spirits

But we must pass on to glance Here again we fail to spirits. To or undying; or even disembodied they were immortal and intangible;

(1 Pet. iii. 18,21.) have

not one of the Bishop's terms for' soul' and' yet the Bishop the

see that they were immortal be apposite, Peter should but he does not-he type are supposed

souls or spirits;

but the reverse. spirit' without

I stated in my first letter are never used loosely my statement, the same. There God for but in

that the original indisoriminately; quibbles it. upon is, however, rection, approval

knew better. to be immaterial

(1 Pet. i. 24.)

Spirits of the modern how could spirits

contradioting

terms as if they were identically of immortality that this immortality souls'

of this kind be kept ' in prison,'

since they are supposed to be able to pass

a doctrine

in the Bible, and I thank will, after or 'spirits,'

tbrough stone walls, key-holes, &c., with the greatest ease. But the term , spirits,' as scripturally used, refers to men in the flesh, prophets, false. teachers, preacher &c. (See 1 John iv. 1, 3.) Peter uses it in this sense, of the 'a to them; men who lived in the days of Noah. of righteousness' but when did He go? (v 20) to the Christ by His spirit, in Noah, tell us. 'When

But the Bible teaches be manifested, and deathless Immortality

the resur-

not in disembodied' seat of Christ

uncorruptible Gal. vi. 8.)

bodies (1 Cor. xv. 53.) is therefore Jesus did conditional;

And only in case of with that for this unending

at the judgment

(2 Cor. v. 10., comp.

(2 Peter ii. 5.) went and preached

Let Peter himself whatever

once the long. of Christ remind this and

life is the gift of God through The thankful Bishop of Manchester

Christ our Lord only to those condemn me unheard, me, yours

suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing.' It has no reference 'spirit world,' when to the supposed cross. bishops journey I need He died on the not

believe and obey His Word (1 John v. 2.) but I am are willing to sincerely, Albert Smith. BlackbuTn, 1881, June 27th. there are now impartial editors, who like yourself,

Bishop Eraser that there have been English same view of Peter's cheerfully language. the vision of the souls under the altar,' obey this episcopal injunction; at issue in favour killed,' when I look for anything see on the question reverse. mentioned immortal this ignorance doctrine? 'vision' 1.) These in

who advocate I readily

act upon the proverb Audi alterani parte11l.-Believe

But I am commanded (Rev. vi. 9, 12) but I strain Not been'

next to 'look at my eyes in vain one word do I But the like those they be to explain part of our false iv. will he be Now this (chap.

about their immortality. had kindly at least,

of immortal-soulism, slain,' How then of that could

"WHAT

OF

THE

NIGHT?"
of its nearing end. An

souls had been' Joshua

BY "WATOHlI1AN."

x. 35. and xi. 11. Will the Bishop removing

or deathless?

condescend

IME flies, and with its flight signs multiply Association-the

ANGLOISRAF.L SOCIETY-

difficulty

to us; for the

which he calls' absurd'? ever ready He has rightly had no existence souls'

If he decline tbe attempt, to drive away affair a 'vision.' writing

true to his vow of being

and banish

called the whole is frequently

in fact, at the time of John's

But the term'

used in the Bible

as a synonym

has be.en formed, with .the object of furthering the re- population of Palestine. Some prominent M.P.'s are stated to be identified there. with. If indeed the set time to favour Zion has come this effort wil succeed, otherwise it will fail, as all previous efforts have failed A partial colonisation of Palestine by Europeans would secure for the Iand the protection of one or m?re ~f the Gr?at Powers, and thus provide that government and security without which the scattered Jewish family cannot return.

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the newest of the race, has risen in Bulgaria. Prince Alexander now rules supreme in that lately-emancipated country, whose inhabitants have exchanged the tyranny of the Turk for that of the Buss : for it is b~ ih? aid of Russia that the Prince has been able to destroy the Con- . stitution, and trample the sacred rights of the people under his haughty feet. We shall expect shortly to find some ingenious body discovering the fatal figures 666 in the name of the man who has grasped at, and won supreme power for seven years, in an important part of SouthEastern Europe, formerly incorporated with the Grecian and Roman kingdoms. Is he the man? Time will show! He seems unscrupulous enough.
A LONG HISTORY

intense. In England 98 in the shade is very unusual, but in the V.S. 104 has been registered. Cincinnati recorded no less than 40 deaths in a single day from sunstroke. At Oran, in Algeria, it is estimated that 1,700 Spanish Colonists were massacred by the Arabs. In Galicia the town of Oswiecim has been half destroyed by fire. In Russia, the town of Minsk, has seriously suffered in the same way. Agram, in Austria, records renewed earthquakes.
ANOTHER COMET.

has been gr~nted to tbe Grimaldi dynasty of the little Principality of M~nac?, ,,:hlch has recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Prince s reign. Tbat dynasty has now reigned over Monaco for 1 000 ~e~rs. W~ take little interest in that fact-though unique-our int~rest IS m the rise to power of another, the Davidie dynasty, which in the person of its illustrious living member who now shares His Father's throne in heaven, will be revived, never to cease. Our prayer is " Even so, come, Lord Jesus." We cull the following from a secular print :-" A curious wave of reaction seems spreading all over Europe. In almost every European country at the present time we see the same kind of struggle going on between the force which calls itself authority and the force which is described as
REVOLUTION.

We have scarcely lost sight of the comet, so long visible, before news reaches us of the discovery of another. The Astronomer-Royal, writes:" a brilliant comet observed by Schaberli in America and at Vienna, near Capella, is moving towards the north-west." Surely two such celestial visitors, within a few weeks, is a most unusual phenomenon, and may be accepted as Divine indications that the Lord is at hand." " Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

NOTES, NEWS, AND REVIEWS.

f.$" According to the Globe of June 28, we have at last an answer to the long-debated question "What is the soul?" A German professor (Herr Jceger ) has discovered that the soul is located in the olfactory organs, the nerves of which remain in perpetual and close connection with it. He is said to have satisfactorily demonstrated it to an attentive audience, which expressed itself both charmed and convinced by the discourse. If the Globe was not joking, we have another added to the many definitions of soul. We have already the "immortal soul," the "immaterial soul," we have now also the" olfactory soul." Probably, however, the Professor had fallen upon a book not much esteemed in Germany, the Bible, and had been reading Gen. ii. 7, and Lsa, ii. 22, and mistook spirit for soul, ruach for psyche.

Not since the sudden season of terrible political reaction that set in after the wild revolutionary outbursts of 1848 has Europe seen a similar state of things prevailing." We see in Northern Africa the long-expected contest between the seed of Jac?b and Ishmael, for supremacy. Tunis and Algeria are at open war with France, and Tripoli threatens, whilst with the efforts of their eo-religionists of
ALGERIA, TUNIS, AND TRIPOLI,

Morocco may well be expected to sympathise. Difficult indeed is the work at present, for Fra~ce, which has precipitated this struggle, but there can be but one ultimate result-the supremacy of the Western nations, and the partition of Northern Africa, from the Atlantic to Egypt, amongst Spain, France, and Italy.
THE' SICK MAN

of Turkey grows more sick. Greece-as yet without force-has re~eived the ~rst portion of her territory. Armenia is persistently asserting her claim to some measure of liberty. Tunis has been completely severed from the Turkish dominions; whilst Austria is credited with the purpose of an early forward move in the direction of Salonica. Should right triumph over might in Bulgaria, or even otherwise, the nnion of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia cannot be long delayed. Thus surely though slowly the Eastern Antichrist is being consumed and the situation is preparing for the development and manifestation of the . literal and true, or
}'UTURE ANTICHRIST,

~ We copy the following from the pages of the Bradford 'I'imes of June 18. "There are not perhaps many readers of the Bradford Times aware that in this town there is a flourishing branch of the Conditional Immortality Association. What the particular tenets are of the members of this association, I am not prepared to state. Suffice it for present purposes to mention that the next annual conference of the society, which is fixed for the first week in September, is to be held in Bradford. Last year the conference was held at Liverpool, and delegates from all parts of the kingdom attended, there being I am told, forty present in all. As the name implies, it may be taken for granted that the association has something to do with making arrangements for the comfort of its members hereafter; the papers to be read at the forthcoming conference will, therefore, be of especial interest to those who like myself, regard the phrase' conditional immortality' with some amount of suspicion."
f.$" Mr. Henry Varley has been preaching on what he is pleased to term" Eternal sin." In a letter to the Christian World he thus explains."The exact words are, 'eternal sin,' 80 stated because the phrase is Scriptural. The words are found in Mark iii. 29. 'Whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation' (or more accurately given in the Revised Version, is guilty of an eternal sin, 'because they said he hath an unclean spirit.') I notice that Dean Alford and 'The American Bible V nion ' both translate the passage' guilty of eternal sin.' Again, in Matt. xii. 32, our Lord says, 'Whosoever shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.' I understand these words to affirm that there are sins which, if committed, are beyond forgiveness; sins for which there is no future possibility of remission for ever. I need hardly say that I feel deeply the weight of these momentous words, for they are intimately associated with 'eternal punishment,' even' the vengeance of eternal fire' (Matt. xxv. 46, Jude 7). I understand that they teach that sin will remain for ever in the character and being of those who, having heard the Gospel of the grace of God, die, rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ. It is this that increases my hatred of sin and intensifies the desire to lead our fellow sinners to the infinitely Holy Saviour who' once in the end of the world hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.' Heb. ix. 26."-Mr. Varley is evidently blind to the difference between "an eternal sin," as given by the Revised Version, and an etemal sinning, as rendered by himself. Christ came" to put away- sin by the sacrifice of Himself," thus the wicked will be "burnt up" "root and branch," that sin may cease out of God's universe. The act of sin is, however, strictly eternal; so also its guilt, because unforgiven ; so also its result, " hath never forgiveness ;" but the process of sin ceases, or Christ could not" put it away." We shudder at the vindictiveness manifested by some-otherwise good men -who against the clearest light persist in perpetuating sin and suffering.

who shall be destroyed by the appearing of Christ. The month has not been wanting in other, though minor, signs of the phenomena which speak of the nearness of the end, Fiji has witnessed a most horrible
RELIGIOUS MASSACRE.

One Kabu, a native missionary at Tapitawa, succeeded in proselytising the entire community, when he induced them to give all their weapons into his care. Lately, a section of the people apostatized. Kabu then armed his followers, and led them, with shouts of " Kill! kill!" against the defenceless rebels. In the carnage which followed a thousand men women, and children were massacred. The wounded were then collected together into a heap, over which was placed the roof of a house, and then fired. A more diabolical chapter cannot be found in the annals of mankind; and this in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Advices from the Sandwich Islands report that a lava stream from the Maunaloa appears likely to destroy a portion of the harbour of Honolulu. A
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO,

has nearly destroyed the town of New VIm, Minnesota, V.S. In Italy foot and mouth disease is rapidly spreading in the Marches, Umbria, and the Abruzzi Vlteriore. In the last named province alone 12,585 cases were reported in a single week. In Mexico, by the fall of a church roof 50 persons have been killed; and 266 lives lost by the fall of a railway bridge. Switzerland bas a moving landslip, at Rothbuehl, which is steadily moving towards Lake Tbun, at the rate of three metres daily. It is three miles long, one broad, and of unknown depth. Iserable, a village in the Valais, has been set on fire by lightning and utterly destroyed. It contained about 300 houses. Aarberg, also a large village in Berne, has been burnt down. Great distress exists in Algeria from the phenomenal drought, causing the utter failure of the crops over a wide area. The heat of mid July has been generally

~ A good man and a great has" fallen on sleep," waiting the trumpet-call. Dr. John Cumming, after a long, honoured, and useful life of witness-bearing, waits his reward. His ministry at Crown-court, London, which commenced in 1833, was only closed last year, so that his earthly rest was very brief. Few men have made themselves more

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felt during this century, few have been more honoured or faithfulthan he whose now silent lips will speak again in the glories of the First Resurrection.

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S' Father Curci has been teaching the dignitaries of the Romish Church some important home truths in his latest work which the Bomish Cardinals have honoured by forbidding its perusal to the faithful -i.e., the priest-ridden. He calls upon the Church to follow the example of her Divine Lord, who "was ever austere towards the rich. He dwelt among the people, held aloof from the great men of the earth, only appearing in the Court of a King to be derided, and in the Tribunal of the Roman President to be scourged." Further, he says, It is not well to see the ministers of Christ paying court to rich men, still less rich women, for their money, meriting the rebuke of Christ to the Pharisees, that they devour widow's houses." Others than Romanists may profit by these pointed exhortations.
~ A census of the churches in the City of London has been taken by a London paper, with the result that on May 1st last, at 57 churches, all situate within one square mile, with 31,055 sittings, there were only 6,731 present. Of these 571 were the officials of the church, together with their families; 706 choristers (mostly paid); 227 were paupers for alms; and 1,374 were school children, leaving, as the ordinary general congregation, 3,853 persons. The annual income of these churches is 40,226. What a crying sin and shame is here revealed! And how fearful the Laodicean state of those who are content to receive pay for such work I Verily Christ is again needed with His whip of small cords to drive the money makers out of His temple. ~ The population of the United Kingdom has increased about 3i millions since 1871. It behoves those who hold a pure faith, to enquire what they are doing, as witness bearers, to two grandly important truths, and to consider the propriety of more liberal gifts and faithful witness to meet the wants of this rapidly growing home population. Surely, by an effort, our Association income may be doubled! Brethren, let us try. is at last reaping the fruits of centuries of cruel misgovernment. We speak of the Church of that name, in the city thereof. The cecent removal of Pio Nono's "ashes" from St. Peter's to San Lorenzo has occasioned most deplorable riots. The cortege was met with cries of "To the river," "Down with the clericals," "Viva Garibaldi." From cries the populace proceeded to blows, until the procession became a running fight, which was renewed at the gates of the Basilica. Anticlerical clubs are-now being formed to promote the perpetual expulsion of the Papacy from Rome. The harlot is but reaping what she has sown. Judgment-long deferred=-is at length meting out that consumption" and" wasting" decreed upon her for her sins.
r:3'"' Our opponents are put to sore straits to discredit our testimony, and, at times, stoop to the use of very unworthy weapons. As a case in point, we mention the Protestant Standard, in the pages of which a paper has been running, entitled, "GREAT CONFERENCEOF DEVILS." No. 7, in the issue of July 2, introduces" Conditional Immortality" as one of the themes of the Conference presided over by Prince Diabolus. We quote a few only of the choice expressions applied to us-" The upholders of the no eternal hell the01'Y "-" The no hell men "-" It was quite amusing to hear those wbo had recently come amongst them, * asking, in screeching and howling accents, when the time would arrive for them to be annihilated. When told never, they commenced to curse and to swear," &c. But here we stay our hand, unwilling to sully our pages with such doggrel and offensive literature. These are the scurrilous weapons to which religious papers stoop to fight with! To mention such a mode of attack is to condemn it. Doubtless, the unthinking (to whom, chiefly, the Protestant Standard caters) imagine such a style of fighting very clever. We, however, cannot imitate it. We are willing to fight with" the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God;" but we find our opponents prefer force, fraud, and folly. Those who use their eyes, will, however, not fail to see the weakness of the cause which needs, and therefore resorts to, such weapons. E<"" A correspondent writes :-" I am pleased to inform you my brother (late a Sunday School teacher in a leading Baptist Church, London) is fully in love with these great truths, and is fast becoming prepared to answer his orthodox opponents. I am with him every Sunday, and we-with his wife, who is also convinced-read and converse on the Scriptures, and praise and pray together. It is our intention to labour together in the work of the Lord, by distributing tracts, and reading and speaking in private and public. If any of our friends have tracts on the great facts of Man's Nature-Conditional Immortality-AtonementResurrection-Advent-and Future Kingdom, &c., of the Gospel, we should be glad to make a judicious use of them, if they will kindly forward them to me." We shall be happy to furnish address for above purpose, or to send an assorted parcel of suitable tracts to value of any donation sent us for same. London is a large place, and a large number of tracts could be profitably used there. We may add that the" brother" referred to, on sending in his resignation as teacher, received a reply written in the same spirit of judgment as was manifested

by the Pharisees of old towards one, who, speaking" with authority," desired to lead men back into the" old paths" of Divine Truth. We quote a portion of the letter, sent in answer to the Superintendent's:" You state, it has been your unhappy experience to know several who , have gone in for the doctrine of the destruction of the wicked, and who, when they read, alter the words destroy or destruction, and interpret them as annihilation.' Sir, I beg to say that we, who hold the doctrine of' Life in Christ only,' do not interpret those words at all; for the simple reason that-to common-sense Englishmen-it would be quite unnecessary to do so. Let them have their natural force and meaning. I would remind you that Walker's Dictionary explains, to 'annhilate' is , to destroy'! Annihilation and destruction are synonymous terms. You say you 'have found it has been erroneous doctrine first, then, an absence from the means of grace, neglect of prayer soon follows,' &0., 'ending in full-blown infidelity.''' We wonder, sometimes, if these Christian men, who so arrogantly assume the, right to judge their brethren, ever read the Master's Sermon on the Mount! We would, especially, commend to such the reverent and prayerful study of Matt. vii. 12. As a matter of testimony, we oppose our own experience, as an active worker for some years in the ranks of the disciples of the Life; and it is quite the converse of that named above. The only infidelity we have met with, is that contained in these admirable lines by W. Leask, D.D. :They call me I Sceptic.' So I am In all that shades Thy radiant name; But to Thyself, Thy work, Thy word, This heart is leal, 'I'hou knowest, Lord. Thou art my Teacher, blessed One, Concerning spirit, matter, man; And if in these from truth I stray, Thou wilt decide on that great day." "Life and Advent Hymns," No. 54. Published by Cyrus E. Brooks, The Link Malvem. Priee Twopence and Sixpence.
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Q.-" What condition in future life do you give to amiable, honest, loving sort of people, but still not believers in Christ?"

gentle,

A.-We might express a merely personal opinion, but it would only set forth our hopes and wishes for such, not our KNOWLEDGE from the Holy Word. Whilst we know that he which believeth shall be saved, we are taught nothing (distinct from sinners) concerning those who believe not, however morally excellent. Hope we may, and must, that, "as by fire," such may escape the sinner's doom, but teach it we dare not. Rather should we raise more earnestly the voice of warning, "Escape for your lives," lest the burning of a doomed world overtake you; and preach more powerfully the Gospelof the grace of God. He, who Will judge them in the last day, alone knows the purposes of God concerning them.

Q.-" What
women;

of the future of up-grown children, hardly men and obedient, loving, gentle, and kind, but not believers in Christ? "

A.-We have no doubt or fear concerning the fate of the little ones, even though they do not know Christ. It is written, "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." It is our firm conviction that this refers to Christ's work on behalf of human kind. That by His death He has removed the curse of death for original sin. That all will rise in resurrection by virtue of His death and resurrection. And that the condemnation will be unto those who have knowingly and wilfully sinned, in their own persons, but who have no interest (by faith) in the blood of Christ. To such there remaineth but the "second death." As little children have not knowingly and wilfully sinned, we may cherish a lively hope concerning them, even though the Word is so comparatively silent regarding such; but of "up-grown children," we can only say, "Tell us where responsibility begins, at what age the burden is removed from the parent to the child, and we will tell you concerning these." Who shall answer? Who can?

Q.-" Thank you very much for answering my objections in your No. for December. I consider the answers to be most satisfactory to myself, and I have no doubt but that they meet the need of other enquirers after truth. Now another enquiry suggests itself to my mind. What becomes of the memory during the unconsciousness of the dead? if it is not laid up with some germ of life belonging to the identical body. We could not identify ourselves without that. We should simply be a new creation. Surely one of our greatest enjoyments in the resurrected state will be to relate to each other God's dealings with us here, both of Providence and Grace, to the glory of His Wisdom, Love, and Power. I read a little time ago, in a book entitled" A Service of Suffering," by J. G. Westlake, , Scientific men say sound is constantly floating about in the ail', and that every word that has been uttered since the creation of man is still in ex-

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istence, perhaps reserved in some gigantic phonograph, waiting for the great Alchemist-by Somepotent and mystericus electricalforce,of which the mind of man has not as yet formed any conception,to disintegrate and restore to its original form.' How wonderfully grand, yet how awful is this conception! Perhaps memory is reserved in some such wonderful way." A.-We have preferred to give your remarks in full, hoping that it might prompt some of our veteran thinkers to give us the result of their thoug:hts.thereon. We will gladly give a li.ttle space to any (worthy) contributions that may reach us on that point. We cannot think that memory is lost. But we know 80 little of that strange receptivity, that wondrousphysiologicalforce-perhaps we should have said psychological? though it is also certainly dependent or matter, or brain cells, for its manifestation, still, we will mend our sentence, and say, that wondrous psychological.physiological force-which we call memory, that we are at a loss to reply. Again, too, we are equally ignorant touching life: save that-like memory-it is an effectmanifested by the union of spirit and organism. As, however, both memory and life are possessed, in C?mmonwith man, by the brute creation, it is clear that memory and life are not separable and immortal entities, but the result of organised mechanism, when acted on by that God in whose hands are the lives of both man and beast. As to the thought you quote, touching sound, we have met-in a little work on astronomy, edited by Procter-something very similar, as it regards sight. Namely, that all life's deeds and actions are treasured in the ether of space, as a wonderful panorama, preserved intact and ever ascending towards the central orb which enshrines the Great Creator. So that an angel, starting from earth to-day, might read in his ascending flight, 6,000 years of human history, beginning with the latest events of 1881, and going backward in history, until Eden and its happy pair werereached.

I was informed of it by two Wesleyan local preachers, who had pro. fessed to be fully convinced that the endless torment doctrine ~as .not the truth. They each accepted J. R.'s teaching. I therefore invited them, and as many as they could influence, to attend a meeting, in which I would show the un scriptural and illogical character of Mr. R.'s pamphlet. They thought they could influence 20 or 30, but only about four came from Methodist Society, with the two,-a few others making, in all, a total of 18. . I told the company I had committed to writing the lecture, and would read it. so that should I not be understood in any matter, copy could be refeired to. I invited them to a second meeting to finish the subject, or I would givean opportunity for any objectorto questionme, or even to adva~cehis views. However, none of them came, and the two told me they still held to the Wesleyan view, and did not see but that J. Robinson was oorrect. -Yours respectfully, Geo, W. Barber.
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Gateshead, July 12, 1881. Dear Sir-For your notice of my book, "Everlasting Kingdom," &c., you are entitled to my thanks, and especiallyas you gaveme opportunity in my own words of expressing my view of the case. I know the strong Protestant prejudice existing against the more liberal and genial views of the Hadean dispensation which prevailed, with very few exceptions, during the first fifteen centuries of the Christian era. And, speaking historically, the modern view (the absolute termination of the mercy of God with the present life, and the impossibility of salvation being attained at any subsequent period,) was first formulated princicipally by Calvin and Beza in the 16th century. Historically this is a fact generally admitted by educated men. The worst effect of theological formulas is, that they who make them never concern themselves about the practical consequences certain to arise out of them. They may imply the certain and the utter destruction of millions and billions of the human race! What cares a theologian about that! Do you think he would spoil his syllogism for a trifle of that kind? God so loved the world, as I told one of the heads of one of our English Universities, that He would not trust its interests in the hands of theologians for a day, or for an hour! Grant the remedial character of the Hadean dispensations: The glorious coming and reign, and the benign and glorious manifestation of the Father's goodness,and mercy and love, and all the promises may be fulfilled. And they must be fulfilled. All the promises are Yea and Amen. The gifts and the calling are without repentance. They are absolute. Are not the threatenings the same? They are not. Jiuiqmen: i. His stmnge work. He never fulfills unless, like ourselves, He cannot help it. But I must ask, Why is the Rainbow and the Standard the last in the race, while the whole army of God in England and in Scotland are marching forward? Why do we find you as you were 30 years ago? Can you not open your pages to a more broad and comprehensive discussion of the question ?-Yours truly, Jas. Harrison. [We have allowed Mr. Harrison to speak for himself, in answer to our review of his work in July issue, as a simple matter of justice, but we cannot open our columns-as suggested, to controversy thereon. We are too cramped for space-too deeply interested in matters of more, and vital, moment-and too heavily pressed with more useful contributions, to meet his wishes in this respect. Moreover,the subject, itself, is one so purelyspeculative=-as presented by Mr. Harrison-that little profit could accrue therefrom. As for the Rainbow, we need not undertake its defence: its veteran and talented Editor might well feel aggrieved with us should we attempt so gratuitous and superfluous a task.]
PAULINE THEOLOGY.

Auckland, New Zealand, May 23, 1881. You will soon be making preparations for your next Conference. I suppose that due notice will be given in the Standard, so that I shall know where you are to meet. I should somuch like to be with you, but of course it is out of the question at present. There is so much work to be done here that I dare not think of pulling up my stakes. My own feelings would lead me where I could see my fellow-labourers,and find sweet fellowship with those of like precious faith, but the harvest is so great in this part of the world, and the labourers are so few. My constant prayer to God is, that He will send men into the gre!1t arvesth field. But it needs God-sent men. Men who are not afraid to fight. Men who can afford to lose reputation, and all they have, for the Master's sake. Men who will not flinch at Satan's darts, nor grow weary in the burning heat of hot persecut!on. Men ~ith l~rge ~earts, with warm hearts. Men who can love their fellows,WithoutIts bemg re turned. Men whose creed Is not too narrow, and whose minds have expansion enough to recognize a child of God who may not see just as they see. Men who can be clear and defined in their views, and still be kind. This work needs men who are not stunted in their growth hy somepet hobby: but men who have a full grasp of all God's revealed will, and possessed with the spirit of their Lord and ~aster .. Do you know such men? if you do, send them out, and we will promise them bread and water and !I place to lay their heads. Since I last wrote you I have been North to open a new Chapel,-the first built in New Zealand for the advocacyof the truth: indeed, it is the first of any kind in that settlement. We had good meetings. On the Tuesday night about 200 sat down to tea. You wouldwonder where the people came from could you have seen the district, with a house scattered here and there. The chapel holds about 160 people, hut we crowdedmore in at the opening services. Our Bro. Lush and his family have settled there. They came out about twelve month's since from our dear Bro. Leask's church. Our work in Auckland is still on the increase. We have moved into !I larger hall for our Sunday night lectures. It is the largest and best hall in Auckland. We still continue our Sunday Morning Serviceand Sunday School at the Temperance Hall. The expenses of the two halls come rather heavy-about four pounds per week-but I am thankful to say they are well met by the people.-Geo. A. Brown, Corresponding Member.

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On May 5th last, a few friends of the truth met here, and decidedto form an Associationfor South Australia. The Secretary (Mr. GeorgeH. Glover)writes :-" A few in this place have united for the purpose of spreading the doctrine of ' Life only in Christ.' We held our first meet. ing on Thursday, May 5th, seven being present. Several more will be added at our next meeting. We have no lecturers or preachers on the subject, but we intend doing the best we can. We purpose, first, to circulate books and tracts advertised in the Bible Standard; some of us have several works, but none of the new ones; will you please send the following," &c. We have forwarded a parcel of literature, for which fifty shilliugs was subscribed at the above meeting.
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.

Nottingham, July 5, 1881. Dear Sir,-Referring to the article on "Pauline Theology v. J. Robinson," in the Bible Standard for tbis month, I beg to say that pamphlet was circulated among the Wesleyans in this town a year ago.

The meetings at the Choral Hall have been very successful,so much so that we have decided to continue our Sunday night lectures there for another month. We commenced on Sunday night, May 22nd, a series of lectures on the 17th chapter of Revelation, by request. We are still having additions to our Church membership, and the friends feel greatly encouraged to do all in their power to spread the truth. It is very desirable that every effort should be put forth to spread the literature, especially the Bible Standard; in this way we are scattering seed which

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will fan far beyond our own individual influence, and will bring forth a harvest for the Master when He shall come to gather the wheat into His gamer. We purpose (D.V.)opening out new fields of labour during the coming winter. There are many places in the vicinity of Auckland anxious to have the truth presented to them. There are good openings at Onehunga, Otahuhu, and a number of other places, which are centres of population. We hope soon to be able to spend a little time with the friends at the Thames.-New Zealand Bible Standard. PORT ALBERT, NEWZEALA..'1D. The little chapel is now opened, and we are glad to inform our friends that the opening services were indeed a success. It was astonishing to see the number of people who presenced themselves with us. Perhaps the fact that this is the first place of worship which has been built in the district may have added some interest to the occasion, but whatever may have been the direct or indirect cause, we had the satisfaction of seeing the place filled to its utmost capacity. On the Saturday night we met for prayer. Sunday morning brought us a clear sky and a most genial atmosphere. Quite a number met with us for the breaking of bread, in order to remember the Lord and Master in the days of His humility. In the afternoon a Sunday school was started-the first ever commenced in Port Albert. The friends were quite encouraged with the number present. We hope this department will be greatly blessed both to the children and the parents. On Sunday night a sermon was preached by the Editor to a large and attentive audience. On Monday afternoon we baptised three in the little creek running through Mr. Lush's farm. On Monday night a lecture was delivered, and on Tuesday, a public tea was provided, of which about 200 persons in all partook, and we must say that it was one of the best we have ever attended: everything was good,and wecannot refrain from passing a vote of thanks to the kind and liberal hands who took this matter under their especial care. After tea a public meeting was held. We had a number of speakers both from Auckland and from the district, and I think the great majority went awayfeeling desirous of many more such refreshing times. Great credit is due to the Port Albert friends for their promptness and perseverance in this matter. We trust the chapel may prove a great blessing to the district, and that many will be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth as the Gospel will be preached from time to time within its walls.-Nelv Zealand Bible Standard. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. We are looking forward to the Conference with the most lively anticipations, for we intend (D.V.) giving all who come and take part in i~ a real Yorkshire welcome, and shall leave no stone unturned to assure Its perfect success. We trust the most glorious and rich results will accrue from its meetings, to all who come, and to the spreading of the truth we all hold so dear at heart-" Life only in Christ."-Communicated. ST. JOHN'S ROOMS, LONDON, w. The Church here has taken up its first annual collection on behalf of the Association, amounting to 4. MINT LANE, INCOLN. L The Rev. G. P. Mackay, after two years of provisional labour, has received and accepted an invitation to the continued pastorate of the above Church. On Sunday, July 17th, the second annual collection was made for the Assocciation. MABERLY CHAPEL, LONDON, N. By the quiet efforts of Messrs. Langton and Lundy considerable interest has been evoked here, in the case of Mr. A. Smith, late of WithneJI,and a gratifying proof of Christian sympathy shown. We have pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of 9 128. 6d. for the fund to enable Mr. Smith to continue his public ministry, as a witness for Divine Truth. BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE. Our Meetings lose none of their interest; believers being already added unto the Lord. Last Sunday week six persons were "baptized into Christ. "-Communicated. HUDDERSFIELD, YORKSHIRE. On Sunday, July 10, Mr. Albert Smith, of Blackburn, lectured in the Wellington Hall, Queen Street, on "The Millenium Drawing near. What is it? Will it be inaugurated by miracle at the return of the Messiah, or be brought about by present instrumentalities? (Rev. xx.)" There was a good audience, fairly filling the room. Several questions were asked, and much interest seemed to be evoked.-Co11!municated. EDINBURGH CONFERENCE. Our Scotch brethren' have just held their Annual Church Conference in the New Free Hall, Edinburgh. There was an attendance of 200 Members and Friends.

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