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The death of David several hundredyears previously and his failure to report Into the heavens up to the timeof Peter Is probably to be accounted

I for on the presumption that he lackedthe necessary Immortal soul Adl s

234 The living souls that aredie In the sea In consequence of thesecond angel pouring out his viallupon the sea probably Indicatefishes but they are sufficient to con

stitute souls In the estimation of

Rev 163 The fact that animals des-

tined for meat are termed soulsIn Lev 2211 shows the ancients as

regarding all animal existence as ofcommon kin It Is not necessary to

pursue this side of the subject furtherAnd the reader Is referred to Soul

sleeper and Adventist publications for

more light on the monistic and mor

tality dilation of the subject

And fear not them which kill the

body but are not able to kill the soul

but rather fear him which Is able to

destroy both soul and body In hell

Mat 1025-e Be not afraid of them that kill the

body and after that haxeno more

that they can do Luke 124

Jesus here unmistakably and irrevocably recognizes two entitles or

rpersons In man which he designates

as body and soul He assert thatmen may kill the body but are not-

able to kill the soul He allows thatthe soul continues to live after tlie

body has been killed He avers thereis only one being able to destroy thesoul And there you are Squarelup against all the plain explicit

positive contlnous and cumulative

statements assertions Intimations

and testimonies which prove demon

strate and substantiate these con-

trary and hostile propositions Jesuscontravenes Jehovahs Job of manandsoul building He prances and fences

out all the texts the Soulsleepers and

Adventists can muster for the monls

tic man and his anal life and fatteeJsus controverts Moses Joshua

David Solomon Isaiah Obadiah John

Peter and himself In all seriousnessJesus Jokes with the whole subject

By every rule of grammar rhetoriclogic and evidence when applied to

these utteances of Jesus he Is con

victed of heterodoxy whichever horn

of the dilemma Is chosenPaul is also found to be In a per

ment and state of friction with themonistic and f His IdlocraJAc

I fulminations abounJIn amblgultlw

obscurities incongruities transcen

dental implications and useless repeti

tions But we will do the best we can

to all if possible Just what he has

said and thought on this matterI knew a man In Christ above four-

teen years ago whether In the body

I cannot tell or whether out of ther body I cannot tell God knoweth

such such as one caught up to thethird heaven And I knew such a

man whether In the body or out of

the body God knoweth how that he

was caught up Into paradise and

heard unspeakable words which It Is

not lawful for a man to utter 2 Cor

1224HerePaul disports the fecundity of

his rhetoric and the paucity of his

logic He leaves the man he knewnow identical but critics generally

have guessed that Paul himself was

referred to But however much he

was In doubt about the evact statusof the anonymous one he knew

that God knew Paul was uncertain

whether that Individual was in the

body or out of the body Now thisvery uncertainty makes It certain thataPul believed he could have been out

of the body and the whole problem

Is thus solved from his view point

To be out of the body so far away

as the third heaven and paradise I

would unequivocally and superlatively

settle It that he had two separate en

titles one of which could live ab

stract from the body In heaven

Pauls palpable pliable ponderous

and positive postulate that flesh andsblood cannot Inherit the kingdom of

God completely knocks the stuffing

out of the resurrection of the deadnotion If this be true eJsus did not

ascend up Into heaven with his new

resurrection body of flesh and bonesnot to mention his hands and his feel

and store dos According to this

the natural solical body Is leftand the spiritual pneumatical oratmospheric body Just oozes out and

either evaporates into the ceruleanexpansion or heaven or It gravi-

tates to the place from which Jesussoul was rescuedhell Paul says

there Is a natural body and there Is

a spiritual body and that this animalsoul is developed first The evolutionof the spiritual body Is left In the

ark so to speak for he gives no

further hint as to Jis genesis till hefinally asserts that this mortal mustput on Immortality In the consum

mated resurrection Therefore thereis no spiritual body till Gabrielsarises what was there of Paul to betrumpet toots and the query normally

out of the body or to be caught t

up Into paradise And these are

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only a few samples of the many concretee and certain no to mention theconceptions and cross contrnrieties that condemn and discredit eversection of the Bible This last spedmen of Pauls constant tendency to-

ward a metalepllcal twist of his per ¬

ceptions is Illustrative the necessityfor a competent revelation to reveal

0the alleged revelation of God andangels

The passage In Phil 12033 is an-

other evidence of Pauls metalcptlcalfacility of statement Ho says Christshall be magnified In my body whetherIt be by life or by death For to meto live Is Christ and to die is gainBut If I live in the flesh this is thefruit of my labor yet what I shallchoose I know not for I am In a straitbetwixt two having a desire to departand to be with Christ which Is farbetter Then what was the matterwith Paul You notwithstanding theambiguity and obscurity here Indul-gent it is plain that the gain andthe far better state or conditionmere main objects of Paul desireThere If he his transferable partcould be caught up Into the thriceheavenly paradise all he had to dowas to take a semioccasional voca-

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as his desire for gain andthe far better might prompt By thephrase live In the flesh signifiesthat he believed he might live out ofthe flesh or out of the body

The anonymous author of 1 Saul 28

S40 will now testify assertplicitly and specifically stat the alleg1

ed facts relative to the SaulwitchSamuel episide Paraphrased It isthat Saul sought a seance with Sam-

uel then lately deceased and appliesto a gobetween witch to effect thedcslrd interview The witch consent ¬

ed and promptly brought up Samuelwho querulously and grudlngly assent ¬

ed to the conference According tothis Bible witness Samuel said toSaul Why hast thou disquieted me tobring me up And Saul answeredetc The substance of the conversa-tion is not important or material tothis inquiry further than to show thatthe author and Saul both thought andbelieved the whole affair was genuineand that Samuel was really presentand that he actually foretold Sauls

doomOf

course Saul believed Samuelcould be brought up or he wouldnot have been seeking to have him

up No sane person can bemadeto believe that true which hethlnls to be false Nqlther wouldSaute apply to a srce which he hadreason to believe would deceive himIf tie responsible author of the bookof Samuel knew the appearance ofSamuel was deceptive he would nothave asserted that Samuel said whenhe did not say anything Samuelactually did say what Is attributed tohim or this witness falsifies If heIs truthful here the witnesses on theopposite side are false witnesses-

A severer scrutlnlty of the testlmony attributed to Paul In 2 Cor 124reveals tine logomachy that afflictedPauls mental capacity for discernment It almost gives one who tracesthe muddled thought shown in theruinous and layrlnthine arrangementof his works the semblance of a logomachlst but that Is the penalty to bepaid for the privilege of looking underthe surface To get a correct estimateof the trace and summary value ofany combination of thought symbolsthey must be treated in their verbalrelations With this digression overwe will proceed to discuss the state-ment

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that he was caught up into paradlse and heard unspeakable wordswhich It Is not lawful for a man toutter Unspeakable is defined asthat cannot be uttered that cannotie expressed unutterable Here we

have Paul Perpetrating an Irish bullHe heard that which was not utteredrIf he did not hear them then he prothey must have been expressed In

varicated If they were actually heardsound symbols and Paul has anotherfib to his account If they were un ¬

alterable there could be no legal rev

in the case because of its im ¬

possibilityThis verbal looseness and want of

mental precision Is a marked qualityIn the Intellectual endowment of PaulIAn Instance occurs in Hebrews 1127where it is remarked that Moses endured accusing him who Is InvisibleIHim and who relate to God under

stood If he saw God he God wasnet Invisible If God was InvisibleMoses did not see him These con-

trarieties and selfcontradictions areobservable throughout Pauls writingsbut generally are of a more seriousnature than Is here Indicated In GalI31G he strenuously strived to show

that the word seed is In the slngulainumber grammatically and logicallyand that Abrahams see refers solely to Christ But in the 3th verse helasserts that all believers are one In

Christ Jesus and then n e Abrahamsrod thus confessing that seed mayproperly express the plural number aswell as the singular What Paul doesdo here fully and emphatically Is tocontradict the plain lot leal and hisorical fact that Abrahams seed

quoted from Gen 127 and Gen 1315

obviously explicitly and literally sig-

nifies Abrahams entire Jewish posterity and that Jesus can only bebrought in as ore of tent race

Paul pesters Peter In Gal 21114 byblaming him with dissimulation by

ocrlsy deception false pretensioncounterfeiting and with walking notuprightly according to the truth of thegospel lIe based these charges onthe statement of the alleged fact thatPeter discontinued his custom of catIng with the Gentiles subsequent tothe coming of certain one fromJames who opposed the social com

mingling of the two classes But on

this score Paul himself was to beblamed for he circumcised Tinio

thy a halfJew because of the Jewswhich were In those quarters Acts1C3 And when Paul returned to Jerusalem see Acts 212025 and wasbrought Into close relations withJames and many thousands of Jewsall zealous of the law he was con-

strained to comply with the ceremoniallaw of the Jeews which he had prey

ously forsaken and denounced as abrogated and void Then things put Paul

in a pretty plight They prove aPul

a simulator a pretender deceiver andprevaricator and amply warrant him

In his confession Rom 37 to my

lie and his boast that he was all

things to all men Such are thejtl at hear unspeakable words and

see Invisible gods I

Paul arraigns the entire race as un

righteous He asserts there is none

that docth good no not one Of

course Paul Includes himself as also

does Jesus when he declared therewere none good but one that Is God

Evidently Jesus Included himself In

the big crowd for he failed to claim

that he was that only one good God

In all the claims made for the divinity

of Jesus or Christ he is nowheredesignated as the sole and only lordgod or infinite being he describes a

good This leaves himself as well

as Paul and all the world of mankind

a no good They have used de

celt the poison of asps is under theirlips and there Is no fear of God be ¬

fore their eyes Rom 31318 Inaccusing and judging others In suetsweeping wholesale and unmanneredsentences they but condemn themselves Rom 21

This is a fair exemplification of tine

looseness incoherence nnd i liucracyof

the language and particulars containedin the Bible The Bible gives no clear

concise coherent consistent and

definite conception of the Independent

ad positive truth of Its separate statemets or general conclusions because

Its terms and postulates usually clashcontradict and nullify each otherEspecially is this so when a compari

son of the particulars relating to the

personality and nature of 110th Jehovah and Jesus is effected FirstIn the beginning God Elishas god

created nil things Second JehovahLord God wade nil thingsThird

Jesus made It all Then Jehovah was

first and last Jesus the same God

was the beginning and ending so was

Jesus That they were not one and

the same person is affirmed when Itis said tjlllt God LrottQht Jesus from the

state of death Here time contradic

tion Is absoluteThe morality of the Bible fares no

better Though it Is Intimated thatGod and Jesus preferred monogancy

they conferred upon their favoritesthe privileges and joys of polygamySalvery was Initiated In the persons

of Jacob and Esau before they wore

born because God loved Jacob and

hated Esau Women were put undertho rule and ownership of their hus

abnds primarily because Eve wasImade last License to use buy andIsell Intoxicating liquors was early

granted yet much Is said condemnatory of the drink habit and woe Is de-

nounced

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against those who put thebattle to their neighbors lips Exterminating wars were divinely decreedagainst those who were so unfortunate as to be In the way of Gods peopIe Usury was permitted to be ex-

acted from the Gentiles Likewise any

old unfit meat could be traded tothe Jews The sins and crimes ofthese people could be toned for andItheir perpetrators be made as good as

by butchering bull goat lambsor pigeon and making a present of ItIto the priest Thus there was aplete license system scheduled fromtthe smallest peccadillo to the highestcrime In The calendar except thoseaffecting the prieststAll this has Its counterpart In ortunder the last will and testamentAll sin can be forgiven through thetoffering of a human or half humanand half god sacrifice except alwaystreason against the preachers andtheir church It can easily be seenIthat the motive ever held up as thesole Incentive undr both the eJwlsh

nd Christian cults are crude and sor ¬

did to the limit The worst charactercan be transformed Into a holy saintby the simple exercise of faith in the

atonementNonot do The Intrinsic and

inherent Indications all prove theliblo to be the wofully crude work ofI

fallible and erring man They pointto this proof as showing the evolu

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tlonary process and progress of Itsoriginal development from a simpleand natural outward conception ofphenomena to the normally completeand differentiated antithetical noumenon or essence of things as moduleand apprehended by the metal limitsdons Imposed by material and moralconditions

The Bible Is simply and only anclent literature and as such Is

valuable legacy and asset Its preservation ns an ancient and original index

to the infinitely slow and painful advacement of mankind from primitivesavaging nnd barbarism to the partially civilized social economic and Intellectual conditions of modern times I

demanded by every consideration ofenlightened self Interest Only lop off

the extraneous and false concretionscredu1lt and

selfaglgramllzementBible for what it is intrinsically worth

SOLDIERS ORDERED

TO CHURCH

Compelled By Colonel To Attend Divine

Service

There is great excitement at the liarracks in Columbus Ohio because of n

order sued by Colonel E F Glenn thecommandant before he left for Texastoday to defend Major Penrose in theBrnvnisvfllc courtmartial ordering theCatholic soldiers to attend services

Some of the men declare that theywillmutiny The order says that theCatholic noncommissioned officers will

inarch rime men to and from church ami

see that order is preserved during thoservices

The Blade hacks up the soldiers Re

ligious freedom in the army is a con-J stitutional rightEd-

DISOWNS THE-

PRAYER CHAIN

Bishop He Is riot theLawrenceJsaysPreacher De-

clares¬

It To Be a Fraud

After all that has been said and written concerning that endless chain of

prayer it now transpires that Bishop

Lawrence time alleged author denies nil

connection with it while another preach-

er denounces it as a fraudThe Democrat published at Rochester

N Y contains an interview with Rev

U Henry Palmer of Pcmr Yaw pastorof the First Presbyterian Church which

wires up the situation as followsHow mildly tiimsi must it be publicly

announced that Bishop Lawrence denies

the above statement regarding himselfand repudiates all responsibility for thissocalled endless prayer chain If theaccomplished nod beloved successor ofPhilip Brooks as Bishop of Massachu-

setts is meant it is difficult to see howany intelligent Christian could believe

that lie would indorse any such absurdsuperstition as implied in this communi

cationWho on earth has any authority to

proclaims such n threat or such a promise

as the letter contains t Time sooner anysuch endless chain come to nn end in

all its ramifications the Letter Thecommunication is beneath the notice of

selfrespecting people ns indeed anonymous letters usually are

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THE CRIMES OF PREACHERS I

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Among the crimes of preachers should

be recorded the following taken from

the news columns of time CnnasarngaTimes N Y It rods

It is reported that Rev W 15

illgof Arcade lies left for partsunknown accompanied by anotherwoman leaving his wife and threechildren who are now in Burnswithout adequate moans of supportHe was well known in this village

mind this news was a great surprise

CHURCH LEGENDS OF MEXICO

Qncreturo was n twon before theSpanish conquest nnd was made u cityin KJjj A legend of Qnorutaro is that

n Otomitu chief Fernando do Tupiu a

y none undertook to convert the cityo Christianity in n way Unit seunm

novel to nn but was common tmniigli

to his day lie clime from Tula with u

challenge to the people of Queretaroo a fair stand up fight If he won

lme people surviving were to bo baptizedThe challenge was accepted but while

ne fight was in progress n dark cloud

came up and time blessed Santiago wasseen in the heavens with a fiery cross

whurcu on the people of Queretaro gavep and were baptized They set upa

stone cross to commemorate the eventIon the Hiof the present church ofSanta Cruz There is scarcely a church

in Mexico which lies not a legend ofthis kind attached to it

A friend addsliven if the legend is n fabrication its

production proves what time devotees titl

sire it to he part of their history and itis in harmony with the record of lieChristian church

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ability Among other timings he inventwl a smokeless candle Tim flamegoing out at one cud of the candle thesmoke at till other lie also inventeda pInning machine mind crane lint tinlistai nil was the iron bridge He notcmapaa>

Liberty was Iris ideal antislavery ofbody or mind finmd in him a deadlyenemy

His faculties were even being curci > ell fill the good of his fellow creptpweIHems >

keen and wonderful Anything of in-

terest to man was of interest to him

may any place iInelll of a worker was

a legitimate field for his labor Painosboyhood was passed in the sombre

drab colored existence of a Quakerhome Ills seriousness of life amid gravepromise of practical results in thethinking world when he should reactmaturity

speaking of an existence in his boyIln he says I well remember when

about seven or eight years of age hearing a sermon rend upon the subject ofwhat is called Redemption by thedeath of the Son of God After the sermoil was ended 1 wont into the garden

1tIIIl ns I was going down tho gardensteps for 1 perfectly remember time spotI revolted at the recollection of what 1

had heard and thought to myself tint itwas making God Almighty act like apassionate man that killed ids sonwhen he could not revenue himself inany other way and as I was sure a manwould bo lunged that did such a thingI could not see for what purpose theypreached such sermons This was notone of that kind of thoughts that ladanything in it of childish livijy It wasto me a serious recollection arising fromthe idea I had that God was too good todo such nn action and also too almightyto he under nny necessity of doing itI believe in time same manner at thismoment nod 1 moreover believe thatany system of religion that has any-thing in it which shocks the mindofthe child cannot be n true system

So we see that the idea that Christwas not crucified because that was too

h11himyears nfterwnrd he adds any systemof religion that has anything in it thatIshocks time mind of a child cannottrue

WesyntemIday to appreciate the reverence with

which n ine was regarded by those whosaw in mini the greatest apostle of lib-

erty in he world Elilnt Palmer spoken very general belief when he declaredPaine probably time most useful manthat ever existed upon the face of thisearths

Finally he came home to America HPalways lad many friends but mazydeserted him as his Age of Reason became known to them Ho was neglectedby those who would be expected tostand by him

Probably the worst blow he ever faired was to have the right to vote revfused him in New York on the groundthat he was not a citizen of the UnitedStates Not a citizen of New Yorkwhen tint liomu in which be lived haillioiii presented to him by the State ofNew York fur his services in nicking itn state null he had lived on money presented to liim by Icnnsylvanin for hisservices there Not a citizcnl CanChristianity with its pretence ofity mind brotherly love go to such anrextent as that in prejudice

FYet incredible as it appears such is

the cnsc anvil George Washington wrotethat the one who refused Painos votedM rightly mill Paine died before thecourts nt New York recognized him nsa citizen after that gratuitous insult

These patriots had worked withhim as for as their limited sight coulddetermine was right but when he couldsee a horizon beyond tlinm they refusedto go and put nil possible obstacle inhis way They forgot he hind been theirnurse mind guide in Republican childhoodforgot they were given a measure offrcadom through his efforts forgotgratitude to nn old friend forgot imounraforgot they were human beings and sodcrerted this grand warrior who lovedpeace so much that he would fight fornolliing else

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Kitchen and of thin intimacy that grewup between them Mr West found himto be n great student and a man windelved deep into every subject that hotook up for investigation The spakerknew the deceased ns n man amongmien kind to those with whom he associated generous to the poor amid a groatfriend to time young men

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