The Bible Standard December 1882

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No. 3. Vol. VI. ONE PENNY.ECEMBER, 1882.EDITED and PUBLISHEDby CYRUSE. BROOKS,Malvern Link, Worcestershire-on behalf of theConditional Immortality Association,

MONTHLYCONTRIBUTORS:BIBLICALXEGESIS Rev.B.B.Wale, MalvernLink.SACREDSONG:Rev. G. P. Mackay, Lincoln.

LIFE NOTES.I N relation to our decision concerning the sub-ject referred to in the last of our previous

" notes:" a Iife-member at Portsea writes,-"vVhen the facts of 'Life only in Christ,' andthe Pre.millennial Advent are generally acceptedas truths, will be soon enough to expend energyin eountervailing errors which other Societieswith different objects are already fighting against."This is the general tenor of the letters whichhave reached us on the subject. We thank allour correspondents for the courtesy of theirremarks, and trust they will believe our aim to beas pure -and single, and our love of truth asearnest as their own, though we differ somewhatas to our mode of showing it.

The same friend adds :-" Have been muchpleased with' Nature's Protest' (last issue), andthink that similar results must often have beenobserved, by others as well as the writer, knowingthat they have been by me. It is difficult toimagine any other outcome of ordinary teaching,as to an eternity of suffering."

A Salisbury member, writing for a supply ofliterature says,-" I am getting so many applica-tions that I must have a stock available. I sendby this post the S. T. You will see the interesthas not diminished."-Our readers will find theletters, referred to, in a.nother page.

" It is true that Charles Darwin had' no know-ledge of the future,' but in that respect he was

no worse off than all other men. Otherwise,there would be no room for hope and faith inreference to the revelation of a future life..Darwin doubtless discovered, as most otherscientific students of human psychology have,that there is no evidence in man himself ofman's immortality. Rather the reverse. Butit does not follow, in any degree, that he shouldbe without faith or hope in a future life. It isjust here where the Christian revelation meetsour need. Had it been possible for man, byscientific research, to obtain any knowledge ofthe future, it doubtless would have been donelong ago; but at any rate this possibilitywould have rendered revelation unnecessary.Now, it is most significant, and especially formen of Charles Darwin'S class of mind, that theChristian revelation on the subject takes it upjust at the point where science fails to proceed.The apostle Paul's grand argument for resur-rection, in 1 Cor. xv., might have been writtenspecially for modern scientific materialists. Hesays nothing about an immortal soul in man, ofwhich the scientist says he can find no trace.Paul absolutely ignores it, and what more couldDarwin, or even the most extreme materialist,wish a Christian teacher to do? Paul, thus,long ago, anticipated the precise 'position nowoccupied by the Materialist school, and stakedall his hope of a future life-staked the credi-bility of the entire Christian system-upon thatone great point of revelation-viz., future resnr-rection of the dead and life thereafter. Revela-tion does not ask man to believe in his own im-mortality; it is as silent on that subject as isscience. But it does ask us to believe in ourfuture resurrection from death, against thepossibility of which science has not a word to

say. And revelation gives us evidence, sum-marised by Paul in the chapter mentioned, as abasis for such belief; and if this evidence is notreliable, then Paul dares to say Christ died invain, Christian faith is vain, and, in fact, theChristian religion worse than a myth."-T.KIRKMAN,Christian World.

A Cheltenham correspondent expresses painfulsurprise at the low views of Christian motive-power, cherished and taught by many. One suchasked" How wecould persuade sinners to fleefromthe wrath to come, if we did not threaten themwith Hell-Fire I" On being pointed to the gospelmessage of "life and immortality," the reply was,Few would care to accept eternal life unless itwere to escape endless torments." It is sad thatmen should use a lower motive force, becausethere are natures so base and sensual that theyare not affected by the higher. It is also vain,for the nature that responds only to the whip,is not the nature in which Christ by His Spiritis forming the new life. Those who value" Eternal Life" for its own unutterably precioussake, are those whom Christ is preparing asstones to be built into His living Temple, andthose who despise it-except as a means ofescaping torture-are unfit recipients of so granda boon. Divine wisdom said, "My sheep hearMy voice, and I know them, and they followMe." The voice of Christ is that of love, notfear, of wooing not driving. The voice of theBridegroom and not of the 'I'ssk-master. Surely15 centuries experience of the reiqn. of terror, ofthe whip and the fire in Christian (?) teaching,ought to have opened the eyes of its advocatesto its patent and unmistakeable failure. Heavenis for a prepared. people. Christ seeks not un-


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38 THE BIBLE STANDARD.willing but willing disciples. Not slaves butfreemen,-or such as are servants' from loveonly. We fear that those teachers, whose onlymotive- force is fear of hell, will have no garneredsheaves that will abide the test of His coming,and that those converts (?) whose motive-force isof the same teaching will find themselves outsidethe gate.

A clergyman writes :-" I have been incapaci-tated for duty for many years, so have had timefor thought and opportunity for emancipationfrom a groove which has brought misery,madness, and unbelief to so many, and which,after all, has been proved by your excellent Asso-ciation to be so unsoriptural."

From Bangalore, India, comes a word of greet-ing :-" We wish you God speed; and trustyou may be used to set the glorious liberty of thechildren of God, and the j~yful news of a 'newcreation,' free from the taint and the curse, beforemany. I do not anticipate any overwhelmingsuccess as to numbers. The true church is a'little flock,' and scattered. But most of thosewho are truly united to Christ will need just thesetruths to enable them to avoid the snare ofspiritualism; and, when the need is pressing,their ears will be opened."

Our readers will remember that an extractfrom Professor Birks' remarks on "ConditionalImmortality"-taken from his Commentaru onIsaiah, appeared in our August issue. We havenow pleasure in calling attention to an able reply,which appears in our present issue, from the penof a new contributor to our columns. We regretwe have been unable to insert this earlier.

Our esteemed helper and friend, James Lesslie,Esq., of Toronto, Canada, thus writes :-" Ihope these Conferences, year after year, willresult in diffusing the light of life far and wideon both sides of the Atlantic. The horrors of ahsathenised theology with a Christian name, A Liverpool friend sends us the Christianis evidently passing away, if we may judge from Heralti for October 25, containing a sermon bythe cautious tone of the orthodox pulpit in re- the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, on " The Awful Doomlation to the future of man. As Vinet affirmed, of Sinners." Our friends mind has, evidently,the Christianity of our day begins to be ashamed been painfully exercised thereby, for the page isof ' the t7'emendous e7-ror' of the past, charging scored and seamed with lines and marks; and,the eternity of sin and suffering to be the fiat of indeed, we cannot wonder at it, for it is aour loving Father in heaven, God, who is love strange and contradictory mixture. In fact, weand light, and whose tender mercies are over all could not resist the idea that it was a very oldHis works. I believe that the great impediment sermon indeed, re-served for the occasion. It isin the way of the progress of Divine Truth is the of the usual kind of literature with which theauthoritative creeds of denominations. FREE Christian. H erald. caters for its 250,000 weeklyBIBLICALINTERPRETATIONs a sacred right, and readers; and sadly confounds things that widelyevery religious teacher, and all the members of differ. The text, for example, has no connectionchurches, should claim its exercise unfettered by whatever with the subject matter of the sermon,the opinions of fallible men, as generally em- since it refers to the judgment of the Uvingbodied in all creeds, 01' Confessions of Faith. nations at the close of this dispensation, but thatThe simple answer given by an Apostle to the to the personal judgment of the geneml dead atJailer at Philippi was all that was required to the close of the next dispensation. We haveconstitute him a Christian, and entitled to all great respect for the writer as a Christian manthe privileges of the Christian Church, if his I and minister, but we go -to the Bible for our

life corresponded with his faith. The diversityof views on other religious questions seems tome to form no ground for the violence mani-fested by , Church Courts' in expulsions for non-adherence to the creed of the community.Christians should labour and pray for theabolition of all such false tests of religiouscharacter. "

R. F., Lincoln, sends us an earnest article,but we have only. space for an extract therefrom,owing to the pressure on our columns :-" Thedoctrine of' Life only in Christ' was beingpreached in our city, some dear friends listenedand believed, one, very dear to me, joined theChurch were it was taught. That was a heavytrial to me. Was it not setting aside the beliefof my dear parents? Had they not died in thehope of an immediate entrance into heaven?Had I not felt', as I stood by the dear spot thatcontained their bodies, that their souls were inheaven?- forgetting, in my selfishness, that,therefore, others must be in hell. At last, re-solved to find the truth, I took the Book andstudied it with prayer, but no light came, the oldbelief, that we all have an immortal soul, clung tome, and that we all must therefore go to heavenor hell immediately after death. So greatly wasI embittered against the doctrine of 'Life iuChrist' only, that I almost classed it with in-fidelity. At length a great black cloud cameover our home, crushing every hope. Oh God Ithe desolation of that dark time none can tell,none can know but Thou. Friends, tried andtrue, all offered consolation, but the darknessonly thickened, we loved so much. At length,as if a voice from heaven had spoken, came theword-' RESTING.' God was merciful: The spellwas broken. The dark cloud which had hid thetruth from me faded away, and I beheld light inHis light, and-Life only in Christ,"

theology, which flatly contradicts some of theteaching of this justly-popular but, still, mortaland fallible preacher. It says, "There is nowork, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom inthe grave" C E c c . ix. 10). He says," Death isa great revealer of secrets." It says, " For nowshould I have lain still and been quiet, I shouldhave slept: then had I been at rest. There thewicked cease from troubling; and there theweary be at rest " (Job iii. 13, 17). He says," The moment that a man dies his spirit goesbefore God. If without Christ that spirit thenbegins to feel the anger and the wrath of God."(It must be remembered that spirit, soul, andperson are synonomous terms with suchspeakers). It says, " If He set His heart uponmau, if He gather unto Himself His spirit andHis breath: All flesh shall perish together, andman shall turn again unto dust" (Job xxxiv.14, 15.) This testimony of Elihu is also borneout by Job x. 9, "Thou hast made me as theclay: and wilt Thou bring me into dust again."He says, '


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THE BIBLE STANDARD. 39Those whom you have honoured with yoursuffrages, and entrusted with the keys of office,are growingly persuaded that the Associationmust narrow not broaden its testimony, but bringall its power and influence to bear on the twopoints which form its platform, viz.: Life-Advent. We speak the truth in love. Let yoursoul be as our soul.

"First Part of Supplement to 'Man's onlyhope of Immortality,''' by W. G. Moncrieff,Office of this paper (9d.) We gladly welcomethis addenda to the larger pamphlet. It is bothclear and convincing. We had purposed makingone or more extracts, but space at present.forbids. Those who are interested in the subjectof the" Symposium" now running in our pageson tbe "Intermediate State," should read thisand-the parent pamphlet published at Is. Wewill send a copy of each, post-free, for Is. 6d.

We give this for what it is worth in the way ofsuggestion. A little boy asked mamma thefollowing question, to which all mamma'sanswers are not yet recorded :-" Mamma, if abear should swallow me I would die, wouldn't I ?""Yes, dear." "And would I go to Heaven?""Yes, dear." And would the bear have togo too?"

We have pleasure in calling attention to theIndian News contained in another pa.ge.

ADVENT NOTES.D R . SCHWEINFURTH, the celebrated Africanexplorer, writes from Cairo on Oct. 23rd,

"The whole Soudan (equatorial Egypt) is onfire. All the provinces south and west of Khar-toum are in the hands of fanatical and barbarousinsurgents; Khartoum is only hanging on athread. The army, decimated by constant dis-astrous combats with the False Prophet (Mussul.man Messiah), is reduced to half its size. Themass of the people believe in the ever-victoriousFalse Prophet. Many of the inhabitants of thecapital are secret 'partisans of the Mahdi, TbeUlemas have proved from the Koran that the(true) Mahdi-Redeemer of the World-wouldcome from the east. (This is ad verse to thepretensions of Mohammed Hamed, as the Mahdiis called, because he comes from the west.) Theidea of the Mahdi is to invade Lower Egypt,convert its inhabitants, march against the Turkswhom he regards as infidels. proceed to Mecca toestablish the Millenium reign, and to convert theuniverse."

The daily papers are full of distressing accountsof the immense loss and misery caused by therecent long-continued floods. Nothing like it hasbeen known within the last 50 years. May wenot hope that it is the beginning of the end?

France seems in the birth-throes of anotherrevolution. The Romish church is powerless toinfluence, for good, the male portion of the

industrial classes. 'A correspondent of a Londonpaper says. " Among all the thousands who werecrowding the churches and thronging the ceme-teries, I saw only one blouse."

Manila, in the Philippines, has been well-nighdestroyed by a typhoon. In the city, 60,000persons are houseless. On the shore, lie thewrecks of 20 merchant vessels, and the bodiesof 100 sailors. "How long, Lord! How long! "

The Bisbop of Rochester says, "Religion hasa greater hold upon intelligent humanity than itever had, and the people are always talking andwriting about it." If one may dissent from aBishop, would it not be nearer the truth to saythe form of religion? 'I'hat is a condition pro-phesied of the" latter days," "having the formof godliness, but denying the power thereof."

If the will of men and the expenditure of meansand effort can secure that result, the world is ina fair way of being converted. In addition to theagencies of the stated churches, wehave now twobodies working outside the churches. These arethe" Salvation Army," and the" Blue RibbonGospel Army." Young women, however, asevangelists, at 12s. and 14s. per week, whoseadvertised qualifications are that they must beable to sing and preach, are scarcely likely toproduce much change in the masses to whomthey appeal, except of a social and temperancekind. So, probably, even these well-meant en-deavours ';"'illfail to solve the problem, though itmay furnish another illustration that" Old Adamis too strong for young Melancthon." Eventhis, however, may be profitable, as showing thatChristians have grossly misunderstood the natureand purpose of the Gospel, in this its dis-pensation.

" The Eastern Question, its only true Solution,"and" The British not Gentiles," (Id. and 3d.)These pamphlets are by George Bullock, andmay be had in London of F. Pitman. The writerevidently knows his own mind, though he maynot have the best style of conveying his con-victions toothers. The pamphlets largely consistof quotations from the Sacred Word. Theauthor's connections are somewhat too meagre.

" The Monthly Record," and" The ProtestantTimes," (Id. each.) These are papers devoted toProtestantism ve1'SUS Popery. The latter paperis large and vigorously edited. Both, in recentnumbers, devote some space to correspondenceon the Anti-Christ. It is a little significant thatth~se letters are on a futurist basis. They are,however, disfigured by a bitter and shamefulpolitical bias. According thereto, Mr. Gladstone,the British Prime Minister, if not the Anti-Christ,is wicked enough to play such a part. Proof:His name contains the fatal figures, 666.

In regard to the comet so recently visible,Prof. Smyth asks, "But why has it come backso soon? In 1843 it appeared to be moving in

an orbit of 170 years, and yet it came back in1880, or in only 37 years! That was startlingenough. But having gone off in 1880, it hasbeen generally supposed, by the best astronomersin Europe and America, that it would not returnbefore 37 years ('i.e., in 1917) ; yet, behold, it hasreturned in two years. This being so, who can'say whether it may not be back again from spacein a few months; and then, not merely to grazeclose past, but actually fall into the- sun, whichis so evidently increasing its hold upon it atevery revolution. Wherefore, we may be nearupon the time for witnessing what effects will beproduced when such an event takes place in thesolar system, as astronomers have only distantlyspeculated on, and no mortal eye is known tohave ever beheld."

In the Prophetic Messenger of October 12, Mr.L. Biden makes the very practical suggestion,that the British officers now in Egypt-havingall the neccessary appliances-should use theelectric light to make a full examination, andlearn the remaining secrets of the Great Pyramid.At Aix, in France, a monster aerolite (meteoricstone) has fallen, weighiug more than half a ton

A Broughty Ferry correspondent writes,-" Iam not altogether pleased with the limited IWeof the Association. I think it should includethe Second Coming and Personal Reign of ourLord. Indeed, I am surprised (seeing so manyof its speakers take up these questions so ably)that it has not done so. Important, as the Lifequestion is, I think these much more importantelements of the Christian Faith. These were ofthe first importance in the teaching of Christand His Apostles, and I think should be so inthe preaching of His disciples in these days.And, , so much the more as we see the day ap-proaching.v-vI'his question was fully discussedat the Bradford Conference, but no more ap-propriate title was found. We admit the forceof the objection raised by our correspondent.

The following letter we give in full :-" Thematter in the enclosed letter is not new to me,for while in Hong Kong, China, some unknownfriend sent me 'Immortality: Whence and forWhom!' by the Rev. Wm. Ker. That belief isquietly but surely gaining ground in the (Estab-lished) Church. I lent the work to a clergyman,a friend of mine, and I found that he believed init. However it is not of this that I have takenthe liberty of writing to you-though that isgreat; but of the Second Coming of Christ,which is greater. Any information on this Ishould be pleased to receive. It is a matterwhich has often occupied my thoughts andattention. I believe in the nearness and personalreign of Christ on Earth for a thousand years.And the thought has struck me, that the Jewswill eventually become the great MissionaryNation. For, when our Lord comes, they will


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40 THE BIBLE STANDARD.become convinced that their forefathers made amistake in rejecting Christ, their Messiah, andwill become converted to Him, flocking from allparts of the world to see Him of whom Mosesand the prophets did write. And so they will beprepared to go forth to those nations fromwhence they came (knowing their languages) asmissionaries, with fiery zeal, earnestness, devo-tion, and love. I look upon the great MissionaryWork now, as the witness among all nations.At the present rate of ingathering among theheathens, it seems to me, that it will takethousands of years to bring them to a knowledgeof Christ-the same as our own nation possesses,and we are nothing compared (in numbers) toChina, India, and Africa. Some great event musthappen to arouse the nations of the earth. Andthat event, it seems to me, will be the coming ofthe Lord. Our nation seems also to be takingthe place of Israel of old. I am rather inclinedto believe. through the course events in theworld are taking, that we may possibly be madethe instrument of Palestine being recovered tothe Jews, Tbere is an upheaval against thatpeople in Russia and Austria, and these Biblelands are coming more and more under oursway."

WILL ['HE CHURCH CONVERTTHE WORLD?W HAT are the present prospects of aChurch that has set out in all con-fidence to convert the world? How maythose now putting on the harness boastof greater expected success than is war-rantee: by the experience of those whohave put it off after having fought the

good fight? The prophets could notconvert the world; are wemightier thanthey? The apostles could not convertthe world; are we stronger than they?The martyrs could not convert the world;can wedo more than they? The Churchfor eighteen hundred years could notconvert the world; can we do it? Theyhave preached the Gospel of Christ, socan we. They have gone to earth's re-motest bounds, so can we. They havesaved" some," so can we. They havewept as so few believed their report, socan we. They have finished their coursewith joy, and the ministry they havereceived to testify of the Gospel ofthe grace of God; we can do the same.Can we reasonably expect to do more?"It would take all eternity to bringthe Millennium at the rate that mqdernrevivals progress," said the venerableDr. Lyman Beecher, before a minis-terial convention held close to PlymouthRock. And what hope is there thatthey will progress more rapidly? Isit in the word of God? Glad wouldwe be to find it there. Sadly we read

that" evil men and seducers shall waxworse and worse, deceiving and beingdeceived."

Has God a mightier Saviour-a morepowerful Spirit? Has he another Gos-pel which will save the world? Whereis it? Is there any way to the kingdom.other than that which leads throughmuch tribulation? Is there anotherway to the crown besides the way ofcrosses? Can we reign with Him unlesswe first suffer in His cause?

No doubt the world might be COll-verted if they desired to know the Lord.And so had all who heard receivedwith gladness the word ofGod, the worldmight have been converted within twentyyears of the day of Pentecost.

If the Gospel were to convert theworld, we should have seen tokens of itere this. But where are such omens tobe found? Shall we look at Judson,who labored ten long years before onesinner yielded to the claims of the Gos-pel? Shall we look at the dense darknessof the heathen world"? Shall we look atthe formalism of the professed Church?Shall we look at the wide extension of-infidelity ? Shall we look at the abound-ing of iniquity and the waxing cold oflove? Shall we look at the world, whereeighteen hundred years of toil and tearshave not brought one-twentieth part ofmankind even to a profession of trueChristianity; and where not more thanone-fifth claim for themselves the dubioustitle of Christian nation? Shall we lookover a world in which we cannot find onenation of Christians, nor one tribe ofChristians, nor one city of Christians,nor one town of Christians, nor one vil-lage of Christians, nor one hamlet ofChristians, save here and there where aquestionable faith has led a few, withhypocrites even in their midst, to with-draw themselves from the world andcherish the untried virtues of secludedlife? Surely, after eighteen hundredyears of experiment with that systemwhich was to convert the world, menmight point to some country, to someprovince, to some nation, and say, Be-hold the commencement of a convertedworld!But will not the Gospel then prove afailure _? That depends upon what isexpected of it. If the Gospel was toeffect the eternal salvation of allmankind,then failing to accomplish that work isa failure of the Gospel. If the Gospelwas to convert the world, then if it isnot done it will prove a failure. But ifthe Gospel was preached "to take out ofthe Gentiles a people for His name,"then it is not a failure. If it was giventhat God might in infinite mercy andlove" save some," then it is not a failure.If it was given that every repentant sin-

ner might have eternal life, and thatevery good soldier might receive a crownof glory, then it is not a failure. If itwere given that an innumerable companymight be redeemed out of every nation,and kindred, and tongue under heaven,then it is not a failure. If it was giventhat the valesand hills ofParadise restoredmight teem with a holy throng whoshallbe "equal to the angels, and be thechildren of God, being the children ofthe resurrection," then it is not a failure.If it was given that the elect might bebrought into one great family of holyones, then it is not a failure. And was notthis its object, rather than the exaltationof a worldly church to the splendors ofearthly prosperity, while beneath thetheatre of their easy triumph thereslumbers the ashes of prophets and the~us.tof the apostles? Are they to holdjubilee a thousand years, while the mar-tyr's unceasing cry" How long, 0 Lord,"goes up to God? Are they to have theirsongs of triumph, while the whole crea-tion groaneth for deliverance, and whilethat longed-for day of the redemptionof our body is postponed? Nay, verily;the hope of the one body' is one hope.The hope of the Church stops not atdeath, it sweeps beyond earth's scenes'of tempest and of storm, and reposes inthe calm beamings of that Sun of right-eousness which shall glow above thebosom of Paradise regained.

Toward those scenes we hasten. Thecomi~g of the Lord draweth nigh. Therest IS before us, the toil is very brief.But alas for the world. Woe to anearth that will not repent. The delugeand the Dead Sea tell us what God hasdone. The Scriptures "tell us what Hewill d? The sword shall not alwayssleep III the scabbard-even now it isabout to be unsheathed. Watchman,set the trumpet to thy lips! Sound inthe ears of the world the dread alarm-" But-if the watchman see the sword come,and blow not the trumpet, and the people benot warned; if the suior d come and takeaway any person from among them, he istaken away in his iniquity; but his bloodwill Frequire at the watchman's hand !"-[From the" Voice of the Ohurch;" by H.L. Hastings.]SYMPOSIUM ON THE INTERME-

DIATE STATE.[IN accordance with the W Ill of the Committee we openD,ur columns to the above. It must, however, be dis..tmctly understood that.neither the Association nor theEditor are to be held responsible for, or as endorsingm any way the views expressed herein. These aresimply the personal convictions of the several writersand appear in these colurns merely that our readera!llay have the opportunity of studying the question asIt appears to the different bel ievers in the cardinaltru~h of 11 Conditional Immortality," and then formingtheir own opmron thereon. No contribution mustreferto any paper that may appear herein, neither topraiseor condemn-it is a conversation, not a corre-spondence-but the views expressed may be indepen-dently and freely adopted or exposed, everything ofapersonal nature being excluded.-Eo. B. S.]


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THE BIBLE STANDARD. 41FIRST ARTICLE.

By MR . WILLIAM LAING.All Future Life for the Dead dependent on

the Resurrection.I N contributing a short article to The Sym-

posium on the Intermediate State, it hasoccurred to me that I could not do better thancall attention to the deliverances of the ApostlePaul iu the fifteenth chapter of his Epistle to theCorinthians.

Viewed as a bridge over the difficulties of ourignorance as to how the dead of past ages are tostimd alive again in their own proper persons,to receive award according to their deeds, theidea of continuous conscious life between deathand the resurrection may be helpful to someminds, to believe it credible that God will raisethe dead; but here is a thing that appears to usvery incredible, namely, that Paul could havebelieved in the consciousness of the dead whenhe wrote the part of the letter just named. Inthat fifteenth chapter of 1st Corinthians, we findthat there were some among them who said"there is no resurrectiou of the dead;" andfrom the objections put into their mouths by theApostle in verse 35, " How are the dead raised,&c.," it is very clear that what these personsdenied was the resurrection of those who werereally dead. The purport of the supposed ob-jection is that a resurrection of the dead is anahsurdity-the question is put with the idea thatit is unanswerable.

Now, had the Apostle held the idea of "thesurvival of the soul" that-"There is no death; what seems so, is transition,"would he not have met his cavilling objector insome such words as these, " My dear friend, thematter is not so difficult as you imagine; thoughthe body crumbles to dust, the real man lives on,continuously and consciously, till the day of resur-rection, when he enters his new and' everlastinghabitation." Or" The resurrection of the deadis not what you suppose, it is not a resurrectionfrom an uuliving condition after ages of cor-ruption, but an immediate transition of the soulinto a spiritual body, prepared for its reception.Yea, indeed, the germ of the spiritual body lieshid in this mortal frame, death merely disengagesitto fulfil its destiny."

Of this I feel confident that, had the theoristsof resurrection living now been in Paul's place,they would have met the deniers of the resur-rection of the dead in such a way, and mostreasonably, too, if the dead are alive.

Well, the fact that the Apostle did not followsuch a course, is decisive evidence that he hadno faith in ideas of this kind. So far from that,he meets the denial of a resurrection of the dead

, in such a way as to show that he believed thatthe dead were really dead, in the sense that we

do. He refers their resurrection to the power ofGod, who from a dead seed raises a living plant.He employs a line of argument which plainly andlogically sets forth his belief that all future lifefor the dead depends on their resurrection, sayingto those who affirmed that the dead rise not, "Ifyour doctrine be true, let us eat and drink, forto-morrow we die."

Had the Apostle believed death to be no morethan a change of residence, and in the case ofthe Christian a glorioualy-transcendant change,we would not have found him writing thus: "Isnpposed it necessary to send to you Epaphro-ditus, my brother and companion in labour andfellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he thatministered to my wants; for he longed after youall, and was full of heaviness, because that youhad heard that he had been sick, for, indeed, hewas sick, nigh unto death; but the Lord hadmercy on him, and not on him only, but on mealso, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow."Phil. ii. 25-27.

Is it conceivable that the Apostle would haveregarded it as an act of the Divine mercy todeliver Epaphroditus from the celestial blessed",ness and pleasures evermore in the presenceof Christ; and that the event of his belovedfriend' and fellow-worker passing into such adesirable condition, could be to the Apostle thecause of intense sorrow?

This line of thought leads us at once to thattender and memorable scene at Bethany, recordedso touchingly in the eleventh chapter of St.John's Gospel. J esus said to His disciples, " Ourfriend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go to awake himout of sleep." Misunderstanding the sense ofonr Lord's words, the disciples replied, " Lord, ifhe sleep, he shall do well." "Then said Jesusunto them plainly, Lazarus is dead." Let it beobserved, that whatever speculative cogitatorsmay say to the contrary, Jesus spoke of His"friend Lazarus," when He said, he" sleepeth;"and when, dropping the figure, He said plainly," Lazarus is dead." Even so did the sisters ofLazarus regard the event, for they said, " Lord, ifThou hadst been here, our brother had not died."The Lord assured them that their brother wonldrise again. And the historian tells us that whenJesus had followed the mourners to the grave ofHis friend, and had prayed to His Father, " Hecried with a loud voice, Lazurus, come forth.And he that was dead came forth."

The prescribed limits forbid further remark;but we submit to the reader whether such testi-monies as these do not show clearly that thosewho employed them believed that the dead arenot alive; and that their li ving again depends ontheir resurrection, that "The IntermediateState" is a state of death.

Thanks be to God it is not an eternal state.Jesus our Lord is coming again to open the

prison doors of Hades, when" all that are in thegraves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth.They that have done good unto the resurrectionof Life, and they that have done evil to the resur-rection of condemnation." "Even so come,Lord Jesus."-Edinburgh.

SECOND ARTICLE.By REV. W. R. TOMLINSON, M.A.Thoughts on the Intermediate State.

SIR, you invite discussion on the question ofthe "Intermediate State." But as you

define that state in p. 149 of the Bible Standardfor September, as Sleep until the dayof Judgment,I take it that your invitation to a " Symposium"on that very important and interesting subjectis intended as a challenge; a friendly, kindly,Christian, Bible one of course, but still a chal-lenge to those who take another view of thequestion.

Now, when in doubt about a doctrine in theBible, I always try to test it by the words of ourLord; and while agreeing with you to the fullthat Conditional Immortality is essentially thepersonal teaching of our Lord, and from which,indeed, its carries its chief weight, its over-whelming warrant of conviction, I am equally atissue with you on the question of sleep of thesoul until a resurrection day, as being commonto all. I see nothing in it which accords withthe doctrine of Christ; and, boldly enun-ciate an opinion, that not only shall we notall sleep, but it seems to me very doubtfulwhether any of UB will sleep at all exceptfor repose, from the day of our deathuntil the second death. And this opinion isgained from the teaching of the Lord Jesus.Surely the soul might as well be dead, for allintents and purposes, as sleeping in the foulgrave for thousands of years? And though wehave no reason to estimate the soul much morehighly than the body, per se, when not led byGod's Holy Spirit; yet one cannot but thinkbetter of its natural activity as the work of God,than to suppose that, like the sluggard or thesleeping beauty in the fable, it should befashionedto spend so much idle time. For the soul is theman.

Of course those who believe in the sleep of thesoul have their reasons for it. All I say is thatit is not the teaching of Christ, " God is not the

, God of the dead, but of the living," yea, ofAbraham, Isaao, and Jaeob, who are living now.When the multitude heard this doctrine, we aretold, "they were astonished." And so many arenow, but that cannot be helped. Living, acting,thinking, not sleeping. For were Moses andElijah, awake as they were at the transfiguration,an exception to the rule? What proof, whatdistant hint or suggestion, have we that theirbeing awake was an exception; at any rate from


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42 THE BIBLE STANDARD.anything we learn from the life of our Lord? to which the soul of the beggar, Lazarus, wasWhat happened at the transfiguration was a fact, carried by the angels of death into Abraham'snot a mere parable; and as Moses and Elijah bosom. The other, for bad souls, separated fromwere not sleeping, but acting as well as living, the former by an impassable gulf, was called thewhy not Abraham, Isaae, and Jacob? lower Sheol, Tartarus, or Hades, where the richWas the penitent thief to be asleep whenhe man, in the parable, lifted up his eyes, being in

should, on the very day of their crncifixion ani! I torments, an~,saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarusdeath, meet the Lord in Paradise? Was the ID hIS bosom.Lord of life Himself asleep when, though His Again, in regarding the question of the Tnterme-body was dead, His soul met the thief according diate State, we can hardly suppress the place whichto promise; and still had time before the exalted the doctrine of re-incarnation arrogates to itself.sou+ rejoined His body, to visit unhappy spirits Many of the Jews believed that it was a generalin prison? No idle time spent in sleep there; law of life; and when they asked our Lord, " Didthough Christ was truly dead. Nor was this only a this man sin or his parents, that he was bornparable, it was fact. "Forasmuch then as Christ blind?" our Lord did not rebuke them for theirsuffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with first remark, but merely answered that thethe same mind. For unto this end was the blindness, in the instance before them, occur redGospel preached even to the dead, that they for another cause, viz., that a notable miraclemightibe judged according to men in the flesh, should be wrought by Himself. D'Oyly andbut live according to God in the spirit." This Mant, in their Explanat01'Y Notes of the Holypreaching, was cer tainly not uttered to men i Bible, say that" It was the general tradition ofasleep, nor with the view of mocking those to I the Jewish nation that Elijah the 'I'ishbite waswhom it was addressed, as St. Peter so plainly to come in person as the forerunner of theshows. Christ is the "Shepherd and Bishop Messiah." Why not?of souls," and souls exist out of the flesh as wellas in the flesh.Was the" fool, " whose soul was required of

him the same night that he died, any more asleepthan was our Lord Himself between His deathand His resurrection, or than was the thief, or Imay say thieves? The case of the "fool" istold in parable, but it is a parable, l ike others,spoken with a view of representing a fact. Ifthose who believe in the sleep of the soul thinkthat it affects both the evil and the good untilthe judgment day, so we, who think otherwise,have good reason to suppose that the" fool's"position after tbe death of the body, is as mucha state of wakefulness as that of the penitentthief.And is not the parable of " The rich man and

Lazarus "intended to represent a truth? vVehave good reason to think that Dives was by nomeans asleep. We must remember that the richman was not in hell but in Hades, as the RevisedTestament shews those who, ignorant of theGreek language, had been kept in the dark onthis point. I look in my English dictionary, andI find Hades shortly described as " The receptacleof departed spirits." In the note of Valpy'sGreek Testament to Luke xvi. 22-23, I find thefollowing interpretation of the term" Hades,"-" The general receptacle of departed spirits, in theintermediate state before the resurrection wascalled in Hebrew, Sheol, and in Greek, Hades.This was supposed, says Dr. Halos, to be dividedinto two separate departments: the one for goodsouls, called Paradise, into which our Saviourpromised admission to the penitent thief on thecross; to which St. Paul was caught up invision, and wished to be there with Christ; and

Nothing appears to me more plain than thatour Lord accepted the prophecy of Micah literally,and unmistakeably affirmed that John the Baptistwas actually a re-incarnation of the soul ofElijah; thereby showing that John was, conse-quently, pre-existent, And it does seem remark-able that Elijah, threatened to death by a womanin one life, which was alone avoided by flight,should have received the fruition of that threatin his second life. If the laws of nature aregeneral, that which has happened once mayalways happen again, and this must be the casewith re-incarnation as in other things, even if it benot a general rule of life by necessity. Thesoul of Lazarus, the friend of Jesus, was, like hisMaster's, re-incarnated after their bodies hadbeen dead three days, proving re-incarnation apossibility.The question of "The Intermediate State"

opens up a wide field indeed for speculation.The IataBov. Frederick William Robertson, ofBrighton, a well-known writer and a discipleof Coieridge, has translated for us a long passagefrom the philosopher Gotthold Lessing, whoasks, "Can a man have been, i~ one and theself-same life, a sensual Jew and a spiritualChristian? Can he in the self-same life haveovertaken both? . . Surely not that I But whymay not every individual man have existed morethan once upon the earth? Is this hypothesis solaughable merely because it is the oldest?Because the human understanding, before theso phistries of the schools had perverted anddebilitated it, lighted upon it at once? Go thineinscrutable way, Eternal Providence i Onlylet me not despair of Thee because of thisinscrutableness I"

REPLY TO PROFESSOR BIRRS ONCONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY.

By MARTIN M. WILSON.RESPECTING Mr. Birks' assertion (August

issue) that we maintain the converse of thedoctrine of Eternal Judgment, no reply is requiredexcept a simple denial. There surely cannot befound a single well-instructed believer in Con-ditional Immortality, who would for a momentquestion the unchanging and eternal nature ofthe final judgment passed upon sinners by theGreat Judge of all men.Mr. Birks brings forward five main arguments

by which to disprove our assumed negation.Firstly, he proceeds to prove that the naturalmeaning of the Greek word" aionian," is thatof endlessness. This is quite beside the mark,for even if he denied the fact we should oursel vesmaintain it, at least as regards the doctrine ofEternal Judgment.Secondly, ,the Professor quotes the words

" Where their worm dieth not and the fire is notquenched," as if they implied the eternal existenceof t)1e carcases subjected to the act ion of the wormsandftre. Now, when we have no proof to the con-trary, it is' only reasonable to believe that naturalconsequences will result from natural causes, andno one will deny that the natural action of wormsand fire is to corrupt and destroy. If a massof living worms, spoken of collectively as " their1V0rm," is to feed upon the, carcases of thetransgressors, and if their WOj'mis not to die, thenthe natural conclusion is, assuredly, that thecarcases shall be most effectually disposed of. Onwhat conceivable grounds, we may ask, is itso generally 'assumed that unquenehable fireprese?'ves what is cast into it? Surely not on anyScriptural or historical grounds, for we can shewthat Scripture prophecy and hi,stOl'y furnish themost conclusive proofs to the contrary. We readin Jeremiah xvii. 27, " But if ye will not hearkenunto me . . . . . then will I kindle a fire in thegates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces ofJerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." Hasthis been fulfilled? A refer~nce to 2 Chron .xxxvi. 19, supplies the answer, " And they burntthe house of God, and brake down the wall ofJerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof withfire." To leave no room for mistake, verse 21continues, " To fulfil the word of the Lord by themouth of Jeremiah." Further, Nehemiah con-firms the record (ii.17), " Ye see the distress thatwe are in; how Jerusalem lieth waste, and thegates thereof are burned with fire." Here wehave the recorded action of un quenchable fire,but no one will maintain that it preservedJerusalem, or that it is still burning.Mr. Birks asks, "How could words more

strongly affirm the unending character of thesentence then to be proclaimed?" But thereal question at issue is not the "unending


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THE BIBLE STANDARD. 43character of the sentence," but the nature of thepunishment; this we maintain is death withouthope of resurrection, absol~te loss of existence.If any man shall say that death is no punish-ment, we can only refer him to Genisee iii. 17to 24, wherein God denounces, after a compara-tively short and sorrowful life, loss of livingexistence as the penalty of Adam's sin, and thisin the plainest of language. Had there been nohope of resurrection, this would have been forAdam, Eternal Judgment, and an unendingpunishment.By those who would make two men out of one,

the sentence on Adam is understood as onlyreferring to his body, but such reasoners mustnot forget that if this be so, then God, in definingthe penalty of disobedience, uttered no threatand denounced no curse against the soul at all.The simple fact is, that the sinner is not punishedby halves, but must suffer the penalty in hisentire nature as a complete man.Thirdly, Mr. Birks, while asserting the immor-

tality of all men, admits that the entire man,body and soul, is capable of loss of existence, and,in fact, liable to it if God so willed. In his firstsub-division he says, '" A perpetual sleep,' asdenounced against Babylon, seems the nearestapproach in Scripture to the idea of annihilation."Surely these words are not stronger than" FearHim who is able to destroy both soul and bodyin hell," or, "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction?" To my mind there is nocomparison in the strength of the langnage.in his second contrast or sub-division, Mr.

Birks grants as much as we could ever expectMr. Edward White or Mr. S. Minton to grant onthe same subject.In his third contrast, the Professor tells usthat while man is every moment dependent onhis Maker for every breath he breathes, and that,to quote Job xxxiv, 14, 15, God could, by resumingHis Spirit and His Breath, cause all livingcreatures, man included, absolutely to cease toexist, still we have no hint in Scripture that Hewill ever do such a thing. "Nay," says Mr. Birks," it seems expressly precluded by that sentenceof the Apostle, that' the gifts and calling of Godare without repentance.''' Supposing this q uo-tation had any bearing on the subject whatever,it might just as well be brought forward to provethat no man has ever yet died a natural death,because natural life is surely the gift of God tothe bodily man, and if this quotation is apposite,then this gift of God is without repentance, andundertakers and cemeteries have only an ima-ginary existence, for no man's body has ever yetdied or ever can. Moreover, we might as wellsay that Adam's original innocence and happiness,being the calling-of God, Adam. never lost them.To attempt to apply such a quotation to thissubject is simply to reduce the whole matter toabsurdity.Just to examine the quotation from the Bookof Job, "If He set His heart upon man, if Hegather nnto Himself His spirit and His breath; allflesh shall perish together, and man shall turnagain unto dust." This is what Mr. Birks saysthere is no reason to suppose that God ever will

do. Perhaps not in the comprehensive anduniversal way spoken of, but in individual casesit is taking place every day, every honr, everymoment. What is the result of God's gatheringunto Himself His spirit and His breath? Simplya perishing, and man returns to his dust. Wesee this taking place around ns continually, and,.seeing the effect, we know the cause. Even aswe read in the book of Ecctesiastes, " Then shallthe dust return unto the earth as it was; and thespi rit shall return unto God who gave it." WhenMr. Birks tells us there is no reason to believethat God will ever gather unto Himself thespirit given, he simply asks us to believe that noman ever did return to his dust or ever will do.Fourthly, we are told that, "At the time ofthe final judgment, both in Matt. xxv. and theApocalypse, the resurrection is past, nay, deathitself is abolished and cast into the lake of fire."" Thus a future extinction of being, by which theresult of the Judgment should be terminated andbrought to an eternal end, seems to be entirelyprecluded." Again we find the learned Professorjumping to conclusions and adopting a line ofargument which would prove too much. InMatt. xxv. there is not a word said about eitherresurrection or the abolition of death, so itappears Mr. Birks bases his conclusions on theclosing verses of Rev. xx. 14, 15, " And death andhell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the

second death. And whosoever was not fouudwritten in the book of life was cast into the lakeof fire." From the consecutive order of theabove words, Mr. Birks seems to gather thatdeath is abolished before the wicked are cast intothe lake of fire. This is rather an astonishingconclusion, in the face of the fact that the wickedsuffer the second death III the lake of fire, andthat Jesus directly intimates that God is not onlyable to destroy both body and soul 'in Gehenna,but that, in the case of the nnfaithful, He will doit, just as much as the persecutors of the churchwere not only able but willing to kill the bodiesof many of the believers. However, by lookingback a couple of verses in this chapter, we findthat the consecutive order of the words is notaltogether to be relied on, for we find the dead,small and great, standing before God and judgedout of the books, before they are said to havebeen raised from the dead. Referring back toverse 11, we find that heaven and earth fled awayand no place was found for them, and yet inverse 13, we read that the sea gave up the deadwhich were in it. Therefore, the mere circum-stance that death is cast into the lake of fire, inthe verse preceding that which consigns thewicked to the same place, amounts to nothing,and is perfectly consistent with St. Paul's state-ment that "The last enemy which shall bedestroyed is death.".The Professor 's statement, that the extinctionof the wicked would reverse the original workof creation, has no point whatever, unless hewould have ns believe that God created themwicked with the intention that they should sinand suffer to all eternity, which is absurd. Ifhe is only reviving the old argument that manwas created to live, and must, therefore, live forever, he might as well argue that Adam wascreated to be holy and happy, and therefore neverfell. The idea that all God's works mustnecessarily be eternal and irrevocable is evidentlycontrary to Scripture and common sense.Fifthly, the Professor's argument under thishead is to my mind astounding and incompre-hensible. Unless it is that his peculiar notionof the unsaved, adoring God while in hell-torments, has reconciled his mind to ideas whichto other minds are inconceivable, I cannotimagine how he could ever put forward in soberseriousness such a line of argument, He says," The annihilation and utter extinction of theungodly cannot reverse their past actions," &c.,&c, Of course not, but neither could theireternal existence in hell-fire. To my mind a

more logical argument is this. Either hell-torments wi ll atone for sin, or they will not. Ifthey will, then a certain fixed period of snfferingwi 1 1 atone for a certain amount of guilt, and asthe worst of sinners are only able to sin for asmall number of years at the longest, the timemust come when all their sins are atoned for bysuffering, in which case if, the sinner be immortal,he may reasonably expect at least another fairtrial or probation. If, on the other hand,torment will not atone for sin, then what possibleobject can there be in tormenting the sinner toall eternity? It cannot be to give pleasure toGod, for He disclaims anything of the kind; itis no good to the sinner, for, being eternal, therecan be no future advantage to gain; the savedcannot take delight in it, or they must be changedvery much for the worse, and such a man asStephen must have forgotten his prayer for hispersecutors. Can it be for the good and warningof succeeding races of intelligent beings? Surelythey can be warned by authentic records of God'sjust judgments without such a frightful andeternal manifestation as this; and what justicecould there be in keeping millions of sentientbeings in torments only for the benefit andwarning of races who were never inj ured by thesufferers, or conferred any benefit- on them.However, this brings me to the close of theProfessor's argument, "Abolishing the personsthemselves by whom those actions have beenwronght, and on whom so long as they exist theguilt of them rests, it would leave the greaterpart of the past history of the world, the actionsof the vast majority of the human race, asaccidents without any subject, an immenseirreversible blot in the vast scheme of Providence,in which God the Creator could be glorifiedneither by judgment nor by mercy; it would sofar reverse and blot out all results and traces ofGod's judgment and His original workmanshipfrom the view of the 8u1'viv01s." Words and asser-tious with scarcely a particle of argument. If Iunderstand the meaniug at all, we must supposethat the future inhabitants of the universe will beincapable of comprehending the history of God'sjudgments without seeing the subjects thereofliving and suffering before their eyes. Thiscertainly does not say much for the supposedintelligence of such survivors. When I meetwith the assertion that the extinction of thewicked would leave their past history a blot inthe vast scheme of Providence, I can onlyoppose the counter assertion that it would benothing of the kind, but that their continuedexistence in misery might reasonably be so re-garded. In which way, we may ask, would Godbe the more glorified, whether by the preserva-tion of sinner, in misery or by an action whichwould sweep them and their sm out of existenceand leave only the eternal record of' God'srighteous judgments? As to reversinc andblotting out all results and traces of 0God'sjudgments and .His original workmanship fromthe VIew of survivors ; surely the results of Hisjudgment would al ways remain if the condemned,were destroyed and never came to life again, asthe only way to remove the results of judg-ment would be to reinstate the destroyedsinners; and if the survivors must depend uponthe eternal miserable existence of the lost fortheir ideas of the results and traces of God'soriginal workmanship, then indeed their ideasof His workmanship will be very low; and canscarcely redound to the honour and glory of Hisnam~. They, might praise Him for extinguish-mg sin and misery, but hardly for perpetuatingIt.III conclusion, Mr. Birks says of our teaching."The doctrine then not only is devoid ofScriptural evidence, but contradicts great funda-mental truths with regard to the wisdom ofGod in all His works, and the whole scheme ofProvidence, and involves moral anomalies of agrave an d intolerable kind." To all of which I


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44 THE BIBLE STANDARD.will only say that this description fits exactly,not our teaching, but the doctrine of eternaltorments. In fact, I could not better expresswhat must be the verdict of any man of commonsense, after carefully examining the Scripturaland moral basis of this fearful doctrine of ever-lasting misery.-Liverpool.

TESTIMONY IN SALISBURY. signed "Good Intention," written by somevidently friendly person. In the followinissue of October 28, the editor published a lettefrom the Rev. B. B. Wale, and a suppositiousdialogue between the Rector of Fisherdown andTract Distributor. We have only space for thformer.SIR,-I have just had my attention calleda correspondence (inserted in your columnsbetween Mr. Watson and the Rector of Fishertonwho has charged us with unholy cavilling at thWord of God, and with blasphemy. Permit m(as the opening preacher of the Conference)make a few remarks on the subject under dicussion. I will condense them as muchpossible. (1) I challenge the Rector of Fisherton, or any of the clergy of Salisbury, to provthat the wage of sin is eternal torture. I denthat the Holy Scriptures teach such doctrine.affirm that it is the outcome of a Popish 'I'rditionalism. (2) I challenge Mr. Thwaitesany other clergyman, or minister in Salisburyto prove that there is any word in the HebreScriptures or Hebrew language to expres" eternity" or "everlasting duration." (3)affirm that the Hebrew words so rendered carwith them the idea of indefiniteness, and nthe idea of endless duration. (4) I affirm ththe words so rendered, in themselves determinnothing, but that their meaning, scope and limtation, must be determined and is determined, bthe theme of which they treat. (5) I affirm ththe Greek equivalents in the New Testamencannot carry with them a meaning beyond thscope and purpose of the original words they aintended to represent. (6) I affirm that thstandards of the Church of England do not teacthe doctrine of "Eternal Torment," and thatpreaching it Mr. Thwaites goes boyond and ouside the standards of his own Church, andchallenge the rev. gentleman to prove tcontrary. I am prepared to come to Salisburat any time to maintain and to prove thepositions in public discussion on a public plaform. But perhaps the rev. gentleman wdecline the discussion with me on the same plas he declined it with Mr. Watson; that he is"ambassador from God," and must devote htime to the preaching of the Gospel. An ambassador from God! May I be permittedask what and where are his credentials? H" preaches the Gospel." So do I to my own cogregation and elsewhere, and in a way whichventure to think even Mr. Thwaites wouapprove. But I am not an " ambassador froGod." What constitutes Divine ambassadoship? Standing up to preach? Then eveman who does that, from the Pope down to t"Peculiar People," including Joe Smith aBrigham Young, is an " ambassador from GodAnd they are bringing ten thousand contradictorystatements from the Royal Court of Heaveeach of these" ambassadors" fiercely denouncinall the others as impostors, denouncing the" orders" as invalid and their credentials forgerieOr would the Rector of Fisherton confine his coception ofDivine Ambassadorship (I do not thinhe would) to those who have received Episcopordination? Then" Father" Ignatius, and MVoysey, Dr. Pusey, and Dr. Colenso, and tAuthors of "Essays and Reviews," are all abassadors from God, and each flatly contradictinthe message that the others say they habeen commissioned to bring from the" KingKings." The fact is, that there is no" ambassdol's" from God on earth now. I know thatweak-kneed and dwarfish theology, both in tEstablishment and out of it, tries to make itslook a few inches taller than it really is,climbing into the stilts of "Divine ambassadoship." But it is a pitiable spectacle, at whisceptics sneer and thinking Christians smiThe Apostles were "ambassadors from Goand if anyone had disputed their claims, thcould have produced their credentials. T

O UR testimony at Salisbury during the recentConference has made some impression inthat city, and the subject is still being agitatedin the columns of the SalisbU1y Times. Thefollowing correspondence taken from that paperspeaks for itself :-October 20th, 1882.-Dear Sir,-The Rectorof Fisherton, both before and since the lateConference on "Conditional Immortality," heldin this city, has thought fit to speak in terms so

Madras, India, September, 1882. unjust of those who took part in that ConferenceD EAR FRIEND,-I enclose a letter put into that we have been compelled to protest againstmy hands, from one Mr. C. Massillamani, the treatment accorded us; and I trust to youra native Christian Pastor, residing at Nagercoil, well-known fairness to insert the enclosed corres-in Travancore. The letter is, as you will per- pondence in the next issue of the Salisburyceive, a joint-letter intended for yourself, and Dr. Times.-I am, dear sir, yours sincerely, W. R.Leask; a perusal of it will interest you, and you Moore, Local Secretaru,are at liberty to make what use of it you think Salisbury, Octobe1'lst, 1882.-The Rev. E. N.desirable, perhaps you may find room for Thwaites.-Dear sir,-I have been informed byextracts if not for the whole letter. The letter several members of your congregation that, in awill serve to show you how the truth of life sermon preached since the late Conference ononly obtainable in Christ, is gradually spreading "Conditional Immortality," you denouncedamong native believers in this country. The those who took part in that Conference asChristian brother who sends you this letter, is "Blasphemers" and said other hard things ofvery poor, and striving almost single-handed in them; also that in your parish magazine, pub-the midst of great darkness, both heathen and lished just before the Conference, in advisingsemi-Ohristian. The letter will speak for itself. your readers not to attend, you stigmatised theI have read many others from him, all simple views held by its promoters as "Unholy cavil-and earnest. ling." As one of those thus held up to repro-Myown opinion, and that of many brethren, is, bation, and one, moreover, who sincerelythat the day is surely dawning when not only admires your earnest zeal in the Master's causeamong our own countrymen, but also among true -may I urge on you that this is not a Christianand loving believers,-natives of this country,- or even a gentlemanly way of dealing with~heglorious truths as taught by the Lord and His fellow-Christians who have the misfortune notApostles, will bemore and more sought after. The to see" eye to eye" with yourself? And may Ivain traditions and conceits of men, as to their say, in addition, that if you really believe theinherent immortality, are being cast to the moles views then advanced to be un-Soriptural, itand the bats, their proper companions, and as would be fairer to meet and refute those whothe truth of" The Life The Light" breaks in hold them, than to denounce them and takeupon the mind. other truths open, such as the away their Christian character where they have" Coming of Christ," &c. i no opportunity of defending themselves? In

The old teaching, "Ye shall not surely die," I the evangelistic services you hold, and at whichblunts the understanding, and stunts the growth it is often my privilege to attend, you alwaysof the believer. warmly inculcate mutual love, forbearance andThe Bible Standard is in increasing demand, union amongst Christian workers, and I soand I hope shortly to ask for a larger supply. heartily reciprocate those sentiments that I feelSome few friends are now publishing tracts, constrained to express the deep pain yourculled from the writings of American and British conduct has caused many who esteem you veryChristians, and issuing them, translated into highly. If our opinions on "Life iu ChristTamil, among the native Christians, and have only" or the "Non-eternity of Torment" are

appropriated the name of "The Conditional important enough to engage your attention, thenImmortality Association of Southern India." they are worthy your meeting those who holdThe efforts, at present, are necessarily on a them and proving them to be erroneous; and Ismall scale, as money is scarce and sympathisers am authorised to say that those who in Salisburyare few. so read and understand God's Word are ready atI have lately received some most cheering any time to meet you and others who take yourletters from new converts to the faith of the view and temperately discuss the grounds forLife. "The Bible is a new Book" is a common their belief. If you decline to do this I think Iexpression; well, it is another way of saying, must ask you to forbear affixing a stigma on us" whereas I was blind, now I see," for in reality to which your high character and undoubtedit is not' The Book'that has altered, but the influence gives great weight.-I am, dear sir,reader's spiritual vision has changed. Many yours very truly, Alfred. Watson.others are, as it were, nibbling at the truth; Fisherton Rectorsj, Salisbury, October 9th,they wonld like to know more, but the fear of 1882.-My dear Mr. Watson,-I thank you forman and after consequences act very powerfully your letter, forwarded to me in the North, whereto deter. I am for a day or two. In reply, I write to sayYou do not hear much from this country of that I am unable to respond to your invitationthe work going on; but of this I can assure you, to discuss the subject on which you write. Mythat the truths, in which we are in sympathy, duty as an ambassador is not to discuss but toare surely and steadily gaining ground, and proclaim God's truth as revealed in His Word,there are now, comparatively, a large number and to warn my congregation against the manyholding the doctrines of "The Conditional errors by which they are surrounded. I am sorryImmortality Association," and "patiently wait- that you have been misinformed as to the exacting for God's Son from heaven." expression I made use of in my church. I thankI need hardly say that "The Rainbow" and you for your kind expression towards me. I can" The Bible Stomdard;" their editors and writers, sincerely say that I do love all those who loveare held in much esteem and love by believers our Lord Jesus Christ and you amongst thatin this country, and may these publications con- number; but that does not make me blind totinue to be used of "The Lord" for the inereas- the errors into which God's children are some-ing good of His people, and to the glory of His times led, and these I shall always denounille.-great name.-E. ARMSTRONG,(C01Tesponding Yours very faithfully, E. N. Thwaites. _ll1ember.) [The accompanying and interesting This was followed by a reply from Mr. Watson,letter is in type, but space forbids insertion until which appeared with the above correspondencenext issue. ED. B.S,] in the issne of October 21, together with a letter

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THE STANDARD. 45King who had sent them,endued them withpower to work miracles, to heal the sick, to raisethe dead. These were the fruits of their Divineaccredited ambassadorship. Who can producesuch credentials now? No one! All that is leftto the Church on earth now since the last of theApostles died-is Truth-not Authority. Allis comprised in what Paul wrote to Timothy."That which thou hast heard of me, committhou to faithful men able to teach others."(2 Tim. ii. 2.)-1 remain, yours obediently,Burlinqton. B. Wale.The following letter appeared in the issue ofNov. 4., Blandford: Sir,-As chairman of twoof the meetings of the C. 1. A. lately held in yourcity, I feel called upon to join in protestingagainst the language employed by the Rev. E. N.Thwaites towards the members of the Association.Mr. Thwaites himself would no more shrinkfrom cavilling at the Scriptures or blasphemingthe name of God than would everyone who tookpart in the proceedings. To some of us it doesseem like" cavilling" when, in order to maintaina certain theory, the obvious import of words isemphatically denied. This we boldly affirm, thattbe unspeakably horrible doctrine of endlesstorments cannot be maintained except at theexpense of much of the most essential teachingof the Bible. Both in spirit and letter theScriptures give the lie to it. This also we know,that the two or three texts usually relied on insupport of the belief are capable of anothermeaning. To base the appalling doctrine inquestion on these exceptional texts is to iuvertthe pyramid of truth, and vainly attempt tomake it rest upon its apex. If Mr. Thwaiteswould only glance at the literature of theEreethouqht. press, he would see how much of itis a revolt from the creed he would uphold. Therenowned Ingersol tells us he commenced hispublic career swearing eternal war against twothings-American Slavery and the Christian'sHell.-Yoms obediently, J. J. Hobbs.

[The further development of this correspon-dence must be reserved for our next.-ED. B. S.]

BIBLICAL EXEGESIS, No. 1.By BURLINGTON B. WALE, F.R.G.S." The wicked shall be turned into hell, and the

nations that forget God." Psalm ix. 17.T HE title of this Psalm is :-" To the chiefmusician upon Muthlabben, a Psalm ofDavid." The occasion of the writing of thePsalm was David's victory over Goliath, as thetitle itself implies; the Hebrew being gnal-muth-lab-ben-upon the death of Labben, or, ofhim in the midst, namely, Goliath, who is said tobe in the midst: because he went out and stoodbetween the two armies of Israel and thePhilistines (1 Sam. xvii.) The defeat of Goliathled to the destruction of the Philistine army.Animated and cheered by the victory, thePsalmist passes onward in thought and anticipa-tion to the period when all evil-doers shall be cutoff. When" The wicked shall be turned intohell, and all the nations that forget God."In analysing this verse we shall look first atthe place .hell." There are two words sorendered in our version of the Hebrew Scriptures-" Sheol" and '


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46 THE BIBLE STANDARD.Then shall He come with Royal power,To sit and reign upon His throne:Then shall the time of peace begin,The fair millennial day shall dawn.All nations shall before Him bowHis name all people shall adore;And His dominion shall extendFrom sea to sea, from shore to shore.Bacup. E. HARGREAVES.HEZEKIAH'S DREAD OF DEATH. C.M.*KING of Israel long agoAWas told that he must die,His kingdom vast to lay aside,And with his fathers lie.How did this king the news receive,Was he not glad to go,And leave a world where he had seenSo much of sin and woe?Oh no, he turned his face awayAnd cried in anguish sore;And told of all that he had doneIn days long gone before.God heard his prayer; He saw his teal's,And sent the prophet soon,To comfort him, and say that HeWould grant the long'd-for boon.So glad was he for fifteen yearsAdded unto his days,That he no longer mourned his lot,But spent the time in praise.He praised the Lord and then did say,-, Oh Lord I was oppressed,But in Thy love Thou did'st forgive,And gav'st me life and rest.The dead they cannot praise Thee, Lord,Nor call upon Thy name,They cannot of Thy wonders tell,Nor spread abroad Thy fame.The living they shall praise Thee, Lord,As I do here this day;They shall of Thy great goodness speak,And grateful homage pay.'

Clewe. S.C.BRANCH ASSOCIATIONSGUIDE AND CHRONICLE.LIVERPOOL:-Sec.: Mr. W. H. Miller, 9, ClaytonSqr,NEW ZEALAND-Sec.: Rev. G. A. Brown, Lin-dum House, Vincent St., Auckland. Sepa-rate Organ the New Zealand Bible Standardpost-free direct 3s. 6d. per annum. 'SOUTH AUSTRALIA-Sec.: Mr. G. H. GloverKent Town. 'LONDON, N.W. :-Sec.: R. J. Hammond, Esq.,80, Edgware Rd., W.BRADFORD, YORKS.:-Sec.: Mr. A. MitchellDruids Buildings, Clayton, near Bradford. 'CANADA-Sec.: Mr. G. H. Hills, 17, WilliamSt., Yorkville, Ontario.INDIA:-Madl'as (Southern India). SeparateOrgan, The Bible Banner, published in the

Tamil tongue.N.B.-This Periodical, together with theLiterature; of the Association, can be procuredof any of the' above Branches. Members en-rolled therewith are included in the GeneralAssociatiou, NEW ZEALAND.Auckland.-On July 27, the Anniversary Teawas held, and was exceedingly well attended.Mr. George Aldridge received a hearty welcomeas an Evangelist, together with a purse contain-ing 27 10s.IIAt the after meeting the Rev. G.A. Brown presided, and addresses were given byMessrs. B. Cass, Wilco x, Dixon, Whitehead, E.H. Taylor, G. Aldridge, and P. McNaught.Thames.-The work here is being conductedby Mr. E. H. Taylor. The Sunday Evening

Services in the Odd Fellow's Hall are well at-tended by attentive and enquiring audiences;also the Thursday Evening Bible Class. 400(N. Zd.) Bible Standards have been distributedfrom door to door, and a number of pamphletssold.Otahuhu.-In June a course of four lectureswas delivered in the Public Hall. Considerableinterest was manifested.New Plymouth.-On August 13th and 14th,Mr. Dixon lectured here each evening to goodand interested audiences. On the second nigbtan animated discussion followed. A number of(New Zealand) Bible Standards and other litera-ture were circulated.

CANADA.The Secretary (Mr. G. H. Hills) sends us acopy of the Toronto World, containing a letteron the Scriptural nature of death, and the neces-sity of resurrection. Jas. Lesslie, Esq., hasordered 1,000 Tracts and Tract-books, and 250copies of the Conference Report for circulation.

SUBSCRIBING CHURCHESGUIDE AND CHRONICLE.LONDON,N. :-Maberly Chapel (Congregational),Ball's Pond Rd., Kingsland. Min.: Rev.W. Leask, D.D. S. Services 11 & 6-30.LINCOLN:-Mint Lane Chapel (Baptist). Min.:Rev. G. P. Mackay. S. Services 10-30 & 6.SKIPTON(Yorks) :-Mission Church, TemperanceHall. Supplies. S. Services 10-30 & 6.GLASGOW-Christian Meeting, 13, Kirk St., Gor.I bals. Supplies. S. Services 11 & 3. .BRADFORD(Yorks) :-Mission Church, Temper-ance Hall, Chapel St., Leeds Rd. Supplies.S. Services 11 & 6-30.TORQUAy:-Life and Advent Free Church, EastSt., Torre. Supplies. S. Services 11 & 6-30.LONDON,N.W. :-Christian Meeting, St. John'sRooms, Grove St., Lisson Grove. Min.: R.J. Hammond, Esq. S. Services 11 & 7.HULL :-Christian Meeting, Protestant Hall.Supplies. S. Services 11 & 6-30.CHELTENHAM-Regent St. Chapel (Baptist).Min.: Rev. J. C. Carlile. S. Services 11 and6-30.CARLISLE:-Christian Meeting. (Private.)GRAVESEND-Christi.m Meeting, Manor Rd.Room. Pres. Min.: Mr. G. Gosden. S.Services 11 & 6-30. Thurs. 8-30.N.B.-The above Churches make an AnnualCollection, Offertory, or Grant in aid of the Asso-ciation. The same favour is requested fromother Churches in sympathy with the teachingsthereof.BRADFoRD.-Tempemnce Hall.-The AnnualTea and Meeting was held on Saturday, October21st. 100 persons took tea together. Mrs.Wilkinson and her willing assistants provided amost enjoyable repast. The after-meeting waswell attended. Ml'. C. J. Paul presided. TheSecretary (Mr. W. Clark) gave the report.Mention was made of the great loss sustained inthe removal of Mr. G. Aldridge to New Zealand.The year's meetings had been well attended.The morning meetings had, however, suffered.16 members had joined. There had been 9

losses, leaving a total membership 01 63-anincrease of 7. The Treasurer ( 1 \1 1 ' . H. Galloway)gave a most satisfactory balance sheet. Theadoption of the Weekly Offering system had beencrowned with success. A balance of 8 14s. 8d.remained, after meeting the expenses. Ad-dresses were given by Messrs. A. Walker (Dews-bury), W. Clark, and T. Vasey (Bacup). Thechoir, conducted by Mr. J. Sunderland, sang anumber of Bible Themes. On Sunday followingtwo addresses were given by the Rev. T. Vasey,At night the attendance was large. The speakerkept the attention of a pleased and delightedaudience for nearly an hour.

LINCOLN.-Mint-lane Ghapel.-The course oflectures on " The Doings of Daniel the Prophet,"has been attended by large congregations. Aweeks Special Services was held from October 30to November 6, conducted by the Pastor (Rev.G. P. Mackay), assisted by other gentlemen.These were heartily sustained, and the resultsencouraging. Open-air meetings were also heldeach night in the High-street-by permission ofthe Chief Constable. At these some hundredsheard the Word of Life in speech and song.One of the speakers at these meetings is aWesleyan, a gentleman of some influence in thecity (John Richardson, Esq.) In the course ofhis address he said he was a firm believer inLife only in Christ, and considered the ordinaryteaching-as to immortality and eternal torment-utterly wrong.TORQuAY.-Bannercloss Hallo-This place wasopened for Divine worship (for the Churchhitherto worshipping in East-street, 'I'orre) , onNov. 5, when three sermons were delivered, thatin the morning and evening by the Rev. J. F.Thomson (ex-Primitive Methodist, Brighton),that in the afternoon by Mr. H. Cliff. Lectureswere given by the Rev. J. F. Thomson, on Mon-day and Tuesday following, on Advent Truths.On Wednesday, a Public Tea and Meeting washeld. Mr. W. Soper presided, and addresseswere gi ven by the above and Messrs. H. Matthewsand J. H. Cliff, jun. 80 persons took tea. The

services and meetings were well attended. Theservices were continued by Mr. Thomson on thefollowing Sunday. This minister (formerly ofDartmouth) was compelled to resign at the lastPrimitive Methodist Conference-for preachingthe Pre-Millennial Advent=-after nearly twentyyears service. During his above visit he pub-licly declared also his belief in Life only inChrist-which he has privately held for somelittle time. He is an able speaker and preacher.The Bannercross Hall is likely to prove ofservice to the Church, being central, with goodapproaches, and seating 200 persons. AtPaignton also the friends are active in their newand larger sphere in the Palace Hall. Consider-able expense has been incurred in fitting upthese two places, and the members appeal foroutside help. [We can guarantee, from per-sonal knowledge of the place and people, thatany donation sent will be well employed, andthat the need justifies the appeal. Sums maybe sent to H. Cliff (President), 3, Regent's Ter-race, 'I'orquay.i--E. B.B.]

OFFICE NOTES.MONTHLY STATEMENT.October 1st to 31st, 1882.

New Members received :~Life -, Annual 8,Branch 3, TotallI.Subscriptions, Donations, and Gollections:

; B. d ' l B. dBranch Aasoclation, B.G., Ashton-under-London, N.W. .. .. 1 10 0 I Lyne 0 5 0W.J.J., Dublin 1 5 e R.R., London, N.W. 0 5 0C.E.B., Malvern 1 1 0 A.W., Ma.lvern 0 5 0J.C., London, W 1 10 R.D.,BRth 0 50E.A., Madras, India. .. 1 0 0 H.H., Eastbourne .. 0 3 6R.J.H., London, W. 1 00 H.,Salisbury,perL.B. 0 s 6W.J., Birtley .. _... 0 13 0 H., do. do. 0 3 6R.J.II.,MissionaryBox 0 10 6 W.F.S., Church, perH.J.E., London, N.W. 0 10 0 T.V... 0 3 CA.M.P., Newark .. 0 10 0 Branch Association,G.S., Nottingham 0 10 0 Bradford .... 0 3 0D.S., Edinburgh ... 0 10 0 J.H., London, N.... 0 2 6B., per R.J.H., Mis E.P.J., Lincoln, peralonary Box 0 10 0 C.H.. .......... 0 2 6G.W., Malvern 0 10 0 F.S., London, E.C 0 2 6G.K., London, E.C., IV .D., Malvern 0 2 6per J. W.D 0 7 0 D.B.S., Glasgow 0 2 3L.::l., London, S.W 0 5 0 A.B.M., Virginia 0 1 4W.H.P., Waterford .. 0 5 0E.W.F., Dnrhngton . 0 5 0 Total .. 15 3M.R., London, W..... 0 5 0H.G.S.. Huddersfield 0 5 0

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The Bible Standard December 1882