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No. 5. vet. V.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FEBRUARY, 1882.
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ONE

PENNY.

IS

COMING

AGAIN I

He is Coming Again! A Lesson. Genesis xlv. The Revised New Testament. Part IV.... Conditional Immortality. Part IV. The Resurrection and the Life. Part n. The Tree of Life The Spirit of Life Correspondence Extracts... A Devonshire Circular An Advent Hymn A Thought for 1882 Question Column-The Spirits in Prison; Preaching to the Dead; WhIJl'eis Paradise J ... Church and Mission News Notes, News and Reviews... Correspondence-Freedom v. Fetters
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

OOLD, indeed, is the welcome geuerally given even by Christian people, to the grandly-glorious theme of the Second Advent, whenever an attempt is made to broach or expound the same, its advocacy being re. to air a crotchet or delusion involving
It

garded as merely an attempt practical absurdity. ments of its advocates refuted, naturally it certainly Such authority,

Even supposing, however, that

this view of it were true, the stateand if who of the Sacred Word. accepted by those

should be at least refuted, not ridiculed; must be by the authority will be readily

if produced,

object to being met-on

a subject of such transcend ant imindifference.

portance to them-by that the statements so irrational the principle,

mere scoffing or contemptuous of Sscotui Adventists

When a reply is attempted, and unscriptural, probably,

it, as often as otherwise, takes the form are so wild and improbable, on not a fool acare personally the sake of that scorn is the best answer thereto; advice, "Answer fools-for

of Solomon's

cording to his folly."

Doubtless, as far as Millennarians

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concerned, they are quite willing to be considered

Christ and His Truth-but, as far as their teachings are concerned, they prefer to remind such theological opponents that the same writer added, +Ansioer a fool accordinq to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit" (Prov. xxvi. 4, 5). It is not kind to leave us in this conceit of our folly-if such indeed it be, and that is, as yet, not proven. SHOWUS OURERROR, that we may be led to acknowledge it, and to seek a" more excellent way." To" pooh, pooh " our statements, in affected pity for our deall the lusion, proves nothing: it may, possibly, however, show that

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folly is not upon one side, and that vail for ignorance or carelessness. Word. We can recognise no other beyond the foresight

ridicule and contempt is merely a Our appeal from such is to the authority upon a matter so clearly Bring forth then from your

or wisdom of man.

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armoury that" slay this heresy: sword of the Spirit,"

THE
which is the"

BIBLE

STANDARD.
people, but is held, governed, and cursed by the haughty and Turk. Thus, not Abraham's of promise." sesses the Therefore, "land Shall the promise fail? inefficient posIT OANNOT 1

Word-et God," and

surely no difficult task, if heresy it be 1

seed, but that of the false prophet

True, in response to such appeals, we are not uncommonly told that the Scriptures are silent upon such a subject as a literal or personal Second Advent; .ingle Personal that neither Advent, in prophecy, history, thereto: has heen already Gospel narrative, fulfilled: or epistle, do they make any reference which now, and for ever, reigns save for the temporary for the destruction Such an assertion, or assuming that they speak only of a that Christ to earth,

to fulfil it, CHRISTIS COMING AGAIN 1 made to David : "And forever before thee: thine thy

(3.) Let us now consider the promise house and thy kingdom throne shall in my sight viii. 25). be established forever.

shall be established There of Israel" of David it;

in heaven, and will not again return globe.

shall not fail thee a man (2 Sam. vii. 16; 1 King. been for many weary

Assize of the Judgment-day-if

even then-and

to sit on the throne the throne

of this material

This promise was not fulfilled at the original advent, nor has has in the dust, according overturn to the word of the Lord by (xxi. 27). in its nature.

however, seems to us very much like BEGGING THE QUESTION, the thing which has first to be proved; and,

it been since, for centuries prostrate for the teach-

as undeniable

Ezekiel, " I will overturn, come whose right it is; It may be objected

and it shall be no more, until He was conditional

though vailed under the name of piety, and of reverence ings of the Church

and I will give it Him" that this promise

(modern, not ancient), may be in some cases but an are

alias for prejudice or indolence. Let it be our purpose, in this article, to show that the Scriptures

Suppose we grant this, yet the fact remains that Christ-as the seed of David-fulfilled every condition, and was even invited by a section of the people to assume the throne, yet during His ministry on earth, or first advent, He did not sit on David's throne-nor has He since. Ezekiel, however, is very emphatic as to Christ's claim thereto. He says, "WHOSE RIGHT IT IS 1 AND I, (Jehovah) WILL GIVE IT HIM." Jeremiah is equally emphatic: "In that day, and at that time, will I cause the BRANOH OFRIGHTEOUSNESS grow up unto David. to Judah

not silent, but that they fully and clearly set forth this ignored truth; and that they cannot be satisfactorily read in any other light than that of the Second Advent. premising, That, indeed, so far from containing that we mean by the term SECOND ADVENT, and glorified" Son of God" different as of old, though in a very (Eden), and consider "I no trace of Advent,it, they treat more copiously.of the Second than of the First at the beginning,

the personal. presence

of the resurrected

shall be saved, Lord; of Israel

Jerusalem

shall dwell safely

for thus .aith

th

upon this earth, as really and truly ,tate, office, or character. (1.) Let us begin at the beginning subject and creature, thy head, and thou

David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house (xxxiii. 15-17). Be good enough to remember that this throne

the teaching between The First seed, in the

was not above the heavens, where Christ now is, but under them upon the earth in the land of Syria. such throne, being the taketh away sin:" His Divine lary Father's During His first advent Christ occupied no of sorrows" the "Lamb of God, which has shared; and ruled nece,It cannot I "man

of the scene recorded between the offended J ehovah and His rebellious the Devil-Serpent: shalt bruising will put enmity (Gen. iii. 15). thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; bruise his heel" Advent, in its painful closing scene of Calvary, witnessed of this last-named . the prophecy. THE SERPENT'SHEAD was not crushed then nor since. of thi. world." Trinmphs Satan yet lives and reigns the" god as the Victor hitherto. As then, the earth, of the heel of the woman's death of the Saviour; it shall bruise the fulfilment

In heaven, since His Ascension, Christ throne, (Heb. viii. 1.), and not established A Second Advent is therefore Shall the promise fail?

a kingdom of His own! to fulfil Therefore, to fulfil it,

absolutely

the Divine Word.

but it did not witness that of the former part of

CHRISTIS COMING AGAIN 1 (4.) We now turn to Isaiah: Son is given; name shall be called Wonderful, UPONHIS kingdom with justice "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a the Mighty God, the Everand and it with judgment and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His Counsellor, . . upon the throne oJ David,

through the personal presence of our Blessed Lord, was the scene of the first and partial fulfilment of the Divine Word-the crushed heel, or Satan's triumph-so it is but just to infer that fulfilment, it will also be the scene presence of Him ever a reand to fulfil Satan. of its further and complete surrection-the the by the personal

lasting Father, the Prince of Peace from henceforth

to order it, and to establish

even for ever." (ix, 6,7.)

Only the first The Child born,

part of this was fulfilled in and during the first advent. the Son given. day
l

"who was dead and is alive," to crush, vassal of God, and thus to bring about true purpose of the cross in the This involves a

in death-without Christ's triumph,

J s the rest to remain a dead letter? remain without a Second

Such it is to this Advent: for it is a

diabolic head of the malignant

foe of man and usurping of sin and

And such it must

destrnction

promise made to Israel after the flesh (as well as to that after the Spirit.) Indeed, the prophecy itself marks two distinct epochs of time in rela tion to its fulfillment, otherwise why the difference in the tense 1 The first part-relating to the Incarnation-being in the present tense (is,) whilst that relating to the Government and Princely Power is in the future (shall) 1 Why but to distinctly mark two advents, "UPON THE THRONE OF DUID 1" when the essential to its realization; Hitherto

SECOND PERSONAL ADVENT. (2.) We pass now to the promise (or covenant) made to Abraham, the father of the faithful: "And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed (for
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unto

thy

seed

will I give First,

this

land"

(Gen.

xii, 3-7).

This kingly power is to be exercised A personal appearance is therefore

Here are two distinctive

declarations:

of blessing

to all natiom

Paul declares its meaning-Gal.

iii. 8);

Second, the possession

once rejected of men shall be their accepted and adored MESSUH-PRINCE. The King of kings and Lord of lords. His ereaturea only as Jesus, or Saviour: as "Immanuel! "-GOD Therefore, to fulfil it, with eaarsr us 1
IS

of a given land (Syria) by Abraham's

seed, this seed being none other

He has been known to IT OANNOT!

than the Lord Jesus Himself-for such is Paul's witness: "He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ" (Gal. iii, 16). strife, Neither of these covenant-promises since. was fulof filled in the First prey to discord, cherished sin),-are Advent-e-rror at any time suffering, The Natiom,-a Syria is Jewish

then He will be known to such

Shall the Word fail?

OOMING AG.A.IH 1

war, crime,

(all the sad results to each other. for His ancient

not blessed, nor blessings

(5.) Zechariah next demands our attentiou: "Then shall the LORD go forth . . And Hi! feet shall .tand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives

not the possession of Christ, as a dwelling-place

THE

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STANDARD.
Rev. v. 13. " Beasts." . v. 1-5. "Book" (and v. 8-9). v. 10. "Unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." " vi. 5. "Come and see." " vii. 14. " 14. " Great tribulation." "Sir, thou knowest." dwell among

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" Creatures." not altered. Rotherham," scroll." "Unto our God a kingdom and priests, and they reign upon the earth," so Rotherham. " Come! " so La., Tis., Tre., Alf., A.C. ; Rotherham," be thou coming." " The great tribulation," so Botherham." "My Lord, Thou knowest," so Rotherham and all others. " Shall spread His tabernacle over them," so Rotherham . "Shall be their shepherd," so Rotherham. "An eagle flying," so all authorities. " The pit of the abyss;" Botherham, "shaft of the abyss." not altered. Margin," delay." Rotherham, "delay no longer shall there be ; " Bowes, " time shall no longer intervene." "The kingdom, &c., is become," so all authorities. " Sign," so Rotherham. " Woe to the earth, and to the sea" so all authorities. ' " Who hath," so all authorities.

shall cleave in the midst thereof and half of the mountain shall ,.e~ve toward the north, and half of it toward the south." (xiv. 3. 4.) DId such a pbenomenon take place at or during the first advent? The Evangelists, whilst speaking of Mount Olivet as a place of meditation and prayer, record no such event as this 1 Modern historians too are silent concerning it 1 The phenomena is, however, spoken of as literal, real, but future; the time being when "the LORDshall be KINGover all the earth . . (and) Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited." (v. 9-11.) A Second Advent is imperative to fulfil this. Shall the Word fail? IT OANNOT Therefore, to fulfil it, 1
CHRIST IS COMING AGAIN

[To be concluded. The whole of this article is in type, but we are compelled to hold over half of it owing to the pressure upon our spaee.]

"

GENESIS XLV. A LESSON.

" "
BY W. AHERNE.

,,15. "Shall them." " 17. "Shall

feed them." ..

OSEPH, in his rejection and exaltation, is mentioned by Stephen as one of those who showed before of the coming of the Just One, which is surely Divine sanction for drawing a parallel between the message from him to unbelieving Jacob, and that now going out from Christ in glory to unbelievers? That the good news was very imperfectly delivered is manifest by comparing verses 9-13 with verse 26, as is often also the Gospel of the Grace of God. But the two main facts were told, viz.: that Joseph ~as alive, and that he had power; and, confirmed by the sight of J oseph 's gifts to him, Jacob believed the Iacts, and acted upon that belief. God's gospel-facts are now simply that, Jesus who once diet! is alive for evermore, essentially the Living One, and that He is crowned with glory and honour, made both Lord and Christ. Let us purge our hearts of the common notion that scarcely any are really dead; bowing to the literal truth that so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned, that we may be able to appreciate the joy and fulness of that which set thousands at peace with God in the Apostles' days, the simple assurance tbat God raised Jesus from the dead. That He has all power, both for salvation and for judgment, is part of the message. That there is a ~imit to the period during which Life is to be had from Him, is typified In verse 6. The gifts of Joseph were for use on the way to him,-so the given, Holy Spirit, the earnest, until the redemption of the purchased possession, the only earnest, but the earnest of every separate element of the coming glory, confirms us in the knowledge that Jesus is a living, loving Saviour, and the Almighty Lord. The bearers of the message had themselves been the first sinners against Joseph, but were now pardoned and reconciled to him, because he had opeued up all his heart of love and- compassion to them; and not only does he not reproach them but he charges them not to be grieved nor angry with themselves, almost identical with "Let not your hearts be troubled "-the keynote as it were of all the Apostolic exhortations to believers. . "See that ye fall not out by the way," is Joseph's parting word when dl8!llissing them. warning them against the natural tendency to quarrel WhIChwould instantly arise when their thoughts were not occupied with Joseph himself, and his life, love, words, and power . " That they all may be one that the world may believe," is the fervent and constantly reiterated desire of the Lord Jesus, knowing the inevitable tendency the hearts of believers have to cease from the thoughts of Himself, His life, love, words, and power, and to turn to themselves or their brethren or even those very gifts that are only for use on the way to Him, or their varied experiences whether past or present. What was all the worry and anxiety the brethren had undergone compared with what their conduct deserved, or with what Joseph had suffered? and, dear fellow believer, what are our sorrows and trials compared with what, knowing the Divine estimate of sin, we gladly own we deserve, or compared with the unfathomable grief and anguish, pain and death, borne on our account by Jesus on the Cross? May. we be faithful trustees of our message, and may the Holy Spirit convince the heart of many a sad unbelieving Jacob, by our true and loving delivery of it.

viii. 13. "Heard an angel flying." ix. 1. " Of the bottomless pit." x. 6. "Time longer." shall be no

"

"

xi. 15. "The kingdoms, are become." xii. 1. "Wonder." ,,12. "Inhabiters of earth, and of the sea." xiii. 14. "Who had wound." xv. 3. "King of saints."

&c., the the

Rev. " " " "

"

"

" Of the ages;" all other authorities, " the nations." " 6. "Clothed in pure and "Arrayed withpreciouutones, pure white linen." and bright;" Rotherham," with linen pure and bright." Contrast this with Rev. xix. 7-8. xix. 8. "Fine linen is the "Is the righteous acts of the righteousness of saints." saints," so Rotherham. xvii. 8. " And yet is." " And shall come; " all authorities, " shall be present." xviii. 20. "Holy apostles." .. "Saints and apostles," so all authorities. xx. 4. "Judgment was given not altered. Rotherham, " judicial unto them." See Dan. vii. 22. sentence was given unto them." xxi. 25. "There shall be no not altered. So R. and B. night there." xxii. 5. There" shall be night no more," so Bowes ;" Rotherham," night shall not exist any more; " " no more night," Gb., Sch., La., Tre., Alf. A. xxii. 14. "Blessed are they " Blessed are they that wash their that do His commandments." robes," &c.; Rotherham," happy are they who are washing their robes;" Bowes, " happy are they that wash." xxii. 19. "His part out of " His part from the Tree of Life ;" the Book of Life." so all authorities.
ADDENDA.

Matt. v. 22, 29, 30. " x. 28; xviii. 9;

"Hell." xxiii. 15-33.

not altered. Margin," so R. and B.

Gehenna,"

" Hell."

"

"

THE REVISED NEW TESTAMENT.

By GEORGE BARBER. (Shewing

PART IV.

the change$ made by the latest criticism; by the use of parallel columns this is shown at a glance.)
VERSION. NEW VERSION.

AUTHORISED

Rev. ii. 13; xiii. 2; xvi. 10. "Seat." " iv. 4.. "Round about tbe throne were four-and-twenty seats." " iv. 69. "Beast."..

" Throne," so Rotherham. " About the throne were four-and. twenty thrones; and upon the thrones," &c. "Living creature," so Botherhsm.; Lang, "life-form."

Mark ix. 43, 45-47. "Hell." " " Luke x.i.i: 5. :: Hell.':, .. " " tt tt J ames iu. 6. Hell.. . " " R. & B., " Gehenna." The word" hell" does not convey to tbe mind a correct idea of what is meant by Gehenna: hell, in its primitive sense, meant a place of concealment rather than of punishment, and, used in this sense, it answered to the Hebrew word sheol, the place of the dead.-Bible Standard, July, 1881. Matt. xi. 23. "Hell." .. " Hades." so Rotherham; Bowes, " invisible world." " xvi. 18. "Hell." Luke x. 15; xvi, 23. "Hell." Acts ii. 2731. "Hell." " Rev. i. 18; vi. 8; xx.13, 14. " HeliJ' 2 Peter ii. 4. " Hell." not ~ltered'. MargU;:" i~' Tartarns." Rotherham," lowest hades, pits of gloom."

..

..

r- The :word 'I'artarus beiog a proper name, is left untranslated Mae knight, and Bowes.-Bible Standard, July, 1881.

by Beza,

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Referring to Luke xvi. 23, the representations made from pulpit The rich man
ill

THE

BIBLE

STANDARD.
he done, in They have sons of God, necessary that men should be more illuminated. They needed by the brightening of the ideal within them, to be shown what was tbe holiness of God, and thus to have a deeper sense of sin. Now if this illumination have engendered a remark thought 7.) had been granted This explains been away, the (John xvi. and judgman, before the sacrifice <;n Calvary, it could only despair. If of our Lord singular :-" which has often I go not

pain and trouble at which it must view of the advantages in preparing for these to be gained. immortal

anti press, on this parable, God.

have for these long years misrepresented things, consequently tormented. spoken of as a literal maintained satisfaction torment. suffering as past, present, the abode of the damned; of some the Surely the

thus endorsed the course of the Almighty-who has accepted the trials and difficulties to man, which were indispensable We are now prepared to the result. from this general view of which led to this Punishment the Gospel under

his lifetime received his good This has been it being fact, and his conscious and future,

that he was, is, and ever will be, in and this proves to the doctrine of endless he is not

of the subject to form some idea on the special question, the consideration investigation, or condition Dispensation. It is entirely indispensable, understanding who reject understand the Gospel, that what they reject to an intelligent of those fully we should of the future condition namely, of the wicked the Future

Comforter will not come unto you." He also said, "He

discovery that

(the Holy Ghost) will themselves"of

represented as being in hell, but hades, where good and bad go alike, will convince any truth. loving, well-disposed persons to alter their views on this subject, and see that the metaphor another meaning; in it, whatever was rebuke dispensational truth moral is involved beside; has there of the is seen but cer-

reprove the world of sin, of righteousness' of judgment;" "of -a ment "-which "of sin "-within "-of must result righteousness God and must

from this contrast be struck en conhad when when thus

and the enormity

contrast which the sinner to realize,

of such rejection. had The

It is not at all astonishing for its beings introduction. struggling, with nature Jt

with consternation His" and thus to going away" subsequent enliqhtened, them

to the covetous Pharisee,

that so grand a scheme as the Gospel of Christ a long preparation myriads of human

lightened by the Holy Ghost. nected with His crucifixion to be an accomplished at once, tbe

We see now that and resurrection, for have us, men

tainly not the two extremes of the future The writer collected a more" -J.N.D. of the foregoing Greek (Heb.

which was inseparably intereession fact-that door of ready, should

saved and the lost, as is so often preached. emendations, scholars, trusts thereof to personally j, from various full knowledge"

under Law, with their but a glimmer

sinful propensities, of God's

of the light

and prays they may lead the student Word [clear and certain knowledge

within them, were needed as a field, in which to sow the good seed of the Kingdom of God. was not to whom expected only this that the human light partiai beings

presented escape from Hence men at when

x. 26) of God's

their overwhelming the Apostles

feeling of despair.

; thorough hesrt-knowledge-cDelizab

was given, was it this

were always

and be led to see that, whatever prejudice may have been .retained in the mind, it is not the but restored to us. We of men, but the Word Word of God altered, of God. Nottingham.

would become so exalted it deemed life. tbat their

in virtue, as thereby under

being pricked in their hearts cried out, " What shall we do to be saved?" taneous exhibition to point them once to Christ and His atonement. of God's holiness (the Urim and the This simulin Christ

to obtain the reward of immortality,-nor short-comings vengenance should bring on them The law-under was almost beyond

do not want the tradition

which they were placedin its nature; plane; not;" false

Thummim behind the vail) of the offering for sin, in the rending It is finish~d."-(To of the be Christ uttered

entirely prohibitory to raise him

and tbe accomplishing was sublimely illustrated vail the last expiring cry" continu~d.)

CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY. PART IV. By SARAH MAGRUDER, VIRGINIA, U .S.A.

N0W we think from this review of the course of God towards man, we may form an this planet, which He had

its aim being rather to keep man from growing worse, than "Thou to a higher "Thou shalt "bear hence it had said merely "break His sabbaths," witness," &c., &c. were destined fill the utmost been an unrest. elevation,

of the Temple in twain-as

shalt not take God's name "murder,"

in vain,"

THE RESURRECTION & THE LIFE. PART u. By MARIA GELLETLY.

N0W this is plain to any thinking mind, that before man knew evil he could not do evil, but good as a necessity. innocent, not holy. opposes, Holiness Therefore, knowing no were evil and doing no evil, our first parents

idea of what His desiqn. was in the beginning, namely, to furnish before fitted up for the purpose, with immortal, happy and holy inhabitants. Such a scheme is worthy of its Author: seems such an end is wisest and be.t; appears that have dental therefore been accomplished all the evils, to it-being but has been as it it also

Mankind have always felt, however, that they for something higher, in order to capacities of their nature. It remained for another satisfy The step the there had always higher

Law had never given peace;

to be taken, to carry man up to that which could thoroughly highest cravings of his nature.

the only course by which it could pursued; not which have been incitemporary-are when compared, as St.

Holiness is the opposer of is a sword that slays evil, Yea

This desidera,

evil, and must know the nature of that which it and makes it hide its face in the dust. more, the greater it. Holiness

tum has. been found in the Gospel of Christ, as is proved by the testimony of "a great multitude that no man can number." The Gospel, not It was not above St. Paul content with bidding men to " cease to do evil," bade them to "learn to do well." same direction,

worthy of consideration,

the knowledge of evil, the bate and love,

Paul remarks, " with the glory which shall be revealed." And here let it be repeated=-es the punishment we think we beyond

greater will be the contention of holiness against has two qualities, the greater the love the more awful the hate. So that the more a man hates sin, the more he will conquer it, and the more he conquers sin, the more holy he will become, and, therefore, the more like God. Now observe, obedience man's man's breaking the law of of consigned him to the punishment

opposed to the Law-but

it, though in the

it took men far

have proved, that uutil the Gospel Dispensation of sin did not extend this Life, and as men have by their thing-the own verdict

says, " Do we then make void the Law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Law." (Rom. through iii. 31). As God's character is the standard. of right throughout no contradiction the universe-and can be

pronounced life, as they have met it, a desirable human race have had so far nothing against God. indicated filling the They have earth with His course by of which to complain with perfect unanimity, making the choice of

all Time and Eternity,-there"

to each other in right things. under the Gospel, it was

that one sin, which was death. wickedness

Notice further,

In order to the incentive to this higher degree of holiness, required

did not come as a necessity

their species, even though aware of the expense,

from the broken law, but the knowledge of sin

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did; yea rather, tbis knowledge pointed man to

BIBLE

STANDARD.
spirit, or the ceasing of the spirit to live. the slightest hint of the present gone, has been given. In Gen. xxxvii. 34, we read Jacob's

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Not

bruised, and he is lin\ed by death's chain to the dust. But God puts His Son in the chasm by his made, unites the broken end of the chain, and which brnised

life beyond the death merited by this act of disobedience, through a life of holiness and aspiration after God. the punishment the part of Adam man through punishment Notice the difference between on of this act of disobedience

life in another

state separate from the body, as far as we have grief

makes a way from the grave to life again bruising the head of that victim's heel. Here is a grand thought: seeing that

against God, and the punishbrought to The first is a general suffer, namely, a term of The brought on myself doing of it. Man consequence of that

would admit of no comfort, seeing Joseph as he for the bruised heel head none, the prevailing and the thought, was dead. brain dead he still lived. It did not seem to enter the Surely this of itself would Notice again, he of Jacob at all, that though Joseph (was

ment of sins against' the k~owledge this act. all must

there is a remedy, for the bruised when it is destroyed power has surrendered victory is gained:

death, or sleep only, to the child of God. second is a personal death, by my knowledge of sin and wilful Thus, death is the natural

to the lesser,

admit of comfort, for J oseph truly was a child of God, and this Jacob knew. groans in wild despair, "I will go down into the grave- unto my son, mourning." No grand thought here, that if he died of grief for his boy he would then join him in heaven; he seemed Even "I am in the No expectaonly to think of his son and the grave. J oseph, who said unto his brethren, place of God," said only, "I die." his mind. that, It appears dead, yet

or, to make my idea more clad in human

plain, man must die, but Christ

heels, died also, overcame death, thus took hold of the broken chain, linked it to Himself, the other end being linked to God. Thus, man in the grave is but the uniting of the broken link to a risen Christ who is with God, and whose will it was to give His Son. And whoever wills to receive line from death to the same shall find a straight eternal life. Look once more: lives again destroyed because him,

which has not in it the element of life. Adam's sin;

has been brought under the shadow of death by from this he can have no discharge. to shun it, yea, and, if he See, But the knowledge of sin does not shut man up to commit sin-rather will, to link himself more closely to his God than he wonld have been had he not known sin. Abel knows sin, shuns and hates it, and is ac-

tion of living beyond death seemed to flit across not to have struck him he himself would be though

mau lives because he obeys his Maker, that which the the one destroys

cepted of God, or, in plainer terms, his ways and God's ways do not come into collision, but blend in unison with the Divine will. Enoch walked with God amid the wild flames of the grossest iniquity. Grand must have been that life which meet for the kingdom of heaven, Also gold, tried and God counted

his Maker, dies because he disobeys

beyond the power of being affected therewith.-

Edinbuluh.

[To be continued.]

and gives him back a grander he will to come. Thus will to.

life, that is, if

scheme of salvation is three-fold,-God's save man: man's Thus filler-up of the break between

THE

TREE
By
GEORGE

OF
P.

LIFE.

will to be saved, Christ

MACIllY.

lifted from the shores of very wickedness. see Joseph, a pillar of burnished around human principles.

man and God.

man is held by death, but death is deswhat he holds, life and freedom. I repeat, for to

" To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." (Rev. ii. 7.) LET present, ture us consider reward, the tree here held out as a to the past, the We accept Eden, the Scripin its relation

tested in the hottest fires that were ever kindled He wag not only mile of whatever its Notice, the will and accepted by God, but exalted by God-a reward for every inch of trial. of those men is towards government; that God,

troyed by Christ, and He who can destroy death can as easily take from death and give back to his victim Man is not punished, Adam's comply with the means eternal life in Christ. I have gone a little return. Notice further, off my subject, but will is that therefore,

and the future.

account of Creation,

and the Fall.

sin, hut for his own wilful refusal

The story is told simply, as to children, but yet truthfully. are false: Otherwise, the Word of God begins disclosures of science for in it are for these agree with the Scripture.also is false: to the first eleven chapters If the light that nothing is in the of the state of with a mere legend.-The The New Testament

governs the will brings the desires within

that would ensure him

is, when the desires are govTherefore, when the will to God, of ne-

erned by the will, their fruits will be the produce of that which governs. be godly; with from God. is governed by God, the desires of necessity will the will averse cessity the desires will be as the will is, estranged Do not suppose for a moment that I am by this nice distinction wholly a debtor to God. But notice of will I forget

in Gen. xxxv. 18, " soul"

sixty-six references of Genesis. hidden Apart from from us.

clearly used for "life," by her soul departing, died;

or the power of action. is meant that she died. If you

And then too the whole matter is how great is our darkness. named: our benighted

For, observe, care is taken to let us know

Bible be darkness, three great matters Fancy,

Now, if her soul only left the body, it had not only left to live in another state. read carefully, you cannot fail to see that by the soul departing existence. the writer here means, the soul of died, or ceased to live, or to be conscious in cannot, if common

it we can know

further, man were not free if he what What That is, man is not seeing proto his was com-

for instance,

had not the power over his will; therefore, God offers, man may choose or refuse. life through Christ, lost through Adam. transgression, before the that sin I wish to show here is the fact that punished for Adam's vision was made forfeited possession for his

mind a$ to the Creation, if left to the light of the Fortuitous questioned Concurrence gentlemen I When as to the formation of/the world and

Again, to leave that which one lived sense judge, be to die. call that dead

of men, such gravely say,

If

If action and conscious existence be still enjoyed in spite of death, you could not which constituted of existence must this difficulty, another life, and still lives. be used to account To clear for the

restoration

All things are moulded by some plastic foree, Out of some atoms somewhere up in space, Fortuitously concurrent anyhow,"

mitted, or the law broken

showed Adam

word not signifying lack

Beside such

an explanation shine: the heaven

how beautifully "In the beginnearth." therefore, and the

that disobedience was sin against God. You see there the line between God and man is broken. Man's act severed the tie of friendhimself and God, disunited be united him in ship between

does the Bible statement ing GOD created Before the theories

body not acting and living, and yet that part of it which causes it to live and act still living. If you notice again, in the last verse of this "Isaac gave up the here that to be spirit, "and indicates same chapter it is recorded, ghost," which we understand died." The writer plainly

of philosophers,

we prefer the Scriptural sin.

account of the Creation.

from the root to which he must

And so with the question of the presence of Man may speculate as to the development but God explains it all when He shows there has been a Fall from the state of of evil; us that

order to live, seeing only in the root is the substance giving life; broken off, therefore, he must of necessity die. Thus the heel of man is

the giving up the ghost was the dying of the

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purity in which He originally created man.

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if the nations memory-of "visions sidering that had

STANDARD
kind had of thought of Life. sented When his wife was first preshall be called

a dim sense-a they have past."

And here the traditions

of mankind

strangely

their lost estate. of enchantments

Like the Prodigal some joy of that He And con-

to him, he said, "She

corroborate the Word of God.

Son in a far country, the rapture

Woman (Ishal ," which is merely the female form of the word Man (Ish). the pronunciation corresponds with called his wife's name But after the Fall and E.ve (Ghavah)," 'which Why of the death sentence, " Adam the Greek word Zoe,

As to Paradise.
infirmity, or grief.

The Greeks tell of a golden The earth then was fruit-

age, when men were as the gods; without care, ful; peace prevailed amongst men and animals; and death at last came on them like the gentle falling of a sleep. people. scenery, In The Persians say that Yima, the first King, lived in a secluded spot with his They looked everywhere upon gorgeous inhaled the perfume of odoriferous date it is

and consummate saw everything

age when "God

had made, and behold,

it was very good," it of it, art

would be almost strange if the universal-mind was not haunted with some remembrance Remember, therefore, fallen, and repent 1 " The birthplace of humanity beauty and delight.
" A happy rural Groves. whose Others, whose Hung amable, seat of va.rious view; rich trees wept od'rous gums and balms; fruit, burnished with golden rind, and ot delicious taBte,"-(Millon.)

did he thus change her name 1 It was because Chaoah. means LIFE, and Adam felt that it was that which he bad forfeited by sin. seized, with prompt appreciation, He was not and he then dead, but was under condemnation, hope held out by God. Man's yearning He can satisfy it. the Tree of Life. after immortality is not intended to be mocked. It is created by God, and Therefore it is that Jesus

and if a voice. did not cry often to the race, from whence thou

the shadow of

trees and feasted upon ambrosial food. Chinese that writings during Everything happy virtues of ancient recorded happiness. kind. nature. the period of the first enjoyed a state of everyearth was beautiful; age heaven jointly to and

was an abode of

heaven the whole creation

But still it must be through

thing was good; all beings were perfect of their In this their employed embellish

" Out of the ground of it made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant midst of the garden, and the to the sight, tree of the and good for food: the Tree of Life also in the knowledge of good and evil." These two trees, like all others, were named from their fruits. The fruit of the one produced alas, of evil as of good. to produce knowledge,-knowledge, everlasting life. When formed, "man became a living soul." The from But not an ever-living, or immortal, soul. so. He who desires
j

says, "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." Now we cannot" overcome" except through the Saviour, so it may truly be said that, at the present, He is Himself the Tree of Life, just as He is the Bread of Life. looking within ourselves Jesus. must look off unto the world, that that whosoever but
j

There was no jarring in the elements, and universal fertility prevailed." age

no inclemency in the air; all things grew without labour, In Hindoo literature kept herself reigned; mixed with firm on we read of a "first her and four feet; man, free

Instead, "For

therefore, of we God so loved

of the world, when justice, in the form of a bull, virtue from and no good which mortals baseness; possessed was

for immortality,

The fruit of the other was intended

He gave His only begotten Son, believeth in Him should not life." "In Him life in hath

diseases, saw all his wishes accomplished, attained an age of 400 years."

perish, Himself

have everlasting "For

fruit of the Tree of Life alone could make him apples must gather The Greeks came one an apple-tree eternal Of that that tree. and he who would have life God arranged to be eon-

was life."

as the Father

The races which have traditions about Paradise also have traditions of the Fall. say that which they compare The Oingalese native honesty after the golden age there

so hath He given to the Son to have I am the Way, the Truth, " Thou hast given Him power He should give eternal life

life in Himself." and the Life." over all flesh, that

must pluck it from the Tree of Life. tree Adam did not eat. be tried first through the other is too precious Then, as now, was the And after the the disobedient

to silver, followed by an men fell from their

age of brass, and finally by the present iron age. say that by the is that seductions with the spontaneous develop-

he should

to as many as Thou hast given Him." See how clearly the doctrine of "Life only in Christ" is wrapped God hath
j

Immortality

ferred without a trial. saying true, Fall that man.

up

in

these

passages I is the life,

ment of a covetous navian tradition about While by the

disposition.

The Scandiwomen. strikingly

"To him THATOVERCOMETH I will

There is no getting away from it 1 record, that and this life is in His Son. Son hath [the] life

"This

the fall was brought of strange account (Paradise: in

give to eat of the Tree of Life." God never intended that

given to us eternal

tree was placed beyond the reach of

Ho that hath the not the Son

the Persians

have a narrative

he that hath

in accordance Their tradition

Genesis. and rebellious should be everlasting as Himself,

"so He drove out the man: and He placed at and a Persian where upon the east of the garden of Eden cherubims the way of the Tree of Life." Man, therefore, has no immortality He was driven from Eden" forth his hand, strange, belief prevalent. In his exile (as we have seen from the traditions regarding Paradise) he looks back with He longs for its of all) for its regret upon his lost estate. by nature. lest he [should] put And it appears should be so

i? that the first members of the

of God bath not [the] life." The life which the believer now has in Christ, is the earnest germ now. and by. that: of the life to come. He has the Note of He shall have the full fruition by

race dwelt in a garden,

word, meaning garden or pleasure-ground.) was a tree, the fruit of which conferred them life and immortality. of innocence and bliss; promised a continuance should retain their

a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep

Our text is the Promissory

Their state was one

"To him that overcometh will I give to He shall then have an

and Ormazd, their God, thereof so long as they But Ahriman,

eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." from two causes immortal nature like his Lord. This is assured

and take also of the Tree of

integrity.

Life, and eat and live for ever." in natural immortality

the evil power, envying their condition, caused another tree to spring up in the garden; and by a wicked spirit, whom he empowered to assume a serpent's it. breasts form, he persuaded
j

in the face of this plain passage, that

First:
Tree of

The Nature of the Tree. It is "the Lije,"-that is, the same life-giving

them

to eat of the

Evil passions of men

then were roused within

j

tree from which Adam was driven, "lest he [should] put forth his hand and take and eat and live for ever." And as sin has brought "the infirmity, disease and pain upon mankind, the nations. more ..

they forsook the worship of and soon of and

Ormazd and bowed down to Ahriman misery. These various traditions 'corroborative

happiness and peace, and above all (or rather, we might say, as the foundation chance of life.

became the slaves of demons, and subjects are interesting, record.

leaves of the tree [shall be] for the healing of And there shall be no curse any and they [who eat of it] shall reign

In connection with this it is noticeable how eagerly, after the 'Fall, Adam snatched at the

of the Scripture

It is as

for ever and ever."

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Second: midst The Place of the Tree. " In the or, in

BIBLE SPIRIT
Mem. Brit.

STANDARD. OF
Med. Asso. err with Plato than be is the same which has his a to cling to the into
LIFE.

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of the Paradise of God." earth;

This is not which un-

THE By

I priestoraft,
Standard

and

lead

unstable

souls

to the

EDWARD WOOD FORSTER,

deadly delusion of spiritualism? A writer in two reoent numbers of the Bible treats of " spirit immortality;" and, to by way of introducing spirit's cussing destiny, the subject attractively

H~aven above, but Heaven other words, the renovated doubtedly saints. shall In that

on earth;

be the future

abode of the "I heard a

HE feeling whioh moved Cicero to say that "he would rather

new heaven and earth, we are

right with Aristotle" caused mankind hope that earthly life, but his being

the logical faculties, he discourses firstly of the secondly of its nature. of the Biblical In disSoul our to prove and is the subject

expressly told, men shall not die.

so generally might

great voice out of the throne saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself their God: shall be with them and be and He shall wipe away every tear life can only be secured by this it is that we should eat

would not eud with be prolonged mankind

psychologists have firstly endeavoured

future age. Without a revelation assurance

the nature of the soul as recorded in the Scripcan have no man only tures, then to elucidate its charaoteristics,
SO

of immortality,

because

elicit that personal

in the Bible the word soul identity either body.

from their eyes, and death shall be no more." Since eternal thereof. other. Jericho, It That tree, how important It stands

discerns throngh his objective faculties ; what therefore our sense perceptions have no experienoe of, the man can have no experience of-in the words of Scripture, what the eye hath not seen, nor the ear heard, it cannot enter into the heart this of man to conoeive-and assertion. We cannot the facts arrive at until of science and of physiology absolute ancient conclusions accurately support

invariably and physiologically significant poreal body or in the spiritural on the destiny a beggiug the question. nature is immortal.

of cor-

in the natural To argue firstly

It is called the tree, for there is none alone-like the one ark, the taketh

of the spirit is a petitio principii, The writer argues that destiny, therefore its

one tree for Marah, the one house of safety in the one "Lamb of God, that away the sin of the world." can only be approached is hinted by a struggle. for salvabut also at in the words "To him that Not merely wishing not only hoping, to obtain it.

the spirit has an immortal

No! as we must primarily

on any subject

Irony ascertain what are the cbaracteristice of a piece we of mechanism before we decide its use, or must the in learn the anatomical snd physiologioal phenomena of an animal before deciding
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hold a definite

array of facts.

Therefore immortality,

overoometh." endeavouring

world was, as regards

its mode of and

tion, but working;

darkness, and its hope was a dead one. Cicero was the most eonsumate debater whom the world has seen, a superb sifter of and summer-up of evidence. In the matter of man's immortality, or his future hope of it, Cioero

feeding and its habits, nature destiny. of the Biblical

must we in the first then will we be

"Beoause strait is God

.\llace ascertain what are the oharacteristica spirit, prepared to understand

the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life; and few there be that find it." "will render to every man that works: to them eternal life. " This is not contrary to the doctrine of Free Grace, labour; according to his

allusions referring to its

by patience in well doing

allowed that the facts elucidated by the philosophy of Aristotle were against even the hope, but as a matter of sentiment would prefer allowing Plato. and heart-yearning his better judgment he to

The term ruach. (spirit) is generally expressive of an invisible only detected mena. " spirit" agency which, like the air, is and characterised by its phenospirit" of life, sometimes the When

seek for glory and honour: and incorruption,

Thus it is sometimes the" of God enunciatory

Just as in business,
labour requires

success

requires strength

soar with the subjective and un assured hope of (Tu8e. lib. i. cap. 17). of the human adapted Psychology soul for immorbut only be based for an immortal must The longing that

or the agency productive of life;

strength;

of His personal man out of the

comes from above; acknowledge that hand of his God; the gift of God;"

and a pious man will always his succeas is due to the good so in this. " Eternal the faith; life is aud but faith is required to secure

agency, whether mediate or immediate. the Almighty Creator fashioned dust of the ground into his nostrils became a living organised infer 'that the breath soul.

tality does not prove its immortality, it is possibly Christian destiny.

He caused him to breathe of life, and man Hebrew also same spiritBut, as other forms of

it; work is needed to manifest realization of it. "He

upon Christian revelation. Of the corruptibility of the organic body or carcass (nevailah, soma) there is no doubt-it identity brought nature is not the atomic or physical body that shall be raised up, but our personal in a spiritual Biblical again to life body. of the soul the the Hebrew personare explicit:

the patience of hope, also, is necessary to the that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved." Let us then see to it that we strive, by grace, to overcome. "Skin life. less. The reward is worth the struggle. yea, all that life." a man hath will That is, for ordinary for skin; Eternal

life are in the original they became so by.the

denominated

living souls, we must necessarily

agency, because like effeots must be the result of similar causes, Distinctive characteristics ruacli (spirit). and" spirit The phrases attach to the word of life" "This chayim, is the the

On the perishable doctrines

he give for his

life must surely not be valued at

nephesh. (soul) is the concrete breathing perish. But whilst not attributing immortaliry

"broath

The Lord did not mean that it should be, "Blessed that are they that they may have

ality, which finally dies, when all its thoughts either

of life" are correlative.

since He holds it out as the prize and crown to those who overcome. do His right commandments,

shown in the reoord of the deluge, when the terms used are more foroible-ruach spirit of lives; and nishmath breath written' all respiring creatures, of the spirit of lives-terms including ruach chayim, man;

to body or soul, some talk as jf the spirit were immortal, and were an entity, an individuality distinct from the body; if so it must survive can never die. as a condemn imposture? and irnmortal-soulism why denouuce the body, and being immortal Why then theological superstition ments

to the Tree of Life, and may enter in

Then ask the Saviour to help yon, Comfort, strengthen, and keep you; He is willing to aid you, He will carry you through."

applied to as it is

through the gates into the oity."

11

all flesh wherein is the breath of life; ,

, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life. ' " The agency of life and intelligence in the brute is as mysterious are essentially separate characteristics and marvellous alike; of as that which senses to special objeotive is developed in man. the subjective Their objective capacities-the the

popish

Lincoln. " The right disposition of mind is that which desires manner earnestly THE TRUTH, in whatever Foster. it may come to us."-John

protestant immortality

traditionalism? from the bewitchbring ourselves which errors of

shall we who have broken of inherent

and it is impossible

again into bondage to a spirit immortality will tend io keep alive the thoughtless

man-from

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senses, The these Bible latter being fundamental the same to the agency, kingThe the

THE
spread

BIBLE
of these

STANDARD.
among all 'The of this well at Bradford, but little knew the sad trial that awaited me, so soon after."-Hemy Goodwyn (Gen.). [Our esteemed will join with God that this favourably.-ED. Vice-President's us in B.S.] hearty has sickness many friends thankfulness terminated to so

truths

subjective. attributes the highest is emphatically here the spirit the prone attitude does ruach, to all the members dom, including strict identity iii. 18-21; identical; psych~logy; in beasts, their them, breath of the animal species. man. stated or breath not

Lord's towards

people' another,

everywhere;

for more love one life.' I believe

and for deeper consecration

life to Him we may 'our E.

who is 'om certainly will,

united prayer would call forth rich blessing, and most expect it, as in thus 'if we ask us."seeking we should Father's' Armstronq, snything' according certainly be in accord with

in Eccles, (ruacli) is effect the ascends; befalleth yea,

and we know

in man, erect, his breath as a general "one descends, thing

to His will, He heareth (Lieut.-Col.,)

A DEVONSHIRE CIRCULAR.

characteristic,

as the one dieth, so dieth the other; has not communicated agency; of man He giveth certainly within him,"

tbey bave all one spirit (mach)." that the Creator a superior formeth breath." In Psalm synonymons; prejudiced man, were inatances -summed 21,22. clearly lame nostrils (ni.hmath The refers woman prevent Spirit-His civ. 29, 30, breath the English spiritual for"

We see then to man "He but

the spirit

this is inclusive,

to all life and and spirit are being many is

translators, in

in favour of an immortal necessarily creatures. the brute compelled But the and the to deny by implication up in Gen. vi. 17, and Here

essence in

a like agency doctrine in Gen. vii. ma.n seem under spirit the ill whose of life"

to the inferior

to be both categorical was the reference to the only Him

comprehended of "all of the

expression breath in Divine

ruacb chayim). Mcl. ii. Spirit; there the made 15, undoubtedly God many, made one to was nothing

for Adam, having or rather

for He had of the

the residue,

excellency,

Divine power was not exhausted. [To be concluded in our next.]

CORRESPONDENCE
Auckland, him very much. my labours keep servant battles religious New Zealand, I am needing too much

EXTRACTS.
Oct. 10, 1881. a little rut, for for one. God give Last His The people still

" I HOPIIMr. Taylor will start soon, for we need are far

night our large hall was full. up their interest. grace, and May all needed to fight-from community

We have some hard from the Pray Member. the sceptical.

all sides-both Correspondinp

for me."-Geo.A.Brown, "Will the others, various refreshing Might in the you send

Quilon, South India, Bradford Conference given, Report. and

Dec. 1, 1881. I, as also of the of the faith.

me a dozen more copies of the perusal Report to one's

have greatly enjoyed addresses and The meetings that

Conference.

must have been very day be named,

strengthening a certain

I suggest

and all who believe in the great truths advocated Bible Standard and RainboUl be invited on that occasion, for to offer up special prayer

THE TEACHERS OF THE VVESLEYAN SUNDAY Member. SCHOOL,K,NGSBRIDGE.-After a mock trial, you have expelled me from my position as [If any of our friends feel prompted to make Teacher, for the offence of not believing in the any suggestions hereon, will they kindly comCatechism. Had I been guilty of a departure from moral rectitude, unless of a very flagrant municate them to us at an early date.-ED. B.S.J kind, I should not have been interfereLl with. I Birtley, Durham, Jan. 4, 1882. might have borrowed money of another Teacher, "I see many places around here where I and not repaid it without an execution; or I might have bought goods, and not paid for them should like to preach the truth-' in the regions without a County Court summons; 01' [ might beyond '-and would gladly go to any place in have been in the habit of going about with every this neighbourhood where there was anyone with fast young man I could catch. I might break the rule against drinking, and every other of whom I could co-operate. I would like to know Wesley's rules of conduct, as others do, and yet if there is anyone at Consett that would work remain a Teacher, and, even if charged with gross immorality, I should have had a fair trial, with me, for I believe there would be fruit from and unless proved guilty, have been acquitted. It few meetings there."-W ..7. Knowing 'what I do about some of you, how [If t.here is auy disciple of the truths II.d- could you dare to "it in judgment on me? Shame should have kept you from the meeting. vooatsd in our columns, at Consett, we will So it has been in all ages. Belief in dogmas is gladly forward any communication from him to held to be more important than morality. The girls may Le exposed to a teacher's example, the above.c=En. B.S.] whicb, if followed, would lead to their ruin, but Bradford, Yorks., Jan. 5, 1882. for them to be told that they will not go to "Glad to Bee the very mal' ked improvement Heaven until the resurrection, cannot be tolerated. in the Bible Standard, and I hope it may conI was surprised at being appointed to this tinue to increase both in circulation and useimportant class, as my views on this. an-i fulness, and prove worthy of the A.sodation kindred subjects, were well known to be different from yours. I was never told that I must he which it represents and the Truths it propsguided by the Catechism. Had I been, I should gates."-W.C. at cnce have refused to substitute man's word for God's. Liverpool, Jan. la, 1882. You, no doubt, think that such views as mine " I may say that the books received have been are very peculiar. So they seem to you, who very useful and profitable to me, as we have know nothing outside Methodism, but they are, to a greater or lesser extent, those of all, for the lately had a gentleman down from London (Mr. first two hundred years after Christ-whose F. Grant) giviug three lectures in the Concert writings have been preserved-and of such men Room, Lord Nelson-street, on 'The Penalty of as Luther, 'I'yndale, Milton, Whately, &c., and a host of men still alive, of all evangelical deSin,' 'Spirit, Soul and Body,' 'Bndless Tornominations. So you see I am in good comments,' and condemning very much the writings pany, if not in yours. But what are these views? Although you of H. Constable, M.A. Questions were invited expelled me, you seem to have a very misty idea afterwards. I was in some measure able to ask of them. I will say only this-1st, I do not such, and oppose his theory for two nights. deny the existence of hell, as some of you have These meetings were well attended, from 400 to stated, but I hold it to he a place of destruction, not of endless misery. "The wages of sin is"500 people being present. I was surprised to not endless misery, but-I< death." 2ud, I do find how eager and attentive the people were not deny a future life, as others of you have stated. There will. after death, be another lif, when sound and important questions were commencing at the resurrection, and for those asked from the Word; not a few agreeing with still aiive at the coming of Christ a change into the same state of immortality without death. our views."-T.S. See 1 COl'. xv. 51 to 5'!; 1 Thess, iv. 15 to 17. Reading, Jan. ]3, 1882. As to the original charge, I maintain that what " I am just now slowly recovering from a very I was saying to my class was iu accordance with the standard of doctrine as defined in the Trust ser ere and nearly fatal illness. For three weeks Deed of the Chapel, although I admit that it I was hovering between life and death, and was contrary to what Mr. Meadows stated to be the standard. In the Trust Deed it is forbidden found the 'shadow' of' the valley' dark-very. to " promulgate or teach any doctrine or practice But the mercy of the Lord has prevailed, and I contrary to what is contained in certain notes am yet spared, though llOW completing threeon the New Testament, of the said John 'Weslev, and in the First Four Volumes of Sermons comquarters of a century! Good and gracious has manly reputed to be written and published by been my God throughout. He has kept me in him." Now read an extract from one perfect peace, nothing doubting. I was far from Wesley's sermons ;-" It is very generally sup-

CO?'Tesponding

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posed that the souls of good men, as soon as they are discharged from the body, go directly to heaven; but this opiuion has not the least fouudation in the oracles of God; on the contrary, our Lord says to Mary, after the resurrection, 'Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father ' in Heaven." No wonder Mr. Meadows was afraid for me to read this to the meeting. Unfortunately, he was told beforehand the line of defence I should adopt, arid so was prepared to stop anytbing that would not serve his purpose. May I, in conclusion, give you a word of ad vice? It is to take off your" Immortal Soul" spectacles, and read the Bible with your naked eyes, "Search the Scriptures daily whether these things are so." Instead of taking the muddy water of the Catechism, drink of the stream at its source. So you will receive the truth that "He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."-C.B.L. [The above has been published as a Circular at Kingsbridge, Devon. We have known the lady in question for many years, having been teachers together in the same Sunday School at Plymouth, and can certify to her perfect fitness for her office.-ED. B.S,]

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"To-day shalt thou b~ith me in paradise." Where is paradise? In what ~y was this man favoured more than the other! 1f~ to find in God's Holy Word that he descended into the earth with Christ, or that He ascended into, the heavens with Him. My firm conviction is that" he is now sleeping in the land of forgetfulness, where the 'dead know not anything.' Waiting there until Christ shall come again the second time. Then shall he come forth, and not till then will he be with Christ in His kingdom." (1.) This is capable of but one answer-The Scriptures supplying no other-they died, and are therefore in Hades, the common state of the dead, (2.) Paradise only occurs thrice in the Scriptures, and is I'. word of Persian or Arabian origin, meaning simply a gmdel!. Gen. iii. 8., is so rendered in the Septnagint-" God planted a paradise in Eden." To our mind the favour accorded to this man was a right (of grace) to resurrection. at the first resurrection of the justand therefore to eternal life. This takes place at the Second Advent of our blessed Lord, and is still future. As, however, death is a sleep, and the thief fell on sleep that day of the promise, time has no existence to him (not being counted to the dead) and, as far as his conscious being is concerned, he will be with Christ in paradise within the limits of a day of 24 hours-part of which has already passed-from the utterance of the promise. As to the locality of paradise, let us remember what the term means (not heaven but) a garden. Eden was a paradi~', but its location was earth, not heaven. Paradise is probably the Millennial Earth, under the personal presence and rule of its Divine King " Immanuel.' See Isaiah xxxv. 1.; xli. 18, 19.; Ezekiel xlvii. 12.; Rev. xxii. 1-4.

All men are moulders: Day by day Forming their life-works in the clay. Now, though the moulds may be destroyed, The CASTINGS ever must abide; And these, long hidden in the earth, Shall to the testing be brought forth. 'Weavers we are: Some carelessly Heed not the shuttles as they fly ; Others, with action quick and deft, Fill up the warp of time with weft. At last the webs must be unrolled, Then every flaw shall each behold. Master of all! Thy grace we need, To scatter round us precious seed :, To mould our conduct to Thy will ; To weave our webs with care and skill ; And ever this to keep in sight, THATEACHMAN'S WORK MUSTC01IETOLIGHT.
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THE SPIRITS IN PRISON. L.L. (Carlisle) writes :-" I would esteem it a favour if you could give me any light with regard to the 1st Epistle of Peter iii. 18, 19, 20. Especially in reference to preaching to the spirits in prison; and whether it was Christ who preached to those spirits Himself, or through some other agency?" You present us a nut confessedly hard to crack. We understand it thus :-TIME: Between the Resurrection and the Ascension. PERSON: Christ in His semi-glorified or spiritual person. MISSION: To convey a message of grace "He preached" to some kind of rational creature-life, said to be in prison. SUBJECTS OF MISSION: Not men but a different order of life, the term used (pneumas) being that also used whenever angels are named. Probably those " Sons of God who saw the daughters of men that they were fair" (Gw. vi. 2.) And of whom a race of giants saw the light; but, as the offspring of It mixed marriage contrary to the Divine plan, were not permitted to live but perished in the flood. These pneuma or "Sons of God" were clearly not men in Hades, for a distinct word is used by Peter, conveying the idea of confinement, not of death. There is, however, an alternative rendering, viz. :-That Christ preached by the Spirit through Noah to antediluvian men. [See Article by Dr. Foster, in another column.] The former appears to us to make the best sense. We can only pronounce an opinion, however, and not interpret. The Lord will reveal the meaning of all that is now difficult-in that day-and pardon our wellmeant intentions to decipher-even though we may have" erred in vision." PREACHING TH. DEAD. TO The above Correspondent adds,-" In the same Ep-istle iv. 6., we read of the gospel being preached to them that are dead. Would you kindly give me your idea on the matter? " The previous verse supplies the key to Peter's meaning: "Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead:" Judge the living and dead at His appearing. Those, then, in the 6th V81'se,to whom the gospel was preached, are the dead of v. 5, who had afterwards fallen on sleep and thus, at the time Peter wrote, were the subjects of a preached gospel, though dead. WHEREIS PAR.tDISE? J.H. (Northampton) writes.-" I shall feel very thankful to you if you will kindly through t~e Bible Standard favour me with an sxplana. tion on the following questions. (1.) What becams of the two malefactors after the resurrection? (2.) Jesus said to one of them

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OMING-is the Master! Coming-is the King! Coming-is the Bridegroom Joy and bliss to bring. Coming-in His glory! Coming-in His might! Coming-in His beauty! Day to give for night.

Coming-from the Father! Coming-from the throne! Coming-from the heavens! For to claim His own. Coming-for to save us! Coming-for to bless! Coming-for to gift us Life and righteousness. Coming-to this sad earth! Coming-to this race! Coming-to its rescue We shall see His face. Coming-sure and speedy! Coming-for to stay! Coming-to His Kingdom! Ne'er to go away. Coming-wars shall cease then! Coming-peace shall reign! Coming-for to banish Earth's long age of pain. Coming-glory to Him! Coming-praise His Name! Coming-bless the Saviour! All His own to claim. Malvem. Editor.

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A. SJlltlliISof Advent Discourses have been delivered by Mr. Robed K. Strang, in Campbell Arcade Hall, during the Sunday evenings of the past month. SIlIPTON,YORKS. Conditional Immortality .-Two Lectures hare been delivered in the Lecture -room of the Temperance Hall, by Mr. Albert Smith, of Blackburn, late curate of the Parish Church at Withnell, Lancashire. Tbe subject of the first lecture was-> What is the soul? The difference between soul and spirit: is it immortal?" After showing from the Bible what the soul is, and pointing out the difference between soul and spirit, the lecturer stated that nowhere in the Bible was the term immortal applied either to the soul or spirit, but on the contrary it stated that souls could and did die; and that not until the resurrection would man be immortal, and then only the righteous. The subject of the second lecture was-" J eSU8, tile Christ; Heir to the throne of David, and destined Ruler over the whole earth." 'I'ha lecturer founded his remarks upon Isaial, ix, 6, 7; Luke i. 31, 33 ; Zech. xiv. 9; and Psalm: ii., and many similar parts of Scripture, and stated that the Jews and Israel would be restored back to their own land, and that J esus, the Christ, as Son and Heir of David, would sit upon the throne of David and reign over restored Israel and the whole earth. Jerusalem restored would be the seat of His government, and the metropolis of the whole earth. The lecturer quoted Scripture to show that the prophecies relating to His birth, sufferings, and death had been fulfilled to the very letter, and he contended that the prophecies which declare that He shall occupy David's throne and reign over restored Israel and the whole earth would

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be happy to supply them with any quantity of "The Second Advent" and "Life in Christ" from the office-at half-price. commanded so much sympathy in the town. He tracts-direct did not doubt but the cause would rapidly grow, snw ZEAUND. and prophesied that they would have before long to find a larger place. He hoped that noAuclcland.-We are glad to be able to report. thing but the kindliest feelings would exist progress during the last month. Our numbers BRADFORD, YORKS. between the friends here and other brethren in are still increasing. The Sunday night lectures the town who held similar sentiments. He are well attended by a large number of attentive Temperanoe Hall.-" Onr little Church is still listeners. At our last Church meeting it was progressing. Last Sunday we had a special wished the newly-elected pastor and the friends service, when our Bro. Walker, of Dewsbury . the Divine blessing, and all the success they decided to have a caravan built, fitted up with sleeping accommodation for two brethren, who spoke on "Our aims as Individuals and as a . could desire. The brethren Martin and Withers, the district preaching and Churcb ; " and your correspondent followed, on two of the officers of the Church, then spoke of will go through the leading of God, in relation to the Church lecturing, and who will also scatter our literature "The Practical Lessons of the Second Advent." from the time that they were led to form themon their way to the different places. It is proAt the close we had the pleasure of receiving posed to stay from one to two weeks in a place. four persons into fellowship, one of whom was a selves into a distinct community, to the present result of the Conference. Many others, too, time; and referred to the various supplies they By this means we bope to be able to spread the have' been led to search into the subject, and we had had, and through whose ministry the Lord glorious truth of God's coming kingdom in many had much blessed them, until the time they of the outlying districts. are hoping we shall soon have them amongst were led, after hearing Mr. Wale, to forward him Dunedin.-We learn by letter that our Bro, us."-W.O., Jan. 5. an unanimous invitation to the pastorate. The Cass, of Christchurch, has been delivering a OARLISLll. Rev. H. B. Murray (late of Cheltenham) then course of lectures at Dunedin. The meetings addressed the meeting in a warm, glowing, and were not very largely attended. The prejudices "We have some very nice little meetings. eloquent speech, expressing his belief that the of'the people are so strong at present that they There are ten of us who meet every first of the are not prepared to listen to the arguments in week to break bread, &c. We have a few pastor elect was the right man in the right of "Conditional Immortality."-Neuo strangers sometimes at our Bible Readings; and place, and earnestly exhorted the Church and favour all its members to use every effort to strengthen Zealand Bible Standard, Nov., 1881. the interest seems to be gradually but surely his hands and to encourage his heart. Mr. increasing, both within and without our circle." RLACKBURN. R. Wads worth, of Doncaster, followed with a -L.L., Dec. 19. few words of hearty and loving sympathyOperative Spinners Institute.-"We had seven BIRTLEY, DURHAM. words warm with the breath, and wet with the more immersions last night into the life-giving which went to Name: four males and three females. Co-operative HalL-Two Lectures have been dew, of the Holy Spirit,-and There given here by Mr. W. Johnson, of Birtley, the every heart, and drew tears from many eyes. are three others (males) from Withnell to take first being on "Conditional Immortality," and After the singing a couple of verses by the place (D. V.) this evening. Does not this prove the second on the" Future Home of the Re- friends, the pastor, Mr. B. B. Wale, addressed the gospel has not lost its power to make men the meeting in a speech of about 40 minutes,. willing to submit to the ordinances thereof? ".deemed.' The chair was taken by A. Hart, Esq., of Jarrow. Two hundred persons were in which he briefly reviewed the circumstances LS., Jan. 14. -some of them of rather a remarkable character present at the former, and nearly that number ALTRINCHAM. -by which, in the providence of God, the at the latter. Each night several questions On Jan. 8, 9, two lectures were given here by were asked and answered. Marked attention Church and himself were first brought into Mr. Albert Smith, of Blackburn. The first--on into their present was given to the Lectures. The meetings were contact, and subsequently " The Second Advent of the Messiah; its newell reported in the Durham Chronicle of Dec. relationship. He spoke of the spiritual union he felt to the friends on his first and second cessity, nature, and nearness," in the Literary 23, and Chester-Ie-Btreet Time, of Dec. 31. Institute; the second--on "A Clergyman's visits to them, of his appreciation of their LINCOLN. Reasons for leaving the Church of England," in character, as a body of intelligent, earnest, Mintlane Baptist Church.-The New Year's loving Christians, and with whom he had every the British School. We copy a portion of a lengthy report of the latter which appeared in Tea-meeting was held on Jan. 4. It was confidence he should be able to work in happy the Altrincham Guardian, of Jan. 14. "There numerously attended, and proved a very in- concert, and whose sympathy and practical The meeting was opened teresting gathering. Addresses were given by kindness both his dear wife and himself had was a fair attendance. by Mr. W. Birkenhead, (who presided). Mr. the Pastor (Rev. G. P. Mackay), and Messrs. already proved. He proceeded to give a succint Barnes, Bausor, Rowlatt, Simpson, Olarke, account of the distinctive doctrines that he Smith said he had to give them some of his Clayton, Bartlett, Cope, Wright, and Foster. held, and should preach, including, and occupy- reasons for severing himself from the Church of The Report was of a most cheerful and en- ing a prominent position, the doctrines of the England. Time would only permit him to give a few. The step he took was a serious one, but couraging character. The Doctrines of Life Pre-millennial Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ only in Christ and kindred subjects had been -Eternal Life only in Christ-and the ultimate it was not taken without very much considerafaithfully proclaimed from the pulpit with good extinction of all evil by, and through, Christ. tion, anxious prayer, and God's guidance, and results. Thirty-two members had joined the The collection followed; after which a vote of not without having to overcome many obstacles. His reasons were based on the Word of God, Church during the year, the present net fellow- thanks to the Chairman, Mr. Murray, Mr. Wadsship being 208. The congregations had been worth, and the Ladies-for the great help they and not through political or temporal causes. very good. The Sunday School had an in- had rendered in the sale of tickets for the tea, From his ordination he had been determined at all costs to carry out the teachings of the Word. creased attendance of both scholars and teachers. and their able and efficient management of it. The finances of the Church were never in a True, he knew from history that such had better state, for, after meeting every claim, there always brought more or less of trial and trouble. GLOUCESTER. But still, feeling the weighty responsibility of remained a balance of 158. 2~d., which was A New Association of those holding the Life, being set up as a guide to others in the great voted to the School Fund. Advent, and Kingdom-but on a Church basi,Baptill Church, Newport HalL-Recognition concern of their eternal salvation, he was has been formed, having its head-quarters here. services in connection with the settlement of led to make that resolution and to abide by It is chiefly composed of former members of the Burlington Wale over the above Church were it. His reasons for the severance were; (1.) Body, who have become too held in Newland Lecture Hall, on Tuesday, the Christadelphian Because, though enjoined to preach the Catbolic and Liberal for their former faith. 17th of January, 1882. There was a public tea Word, he found in his experience that he Services at 5 o'clock, at which between 250 and 300 Forty members have been enrolled. was not permitted to do so when that Word are being held at the Masonic Hall, conducted conflicted with so-called orthodox teaching. persons sat down. The tables, which were most by Mr. J. C. Phillips, of Cheltenham, Editor of liberally supplied and furnished, were most Instead of preaching that the departed in God the Testimony, which Paper has been adopted should inherit some region or place of abode efficiently presided over by the ladies. The as the Organ of the Society. We have only public meeting commenced at 7-30. Captain beyond the skies, he found, and preached, the good wishes for such a movement. Ward, of Liverpool, took the chair. The meetApostles testified about a kingdom that had ing was began by Mr. H. K. White giving out the been preached by our Lord Jesus Christ: and HULL. hymn, "o,ur God, our help in ages past"; Mr. that He purposed to bring the EARTH into Runt read the 46th -Psalm ; and Mr. Withers harmony with His righteous laws, saying' Blessed Protestant Hall.-The Church meeting here invoked the Divine blessing. The Chairman, has sent our funds a first collection as a Sub- are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.' ufter expressing his regret at the absence of scrib'ing Church. J. C. A. writes :-" We are' That had excited a great deal of interest and Captain Dutton, who had been compelled to going to print 40,000 tracts on ' Life in Christ' some little opposition. (2) Because he was not leave Liverpool earlier than he l.ad anticipated, and the' Lord's Coming,' and dividing the town allowed to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom for America, expressed the pleasure he felt at into districts, distribute them, house by house." which God had revealed as His purpose to set being present at so large and promising a meet- This is an example worthy of imitation. up upon the earth, after the manner of the Should ing, and was glad to find that such doctrines as any of our friends elsewhere adopt it, we shall teaching of the Apostles. (3) Because he was

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required to teach the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, contrary to what he found to be the teaching of the Scriptures, viz.: that 'the soul that sinneth it shall die.' (4) Because he could not continue to teach, with the Burial Service, that every man-whatever his former life-was buried 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life.' (5) Because he could not agree with the Athanasian Creed, which says that they would be damned eternally if they did not believe the doctrine of the Trinity ai therein set forth; which at the same time is acknowledged to be incomprehensible. (6) Because he saw that the system of State Churches generally was an tagonistio to the teachings of the Bible. (7) Because he found that the baptism of Scripture was by immersion, on profession of faith. The lecture was listened to with intense interest. Questions were invited; but no one responded, and the meeting closed with prayer." latter, pleasure "of a loving,

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these they are not aocounteble to their fellowbelievers but to God. Even the inspired Apostles testified, "Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of. your joy." MENT.LL ANDSPIRITUAL BONDAGE.This mental and spiritual bondage permeates all our creedbound churches, and is often felt in the pulpit as well as in the pew. But there are few comparatively who have the intelligence and courage to complain of the wrong; while some, (like the prisoner who was offered his release from the Bastile in France, yet preferred in his old age to die within its walls rather than to enjoy his freedom,) under the influence of early education, prejudice, self-interest and fear, are willing to remain in bondage, even with an accusing conscience. This cannot last, however, for it is evident that the flood-tide of intelligence is rising, which will in time' redress this mighty wrong. In the late General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland, the Rev. Dr. Cunningham, of Crief, said there were three reasons why the ministry of the Church was not up to the standard desired as regards excellence and number. After enumerating some of them, he said, "In the third place, the clergy were bound by fetters from which they must be relieved." CHALMERS'VIEWS.From a new edition of Dr. H nna's "Life of Chalmers," the following paragraph appears, which is well worthy the serious consideration of our ecclesiastical friends and others :-" Busied with his pamphlet on the Evangelical Alliance, in which he (Dr. Chalmers) was dealing with the proper place and use for confessions o/'.faith, 'I look,' said he, to one of his daughters, ' on catechisms and confessions as mere landmarks against heresy. If there had been no heresy, they wouldn't have been wanted. It's putting them out of place to look upon them as magazines of truth. There's some of your stern orthodox folk just over rea.dy to stretch the Bible to square with their catechism; all very well, all very needful as a landmark, but (kindling up) what I say is, do not let that wretched, mutilated thing be thrown between me and the Bible.' 'Bacon,' said his daughter, 'compares the Bible to the wellspring, and says' he were a huge fool that would not drink but from a tank.' , Ha I ha! where does Bacon say that? It's nasty in the tank, too, whiles.''' This eminent and venerable Christian also declares in one of his publications: "Deliver me from the narrowing in. fluence of human lessons, from human systems of theology. Teach me directly out of the fulness and freeness of Thine own Word. Hasten the time when, unfettered by sectarian intolerance, and unarmed by the authority of man, the Bible shall make its rightful impression upon all; the simple and obedient readers thereof calling no man master, but Christ only." In the late general assembly of the Presbyterian Church held in Buffalo, N. Y., a Dr. Musgrave said, "No party in this Church desires any change in thee Confession, and I trust in God there never will be." Dr. Hall and Dr. Marquis said, "No minister of this Church dare preach doctrines at variance with the standards." Thus the Creed or Confession is the regulator of the faith of the Church, not the truth of God. Doubtless those gentlemen are intelligent friends of knowledge and science. But" science is common sense in nature," and theology should be common sense in matters spiritual and divine. Growth is change; creeds are brakes upon spiritual growth, which is advancement heavenward. Better is the sparkling rivulet with its health and vitality, than the stagnant pool with its sickness and death. Infinitely better is the light of divine truth with its freedom, progress, and life, than the darkness of human creeds, with their bondage, hypocrisy, and death.-l'imotheuI. Toronto.

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