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crafty than teaching narrative, (1)

STANDARD.
years.' Now here the devil is said to be the there be no doubt that the serpent of

every beast of 'the field, that there-I That no such to the tribe a in the Mosaic

all the activities of his life, sanctiwere to constitute to God.

fore he was a beast of the field. is expressed or implied will we think

serpent, and the serpent to be the devil; can therefore

act of loving worship

be manifest of the serpent the creature

Genesis, and the serpent of Revelations, is the same being, the devil. Finally, the generic in Hebrew for serpent, is siih-riiph, root. the same as seraph, or from the same This word i,s translated a fiery flying xiv. 29, and xxx. 6, Numbers vi. 6, it is translated like flame; the and perhaps and

to the temptation

of Satan

candid reader from the following considerations. If it were a reptile Eve-God to have endued that tempted miracle, must have wrought temperpur-

" ye shall be as gods," he fell from that level, to the level of the brute the brute lives for itself alone-for ion of its passions-it -no cannot End-all" knowledge love God. of God-and The" creation.

tbe gratificadoes not and the

has no thought of God Be-all is itself. and

arily with reasoning bring about the fall! make

faculties, a malicious

serpent in Isaiah seraphim.

pose, and the gift of human God the author

speech, in order to and therefore and instinc-

xxi, 8; and in Isaiah to burn, roll, vibrate would really fallen. "dust say, that

But this would be to of sin;

It comes from a root which signifies represent appearance

of its existence he has

Now this

philosophy of the brute, man has appropriated as his own; universal reduced it to universal for himself, and And though being, practice, and embodied and expressed it in the maxims, "everyone God for us all," This is the Fall.

from this (2)

conclusion we instantly

tively revolt. But if it be said in reply to this, that it we answer, that there is not in the passage of two about the fall a in bringing was not God, but Satan who used the serpent as an instrument, the remotest of man-one traditional mentality that (3) upon theory. the foundation intimation

motion of an angel, or' a seraph, fallen or unIn the Millennial age, we are told that shall be the serpent's meat," that is to there shall be no amelioration of his, condition, no mitigation to him

man is still an intelligent and intellectual yet is he using that intellect tion.

the tempter's, Thi1'dly. sequences of disobedience ness. He

for the overthrow

beings, as concerned reptilian instrument.

of the primal curse. Let us briefly point out the conthe fall to man. The act of on the part of the woman was

of divine truth and the denial of divine revela"Ye shall be as gods" was Satan's first "I am God, and besides me, there will be the pride crowning utterhis in the man's and revolt Human forth against intellect, temptation. ance of Creator.

a spiritual agent, and the other interpretation, to which

It is the exigencies of the we have this dual instruAnd we repeat the slightest denounced such a not

is none greater,"

already' referred, that demand in the fall of man. passage affords for such a theory.

weakness, on the part of the man lawless urickedThe serpent did not tempt him, but her. was not "beguiled," from the hand on the forfeiture pronounced He took the fruit of his wife. was of life. "In The the Adam, capital

To this fearful con summa tion he is hastening. pride, is already ascending

now rapidly altar-steps, hand

deliberately penalty precludes punishment,

its measureless

The penalty the tempter,

or punishment utterly

and stretching

its impious

to pluck the crown from the brow of the

The whole weight of the curse falls if the popular exposiinstrument in

sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken, -dust return. for dust thou thou art, and art, and unto dust shalt unto dust shalt tluni thou return," Let the reader note the language

Creator, to call upon Him to abdicate the throne, and retire from the scene, for the world can do without God I Having defined the Fall, let us now glance at the tempter, or agent employed about. almost reptile-in said, the universal-belief in bringing it had the is that We are aware that the general-we

upon the serpent-which, the transaction,

tion be correct, was an innocent than the rams-horns

and no more worthy of blame, were of praise for bringing while the actual as an altogether, and

down the walls of Jericho; instrument, (,1,)

It is not said by the Creator, one part to dust, and another part ever in a state and now, the

tempter, the agent who used the serpent escapes punishment is not even once named or referred to. The threatened

of thee shall return

1'0 prevent

be plunged into everlasting fire. rnan living for of sin and disobedience lest he put forth for ever,"-to and sorrow, the Lord and eat and live

" serpent"

spoken of was really a reptile-the some form or another=-flsoa-Conname. narrative But to based

penalty is not fulfilled in does not eat dust, It is said And tribes. by But In of It is to and sub-

strictor, Anaconda, or some other creasure of the .snake tribe), that now goes by that there warrant is really nothing in the

the serpent-" of thy life I"

dust shalt thou eat all the days 'I'he serpent

shuts him off from the tree of life-" his hand, prevent

It is carnivorous, and it is not particular whether it dines off a horse, a deer, or a man. of Ephraim, heart hath Ephraim "He turned feedeth him aside." the ten on dust, a deceived

his being immortal,

such a conclusion, a conclusion any beast of the

Lord God denies him access to the tree of life, the fruit of which, in all probability, would have perpetually tion, rejuvenated him and arrested the operation of that law of decay and disintegrato which all organic beings are subject. of The penalty on the woman was a large increase in the population the fall.
AND

mainly on the sentence, " Now the serpent was more subtle than field which the Lord God had made." of the Hebrew is :-"And crafty (da?'vm) than The exact rendering the serpent was more But is

here is meant history

does anyone suppose that the ten tribes in any part of their Isaiah ever lived on dust? xlix, 23, it is said of the enemies occurs in Psa. the phrase fallen, a condition lxxii, 9. is intended of utter

every (mi-kol) beast of the

field which the Lord God had made." Certainly not.

of the world, as a result multiply

this to affirm that he was a beast of the field? And it is this hasty and groundof the entire passage; to treat less assumption which has vitiated and be clouded the interpretation some professedly Christian writers the results were allegorical!), sneer legend. wiser, or children answer it. at the narrative, Michael

Israel, " They shall lick the dust of thy feet;" the same phrase thus manifest a that low,

"I

will greatly

thy sorrow the

THY CONCEPTION."

Hence as a result, there population,

is in the world a large surplus children persecutors of the"

led. represent the degraded

contemptible

of the wicked one, and they are the children of the kingdom."

condition,

whole story of the fall as an allegory (as though and the sceptic to Gabriel that is as an empty oriental than any of the they

If we were to affirm that stronger of men-would Neither that imply

were children 01 men?

To ask the question is to because is said to be more

does it follow that

jugation. Hence we read in the next chapter of the (5) It was not a snake, a reptile, that bruised murder of Abel bY,his brother Cain, a~d the , ',,' " ,Apostle John, referring to this, says, Cam was the humamtyof Christ ( HIS heel ); nor IS of that wicked one, the lawless one, and slew it a reptile that the Lord Jesus will finally 'his brother, "and wherefore s~ew he him.? h Because his own works were wicked and his crus . brother's righteous." (6) Scripture is its own interpreter. In Thus the forfeiture of life, a large surplus Rev. xx. 2, we read that an angel" laid hold of population, and the ultimate extinction of the the dragon, that' ancient serpent which is the devil, are the consequences of the Fall. devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand Lincoln.

the being called a serpent


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THERE suggest 4, 5, "What him? him? than "They
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MEN P.

COMPARED.

and with them

book: worship God." Here, then, we will begin our few remarks (A.) Servants employed protection tering of God, and apparently "Are to what the angels are, by stating that they aremuch by Him in the guidance, of man. sent forth care, and

Miehael was the guardian of the body of Moses, and the great prince which stood for the children of Israel. One strengthened Jesus in Gethsemane. angry sea
j

MACKAY.

are three thought

passages of Holy Writ that regarding the relative of First, Psalm viii. art mindful Thou visitest lower to xx. 35, 36. worthy from the

One released Peter from prison and another angels was a guide for John are immortal. we cannot

position of men and angels. is man that Thou

one stood by Paul when tossed at night upon the through the mazes of the Revelation. (L) All the holy they attained How tell
j

they not all ministo do service for the salvation? (Heb.

and the son of man that For Thou the angels." which shall marry Second, Luke

spirits

hast made him a little be accounted

sake of them that shall inherit i. 14.) They are (B.) High in favour mitted to the inner messenger Gabriel, And those and Daniel similar. (C.) Angels are holy beings. be admitted (D.) Angels to the Divine are poioerjul. "Paradise that stand to Zacharias that appeared

to immortality

and position, "said unto to Isaiah, to .have

being adThe him, I am of God." E.zekiel, honour

but Luke xx. 36, clearly shows that it is theirs: "Neither can they die any more." Certainly it would not be granted unto them without a trial Eternal life is far too great trust it into untried cannot be immortal. other. Now, God created than the angelic. position, intelligence, angel's high duties an angel's angels." character, presence, hands. a prize for God to The fallen angel

obtain that world, and the resurrection dead, neither neither Christ, on high; angels." appreciate then to Angels? quoted can they die any more: "When He had by Himself

chamber of Jehovah. in ~he presence had

nor are given in marriage: for they are purged our 'I'hird, H ebreuis i. 3, 4,

equal ttnto the angels."

are shown

"Sin, when it is finished," case as in every family lower He

sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty being made so much Lower, equal, higher. these comparisons answer the question, of the angels. better we must Who than the underare the Before we can Let us try

must bring forth death in their No others could presence. beings. Jesus We need about, the Lord of His human and unconyet they are "Bless

the human Man has

spoke of them as " The holy angels." not thinkof them hurling great mountains as described in Lost;" able to obey all God's behests.

not an angel's
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stand the position

power, form or glory. to perform.

has not an angel's powers of locomotion immortality.

nor an

Nor has man lower than the in station, Man was not, presenceMan at that
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Yet it is 'well to note

The beings

spoken of in the three not the fallen kept not their

passages angels, This

Lord," says the Psalmist, excel in strength." Jesus mighty angels," power." (E.) Angels are invisible sight. "There yet we, poor blind mortals, scious of their presence. perceived the cases of Balsam, shall be revealed

"Ye His angels that from heaven "angels with His

that he was made but "a little power, glory and life. admitted but Eden was an

are, of course,

And Paul says, "The or (margin,)

Only a little less exalted

the angels that it is needful prevalent that the spirits of appear preachers

first estate."

Nor are they disembodied to point "the angel

human spirits. band" saints.

like the angels,

to God's immediate outer

out, for the idea is very is formed of Poets have and when noticed for the

to unaided are mostly

chamber, and there God met with him. is, having actually he was innocent lower than might; the earth. he was" his form life; but wrought righteousness

departed dies.

are angels hovering round,"

his creation was not holy, like the angels; and innocence

to revel. in the thought All must with the mourning written

but

any good man

They have only been eyes, (as in

is only a little all

this in connection Footsteps

by men with "opened"

holiness. enough

Man had not an angel's was his to rule o'er

j"

noble. minded Longfellow : his own song entitled of Angels," his lost life-partner,

and the servant of Elisha

in memory of at Dothan,) or when they have assumed a human is in this strain. form. Angels have often been seen as men, according to the Word. (F.) They ing, "the are radiant beings: appearing at times in great glory. On the first Easter morndescended from into angels

His was not an angel's glorious form; of the earth, earthy was perfect. that yet of its kind Man had not an angel's was not beyond attack; could endanger it, was

The principal passage supposed to support the 'theory that men are metamorphosed is Rev. xxii. 8, 9. angel which saith he unto thy this prophets, "When I fell down to worship I had heard and seen, before the feet of the things. Then the the

his immortality

yet the only thing

angel of the Lord

showed me these and of God."

heaven, and came and roiled back the stone from the door (of the sepulchre), and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning,
j

his own act and deed. But ah, me! Man is now 1nuch lower than the angels! -from sought He by transgression the estate in which upright, inventions." feil,-oh, how far! he was created. but they have His position,

me, see thou do it not, for I am thy brethren. quote

fellow servant, book: worship

and his raiment John

and of them which keep the sayings of white as snow Many proof that this describes

and for fear of him the keepers as "clothed with a cloud, a

" God hath made man out many character, with him:

did shake and become as dead men." another

words in italics as incontrovertible angel was once a prophet. ing of his past state at all. etc.

power, glory and life are now all lost ! from Eden he was driven.
j

But he is not speak. His words are I am

rainbow upon his head, his face as the sun, and feet as pillars of fire." (G.) They are active as the breeze and swift as the lightning. winds, God" maketh a flame His of angels fire." and His ministers

God no longer can on common ground commune His inand it has "that the nocence is but a vision of the past had to be recorded every imagination gone and
j

And why not quote the whole of the verse? (viz.) Thus one the

If he is a dead prophet, he is also one of them which keep the sayings of this book: of the saints prophet, of John's own day. poor angel becomes three beings, a ministering with all the ills and aches that

in blackest

ink

wickedness of man is great in the earth, and that of the thoughts of his heart
j

Gabriel came to Daniel while he was at prayer, though the command do so, until (H.) Each wilderness
j

viz., a dead

was not given for him to had begun to pray. (See

is only evil continually." the sceptre he is "altogether now.

His power now is without strength."

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spirit, and a living saint flesh is heir to. angels

Daniel

has fallen from his grasp on his very form

Daniel ix, 20-23.) seems to have a post of duty, One led Israel through another gave the Tables of the Law

Let our good friends who invent human new version, and their inventive

a
the
j

" Ichabod " is written " there is no glory" forfeited. "ready Thanks to perish."

for

from the language of this verse, read it in the imaginations trans. will surely cease. The original is there

special work to do.

And even his life is dying daily, and

Now he is mortal,

another was in the way of Balaam ; another in the furnace with the three brave Hebrew youths and another in the den 'with Daniel. Gabriel
j

lated, " See thou do it not:

I am a [elltno-sernamt the prophets,

be to God, however, the lost estate may be regained I

with thee and with thy brethren

may be recovered I Paradise

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His glorious and powers we shall judge for them The less seen the doctrine that is contained tinctly therein disto learn.

that it may be fashioned like unto body." to them: angels?" "Angels "Know and authorities Him." ye not that are made subject unto

equal unto the angels."

indeed, and yet have striven

world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perisb, but have everlasting life." Position, character, power, glory and life, equal unto those of the angels, may all become man's. Unto whom shall "These these things be granted? for fallen Unto those who shall be" accounted worthy." are (1,) the truly Penitent, man must repent of sin: (2,) the Believing, for "without faith it is impossible to please God: " (3,) the Obedient, for "faith dead:" and "by patient When without (4,) the Persevering, for we must

So shall they be The past four years have enlightened me much; the ignorance at the outset has disappeared to a large extent, and yet I am more and more convinced, as the years roll by, that I know less of God's truth than I thought I did. I th an k G 0, m t h e presence of you all, that d' the scales have fallen from my eyes with regard to one thing, and that is that He who claims to

Even now, "are

they not all min.

istering spirits

sent forth to minister

who shall be heirs of salvation?"

servinz~ the greater " the lower waiting upon the higher . Brethren in Christ I "Such knowledge is too

wonderful for me; it is high. I cannot attain be, and is declared to be, the God of Love, is all unto it." The very thought of all this glory I'S t h at an d more: t h at the doctrine which many works is quite crushing. When trying to comprehend it, preae h to- d ay with apparent unction, the doemy heart is like t o b ur.st H ow to express my trine of eternal torment, is not contained here: All that can th at G 0d 's truth is exempt from that which be done, is to throw one's-self at His dear feet belies His character, and rests as a hideous incubus on Christian theology. it is not here, but that ever shone throughout all I thank God that truth has misunderstandings

continuance in well doing, seek for feelings properly I do not know.

At" the Re- in praise and wonder.

glory and honour and immortality." shall these things be? surrection from the dead." Only then shall any The best of

Lincoln.

His bright

men be "equal unto the angels."

men have now neither an angel's character, nor an angel's life. All are doomed to die. Rut at t he Resurrection of the just the goal shall be attained. "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, put on immortality, and this mortal 'Death shall have then shall be brought to pass is swallowed

THE HOPE By

OF RE-UNION.
ALDRIDGE.

and errors of mind,-the gift of God is eternal life, but the wages of sin is death. The conceptions which we form from God's truth con-

GEORGE

the saying that is written,

you
that

(His Fareuiell. Address given in the Temperance cerning our own mortal nature must to a very Hall, Bradford. on April 16, prior to sailing large extent alter our conceptions of the future. for New Zealand.) It is impossible for us to retain, with our
will appreciate, I am sure, the difficulties which I labour Word while I may may be to-night, spoken and will with all The altered notions of our own nature, the ununder God's altered conception of passing away to heaven at of one with another at some that possess no form or subfor her husband, and with those we love, in reality. The one great that of We look must centre in the return future time in a heaven without locality, and a home with spirits stance; but we look for a state that is yet to

up in Victory.' " Also this other saying, "They are God, being the children of the Resurrection."

equal unto the angels, and are the children of help me with your prayers and sympathies, With this in view, well might the great apostle of the Gentiles say, "I count all things but loss, -if by any means I might attain unto the Refrom the dead." the angels I It essentially obtained to But does not the third passage speak of a position higher than does. Christ. That "He position hath belongs surrrection sincerity, position trying. be forgotten.

so' death, or reunion

feels to me very peculiar My thoughts are somewhat

and very confused,

come as a bride adorned we look for a re-union

and if at the outset they may appear incoherent, sympathy with me and who will forgive. The subject I have selected for consideration is one which should bring a fruitful cirI source of consolation cum stances-that to us, under present

(Heb. i. 3, 4.) I am sure I am speaking to those fully in form and substantial

the light of conditional the Lord Jesus Christ

hope around which our thoughts light of God's Word, I can say-is

immortality,-in from heaven.

by inheritance they."

a to-night

more excellent at the right-hand

name than of power;

.He is the He sitteth He is the express

Son; while they are but servants. before the throne, brightness "Let ready to obey. glory,

is, the hope of a re-union.

not to pass away to Him at death, but for Him to come for us according to the promise, "I go to prepare a place for you; and if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again to receive you unto Myself, that also." the front. Turn where I am there ye may be where you will in the New is the one object on It matters The Word of God puts that always to

while they stand "the

have ever tried, for the past four years, since I have been connected with our little Church, to speak God's truth; though I am not aware whether I have tried to bring forward the graces of oratory, or have striven to adorn my speech I may say, in all God's Word men should God's

of Jehovah's

image of His person;"

while to them it is said

all the angels of God worship Him." (ob,

But man can surely never rise to such a place I with those words of rhetoric which catch men's Well, in his own right he never can, but, love unsearchable!) he does! Believers with their Lord. shall be; but ears at the expense of truth. sincerity, should that be uplifted-that consideration in Christ he may, he shall, are identified in all things now are we the sons when He shall "He Jesus." "Behold I have tried that whether should be they should

Testament you will always find that the return of the Lord Jesus Christ which all men's hopes are centred.

hear or whether truth.

forbear, the first which I have to my

not what side of Christian doctrine you take up, He is coming back The theory, also, and We believe again who has promised to return. tality, puts that to the fore-front

of God, and it doth not yet appear we know that of power. appear we shall be like Him." the right hand hath Thus together raised us up together, in heavenly shall they by and by;

what we human

own it hinges on this one thing:

There are certain

things

He sitteth at spoken upon here that own mind very clear; large extent

have appeared

if you like to call it so, of Conditional Immor before its bright gleams all false law, all im-

So do they:

and I believe to a very clear also to but there no man that are I

and made us sit "For to him that

they have appeared

places in Christ

those to whom I have spoken; not aware. I have informed

moral law, flickers and dies away. presence joy.

very many things in God's Word of which I am knew all the 'Word of God. were, a learner poses of God. I have been, as it

that He is coming back again, and that in His we shall meet to find the fullness of you will of you who are partially with me in Christian fellowIf we are accounted worthy-and

overoometh,"

saith He, "will I grant to sit with even as I also overcame, and in His throne." and in form:

Me in'My throne; He is resplendent

am set down with My Father they be; for He "shall

at the feet of the Word, and I have been like one who has

forgive me, those have been united

so shallj have touched

the fringe which skirts the pur-, strange, if I speak ~ore esp~cially .to .those who

change our vile body,

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days

cloud rolls between What of that?

and He is lost to sight.

and sisters

in the faith, and pray we may be

"As the wind bloweth where it it

gone by. Is there proof here that will enable us to rest confident that we shall know each other there? If you will turn will read: ignorant, "But brethren, with me to 1 Thess. iv. 13, you I would not have you to he concerning them which are

accounted worthy to stand in His presence and share in the rapture whereby we shall be caught up to Him. Will it not be grand to see Jesus? of God? He who and took Will it not be grand to look upon Him who came, being in the form but made Himself " Thought it not robbery to be equal with God, of no reputation, upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man, and being formed in fashion the cross." Him who as a man, He humbled Himself, and unto death-even the death of Will it not be grand to look upon was became obedient

listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither goeth;

so is everyone that is born of the Spirit."-John ill. 8. So is everyone that is

born of the Spirit. wondrous state; and change, changes We must be subjected to a far surpassing the as this change is one our present of such to to from morsuperior subjects

asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which ltItve no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died For this we and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain UBtO the coming of the Lord, descend shall not prevent [go before] them shall with the rise first,

if we are

wondrous that

tality to immortality,

from our presont state

of glory, the change

present mundane influences. Shall we know each other there? It is easy

humiliated, scomed, despised, for me to recognize you; it is easy for you to crucified, and killed for us? The first sight for recognize me now; but we are subjected to great
is the sight of Him who died I want you to notice is the subject we the sight of Jesus changes of Himself, "Beloved, changes, and shall we know each It is said" spontaneously The faith it helps us to eluoidate Yes." The answer from Christendom: other there? comes almost "Yes; we the it and for us. The passing thought this-and that is to follow-that us iota the likeness

which are asleep.

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For the Lord Himself with a shout, shall

heaven

all in our future

voice of the archangel Then

and with the trump of

God; and the dead in Christ caught up together be with the Lord. You will mark in deep sorrow losing their solation for Jesus Christ;

we which are alive and remain shall be with them in the clouds, to Wherefore, comfort one were were

shall know you there." of Christendom

How do you know? goes far into than mine;

meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever another with these words." that these Thessalonians about something: they and kindred

belief, and a great deal further goes far enough

know not what we shall be, but this we know, that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." the Saviour, the Lord Jesus "We look for' and Christ, who shall

to believe that spirits without

bodies retain the elements of their identity, and hold converse one with another. know how. It is believed. Utterances and tracts livered by the thousands, load to' prove this;

that when they meet they recognize each other, I don't are deand pam-

friends

while waiting them to look

change this vile body, of our humiliation,

and Paul

is giving them conwhich He opens

fashion it like unto His glorious body, accordi~g' to the working whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself." The likeness of Christ is guaranteed in the vision of Jesus Christ in It guarantees to

for their sorrow-s-telling What is it?

phlets are issued by the thousand

and waggonThere to build

away from the grave to that up before them. they are to look. was certain. new revelation were turned at once it is the return Right; because they knew that to them.

but they contain arguments in them. There is It still rewe have the other Can we and say

Many will say is not all,

which are not believed by thinking men. is no power of consolation no strength mains for support, no certainty value in them. Shall

of the Lord to which but that the return of the Lord and it was no

the time beyond. What does that guarantee? us immortality. selves. to return immortal. over Him." We do not possess it in ourIt will change us to no more liveth, domioion and was The likeWhat do

upon, no intrinsic

They expected 'it;

We are but mortal, formed of dust, and to dust again. "Death "I hath and if we are like Him, we must be am He that future glory? this

an open question.

We are tol-l that they

privilege of standing clothed in immortality there?

in the land of the blest and know each

from idols to serve the living and

immortality,

true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven. They knew of His coming again, but it is not that exactly which Paul wishes to bring before them for their comfort. They knew that the wondering Christ whether He was coming. saw the how they There is Jesus no doubt that they had heard disciples pass f1way, and the story of how Lord marvelled

Can we lift the veil at all?

remove the gloom, see the brightness, we shall know each other there?

dead, and am alive for evermore." ness of Christ guarantees It further guarantees men mean by the term perhaps glorious help to battle. to us glory.

The heathen

immortality. It is used tosignification. a word

mother, in days gone by, as she stood by the bed over the body of her dying child, moaned in her agony as she clasped its form to her bosom, and again. thought But she would never the Christian one beneath see her as baby she mother,

day in some very strange expressions which will elucidate But it We speak of a glorious deed, a glorious action, a comes from " shining." His counwhich signifies" brightness,"

He had gone to the angel's city, who,

lays her little Philosophers and retain

the sod, believes

pointing upwards, said, This same Jesus whom ye now see going into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven. Is it the hope of resurrection them? gone by, the hope of He brings before in days was the When the gospel was preached resurrection

that she will see it again and will know it there. of yore, as they steed around the whether he would be able to wherehy he couch of a dying comrade, in thought wondered speculated any elements of identity

In the Mount of Transfiguration" was white and glistening." to Paul stricken to John with blindness. and Thomas,

tenance did shine as the light, and His raiment 'When He appeared Paul of was His When "the He appeared whole on his way to Damascus,

would be known and whereby he would be recognized. They could not tell, but somehow it seems to grow in the Christian has laid aside friends scionsness within eyes brimful he delighted lighted him that that when he

cen tral pivot. preaching the resurrection, preached Dead.

The disciples of these days are as though worthless; but in of the

a new gospel, which puts on one side

countenance

did shine as the sun." further, that which many long We are bound now to walk our had risen from the dead He disciples gazed until the

he loved, there is a conagain in the land

days gone by, when this Book was written, they the Gospel of the Resurrection

It guarantees, a future state. but when Christ and the

after, that we shall appear in a superior form in streets in this way, if we cannot afford to ride; took His disciples to Bethany, and He ascended, wondering

beyond he will clasp the hand and look into the of love, and see the countenances to see and hear the voices he deSomehow he believes it, and tears and aching heart he

So it is, that while Paul speaks of the return of the Lord Jesus, and when he sp?aks of the resurrection thing which out from the dead, there is another underlies the teaching here. It

to hear.

through the blinding

looks on to the time when he shall clasp the

runs through it like sweet music, that there was

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a hope of future those-when heaven-who re-union and recognition should return There for from we

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concerning

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whom we now see ascending into heaven, we "The and the

and the hope of glory, and which these men every man con-

Jesus Christ

the rewards and punishments must expect. He is warning

shall see in like manner coming again: shout, with the voice of the archangel trump of God." Nay, it is affirmed that shall be fulfilled. We

in Christ shall arise.

Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a We are looking forward to it. the whole heaven and read, "Behold, the

shall meet at last, and realise the words of Matt. viii, 11: "And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaae, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven." You mark that the patriarchs of days gone by to enter who shall the are to have a place in the coming kingdom, and if that is so, those who are privileged shall know Abraham, Isaae, we may single out certain individuals only wish on the part of ourselves. It is affirmed again in the Gospel according to Luke; and in John there is another instance. On one occasion, when Jesus was away, a great friend of His died, and Christ was sent for; on His way He is told that His friend is dead, and as He enters Him, brother "Thy "Lord, had brother the place, two sisters come out, says to if not Thou hadst died." been here, my It would be one by one, to meet Him, and Martha and Jacob, and if

cerning the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ, and concerning those rewards and punishments which those must have or endure who accept or reject the truth. they will hear I am sure that there is joy and that "Well done, thou and teachfor all men who accept this teaching, the words, servant; good and faithful joy of thy Lord."

earth shall roll away, and that the revelations tabernacle of God is with men." It is not that Here the

enter thou into the

we are with God in the sense of going away, but the tabernacle of God is with men. meeting place; here the parting place. It may not be that we shall meet first of all Jesus upon earth, but it will be in connection therewith, for we are taught meet Him. When shall we meet? sisters, it is hard, Oh! my brethren and hard to part! But I want to believe that we to shall be called away from our tribulation

I am preaching

ing for Him in the wisdom that we may present them in Christ Jesus. The doctrine comes out again in all passages like these, work. affirming-and very many of the passages affirm-individual reward for individual

be known, it is a long way to guaranteeing

Passages which also come out like these

affirm that those who are standing at the judgment seat of Christ shall know the pers?ns who are brought are rewarded the heart before it, and shall know why they or punished; for the counsels of and every It and We shall be that is his. shall be made manifest,

you and myself to pnt it on one side for a moment, and look onward and forward to seewhen shall we meet? is when. When the Lord himself That shall descend from heaven with a shout. will come again." ing to the promise. come again" That is when. is when.

man shall be given the praise able to grasp one another

The Lord answered,

shall not be a world of strangers.

When He fulfils His own promise, " I When the "I will

shall rise again."

by the hand,

nice to hear Him say he should rise again, but it would be of very little avail to Martha, unless she could know that he 1vas her brother! brother shall rise again." You will also remember the striking of recognition figured. mountain disciples when our Saviour We are told that of transfiguration, are asleep, instance was trans" Thy

realise that we are spared to live in His presence, who have worked together shoulder here. It being certain, be a true re-union, where shall we meet? then, that to shoulder

redemption of our bodies is accomplished accordThat is His own promise, be? is His own kuow-I

we shall know there will

language, and I dare not doubt it. How soon may that don't looked for Him. looked for Him I don't know I Ages ago, in Eastern lands, they They

each other when we meet,

and that

both of body and spirit; Where shall we meet? question Supquestion for me to

He took up on the Peter, James, and before" them. The

Oh! how they looked for His eyes grew dim. to come again from Olivet, but We someface; we

It becomes the all-important for you to ask.

chariot wheels as their

John, and was transfigured they discern two men. Do they know them?

try to answer, and the all-important posing we may not be privileged here in this state, in this sphere-w meet? heaven? In heaven? What

and when they wake up Who are these men? Yes; but they have had How

Where shall we meet?

the years rolled on and He tarried. the shining robes and the glorious

to meet again here shall we by

times look on the fleecy clouds, and fancy traces have our views in the gloaming, and try to hear the sound of His thrilling voice, but it is not near. Have courage. The time will come; His He Word is sure. light sublime; shall it be? Lord Jesus Let us be patient and wait.

no knowledge of them in the days of their flesh. Moses and Elias never crossed 'their path. strange it is that Peter says, "Lord, for us to be here: Shall it is good

do you mean

Do you mean the land above therethe deep blue sky-beyond place where heaven? floating about like myths Do you call that Have you read this Word

somewhere beyond spirits are apparently in a golden fog? Wait aright? a moment!

let us build three tabernacles; there? Yes, we

the bounds of time and space-the

one for Thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias." we know each other shall, for those men who lived and loved in days gone by, recognised each other in glory. There other the are also passages of Scripture which in any to affirm this, and cannot conception. Thessalonians, be understood "For

will surely come as He said He would, in the and we shall be glad when we the waiting He comes. time. When When And thus we and we are sure see His face after

The place of parting

is the place of

meeting;

I don't mean locally, but I mean that is a place where we part, the

look onward and forward to the time when the shall be revealed; that we shall be spared to meet together again as we meet now. It shall be, when we shall be grouped together in His presence, and again our hands shall meet in love, and our eyes gaze to the full as we realise that we are raised by Him for evermore.
"We may now be called to sever, And to other climes be borne, But we'll meet, to part-no, neverOn the Resurrection morn.
H

so long as earth

Take the First ii. 19:

Epistle

earth shall be the place where we meet .. " I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself." you to be received," It is not "I shall come to but that He who ascended

what is our Are not

hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? at His Coming?" I have brought Jesus Christ." crown of rejoicing "You,

even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ my converts, whom to the truth, you shall be my at the presence of the Lord But how could it be so; if he conand more He men

on high, and was lost to the gaze of His disciples, is coming back in order that we may be received unto Him. He left earth coming in His humiliation; He is

did not know them. Again you will notice the same thought tained in the Epistle to the Philippians, to the Corinthians, teacher. teaching also in the Epistle than once. Paul likens himself has gone out to these

back in His

glory ; and the parting He ascended feet shall parting

place shall be the meeting place. when He returns in that place.

from the Mount of Olives, and it is written that day His stand place, upon the Mount of Olives-the

From the dry land or the ocean, From wberc'er our lot be cast, From Old England or New Zealand, We shall gather home at last,"

to a great districts

And now to put to you the word of exhortation; to whom I have spoken times without

the meeting

This same Jesus,

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number; who have heard me proclaim the Word it,-the

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the need to give; the bringing body was not the resurrection the mall'S body. plainly

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life from above of the of the man, but words not

of God as well as I could proclaim of Jesus Christ, "Who

matchless Word of God and the wondrous Word so loved the world that Son, that whosoever but have He gave His only-begotten everlasting life."

believeth on Him should not perish, His love many times, This may be the last be heard here. now for good! died?

You have heard me speak of and I wish I could get time that my voice shall

everyone here to-night to realise this great fact. Oh I that it be that you hear it Will you take Him who has

ANOTHER LABOUREII Fall NEW ZEALAND. On April 20, a late member of our Executive Committee, Mr. George Aldridge, of Bradford, sailed from Gravesend in the Orient Line s.s. Liquria, for Auckland, New Zealand, to assist ill the work being carried on in the colony by Messrs. G. A. Brown and E. H. 'I'aylor, Our brother has been a very devoted labourer and preacher in connection with the Church meeting in the Temperance Hall, and will be sorely missed. We ask for him the prayers of our readers; for his safe passage (and that of his family), and for great usefulness iu the land of liis adoption.

was not giving back life; the resurrection Do the Saviour's

imply that He, Christ, is the true and

only source through which dead men live again? Once more verses 25, 26," Hethat believethin Me, though he were dead yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." Christ's meaning here is not, that he who is dead shall be at the same time alive, any more than He means that the believer shall never die, for we know God's children He means they are dying every day. die fatally as the shall not

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THE

RESURRECTION

AND THE

The cross has been uplifted, and Christ

has died. "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." The words stand spoken. as confirmed to-day as when first the loss of His many to Will it not be grand as we pass away to realise that

I shall now pass from the morning Christianity subject. to that to the Christ, or noon-day ne ss of Christianity, Turn, touching

dawn of bright-

wicked, but only sleep over the night to wake to new and vigorous life in the morning of resurrection. Matt. xxii, 32, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jaeob. God is not the God of the dead but of the li ving." It is plainly indicated here that God counts upon his dead saints But let me as living illustrate children, what and upon In dead sinners as dead indeed. I mean. balancing my ledger I come upon a leaf on the page of which stands an account I know I shall never recover, and which I hold as bad, lost, or dead money. whose pages shall I also come upon many leaves on stand accounts which I know I I reckon good. the

for higher knowledge on the incident where the Bethany by the removal Listen to the words

from this earth the truth?

therefore, to the 11th of John,

Son has been the means of bringing and they intend sacrifice. here. this.

They have turned to Christ indeed, to live for Him evermore, and to Him evermore a living last time we shall meet

family has fallen into distress of their brother of Marths, brother by death. "Lord,

consecrate themselves It is the

if Thou hadst been here, my Jesus saith unto her, Thy Notice, Jesus does ,.'Thy brother is not really

brother had not died. not say to Martha,

This company will never meet again like Supposing it possible the churchyard for us to meet, Some would sod, some gone together again,

shall rise again."

there would be some faces abient. be laid beneath long distances ,-nevermore Oh I shall it be? gives utterance

dead, he is in heaven, he is in the fuller presence of God, it is only his body you have buried. What of that, Martha, the life part of thy brother is not dead, but liveth and can never die." no, Jesus said to Martha, rise again," again, but thy brother. would he withhold family, that "Thy brother not thy brother's No, shall

except it be with Christ, presence. that which Paul

and to meet in His Oh I shall it be to-that I shall

recover, which accounts

But observe, I have not in my possession

I, who have met you, shall realize that

body shall rise

good money any more than I have the bad money, yet I take the good money though absent from me into account as already possessed and as part of my riches. moment The bad I leave out, and look upon Just for one observe closely the difference between both them. it as no part of my possessions.

If there was a lifu out of knowledge from this

embrace you in His presence, and receive honour and glory thereby? May the Lord bless you, and bring you together into the truth. Now, my deal' brethren and sisters in Jesus Christ, it comes to the last word I have to sayit comes to the long, long farewell that I must give utterance to now. And yet I try to put it away. I would look onward through blinding tears and aching heart, but as I. look, I look beyond the scene, and see a resplendent city descending out of the clonds from heaven, with a massive wall, great and high, thrown above its gates of pearl. As I believe in that city, and as I see it descending out of heaven, and its gates stand wide open, I see its long streets of transparent gold, and see the crystal river, and on the other side there stands the tree of life. There the happy groups stand together, and are redeemed from every kindred and land, every tribe and nation; and they are singing the praises of Him who has redeemed them by His blood. I look still; and amongst these groups I see most of the faces I have known and loved here, and as I stand, many others, their faces all aglow with happiness; a beam of recognition crosses their faces, and we have met. The hand is outstretched, and the word of greeting is heard. The covenant seal is set on every one, and a land voice above the music of the city exclaims, "Behold, the. tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. May you f~rewell !tere now; arid when Jesus Christ, Who 1S our Life, shall appear, may you farewell in His presence. FAREWELL. f

the body, the Son of God would know of it, and whom he so dearly loved, and asso-

ciated so much with? Could He stand by and see the anguish of these sisters and not comfort them by the assurance that Lazarus was not in that grave but only his b?dy. Yea, more, had those sisters been aware of the fact that in that grave was only the body of their beloved brother, would they wish, I ask, Christ to bring him back from his abode of truest happiness? If so, surely it were to come from life again to meet death, to come from joy to meet sorrow, I cannot, I will not believe that the most selfish would be so selfish. In the words of Christ to Martha I see no ray of light concerning a life out of the body. In Martha's answer there is the fullest belief that her brother was in the grave; "I know," said she, "he shall rise again at the resurrection of the last day." "I am the resurrection and the life" said Chd~t; lie that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live." Who can think and reason and not be struck with the magnanimity, the grandeur, the power, the self-importance contained in these words, "I am the resurrection, I am the life." Notice, how could Christ claim to be the life, that is, .the element of life itself, if the life never ceased to be? The credit of giving cannot be claimed where there nev"r was

the two states of this money, both alike in the interval in which I lack their possession, or within the possibility of my using alike, I say, that is, neither of them are present But see, the absence of the one being only temporary, deprives it not of its essential existence, the absence of the other treasures. as lost. good
01'

being lasting

01'

final

deprives it of all right of existence reputed as present;

among my

The one money is only absent, and the other absent, but reputed are the to So as the good money is not absent

from its possessor, yet absent, neither godly absent from The bad, or really

God though absent.

absent, I do not intend

speak about in this paper, but in another. I shall pass on to notice the manner in which Christ raised 43, 44). come forth; Lazarus from the dead and he that (John xi. " He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus was dead came forth."

If Lazarus was in heaven, would not Christ have in this instance given some light on the subject, and called Lazarus to come down to earth again or to come back to his body again? Christ's whole attention And again, Lazarus But no, is directed to the grave,

which is very singular, if Lazarus was not there. lived for thirty years after

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in the article which we offers much alleviathe awful conIt is, that He says, on page 62, "Their hapless 1nillions are sinking into spiritual asphyxia, under the fetid and exhausted air of their dungeons, barred by the triple bolts of ignorance, priest. craft, and oppression." As people in this state cannot be in a fit condition for the" p1'esence of God," according to the theory quoted above, there is but one remaining fate for the" hapless millions," viz.: "hopeless misery in separation from Him." If the end in death of all such as have not had the light of the Gospel (which is far preferable to the awful doom just contemplated) has left no field for any further efforts of the Restorationists for their welfare, let us enquire if they have any better prospect of benefiting those who have died in their sins under the Gospel Dispensation. The Restorationists will find their fate as fixed as the former, by the testimony of the Scriptures, which say, after speaking of the resurrection of the righteous, " The rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were past." Of course, then, during the intermediate time, there is no scope for work, for we may imagine life without consciousness, but we cannot imagine consciousness without life. But even allowing our opponents to give, as they claim for it, the idea of conscious existence to a state which the Bible characterlzes as one without life, and admitting, for the sake of argument, a disembodied state, we are expressly told in the Scriptures that people are to be judged for the" deeds done in the body;" so it would avail nothing to give them disembodied spirits. And in the same manner there is no prospect of aiding them after the judgment to which they are to be raised, for the decision then pronounced is final and its execution immediate! Let such as indulge these visionary ideas, go to work with all diligence to help the living. "Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."-Eccles. ix. 10. (1'0 be continued.)

But there is a remark tion-no templation doubt

to have gone out and in so many years, Had the fonr

have been reviewing, that truthfully-to those

and to have given no hint even to his loved ones at home, of this spiritual abode? days in which he had been dead, been to him four days of perfect happiness in the presence of God, would he not, I repeat, have
j

of the doom of the lost. lands, who have had

in Christian

(and they exist in no more light There are

large numbers)

used

his

than if born in heathen have only a heathen's

lands, will necessarily

knowledge to benefit his fellow-men silence on the subject not rather forgetfulness and darkness? of Lazarus "And

Does his of

accountability.

betoken that

many men of toil, who from the cradle to the grave, have known only what it was by hard labour to obtain observation," all. It is true subsistence. " He who suffers His nor a sparrow to fall to the ground without

the four days were to him a whole night the resurrection John vi. 39:

And to see that was a real resurrecwill

tion of the whole man from the grave, turn to this is the Father's lose nothing, which hath sent Me, that of all which he hath but should Christ speaks dead.

knows and will adjust the dues of it is said, "all that are in their application can

graves shall hear His voice and come forth," &c., but no more appropriate be made of the principle asserted on page 74 of the Review, which we have taken as our eighth premise, must than its use in this case: the Master "The all of be qualified by the unde1'stood condition." to speak there the Word. Punish-

given Me I should

raise it up again at the last day." here of not losing that asserts his intention

which not to lose he

to raise from the

Notice further, if these were with Christ in any capacity whatever in a conscious state, their loss could not be prevented by a resurrection, they were never there to be lost. up again,-the word "again" when Christ's words pointing three

We understand

those who had heard and understood The author of the article on Future of Conditional to his opinions. He says, "We every nation righteousness "that believe with Peter Immortality.

plainly say, that to save from loss He will raise ways, to that which was, to that which was not, to that which will be again. Read again, verses same day." 40, 44, 54, a repetition three times of the words, "I will raise him up at the last Raise up whom? the assimilation Christ, let me ask. of their Him to be the door of their beget in themselves

ment has made many objections to the doctrine We will propose we might make in one or two of the many which

that

he that

feareth

God and worketh

Those who see salvation, who by will of lives, here

is accepted of Him; " and further,

the number of such persons among Pagan to say the least."

will to the or in their

and Mohammedan peoples is, in general, greatly underestimated,

We may ask if St. Paul included all under sin, by what means have they been changed? is very expressive, verse 54, "'Vhoso eateth We are told there is "no name given under My flesh and drinketh My blood, hath eternal heaven" by which men can be saved but that Good men-who have been so to the life," showing, that as food eaten forms, and of Christ. extent of their small light-have had a reward keeps in form, and gives strength and energy to in the practice of goodness. The good man is labour, so the pureness and holiness of Christ happy in his adversity, and the bad man miserneeds to be imbibed, acquired, and taken able in his prosperity; and it has been the aim of all the literature of the world-poetry, novels, possession of, if I may so speak, and thus make history,-to show that each has brought its result as "invariable antecedent and conus heirs of eternal life. (To be continued.) sequent." The fact has been sometimes disputed, because prosperity and happiness have been confounded. They are entirely distinct. The virtuous man has often attained his highest CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY. happiness through his adversity. Still the PART VIII. attainments of such an one fall far short of what is necessary to make a man "perfect in By MRS. A. B. MAGRUDER,VIRGINIA, U .S.A. Christ Jesus." It is the necessity which our author finds THE first chapters of Genesis begin the history himself under, to send all human beings to one of sin, and the last of Revelation chronicle of the destinies which he describes on page 67, its close. The first begins with a tree of Life, that causes him to send "good" Pagans and of God"the last closes with another tree of Life, in Mohammedans to the "presence feeling quite sure they have not deserved the much greater abundance: "a river of life in opposite fate-as he has described it. He says, the midst of the street of the city, and on either "All generations of human being, having been side of the 1'iver was there the tree of Life." raised from the dead, will then be found severed into two opposite classes, which will have their Hence one of our Lord's titles-" Alpha and respective conditions of eternal blessedness in God's presence, or of bopeless misery in separa Omega, the beginning and the end." tion from Him, assigned to them," &c. (p. 67). The Bible begins with the creation of the What a spectacle is this I We know that heavens and the earth, to which came sin; and among the heathen but a small number are it ends with the creation of new heavens and a converted annually. by the missionaries whom he invokes; and when we read the description new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness! he has given us in the following words, what " Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift." must be the condition of the immense majority? the same Divine spirit. Christ's language

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117Head-the" Second Adam," and that which is and will be born of Him in Regeneration and Resurrection is spirit-flesh, or" a spiritual body." As He.is inc01TILptible, immortal, so are His offspring, the members of His Body: these all live in Christ, for "your life is hid with Christ in God." "When He who is our Life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory." For ourselves, we know no other substitution than this, viz., that of the Second Adam as our Federal Head in place of the First. There is no twice-inflicted penalty here. Believers, in and through Resurrection, live eternally in, through, and by Christ their Head: unbelievers, after resurrection, die eternally in Adam, their head. (3) "Do Believers die? " So we think. "The servant is not better than his Lord." Thus," Christ died for our sins," "Jesus died and rose again," and believers "die in the Lord." 'Ve do not" pit" in "antagonism" "verbally opposing texts." Those quoted by us refer to natural death; those quoted by our correspondent refer to the second or eternal death. Believers cannot suffer the latter penalty, being made" equal unto the angels, neither can they die any more." (4) s , If there is no life anywhere apart from , organism,' let us declare ourselves pantheists or atheists at once." We do not see the necessary connection; but let that pass. Such was not OUl'assertion. We believe lJ1we spirit may exist as the First Cause, the Creator-though our reason cannot grasp it -but we doubt its existence in anything caused, any creature life. As even believers. though " made equal unto the angels," will be C7"eatures. we regard them as organized beings-or spiritual beings. As such they are not spirits, but possess spiritual. bodies. Thus Paul, in 1 Cor. xv , says, It is raised a spiritual body "-in contrast to "a natural body "-" There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." Blood-flesh cannot inherit tbe kingdom of God, because it is corruptible; spi1'it-flesh can, because it is incorruptible. This change cannot be taking place perpetually, at natural death, for Paul speaks of it as one, and future, "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump,' As regards our reference to a germ "without 01'ganism," we need only quote our exact words: "At most this new life of the Spirit is but a germ more or less imperfectly developed, having no recorded organism." (5) We seriously demur to the inference drawn from the proposition that "The resurrection life of our Lord seemed able to take on and put off 'organism' at will." 'Ve submit, it was only in seeming. The properties of that glorified or " spiritual body "-the type of ours-enabled it to be made invisible at will to mortal. eyes; and its lightning-like rapidity of motion enabled it to appear and disappear without the means being noticed. This seems, to us, a vastly simpler explanation than to suppose that Christ laid off and put on organism at will, as though it were a mere mask, or article of clothing. (6) "Does not your linntation of Christ's personal presence make Him less than Divine?" We reply, to pure spirit we can concede all that Mr. Griffiths' claims for it, and such was the scope and meaning of our review statement; to Christ's glorified humanity, or "spiritual body" we cannot, however, nor are we called to. We can only consider Him as in heaven and on earth at one and the same time, as referring to IUs dual nature-the Divine in heaven, the human 011 earthr-=En. B.S.] PREACHING TOTHE DEAD. Dear Sir,-Thanks for April number of Bible Standard. I have-read with interest Mr. Laing's exposition of 1 Peter iv. 6; but there is one important word in the text which he has failed to embrace in his observations. 'I'hat word is hina,

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administration, spirit, and power. The latter dces not tramp again the path of the synoptists ; but guided by the Spirit of revelation reserves the "second coming" for the Apocalypse. There he delineates the relationship of earthly kingdoms and national history to the cause of Christ on earth. But in the gospel he treats of the believer's personal union and communion with his Lord in vital, deathless, and inseparable bonds. Does not your limitation of Christ's personal presence make Him less than divine? and less now He is glorified than He was declared to be in His state of humiliation? "The only hegotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." "No man hath ascended into heaven, but He that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." This was spoken of Christ in His incarnate state. And the Apostle says, He "ascended up far above all heaven that He might fill all things:" and further "He flUeth all in all." Surely these passages claim for Him a personal presence commensurate with "the all." How then can you exclude Him from the Christian's deathchamber? Moreover, He said" Lo I am with you always, even to the end of the age;" and, "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." To explain these texts by saying Jesus is with them by the Holy Spirit is surely to add needless and unauthorised words to the sayings of Jesus. To uphold the authority of Scripture we must be as severe in 110t reading into its statements more than they contain, as we must be faithful in holding fast what they tell us. We may neither add to nor take from. what is written. Fearing to trench farther upon your space, I am, dear Sir, yours truly, C1oyden. W. Griffith: [We very unwillingly take up our pen to reply to the above. We have so little love for controversy with our friends that, but for the personal nature of Mr. Griffiths' letter, we should have kept silence. (1) "Does' Adamic penalty' mean the death th7-eatened in Eden and incurred by transgression? " Such is our belief.. The warning ran thus,according to the literal and accepted meaning of the Hebrew, which our correspondent has overlooked-" In the day thou eatest thereof, dying thou shalt die;" Whilst the sentence harmonized therewith" In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return uuto the ground,-for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 1et1Lrll." The warning and sentence were one-death. That of the former was not, of necessity, immediate; dying or corruptibility was, but death itself was the eventual result of corruptibility, or dying, the means employed to bring about that result being, exclusion from the "tree of life." Death, though long delayed, ultimately resulted therelrom. As, hut for sin, Adam would have become immortal and lived for ever; so, by sin, he became mortal and died" Thus death was the" Adamic penalty" which fell on all the race. We fail to see that the deIerred nature of this penalty altered the fact of its being a penalty-a real and terrible loss. (2) "Christ died a premature and suostitutional death for human sin." _ How" premature t " He came in "the fullness of time." If" substitutional;" in the orthodox and accepted meaning of that term, Mr. Griffiths' position seems to us right, for" a penalty cannot be inflicted twice." We do not, however, attach such a meaning to the term. Adam was our Federal Head, and that which was borne of him was blood-fiesh ; as he was cm"j'uptible, dying, so were his offspring ; thus all die in Adam. Christ is our Second-Federal

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