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Devoted to the Exposition of Scripture respecting Conditional Immortality, Resurrection,
the Return and Reign of Christ, and the Final Destruction of all Evil.

EDITED BY WILLIAM LEASK, D.D.

•• The Wages of Sin is Death; but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

No. 7. Vol. Ill. APRIL, 1880. Price One Penny.

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Abraham and Paul. Of the first, God said, "I know him
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Are we Trustworthy? .. .. .. •• 73 that he will command his children and his household after
The Consequences of Living in Error .. .. 73 - him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice
The Glorious Deliverance .• 75
Plenary Inspiration .. . .. .. 77 and judgment." What an honour! Faithful Abraham is
"Behold He cometh "-Poetry .• 79
Future Punishment .. 79
trusted by the Lord-the creature by the Creator. It is
A Horrible Delusion. . . . . . . . . . .. 79 worth sacrifice, and scorn, and unpopularity, and evil
Rev. A. M. Wilson's Lecture Reviewed .. .. 8)
Eternal Life and Annihilation .. 81 speaking to get such a character as this from Him who
Current Events.. .. •. 81
General Notes ..
understands us so thoroughly. And, in a momen t of glowing
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gratitude, Paul writes to his beloved Timothy, "I thank
Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that He
ARE WE TRUSTWORTHY? counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry."
WE can trust Christ. Can He trust us? This IS a very Now does the Lord, who knows the greatness and the
solemn question, intended to be pointedly and directly difficulty of the work we have undertaken, count us faithful?
personal to everyone who reads this journal. We have Let us prove it! Let us go forth, a consecrated host, to do
undertaken a work of exceeding importance-the vindication His work, with heroic determination to gain His smile,
and elucidation of Divine Truth respecting the nature of though Church and world combine to give us their severes t
man, the character of God, and the meaning of redemption. frown!
Can the Lord-our Leader, and Life, and Head-trust us .
in this holy mission? Does He see that we will be faithful, THE CONSEQUENCES OF LIVING IN ERROR.
sparing neither time, nor influence, nor money in making IT is believed by many, probably by the majority of our
known the sublime doctrines with which He has gladdened brethren in the Church of Christ, that we who interpret the
our hearts? Not one of us dare shirk this question. Let Scriptures literally, and are daily and hourly looking for the
each ask himself, under the recollection that there is a coming of our Lord, are in error respecting the nature, the
certain Witness, and return a true answer. object, and the time of the second advent. We are but few
For the work to which we have put our hands is no in number; our brethren of the' post-millennial-advent
holiday pleasure, but a serious and difficult task. It is not theory are many, and there are among them learned men
popular, it is not pleasant, it is not profitable-in the money and devoted servants of Christ. A few words, therefore, on
sense of that word-and if we expect ecclesiastical trumpets the consequences of living in error on the subject of the
to blow us into fame, we shall find ourselves a little second advent, may not altogether be without profit.
mistaken. If we mistake, what harm does the supposed error do us ?
Yet, think! To be trusted by CHRIST-why, that is We believe that our Saviour might descend into the air to
wealth, and honour, and glory compared with which worldly raise His sleeping saints, to clothe us with immortality, and
popularity is a puff of wind, and worldly wealth nothing. to take us all to Himself for ever, AT ANYMOMENT;con-
Aye, think for a moment of two men great in their genera- sequently we strive to obey His command, "Watch ye,
tion, and great to all time, one of whom shines in Old therefore, and pray always;" and we find this spirit of
Testament story, and the other in that of the New- watchful waiting for our Lord's coming the strongest safe-
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guard against sin and against impatience of the evils of this
world, and the most powerful incentive to holiness of life
and effort for the salvation of others. We read our Bibles,
believing our heavenly Father means just what He says;
and the glorious radiant pictures of future blessedness in
store for us and the whole creation, fill us with joy, because
we feel that the time for their realisation may be, nay,
probably is, very near. vVe look abroad, and see wickedness
increasing, the professing Church split up into sects, heresy
creeping in, the love of many growing cold; nation after
nation increasing its armaments and its taxation, till the
oppressed people groan under the weight of their burdens;
famine, war, and revolution, threatening to plague mankind,
and the sad prospect grows darker and darker. But our
cheering hope is " to escape all these things that shall come
to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." If we are
right, and Christ does come, we know that He will take us up
to Him, and so save us from the fearful" hour of tempta-
tion, which shall come upon all the world;" for it is those
who wait for Him . . . the wise virgins . . . that will be
found ready, and enter into the marriage feast.
If our views are incorrect, the error has a good influence
upon us; we are the happier for it; we are better able to
bear the burdens of life, and we live holier Iives than we
should without it. Clearly, then, it does us no harm in the
present life; on the contrary, it does us good: and this, we
think, is one proof that the doctrine we hold is the truth of
God. The worst consequence that the error, if we are in a
mistake, can bring to us is, that we shall die before Christ
comes, and be disappointed at having to wait in our graves
a thousand years longer than we had expected.
But what if we are right, and our spiritualising brethren
wrong? They believe that Christ will not return to this
earth till a thousand years after the whole world has been
converted by the preaching of the Gospel; (vain idea! ) and
they ground this theory upon certain figurative, unnatural
interpretations of Scripture. What if {hey are in error?
What if the literal, common-sense interpretation of the
Bible, which everyone may understand, and which he who
is the most unlearned is the least likely to misunderstand,
be the true one? And what if our Saviour is really,
personally, visibly coming to this earth before the millen-
nium, coming first to the air to receive His people, coming
then with all His saints to the Mount of Olives, coming in
flaming fire to take "vengeance on them that know not
God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ," coming to take all the kingdoms of this world for
His kingdom, and to cast out of it "all things that offend,
and all them which do iniquity, and to cast them into a
furnace of fire "? Our post-millennial-advcnt brethren do
not believe all this; they are not waiting for Christ, because
they think He is not coming for more than a thousand
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years; should He come NOW,they would be taken by surprise.
Would they be ready to go in with Him to the marriage
supper, or would they be in the sad case of the five foolish
virgins? If all believers, whether watching or not, are to
be taken up to meet the Lord when He comes to the air,
then watching for His coming is of no practical use, and the
parable of the ten virgins has no meaning. But if watchful-
ness be necessary in order to being taken, we can under-
stand why our Lord, in a single discourse, seven. times re-
peated the command to watch for His coming, "Watch,
therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."
"Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye
think not the Son of Man cometh." "Watch, therefore, for
ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of
Man cometh." (Matt. xxiv. 42, 44; xxv. 13.) "Take ye
heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is."
" Watch ye, therefore; for ye know not when the Master of
the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at th~ cock
crowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly He find
you sleeping." "And what I say unto you I say unto all,
Watch." (Mm'le xiii. 33, 35,36, 37.) "Watch ye, therefore,
and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before
the Son of Man." (Lulce xxi. 36.) See also Rev. xvi. 15,
" Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth,
and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see
his shame." Can we possibly suppose that He Whose every
word was weighty with meaning, would seven times with
His own lips enforce upon His Ohurch the importance of
watching for Bis coming, and afterwards in His latest
message to mankind pronounce a blessing upon the mltching
believer, if the duty of watching for the advent were one that
could be performed without great reward, or neglected
without terrible loss? No, indeed! Hear what the Apostle
Paul says: "Unto them that look for Him shall He appear
the second time without sin unto salvation." (Heb. ix. 28.)
UNTO THEMTHATLOOKFOR Hm! Those, therefore, who are
not looking for Him when He comes to the air, will not see
Him-will be lift-left to undergo the last fearful persecu-
tion of the saints by Antichrist. Is it nothing to have to
pass through this terrible ordeal? Is it notbinz0' thouch
0
saved at last, to be shut out from the marriage-supper? Is
it nothing to dishonour our heavenly Father (unwittingly
though it may be) by refusing to receive His words in their
plain and obvious meaning? Is it nothing to lose the sus-
taining, comforting, soul-elevating hope of the nearness of
His coming? Our brethren lose much now, that we enjoy:
if they are in error they are in danger of losing much more
hereafter. Will they not reconsider the subject, and search
the Scriptures more carefully than they ever did before, to
see whether these things are so? Those of them who are
Greek scholars will be aided in coming to a right conclusion
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if they will take the Greek text, rather than the authorised
English version, as their guide; they will find passages in
the New Testament where the sense is obscured, or even
completely altered, by the authorised version. Let them
compare Scripture with Scripture; let them cast aside all
commentaries, expositions, and notes, as tending to the
placing of confidence in man's judgment rather than in the
help of the Holy Spirit; let them ask His aid in faith, and
they will be led into the truth.
THE GLORIOUS DELIVERANCE.
THE whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together
until now, and it will be subject to vanity and bondage until
the time come for the manifestation-the" apocalypse "-of
the sons of God. But this revelation of the sons of God
depends upon the glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus
Christ. "When Christ, our Life, shall appear, then shall
ye also appear with Him in glory." Then" the creation
itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty "-the liberty of the glory-" of the
children of God."
This is the fore-announced order of these sublimely mag-
nificent events. We cannot alter the divine arrangement if
we would; and we should be jealously careful over our lips,
lest at any time our public speech suggest that we have
another way of accomplishing the deliverance of a burdened
creation. It is easy to utter pulpit sentiments, drawn from the
immense storehouse of traditional theology, which come into
direct collision with the revealed purpose of God; and the
injury which is thereby done to the scriptural intelligence of
congregations, and to the cause of truth generally, is by no
means slight. The promised emancipation will come in no
other way than that which God has declared. The promised
universal jubilee is certain; but the Lord Himself is " THE
DELIVERER,"and His personal .appearing, when He shall
come the second time without sin unto salvation, is at once
the occasion and the cause of this wonderful deliverance.
There are many things which the Lord's servants can do,
by His direction and grace, as instruments in His hands,
but they cannot undo the bonds which bind the universal
creaturehood of the world. To work the amazing miracle of
an emancipated creation is clearly beyond their reach. In
this splendid exhibition of divine compassion we must stand
by as adoring witnesses; our hand gives neither impulse nor
finishing touch to this majestic work of God. That will be
the day of miracle; and it is instructive to notice that the
resurrection, of which the deliverance of creation from the
bondage of corruption is one of the sequels, is traced to
Almighty POWER. The objector is met with the irresistible
argument of Omnipotence. The scoffing Sadducee, who
denied the resurrection, received this dignified rebuke from
our Lord, " Ye do err, not knowing the Scripbures, nor the
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power of God." So, the apostle's argumeut, ., We look for
the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who shall change our
vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious
body, according to the working whereby he is able even to
subdue all things unto Himself." The resurrection of
Christ, the head of His body, the Church, is also spoken of
as " according to the working of the m.ighty power of God."
But mark the high honour put upon us: as our manifesta-
tion as sons of God in resurrection glory depends upon the
coming of Christ, so the deliverance of creation from its
groanings depends upon our resurrection. We are waiting
for our Head, that the redemption of the body may be
effected. Creation is earnestly expecting this event, that it
may be set free from vanity and bondage. We look for
Christ's apocalypse-creation looks for ours. The coming
of the Lord secures our manifestation as sons of God, as
that in its turn guarantees deliverance to the groaning
creation. Our safety, our gracious sonship in Christ, does
not free us from the universal vanity and bondage; the
second act of redemption, which can only take place at the
second coming of the Redeemer, namely, the adoption of the
body, must be accomplished before the glorious liberty in
reserve for us can be enjoyed. "For we know that the
whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until
now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have
the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption
of our body."
Those who postpone the manifestation of the sons of God
to the close of the millennium, leave no room for the de-
liverance of creation from its groanings, for they teach that
a universal conflagration will immediately succeed the
advent of the Judge. This is certainly an effectual way of
delivering the creation from the bondage of corruption, but
surely it is not the way of bringing it into the glorious
liberty promised. Destruction in the flood of fire would for
ever put an eud to the vanity and corruption under which
all earthly creatures have long been held in bondage, in con-
sequence of their connection with man the sinner; but such
a termination to travail and pain could never be the subject
of "hope." It is written, "For the creature was made
subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who
hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself
also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God." It is the pains
of birth, then, not those of death, with which creation
travails; so that we set aside the post-millennial manifesta-
tion of the sons of God as a theory without foundation in
Scripture, and which holds out no hope of a glorious jubilee
to creation, a restitution of all things by' the strong right
hand of Jesus, as " God hath spoken by the mouth of all
His holy prophets since the world be~an." After weary
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centuries of vanity and bondage comes the bright morning
of joyous liberty to creation, but that is when the sons of
God are manifested, seen, revealed as such, in visible glory;
and that is when their Lord shall "appear," and His
kingdom begin.
It seems a waste of time to examine another loop- hole of
retreat from the doctrine of the pre-millennial advent of
Jesus, namely, the notion that "the manifestation of the
sons of God," means the time when the great majority of
men will become Christians through the preaching of the
gospel. All that need be said about this is, first, that there
will be no such time during the present dispensation;
secondly, that, if there were, that would not ease the pangs
of creation; and Christians then, as now, would groan
within themselves; and, thirdly, the words employed do not
refer to any number of men, great or small, in the flesh, but
10 the children of God in resurrection glory. Besides it is
manifest that no diffusion of Christianity, using that word
in its generally received sense, could extract the curse from
the earth, and restore the paradise forfeited by man's trans-
gression. The holiest among the sons of men, those who
are most nearly conformed to the image of Christ, have no
immunity from sorrow and Buffering, in consequence of that
most blessed fact. No extent of holiness over the earth, no
intensity of consecration to the adorable Saviour, on the
part of its inhabitants, could deliver from bodily pain, decay,
and death. No state of spirituality, however high, could
turn the desert into a fruitful field, purify the pestilential
atmosphere, extract the malaria from the soil, tame the lion
and the panther, make the poisonous adder a harmless play-
thing for the little child, and cast down Satan from heaven.
It is not in the nature of personal piety to heal the waters
of the Dead Sea, to plant grass with reeds and rushes in the
habitation of dragons, and to cause the fir-tree and the
myrtle-tree to come up instead of the thorn and brier.
Agency must correspond with the nature of the work to be
done; but there is no correspondence between the belief of
the gospel and the performance of the physical marvels to
which these prophecies point. But we are told that these
predictions are to be spiritually understood; they are highly
poetic metaphors of what the transforming power of the
gospel, in the hand of the Holy Ghost, will effect; the lion,
and the bear, and the asp, and the cockatrice, mean wild and
wicked men converted and brought to Christ; and the
healing of the Dead Sea is by the waters of the gospel; and
the fruitfulness of the desert is abundance of grace; and so
on of all the rest. Very well, then; let us accept this canon
of interpretation, and what is the result? Why, death re-
mains exercising his old supremacy, the curse continues in
all its original virulence, the burning desert, the barren soil,
the unhealthy region, the earthquake, the tempest, all play
their engines of destruction on hapless man for another
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weary thousand years. The roar of the lion, the hiss of the
serpent, and the rattle of the snake still curdle the blood of
the unhappy traveller. The living saints suffer pain and
sorrow, as at present, and the dead in Christ lie in their
graves during the whole of this protracted period. The
curse is unrepealed; Satan is still the prince of the power of
the air, the lower animals still suffer, and all creation still
groans to be delivered. Such are the consequences of the
so-called canon of interpretation which we have accepted for
the moment for the purpose of testing its logical issne. If
bears, and lions, and snakes, and deserts, and stagnant
waters, and briers and thorns, all mean men, those who say
so must abide by the consequences, and admit that during
the whole cf their ecclesiastical millennium, whenever that
much-talked-of chiliad shall begin, the curse under which
creation groans shall not be lifted from its heart.
Bnt we reject the metaphorical or mystical hypothesis
with all earnestness. It is a well without water, a mirage
of the desert, a delusion, ana a snare. It robs ·the Jew of
the land of his fathers, the Christian of his blessed hope, the
inspired prophets of manly intelligence, the sleeping saints
of a joyful resurrection in the morning of the millennium,
Jesus of His royal supremacy, God the Father of His glory
in relation to the kingdom of His Son; and even the
material world of the sunlight of beauty and fertility in
which it is destined to bask when" the ploughman shall
overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that
soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine,
and all the hills shall melt."
But, now, we shall adduce positive proof, if that already
furnished does not satisfy, that the manifestation of the sons
of God-itself, we repeat, a consequence of the Lord's advent,
takes place before the millennium, or inauguration of the
kingdom. That proof is that during the time of Christ's
kingdom upon earth, the prophets show us creation actually
delivered from vanity, bondage, and corruption, and basking
in the sunlight of liberty, peace, and happiness. It is im-
possible to doubt this except by denying the truth of
Scripture, and in that case, of course, we have nothing to
say, for we cannot reason with a man who affirms in the
face of all evidence that 'God hath not spoken.' The
restitution of all things begins when the Lord returns;
during the millennium we see the restitution actually effected;
therefore, the coming of the Lord, and the manifestation of
His brethren, the sons of God, are before the millennial
kingdom.
During this blessed period we see universal peace, righteous
government, an amazingly fertile earth, the wilderness like
the garden of the Lord, the desert blooming like a rose, the
Dead Sea healed, health and long life general, the people
holy, Satan imprisoned, and the knowledge. of the glory of
the Lord coverin9" the earth, as the waters cover the sea.
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It is certain, therefore, that creation's groanings ceased with
the manifestation of the sons of God' , for thouzh 0
the mil-
lennium is not a time of absolute perfection, yet it is the
best, happiest, purest, noblest, grandest era the world has
ever seen, or that the present world will ever see. As long
as men are in the flesh there will be evil. God alone is
perfect, and until He be all in all, which will not be until
the new earth supersedes our present habitation, perfection
need not be looked for. Imperfection and mortality seem
interchangeable terms. Hence the reliever is made partaker
of the divine nature to ensure his immortality. Christ is "in
him" by His Spirit, and his life is hid with Christ in God.
" Because I live, ye shall live also," says His head, His life.
He who is the resurrection and the life has given" life," has
already effected this vital union between Himself and His
follower; and when He returns to receive His people to
Himself, He will give the "resurrection" also, and then
will take place the manifestation of the sons of God.
But, alas I Christians 'have, to a lamentable extent, for-
gotten the glorious doctrine of the resurrection-a necessary
consequence of forgetting the second advent of the Lord,
and believe that death is the door which opens upon im-
mediate glory. The consequence of this departure from
apostolic teaching is bewildering. Among other mistakes
caused by it is that of looking for the fulfilment of these
glorious predictions regarding the future of the Church and
the world, with which God seeks to cheer the hearts of His
children, before the coming of the Lord. The second advent
is the very first of the series, and the fulfilment of the rest
depends absolutely upon that.
No doubt this is the reason why there are no dates, no
day and hour, no chronological landmarks for the Church.
Her position, whilst labouring in faith and love, is simply
to wait for her Lord. She is to consider His coming to
take her to Himself as always imminent. She has no
authority to expect the glorification of any of her number,
the conversion of Israel, or the evangelisation of the world
before the return of her Lord ; on the contrary, none of
these events will occur until after the removal of the Church
to the place prepared for her by her glorious Head. Both
chronology and signs are given, but they are to Israel in an-
ticipation of the last days, to the Jews, the faithful
" remnant" then in the land of their fathers; and they
refer not to the coming of Jesus for His Church, but to His
visible advent in power and great glory, as the King of
Israel, the Deliverer of J acob in the day of his trouble, from
the hand of his dreadful persecutor, the man of sin, the
blaspheming Antichrist. For the Church there is simply
the promise of her Lord's coming. That she is to lay to her
heart, for the fulfilment of that she is to "look," and
" wait," as the end of her widowhood and the beginning of
her eternal glory; but when she is removed out of the midst,
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Antichrist will soon be developed, and then the signs given
to the Jewish disciples will be available for their gnidance in
perplexity, and comfort in deep tribulation.
This simple distinction easily reconciles those Scriptures
which throw an impenetrable veil over the time of the
advent, with those which give unmistakable premonitory
signs of the Lard's descent to our world in overwhelming
majesty. For want of attentIon to this, much confusion of
thought ha'! arisen. People have been looking for the Anti-
christ, for the restoration of Israel to Palestine, and for
other things which they cannot see in the flesh if they are
among the wonderfully-honoured ones whom the Lord is
about to take to Himself before the" bowls of wrath" are
poured upon an apostate world.
Anything that the enemy can do by his wiles he will do to
keep Christians from believing that the coming of the Lord
is the first event thsy are to look for. Good men who have
been all their lives taught that the Church is to convert the
world, and that the coming of Christ is at the day of judg-
ment, just at the vary closing hour of human history, have
been so far shaken in their misbeliefs as to tell us
they will think "our views" right as soon as they
see the Antichrist, or witness the Jews going to
to Palestine in great numbers. Our reply is that our faith
in the return of our beloved Lord is totally independent of
any event of the kind. Our belief that Jesus is coming,
rests upon the fact th~t HE has said. so. We ask for no
" signs" for ourselves, and we have none to offer to others.
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PLENARY INSPIRATION.
PLENAllY is from the Latin word plenus, meaning full, entire,
complete. If by the term " plenary" we are to understand
the question to be, Are the Scriptures authoritative, correct,
and without human error, and so above every other book?
we answer in the affirmative. Yea, more; that they are
written under the eye and direction of Him Who cannot err,
we fully believe, consequently we accept them without cavil.
What is the inspiration they claim for themselves? In
Daniel x. 21, the angel says to Daniel, "I will shew thee
that which is noted in the scripture of truth." Scripture is
truth ever and always-truth with no mixture of error-
truth whose origin is divine-truth heaven-born, not a truth
but the truth. The words Scripture or Scriptures occur 52
times in the New Testament, and in every instance the
context teaches, or directly implies, divine authority. We
will only give a few instances: " Jesus answered and said
unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures." Matt.
xxii, 29. They are themselves free from all error, and to
know them is to turn from error. "All Scripture is given
by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."
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2 Tint. iii. 16. Jesus says, "The Scripture cannot be broken."
John x. 35. How oft did the Master repeat His saying,
, That the Scriptures might be fulfilled.". Once they are
called" the living 'oracles," three times, "the oracles of
God." " If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of
God," questioning neither the language nor the sentiment of
the word of holy inspiration.
While the heart is thrilled with its utterances, the intellect
cavils at none of its teachings, the conscience and the will
bow together before its authority, and through its truth our
whole being is anchored in God; nevertheless, one fact
stands out on the face of all its language, to wit: that while
a divine inspiration guides all its writers, it adapts itself to
.the temperament, manner, and language of each individual
Bible writer, be he apostle, prophet, or scribe.
After the manner of patriarchal times the earliest Bible
history is more replete with detailed accounts of events. The
Book of Job is largely conversational. The two Books of
Samuel, and the Books of the Rings make the faults and
sins of Israel's leaders very prominent; whilst the 1st Book
of Chronicles seems to carefully avoid mentioning the great
sin of David and the idolatry of Solomon. But the subject
of lineage is made exceedingly prominent. The writers of the
Books of Ezra and N ehemiah show a great fondness for
chronology. Esther has several peculiarities, the most
noticeable is the fact that the name God is not to be found
in the book.
The Psalms are pro-eminently the book of devotion. The
Book of Proverbs-how clearly is the stamp of divine wisdom
manifest here. Of the books of the prophets how varied is
the style. The glowing grandeur of Isaiah, the sad eloquence
of Jeremiah, the mathematical, yet vehement sublimity of
Ezekiel, stamp the peculiar temperament of each prophet in
all their writings. Daniel the diviner of dreams, and among
the ancients the greatest student of prophecy, introduces an
altogether new order of symbols. The nervous and acute
Hosea abounds in graceful poetry, though sententious, and
of striking brevity. J oel is pre-eminently the prophet of
judgments. Amos, the shepherd prophet, whom Jerome
calls" rude in speech," possessed a native eloquence that has
won the admiration of every scholar. Jonah, the prophet of
one message, was a short-lived meteor, yet the most suc-
cessful preacher this world has ever known. Micah was a
copyist, introducing from Isaiah passages verbatim. Nahum,
bold in rebuke, was eminently fitted for a woe prophet.
Habakkuk, how lofty is his manner, how sublimely grand
his diction, how strong his faith. Zephaniah, sad yet hope-
ful, so much reflects the character of Jeremiah that Isidore
calls him the abbreviator of the weeping prophet.
Haggai, forgetful of his lineage, or his abiding place, or
even a preface of his subjects, is fearlessly blunt, terse, yet
both grand and simple in language. He copied after none,
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and none copied after him. Zachariah, obscure and enig-
matical, is varied in style, quickly passing from one subject
to another, and is perhaps the least understood of all the
prophets, yet in God's own time will this mysterious book be
unfolded.
Malachi, the last of the Old Testament prophets, terrible
in rebuke, was a messenger of God without followers, fearless
without sympathy, hopeful without success, denounces a
backslidden church, a godless ministry, and a scandalously
wicked generation of priests. Foretells the next prophet of
Israel to be born four centuries after Malachi's death. 'I'hus
varied and yet complete are the books of Old Testament
inspiration. Equally diversified are the styles of the New
Testament writings .
Paul, the deep reasoner; John, the discerner of human
character; J ames, blunt and bold; Peter, the positive
apostle of a hopeful Christianity; Jude, the man of few
words: these are the writers of the twenty-one epistles.
Matthew's gospel for the Jews; Mark's gospel for the
Romans; Luke's gospel for the Greeks; and John's gospel
for the Church, (as Dr. Gregory affirms,) with Luke's ec-
clesiastical history of the Acts of the Apostles, and St. John's
prophecy, the Book of Revelation, constitute all the books of
the New Testament.
While a divine accuracy pervades all the pages of inspira-
tion, in some cases the inspiration was more direct than in
others. For instance a greater degree of inspiration is
needed to foretell future events than to record the simple
facts of history; "For the prophecy came not in. olden time
by the will of man; but holy men of God spoke as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost." Yet an Ezra, or a Luke, with
a mind guided by heavenly wisdom, and the heart made
holy with the grace of sanctification, could write correct and
profitable history, though under the control of a lesser
inspiration.
Thus do the different portions of the Bible manifest a
variety in both degree and style of inspiration. In some
instances the very words of Jehovah are given, in others
only the thoughts or mind of the Spirit of God; again in
others, accurate history guided by a providential inspiration.
•
Some years ago a gentleman heard two children talking
earnestly about their "sacred money." The expression
interested him, and he learned, upon inquiry, that these
children were in the habit of faithfully setting apart at least
one- tenth of all the money which came into their hands and
using it for Christian work. They each kept a purse for
this fund, and an account of all that was put into it and paid
out of it. Their father said that they themselves had (le-
veloped the expression, "sacred money." They would often
give much more than a tenth to this fund, but never less.
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"W'
"BEHOLD HE COMETH"!
Oh spread the joyful news abroad
That Christ the Lord will come again;
That He for whom no home was found
Is worthy over all to reign.
All power in Heaven and on the earth
Was given by God into His hands,
When rising in His second birth
He conquered death, and brake its bands.
And lo! the time is drawing near
When He will exercise His power;
When on this earth He will appeal',
And blessings all around Him shower.
Although a scoffing crowd may say,-
" Where is the promise of your Lord? "
And ev'n the Church forget to pray
For the fulfilment of His word.
Yet as of old the promise stood-
"A Virgin shall bring forth a Son; "
And, in due time, from maidenhood
The Saviour came,-thework was done.
Also as He, to cheer His own,
The promise of the Spirit gave,
And that same Holy One came down
To witness of His power to save.
So promise unto us is given
That once again our Lord will come,
That He will soon descend from Heaven,
And make this world His happy home.
And shall we doubt His power or love?
Or think the angels said in vain,-
"This Jesus whom ye see above
Shall so return to you again "?
No! rather would we seek to learn
And trust the promises bestowed;
That so the hope of His return
May cheer us on life's rugged road.
Filled with this comfort from on high,
Oh, let us labour, watch, and pray;
And "Lo! the Bridegroom cometh," cry,
For thus we'll hasten on the day.
o«. P. Mackay, Lincoln.
• is none; for something to mitigate its dreadful snfferings, but in vain.
NOTES AND NEWS.
[1'he Secretaru alone is responsible for these columns.]
FUTURE PU:s'ISHMENT.
Dr. E. Haughton is thanked for a clipping from the American Con-
gregationalist, containin~ an article on this engrossing theme, from the
pen of Dr. S. C. Bartlett, of Chicago. The Doctor's purpose is to ex-
pound, and defend, on Scriptural grounds, the traditional teaching
which converts the "everlasting punishment" of Matt. xxv, 46, into
everlasting puuishing, totally ignoring the broad distinction between
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the two. The vile Charles Peace, has suffered capital pltnishment, but
who in Britain would dream of asserting tbat it meant continued l'(fe in
mffering? He is dead. Such also is the capital punishment of the
Scriptures, called" the second death." Rom, vi. 23, " For the wages of
sin is death,"·-and its opposite is life,-" The gift of God is eternal life."
The article in question is entitled" The Direct Proof." It coutains
13 propositions, which might be reduced to 6, being a weary repetition of
one another; for instance, par. 11, " The final condition of the wicked
becomes thoroughly hopeless." Then par. 12, "An end of opportunities
to gain the friendship of Christ is very positively asserted." Turning
back to par. 9, we read, " At another time the condition of the wicked
after death is pronounced irreversible and hopeless." If Dr. Bartlett
thinks to strengthen his case, by such unnecessary repetition, we will not
qnarrel with him, for, verily, his case needs strengthening. With one
exception, (pal'. 10,) every part of his article might have been written,
and all its proof texts marshalled to prove the destruction of the wicked;
with a slight reservation as to the condition of all sinners being
irreversible at death (we believe this to be true of all under the Gospel,
who have wilfully rejected Christ, but not of the greater mass, who have
practically lived and died without the Paving message of Him). When
will onr opponents understand that we as firmly hold the eternal dumtion
of the" punishment" of the wicked as themselves? and that the differ-
ence between us is simply as to the nature of that punishment, simply
whether the sinner is mortal or immoTtal! Let them, then, confine their
attention to this point.
Paragraph 10 we wholly dissent from. It reads thus: •• In one re-
markable passage, restored by modern textual criticism, we find asserted
the eternity of the sin that accompanies the doom; 'Hath never forgive.
ness, but is in danger of (subject to) eternal sin.''' How marvellous,
that, rather than loose their hold of human pride (man's natural im-
mortality), reverend doctors will perpetuate sin, through all eternity.
We set over against this single passage the following :-" Fear Him who
can destroy both soul and body in hell.".-Matt. x. 28. "Whose end is
destruction."-Phil. iii, 19. "Who shall be punished with everlasting
destl·uction."-2 Thess. i. 9. •• Who shall destToy him that hath the
power of death, that is, the devil."-Heb. ii. 14. "All the workers of
iniquity shall be destrtnjed. for ever."-PsctZm xcii. "And shall utterly
perish in their own cOTruption."-2 Peter ii. 12. "Look for new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth l·ighteousnss."-Rev. xx, 14.
THE :!STANDPOINT.
Mr. W. Laing sends ns a clipping from an American paper. The
Restitution, containing a reprint of an article from the Messenger
(Glasgow). Did space permit we wonld gladly reproduce it in onr
columns, but its length forbids. It is on Matt. xxv. 46, " These shall go
away into everlasting punishment, bnt the righteous into life eternal."
The original number may, probably, be had of R. W. Strang, 6, West-
bank-terrace, Hill-head, Glasgow; price 2~d. post-free.
A HORRIBLE DELUSION.
Mr. Merrit, of Cheltenham, sends us the following, extracted from a
little work entitled," The Way of Salvation," written by the Rev. James
Smith, formerly minister of Cam bray Baptist Chapel, Cheltenham :-
"I think I see the sinner who has neglected the Saviour, despised
the Gospel, and refused to repent, closing his life. His conscience
accuses him, hope forsakes him, a cold chill of horror passes over his
spirit, consternation and dread prey upon his vitals; his soul qnits the
body-it is apprehended by the ministers of jnstice-it is hurried to the
horrid pit-it sees in the distance the rolling waves of blne flame-it
hears the dreadful screams of tortured millions-it shudders as it sinks
into the gloom, and an indescribable trembling shakes every power as it
feels the torment. See the curling flames surround it, the boiling waves
receive it, the ghastly spirits fall to work tormenting it, while the
dreadful words' for ever,' rattle back upon time. How different does
the past appear-its looks forward, and, 0, unutterable misery, there is
spread ont a vast eternity of varied, endless suffering.
"How terrible does God appear now! His wrath, how fearfnl; His
holiness, how dreadful; His unchangeableness, what a source of agonising
woe! The thonght of His mercy only aggravates present misery, and a
view of his slighted grace adds a thousand pangs to the punishment
inflicted by a roused and honest conscience. All is dreadful gloom,
tormenting foreboding, and black despair. The terrified spirit looks
every way for sympathy, but finds none; for a way of escape, but there
Shivering, shuddering, terrified and despairing, it now exclaims in words
it once disregarded:-
"Oh! if this awful God would let me die,
And not torment me to eternity;
Oh! would He free me from this dreadful woe,
But no, I'm lost, I'm damned for ever; so
Cursed be the day I treated with neglect
The gospel call, and did free grace reject;
Oh, could I now one invitation hear,
To cool my burning breast and calm my fear!
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But no, my doom is fixed, 'Lis all in vain,
My portion now is everlasting pain;
Hopeless I sink in to the dark abyss,
Banished for ever from eternal bliss.
In boiling waves of vengeance must I lie
Ob, could I curse this dreadful God and die
Infinite years of torment must I spend ~
And never, never, never at an end?
Ah, must I live in torturing despair
As many years as atoms in the air?
When these are spent, as many thousand more
As grains of sand that crowd the ebbing shore?
When these are done, a'l many yet behind
As leaves of forest shaken with the wind?
When these are gone, as many to ensue
As blades of grass on hills and dales that grew?
When these run out, as many on the march
As starry lamps which gild the spangled arch?
When these expire, as many millions more
As moments in the millions past before?
When all these doleful years are spent in pain,
And multiplied by myriads again,
Till numbers drown the thought, could I suppose
That then my wretched years were at a close,
This would afford some ease,-but, ah, I shiver
To think upon the dreadful sound, For Ever!
The burning gulf where I blaspheming lie,
.Is time no more, but vast Eternity! ' "
Our correspondent adds :_H Can it be wondered at, that infidelity and
atheism have increased so rapidly during the last fifty years, when the
Divine character has been so constantly set forth in such language as the
above? Yea, and that, too, by men professing to teach the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth! With thankfulness we mark,
however, the change which is coming over the modern pnlpit, for no
minister now dares to insult the uuderstandings and harrow the feelings
of his hearers, by such sentiments, concerning the punishment of sin,
as were common a few years Lack. Still more thankful are we, that men
of thoughtful minds are boldly, yet reverently, grappling with this
qnestion of man's destiny, and rejecting the teachings of human
theology, in favour of the true theology of the Sacred Word.
REVIEW OF THE REV. A. M. WILSON'S LECTURE ON FUTURE
PUNISHMENT.
This Lecture was one of a series delivered in the Evangelical Union
Chapel, Bathgate. The West Lothian Courier, which reported these
Lectures, courteously inserted the following reply from Mr. G. P. Mackay,
Minister of Mint Lane Baptist Church, Lincoln :-
H I am surprised at Mr. Wilson saying the Bible Standard. extract,
presents a distorted view of the orthodox faith on 'the matter. Can he
deny that orthodoxy asserts it is the will of God,' to torment His
agonized victims without cessation or end?' And if it be so, is He not
represented thereby as an Omnipotent Tyrant, for who but a tyrant
would subject to continuous pain without any aim, object, or end, those
who had offended him? It is true Orthodoxy is not so bold now in its
description of 'the pains of Hell' as it used to be. Burns, for instance,
expressed nothing more than the nnvarnished creed of his day, when, in
, Holy Willie's Prayer' he said-
'When frae my mithers womb I fell,
'I'hou micht hae plunged me into hell,
To gnash my gums, to weep and wail
In bnrnin' lake,
Where damned devils roar and yell,
Chained to a stake.'
But still it is the orthodox faith that the wicked shall be tormented for
ever in some state or place of woe, and that too without any profitable
result either to themselves, to the saved, to God, or to the universe. The
Bible Standard has therefore not mis-stated it.
11 Mr Wilson says, in speaking of those who believe in the 'everlasting
destruction' of the unsaved (as per 2nd Tiles, i. 7-9.) 'That destruction
itself (according to Hastings,) another of these writers will be the
burning of the wicked, root and branch.' Surely the lecturer here forgot
his Bihle. 'According to Hastings' implies that the individual is sup-
posed by him to be the author of the statement; whereas if Mr. Wilson
and your readers will kindly turn to the last chapter in the Old Testament
and the first verse, they will find these words: -' Behold the day cometh
that shall bnrn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them np
saith the Lord of Hosts (not Hastings), that it shall leave them neither
root nor branch."
11 The doctrine of Destruction is thus seen to be 'from God,' and not
from Hastings or any other man. The punishment in store is, it is true,
awful to contemplate (as terrifying perhaps as the Orthodox theory), bub
then no pnnishment is intended to be otherwise. Sinners have to be
STANDARD.
reminded of 'the terror of the Lord,' 'the wrath to come.' The difference
between the two theories is. however, wide and radical. The one asserts
that men are' immortal ' in their nature, therefore must exist for ever in
the place of torment. so the fair universe of God shall to all eternity be
marred by the presence, somewhere in it, of a foul lurid region where
devils and men (aye, and women and children) shall in one awful mass
continually abide in keen and unmitigated torture. The other teaches
that after judgment, those whose names are not found written in ~he ' Book
of Life,' shall pass into' the second death.' Thus Sill and all smfnl ones
(including the devil himself, as per Heb. ii. 14) will be swept away, and
once once again God shall look upon the works of His hands and pro-
nonnce all things to be 'very good.' If man were immortal by nature
the eternal torment theory might be more excusable, though, even then,
the knowledge of Gol's love and justice He has granted would lead me to
reject it as utterly unlike Him. But seeing the Bible distinctly declares
that man is but a ' mortal' creature, and that only those who accept the
Saviour shall live for ever, it is' quite impossible' that eternal torment
can be inflicted. 'Corrupt.ible' man could not bear it, and God is not
going to render incorruptibility to any for' that' purpose. Paul in Rom.
ii. 7, says-' 1'0 them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for
glory and honour, and immortality (or incorruptiblity) He will render
eternal life.' Here we are urged to search for immortality or incorrupti-
Lility as much as for glory and honour,' because we have the one no
more than the other. And if the sinner is both mortal and corruptible
how can he live for ever in hell, whether it be either hot or cold there?
Thus saith the Lord :-' The soul that sinneth it shall die.' 'The wages
of sin is death. but the o(ft of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ onr
Lord.' Thus Orthodox divines say :-' Our souls can never die, no, never
die!' 'They are immortal as God Himself, therefore to them there is no
such state as death, and they have eternal life whether they believe in
Christ our Lord or not.' The question then before us is, which are we
to believe? I'm sure every 'Lover of truth' will say, Yea, let God be
true and every man a liar.
H Mr. Wilson's subject-> Future Punishment '-has properly nothing
to do with' the intermediate state,' as no rewards or woes will be pro-
nounced until the Day of Judgment; but as he has wandered into it you
will please allow me to follow him. He says that those who allege that
a dead man' can go nowhere but to the grave, seeing that there is nothing
in man that can go anywhere else,' as a conscious being give man 'no
pre-eminence above a beast,' and make him 'an irresponsible, if not an
irrational creature.' I would ask-Do the Scriptures, in the question of
life natural, give man any advantage over a beast? Do they not expressly
say, , That which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one
thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they
have all one breath (or spirit ), so that a mall hath no pro-eminence
above a beast, Reel. iii. 19, But does that reduce man to the level of the
beasts so far as reason, responsibility, and future life are concerned?
No; by no means! JJeing made so much better than they, he has higher
powers, greater responsibilities, and larger possibilities, 'For God so
loved the world (of mortal men), that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (like the beasts, see
2 Peter ii. 11'.) bnt have everlasting life.' The presence of a 'soul in man
(whether immortal or otherwise) does not of necessity make him either
a reasonable or responsible creature. Have not many dogs more reason,
and therefore more responsibility (i.e. to their masters) than many
thousands of idiots, and than all little children? Children as well as
dogs have to learn all they know, and it is only on account of their better
organism, they outstrip them. Some dogs, horses, elephants, and other
animals, come a long way on the race with man.
H Mr. Wilson objects to 'personal identity being found in the brain or
nervous system as taught by Huxley' and other men of science, and
quotes Scripture to prove that 'there is a spirit in man,' as if nothing more
was required to upset their reasoning. No one denies that' there is a
spirit in man,' but this, Mr. Wilson must know, is simply' the breath of
life' (from the Hebrew word ruaeh), and, according to Gen. ii. 7, and
vii. 21-22, and other Scripture, it is common to animals as well as man,
The personal identity is not in it, bnt in the brain or nervous system, and
a dog, while it lives, has as really a personal identity, or individuality,
as man has. During all its life, from puppyhood to old age, it retains its
individuality Loth to itself and its master, as man does to himself and
his acquaintances, If man's knowledge of himself at the end of a long
life is a proof that he has an immortal soul, then dogs and horses, &c.,
also have immortal souls, for they retain their individuality to the end of
their days.
"Regarding l\I1'. Wilson's remarks upon the st,tte and place of the
dead, I must say they are both nntenable logically, and unsound Scrip-
turally. Hades, he says, is the disembodied state into which both good
and bad enter at death. If this be so, then cats and dogs and sheep
and pigs are disembodied. after death, and roam about as unclad,
shivering souls, for they, as well as men, go into Hades when they die.
The Hebrew word Sheol. is the equivalent of the Greek word Hades, as
the Septnagint version of the Old Testament abundantly proves, and
they are both translated, and properly so, 'the grave' in our English
version. Well, Psalm xlix, 14, speaking of dead men, says, 'Like sheep
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they are laid in (Hades) the grave; death shall feed on them.' Here,
then, sheep and men are classed together and consigned to Hades; but
it means no disembodied state for the men that it does not mean for the
sheep. For both it simply means the silence and stillness of death.
Heaven is another of the terms Mr. Wilson has mentioned as represent-
ing the state and place of the dead, but you will notice he does not
enlarge upon it. The reason is not far to seek, and it is tLis. Though
much is said by the orthodox about going to Heaven when they die, there
is not a single passage in all the Bible that warrants the assertion. If
all the passages where the term 'Heaven' is found-are examined, it "ill
be seen that the promise is not once given that death will take the
Cbristian there. Hell, certainly, as Mr. Wilson says, designates 't.he
place allotted to the wicked' (after Resurrection), and comes from the
Jewish name Ge Hinnom, but instead of that being to the Jews a sign
or symbol of preservation in pain, it was the place of complete and
irremediable destruction. Ge Hinnom, or Valley of Hinnom, was just
outside Jerusalem, and was the place where all the refuse of the city
(including the dead bodies of executed criminals) was consumed by fire,
which for the purpose was kept constantly burning, This gave rise to
the phrases' undying worm' and' un quenchable fire.'
"Your report of the Lecture finishes by saying the rev. gentleman
'pointed out that when the righteous die they go to be with Christ
according to His divine promise, 'Where I am there shall ye be also.'
'I'his is a quotation from John xiv. 3. If your readers will turn to that
passage they will see that it was not at death, but at Christ's coming
again-His second advent-the disciples were taught He would receive
them to Himself. So far as goiug to Him in the meantime is concerned,
He said three times, 'Where I go ye cannot come.' As the High Priest
went alone into the Holy of the Holies, so our Great High Priest is now
alone in the presence of God for us. And as the Jewish people waited
without to receive the blessing on t.he High Priest's re-appearance, so we
now are called ,to wait for God's Son from Heaven,' for ,to them that
look for Him will He appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.' "
ETERNAL LIFE AND ANNIHILATION.
Extracts from a sermon delivered in Myrtle Street Baptist Chapel,
Liverpool, by Rev. Hugh Stowel Brown, "Search the scriptures: for in
them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of
me, &c." John 5. 39·40. The sermon was prefaced by the statement,
that eternal life sought for, found, ancl secured, was the subject thereof.
"First :-Eternal life sought for."
"What do we understand by this word" Eternal life?" 'Yell, of
course, we understand by it eternal existence, conscious existence, as
opposed to annihilation: a life after death, prolonged from age to age,
for ever and ever. But a mere eternal existence might be no blessing,
might be the greatest evil which a person could possibly become
possessed of. By eternal life we understand more than eternal exist-
ence and consciousness for ever and ever: we understand happiness, we
understand freedom from weakness, from pain, from sorrow. But even
that does not come up to the Scriptural idea of eternal life. For eternal
happiness as the word is commonly understood, might be not much
better. perhaps, than the Mahommedan paradise to provide the gratifica-
tion of sensual passion to be spent in ever progressive demoralization;
bettera thousand times be annihilated than have to encounter such »n
eternal life as that. But the Scriptural idea of eternal life includes
holiness as well as happiness; and happiness only as resulting from
holiness; an eternal freedom from the power, and practice, and love of
sin-sin of every description-eternal devotement of the mind to the will
of God; eternal obedience to Him in all things, eternal exercise of the
soul in all virtue, and everlasting progress in all that is holy, great, and
good. Such is the idea of eternal life that we gather from various
portions of God's word. And if this be so it is no wonder that it should
be considered a thing infinitely desirable, and that men of all countries,
and all ages, and all creeds should have sought for reasons on which to
build so glorious an hope for the future. These reasons have been
sought in various directions."
He then proceeded to the various natural ways in which men have
sought to establish their hope of a future life. We pass Oil, however, to
his remarks on annihilation, as the opposite of life.
"And as we look around, alas! where is the ground upon which we
can hope for the life to come? As long as we keep the Bible out of sight,
I think we have very little hope indeed. Well, let a man just ask him-
self whether he thinks he deserves eternal life? Whether he thinks
that he is so spending this life as to give any reason to suppose that he
would spend another life in a manner worthy of so great a gift? If I at
death be annihilated, there would be no injustice done to me. None! Pray
what right have I to claim three score years and ten now? What right
have I to claim another hour's existence? Certainly no right to claim
eternal life. I don't deserve it; I am utterly undeserving of it; and
everyone of you feel the same thing. Examine yourself, and you will
\\ckno\~led\l,e)lO\l don't de~ene etern\\\ iiJ.e.
"If the whole population of this world where annihilated there would be
no great loss to God's universe; there would be a very little shock from
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that. If the smallest rocky island within the British empire were to sink
for ever beneath the sea, the loss to the British empire would be so small
as to be scarcely worthy of nolice, yet would it be very much more
important an event to the British empire than would be the destruction
of this world and everything that it contains to God's universe. The
destruction of this world mightbe after all reckoned only as a catastrophe.
It might be only the clearing away of a great lot of rubbish with a few
good things mingled amongst it here and there, but certainly after all no
los» or no very great loss. So when we think of our insignificance and
our prospect of eternal life, perhaps but faint; and when we think of our
sinfnlness, it seems to me to go out into total darkness. But our
Saviour here puts us on the track to find eternal life, when He says.
'Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and
they are they which testify of me.'
"These Scriptures-the 01(1 Testament Scriptures -do not speak
directly of eternal life, but tbey point us to Him in whom eternal life is :
they point us to Christ. And so we find it is in Christ. We are certain
of this, that, as He is this life, and has the power to impart it, we have
every reason to believe that He is willing to impart it also. Now, here is
the remarkable fact, that God hath given unto us eternal life, and that
life is in His Son. If a man can, in such facts of nature as we referred
to just now, if he can in those facts find any encouragement to believe
that he, like a winged insect, will emerge from a chrysalis state, if he
find in the vegetable world in spring time any reason for believing that
sometbing similar to tbat will take place in regard to him, well, let him
take from such evidence every comfort he can. And if a man believe on
philosophical principles, that it is the very nature of his soul to be
invested with immortality, that it is the natural property of the man;
well, I don't care to dispute with them. Be it so. But for my part, I
would rather take the teaching of Jesus Christ upon the matter, and I
desire nothing more. I tell you I need nothing more than the assurance
that He who was dead is alive again, that He is alive to this life eternal,
and that He is continually ready to bestow it. I would rather honour
my Lord by looking to Him, and to Him alone, for this promise of
eternal life."
CURRENT EVENTS.
RAILWAYCOLLISION-In Egypt, on 12th February. The driver killed.
ATTACK-By brigands on a train in Spain. Most of them since
captured,
SEBASTOPOL,-It is reported that this celebrated fortress is being
actively rebuilt, and heavily armed.
TORNADO-In Kentucky and Tennessee, with damage to life and
property.
THEATREBURNT-At Huddersfield, fortunately without loss of life.
SLEIOHACCIDENT-On Feb. 14, to the Marquis of Lorne (Governor-
General of Canada) and the Princess Louise. The Princess was severely
hurt.
MYSSINIA.-·King John's rule is being disputed by several powerful
chiefs. The difficulty with Egypt seems compromised.
MININGRIOT- In Breslau. Several buildings destroyed.
THE PANAMA"CANAL.-M. de Lesseps has proved, by engineering
surveys, the feasibility of his great scheme for piercing the Isthmus. It
will occupy eight years, and cost 843 million francs.
RUSSIANWINTER PALACEEXPLOSION.-Nihilism has proved its daring
in the attempted assassination of the whole Imperial family. Five
minutes delay saved their intended victims, though 12 soldiers were
killed and 47 injured. This is' the fourth attempt on Alexander's life
within a few months.
FLOODSANDGALEs-In Spain, on Feb. 17. Serious destruction caused
to life and property.
SERIOUSMARINELOSsEs.-In 1879, no less than 568 vessels were lost
between the United States and other ports.
GREA'r FIRE-In Grahamstown, South Africa. £50,000 damage.
ENOLISHFARMERS.-It is estimated that in 1879, these lost no less a
sum than £150,000,000.
A NBW AMERICANRAILWAy-Is to be built connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific. As it will run across the Southern part of the United States
territory, where it is narrowest, its cost will not exceed £4,000,000.
NIHILIST DARING.-On the Sunday following the Palace Explosion, the
Emperor being at the Theatre, drew from his pocket his handkerchief,
and found therein a revolutionary proclamation. Jarkoff, a compositor
who gave information to the Russian police by which a secret printing
press was discovered, was assassinated on Feb. 17, and the deed acknow-
ledged by the Nihilists as one of revenge.
S'£RANGEANOMALY.-The high-lying part of the Continent, where the
cold is usually so severely felt, has enjoyed the most mild and genial
winter known to this generation. The conditions have been reversed on
lower levels. The Daily Neu:s supposed earth's phenomenal disturbances
to be in some way linked with, and caused by, man's unrest. Arguing,
and supporting the argument with historic proof, that the higher acts
upon the lower, mind on matter.
CENTRALASIA.-An engagement, on 15th Feb., between Russians and
Tekke Turcomans, in which the latter were defeated with a loss of 25
killed. -
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Moscow.-On Feb. 23, the College and Museum were burnt down. Of
the 300 students belonging thereto, some were arrested on suspicion.
AFGHANISTAN.-At Herat, fighting has been renewed between the
Cubuli and Herati regiments, in which the former were' defeated. The
following is the anticipated settlement of the country :-Persia to have
Herat and ~fghan Seistan; India to possess the Kurrum Khost and
Khyber Valleys, including Jellalabad ; two British dependencies to be
formed of the rest of the territory, viz., Southern and Eastern Afghanistan,
with Candahar and Cabul as their respective capitals. The policy is, at
least, a bold one.
SAD TIMBER AccIDEN'r.-By the fall of a shed (over which was stored
twenty tons of timber), in Vauxhall, on Feb. 25th, 6 lives were lost, and
9 persons injured.
SERIOUSRIO'f.-This took place at Porta.down, Feb. 25th, between two
opposing Irish faction parties. Many persons were injured.
CYCLONE.-A cyclone and tidal-wave has occurred at Fiji, with serious
loss tolil'e and property.
Loss of the ship Strathnairn, with 16 hands.
A NEW DESPOTIsM.-General Loris Melikoff (an Armenian who won
his laurels in the Russo-Turkish war, whilst commanding the army of
the Caucasus), has been appointed to the Viceregency of the Russian
Empire, being second only to that wretched monarch whose person it is
his duty to guard from the assassin's stroke. He himself, however, had
a narrow escape for life on March 3rd, when the assassin's bullet passed
within an inch of his person.
ROllIISHMIRACLEs.-The Virgin, with St. John and St. Joseph, are said
to have appeared at the Chapel of Knock, County Mayo. Large numbers
of ignorant, but zealous, devotees have visited the place, in the hope of
receiving cures, and some miracles (so-called) are reported.
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE at Yeddo, Japan.
ENGINEERINGTRIUMPH.-'fhe St. Gothard Tunnel, uniting Switzerland
and Italy, was completely pierced on Feb. 29th. It will not yet, how-
ever, be available for traffic. It is pierced through the solid rock, a
distance of 9t miles, or a mile and two-thirds longer thau the Mont
Cenis, making it the longest tunnel in the world. It is, undoubtedly, the
greatest achievement of modern times. Eight years have been spent in
its construction, and its cost has been £2,000,000. Though at an altitude
of 3,779 feet above the sea level, it will save some 24 hours journey each
way, and enable travellers to escape the difficulties, and often dangers, .
of the mountain road.
MUSCULARCHRISTIANITY.-The Salvation Army, or one of its regi-
ments, has had a free fight in the grounds of the Drill-hall, Plymouth.
For full two hours they laid about them freely with sticks and fists; their
opponents, however, remaining masters of the field. Since denied.
WRECK-Of two steamers. The Hindoo, New York to Hull, 3 lives
lost, and the Vingorla, Bombay to Kurrachee, 68 lives lost.
BANKFAILURE.-The Hull District Bank, with liabilities estimated at
£75,000, has suspended payment.
FAMINE.-The following advertisement has appeared in the London
dailies :-" Famine in Koordistan, Armenia, and Western Persia. The
famine extends over the enormous area of 100,000 square miles. There
are six months yet to pass before harvest, and funds are urgently re-
quired to enable many thousands of human beings to be kept alive till
then." The Treasurer is A. Henriques, Esq., 96, Gloucester Terrace,
Hyde Park, W. "Telegrams are constantly arriving describing deeper
distress and starvation."
ANNEXATION.-It is reported that Rotumah., an island lying north of
Fiji, is to be annexed to Great Britain, in this instance, by the desire of
the inhabitants.
DR OFTHE CHALDEEs.-Drfah, the modern representative of Abraham's
birthplace, has suffered from fire. Many of the inhabitants took refuge
in" Abraham's house," saying the flames would not touch the home of
the prophet. In tbis they were correct, for it escaped untouched. It is
said this house is the veritable one where Abraham dw-elt! Seeing
that 4,127 years is a long age for a house, we must be pardoned for a little
scepticism.
SERIOUSEXPLOSIONs.-Mar. 5th, at Dundee. Four persons killed, 2 in-
jured, by dynamite. Same day boiler explosion at Glasgow, 24 killed.
Also at East Nanticoke, D.S. 9 lives lost. The following day, again at
Glasgow, a shell exploded whilst being fired. 2 persons killed, 8 severely
injured, chiefly officers. . striking trait of modern life. Beaconsfield in England, Gambetta in
'fURKISH JUSTICE.-Seven Greek residents in 'I'hessaly have been
arrested and exiled by the" unspeakable Turk" for combining together
to defend themselves against brigands.
ARMENIANCOMFoRTs.-The village of Badib, in Armenia, has been
rifled by brigands, who killed three of its inhabitants, and carried 70
other s, and the village priest, off as slaves.
SERIOUSFIRES-One at Glasgow, £50,000 damage; another at Man-
chester, damage £25,000; also at St. Paul, D.S., damage £20,000
IRISH REJ,mF FUNDs.-'fhe Duchess of Marlborough's Relief Fund
amounted on March 9th to £80,604. That of the Dublin Mansion
House to £113,000.
TERRIRLE FLOODs-Along the course of the Vistula on the Austro-
Russian frontier. 30 villages wholly or partly destroyed. Thousands of
the inhabitants without shelter or food.
STANDARD.
GENERAL NOTES.
The intolerance of the Roman Catholics, in some Cantons in Switzer-
land, has compelled the Federal Council to propose a compulsory law,
for the decent burial by the civil author ities, of all deceased persons,
irrespective of their religious views. In one Canton, that of Freiburg,
the Protestants have been compelled to bury in a place set apart for
suicides, felons, and unbaptized persons.
Dr. Allon, of Islington, has been preaching at the Weighhouse Chapel,
on Immortality, from the words Titus i..2, "In hope. of eternal life,
which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began." His plea,
for natura! immortality, is founded upon a misconception of the passage,
as though the Divine Creator, would fulfil a promise, so great, before
first testing and preparing its recipients for the same. That is, !ISthough
He would bestow it upon all, good and bad alike, fit and unfit, The
promise, however, is one of many, made unto the righteous, " Ye shall
never perish." "I give unto my sheep eternal life." To such, therefore,
it will be fulfilled, for" God cannot lie," and fulfilled, " at the revelation
of Jesus Christ," when He shall come a second time, without a sin-
offering, i.e., at Resurrection,
Dr. Allon, in the course of his address, said: "It would be the refine-
ment of exquisite cruelty to create a being with this hope, this inspira-
tion, and then doom him to annihilation." We reply, "it would be the
refinement of exquisite cruelty" to create persons naturally immortal,
with the full knowledge that such persons would spend an unending life in
sorrow, suffering, sin, and blasphemy. This, however, would have been
the natural result of making man by natural birth, incmortal. It is not
"exquisite cruelty" to withhold from a man that, which he is unfit to
receive: that, which would make his life a curse and not a blessing.
We see infinite mercy in returning such an one back to his dust, even
though it be through the fire of the future Gehenna.
The Dr. adds, "The denial of immortality is practical. atheism." We
demur to this, for it would, practically, make the Bible a text-book for
atheists, seeing that it is altogether silent upon the subject of natural
immortality; ascribing that possession to God alone" Who only hath
immortality (2 Tim. vi. 16.) Also showing that the Lord Jesus Christ
in His resurrected and qlorified. humanity, Himself receives this as a gift
from God, to be by Him dispensed unto all who should believe unto
salvation. We will take the liberty of improving the Dr.'s sentence :-The
denial of resurrection, with immortality to all believers, is practical atheism.
We quote further :-" He (Christ) stood forth as an avowed repre-
sentative and champion, 'Because I live,' He said, 'ye shall live also.'
This was the conclusive and supreme proof of immortality." This is
certainly "conclusive and supreme proof "of believers' resurrection
immortality, for it is a promise of a future gift" YE SHALLlive also; "
but not a statement of something actually possessed: and by that very
reasoning it is not a proof of natural immortality, but a disproof.
Christ's own human life is a resurrection life-" He hath poured out His
soul unto death." "I am He that liveth and was dead." 'I'hus He here
declares (to the righteous only) a post-mortem immortalit.y: not, however,
(as traditional theologians argue) a pre-morteni immortality, to all mm.
Such a" conclusive and supreme proof" of natural. immortality, is a
foundation akin to the sand.
N.B.-We have made these comments on Dr. Allon's-otherwise
beautiful-address, supposing that he is supporting therein the tra-
ditional dogma of the soul's immortality. His language, however, is so
carefully chosen, that, whilst we believe such is his position, yet, it is
possible that he may throughout mean" Conditional Immortality." His
address might be so construed. If we have mistaken him, we will most
gladly repair our error.
THE CITY PRESS is disposed to be funny. It says, "Two new Com-
panies have been started, presumably for the publication of literature.
One is 'The British Israel Identity Corporation (Limited),' and the other
, The Conditional Immortality Association and Bible Standard Publica-
tion Society.' The title of the latter is particularly attractive."
Our own" Society" has certainly" been started for the publication of
literature," still it is not correct to style it a "Company." It is merely
a Religious Society, aiming to disseminate truth, but having no Share-
holders, and therefore paying no dividends.
- A PERSONALANTICHRIST.-Present events teach the wise among the
sceptical, how possible a personal Antichrist is. Individuality is a
France, Bismarck in Germany, and the Emperor Alexander's latest crea-
tion in Russia,-Melikoff, the Dictator-are proofs of this.
NEWS OF THE WORK.
LINCOLN.-lIIint Lane Baptist Chapel.-On Feb. 29th, two Sermons
were delivered by Henry B. Murray, of Cheltenham, to large audiences.
On March 2nd, the Annual Tea and Meeting was held; on each occasion
there was a large gathering of members and friends. Addresses were
given at the l\Ieeting by the Revs. J. Williamson, M.A., Eo Metcalf, J.
Butcher, H. B. Murray, and G. P. Mackay, Pastor.
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