Show r OK OP M lit HUNG Some Borne discussion Is taking place pinco In Journals and magazines og as n to tho the dis disposition position n of at the soul saUl or spirit of ot f LI Hung Hunt Chang the tho deceased noted noto Chin Chinese Chinese Chinese ese statesman It Ills Is caused causel chiefly chleO by he orthodox notion that the tho fate of ot every human hUm n being Is fixed at death lint that there ore are but two places or conditions for the departed heaven or hell What either cither place Is III like epin opinions ions vary but all of ot them thorn are Indefinite und un speculative The Tho dispute Is la as to which place Ua Lis soul or spirit has hns gone one In Christian minds mind he ho was a n heathen He lIe did not have faith In Christ therefore there Core on the tha strictly orthodox theory he ho Is lost lost forever and ani whether he ho la Is suffering the torment of ot literal fire lire and brim brimstone brimstone stone or the mental torture tortura of ot those who sro shut out of heaven for tor him according to to their Ideas there Is no possible redemption There Thero are others however both cler 5 men mea and laymen who take a n more view of the situation They perceive the tha Injustice of or condemning to jo all nil eternity an Immortal being who because b of ot his ht lineage surroundings or education has been trained to be bo believe lieve something different to Christian Christianity ity It They Thoy do not nol know what will bo be become come of ot him but they rely on the goodness and mercy of oC led Clod and are arc impressed with the probability that some means menns will be found by which ven tho the heathen he then may be saved from everlasting punishment The difficulty In solving this question arises from Crom an nn Imperfect understand understanding ing lag of the plan of ot salvation Mol Mod Modem em ern theologians have no other ather guide but the letter of or ancient scripture fly Dy this their sphere phero of religious thought Is limited To it they the give their hu bu human buman man interpretations These varied and conflicting But Dut thorn there ate certa n II dogmas that have he been be n handed down from generation to since sIlice the living were taken from he the earth and these are deeply Impressed upon the minds of at oil nil the sectaries The phrases as the tree treo falls so It lies lie liens ns as death leaves teves le ves us so o Judgment finds us u theres no repentance In the prove grave gravenor nor ner pardon offered to the dead thud lire are not to be found In the Bible though they are arc often ot n credited to that look hook but are sentences framed by comparatively modern preachers who have no true divine authority Hy fly II divine revelation In this age the tho Saints have learned some things In III advance of that which Is un understood In the Christian wOrld They The arc are not nol dependent upon that which was written aforetime nor noron on their own versions of at Its meaning but have received light from the am source as us that which was manifested of old There Is I no conflict between them They harmonize when correctly com cuni comprehended Ily hy this we know that when the spir spirits spirIts its of ot mankind pass out of ot theM their bodies they gravitate to thel r spheres the good with the good the ovll III with the U There are two divi divisions In tho the spirit world called by some Paradise and Hades To the former Christ went rent with wih the r j Mt ant thief who was WIlS d with JIm hint sm I Ito to the latter Christ went ani ibele I preached to the spirits In prison ns GS testified by tho the Apostle Peter leter who also n Iso declared that the Gospel was c J to t them that are dead that th thy y be judged according to men In iii th sli but live he according to God Cod In th spirit Thus Thull there will be an opportunity for tor those who while In the lod lid did nut not learn th the way wn of ot novation to rn r ar and obey obe ir yr reject t tha th truth ly Iy which mi al vatin atlon may be beA ll llA M MA A disembodied spirit is 1 an n entity which Is le capable of at receiving in itt intelligence of ot believing 01 at disbelieving of ot repentance r of obedience or rebellion and of at advancing along tha 03 tit 3 linen of ct good goo or evil bI I ii n nt t tI ne of off full f reward or Jr In Jn tile tue res 11 resurrection re from lbs th dud did every oni 1151 11 will willbe be judged to In II Ill III nr ks s till occupy that In Ir Oi H h many mansions of ot the Ule tb h Jr r fsr Ctr which lie lieIs li h hIs lii Is i adapted lire are an ani I of glory gloy 10 M of de Jj anti and a ju jul Jus Justic tic ani nn I 11 will i i iI dm IU its own lt lly Is II not to be understood as 11 t I 1 f i the condition con ell lion of tho the Immortal spirit s either cither at tit the death of ot tho the body body or or its Is resurrection but hut everlasting progress sr gress and Improvement ln are the tho order ot of tho the heavens There IR Is no standIng still nUll In either cither the physical or spiritual Everything l that cnn can possibly be bo saved will wilt be redeemed and the tho work of the tho theBon theon Son Bon on ot of God OO will not be bo finished until there litre Is l no more sorrow nor pain nor death LI Hung Chang has 1118 gone to tho the place prepared for Cor him him and his kind Tharo There he ho will 11 In due time lime receive instruction instruction tion In the principles s of ot salvation Ho lie will wIlt be there Just what ho has made himself lt here but hut without the Infirmities of ot the flesh and the weaknesses s a of mar mor He lie will not be lse condemned for or anything but that bat which he deserves and certAinly not tot for 01 unbelief In any anything anything thing that he M has hns not nut been taught There Is but one ana way to exaltation and the crown of ot eternal lives live but every overy soul must bo ho instructed and be tJi beable able to walk therein before Judgment Is U pronounced for refusing to obey tho the truth The Tho great spirits who have Mv been lenders among their fellows and who have havo lived by the tho Ight that has hns come to them will wilt shinO far tar brighter In III the tha eternal worlds although they tey Were Yere not called when hen on onearth earth than tItan many mast who boas boasted ltd thim th n selves pelves ns us pious followers of ot the meek and lowly Jesus J sUS and who cried Lord Lordi Lord hut but kept not Ills His Ill command commandments commandments ments |