Show Tilt n rm Io J I The New Ne York Examiner i u h shocked at tho the discovery th f ministers of ot this thin country j dency deney toward accept lag ns liS a 1 larger hope the I salvation after death lea tho Tim I that it Is a r flut as a matter ot of tact fact It it I Ionly only does tho the Bible niblo afford a 0 ground of or hope for tho the I of ot those thOKO who die In iii t tIt It plainly antI lit in terms terena ot of arl enmity the Is this true Does Daes tho the l ih e In terms of tart U that every ever soul saul that Iia hll JI p 1 Christ before beraro death Is 10 bat C m s there no Scripture o IJ i beV el t that the tho mercy of oC God Gol rc cIs b I Ith Ithe the th e grave i if ifs As s to the tho first of ot these Questions t tI Is itt I only necessary to say th that tt th rl lures tures nowhere iTi r otherwise that the tue great Ff ym Jr mankind Is Ie lost forever Tho fac ct that tho the Scriptures vory clear references to ta the t m r t mankind titter after death Ileath and i l ik t expressions used g 1 rant for tor the terrible doctrine i t consider OT I orthodox Where 1 and the fire Is not ja cartal ly I a most mast vivid picture oV lit f 1 where here tho the bodies of at iia Y ir mated the place pIneo where whereof S I of ot those who have t I Jehovah It Is la n a solemn floi against sin as ns leading tl rz rn but only by violation of ot can ran their t tto I to mean the souls of ot a alire fire lire refer reter to the JJ jr X i Certain places paces In the theto to sm ko ascending br 1 L Lever I ever which however sn uil be rendered to the et or t eternities It H denotes a o dU dUnton atlon ather than time tinie i ht Leaving then such uch mJ I il S Sturn crl turn turo ure pa passages sa cH out of orco C cons oi where 1 Is It said that there is s v lion after death 1 As for tor the second question the Lures tures plainly state that al ai J l tain tam I for here llero or n nail lly b lie be saved Christ t gi A I 1 I If I bo ho up from earth w I Idro draw dro all 1111 men into unto me j PAU tt that Cod G hath highly exalted Slim Him that at nt tho the name namo of ot every should how bow of ot things In heaven and things In earth e rth I end and things under earth and that evi evry ry tongue should that J I Is Lord to tho the glory of tho From tho the writing ot or peter reler we se know that Christ voit and preached unto tho the spirits In Ira prison nd that the tho Gospel ospel wan Willi preached nl ul 5 0 to 10 t tillin Ihm that rico arc dead And Anti John in tilt tho tolls us that at nt tho the final triumph of or the tho Gospel both 1 death end and unties hadea are aro east cast Into the tho lake Inlo of ot Ore tire after having gIven up tho thu lead dead for Cor the tue final Unal Judgment by which those Ire are not flot at It that time en enrolled 11 rolled roiled In the tho book boo of life will tic lio con cob signed to their doom oom This Thin to is the tho plain teaching of ot the tho Scriptures This Is II 1 the tho Ih foundation lion tion for tho the larger hope which how however however ever mr has tHIS Loon been snore more fully revealed In Inthis inthis this ngo Ago through the tho Inspired messen messon messengers gers of at till tho Lord In tho the irly centurIes of ot our era oro It ItIs ItIs Itis Is well known every overy division of ot the tho church held 1111 1 third that our Lord preached to departs d spirits This Thin belief In is I In hi uI the thu Apostles Cruet Creed and It ItU Ithe U he clearly expressed by b Clement of or Alexandria who lived In the curly part ot of the third when whoa ho says In his hlll Not only tho the Lord 1111 I preached tho Iho ao Gospel pol vol to Lo those In Hades but the tho lib thoro to those gentileS that were for tor Anti And If lt tho tue Loid when In the th flesh preached that men might not noL bo be unjustly condemned why should Ho Ito rIot not preach for tor the same end did to lo those who had departed His Ills coming Ills Ilia Idea evidently was this that hiLt God GOll oct tint not condemn thu tho multitudes that lint III la this life Ufa havo hao not had an all opportunity of ot accepting or reJecting tho the Salvation offered through Christ and that di dl divine divine vine justice demanded a n continuation of ot the this try beyond the Iho veil Other Oilier of the tha earliest ecclesiastical writers may stab thu Ihu doctrine less ex cx explicitly but tho view IH Is ex expressed pressed by Irenic Us when ho he says suya I As Eve EI disobeying became bocama b to and the tue human races race a II cause of death d so 51 nl ulso I o Mary Mury having the pic lIC Man being I yet an obedient virgin wnM made to herself herselt nOd and tho the whole human taC raco 1 a cause causa of ot balva lIeu Th The the tire hu human human human man race can enn have havo no meaning moaning what whatever ever e r unless U 3 some MOll provision Is made whereby thereby tho thio ot of the work of ot the Savior In ire tho the heels flesh are aro extended to tho tue counties million that died before Ills His coming coining or without any knowledge of Slim Him The Tho Apostle Paul Inu states stales the same truth thus Therefore as an by tho the of oC offense tense of ot one ono judgment came upon u on nil till tillmen men to condemnation oven so by the rIghteousness of ot ono one the tho free tree gift GirL cams canie upon all nil men unto justification of life Horn v IS |