| Show o TJI rm HY true l 11 iy y Pr jL t tt I it t Nol New York ho lie believe In tho titO ot of tio Ihl death lealh of ot the tho souls of ot ott t t Borne ronie people 11 In the way wn ns M Mf tho dissolution Il of or their bodies Ims hilA hait omi t f Homo stir In tho the w wo havo concern I inn th theory hold held by lIy Ihu m rne and aud others tIrs who mini claim that thai there thore li tf no separation of ot body Lody and spirit RS 18 g generally accepted by Ly Chris A if rent quotations ore I tho Iho Old and Now Nol Testaments holi bloh appear to support thu thul Roul l theory Home Ione of oC Its wilier n nt that all who dlo tIo will wilt In ho r sed from tho the but bUI that only oy o ly thoo vho uro uru In Christ will 11 receive I eternal eterna life tho the iet le t being holn doomed to toj j destruction dc which they mi Un nr to 10 mean entire dissolution Others hold haM Hint only those who arc ar arI I to ba b saved saed and enjoy Christs pros pres presence i Inco ence find glory I t will 1111 ho 10 raised from tho I 1 lId tho the rest rc 1 being left to tin nn eternal leep They do not any of oC thorn them believe In n the tho doctrine of ot what Is hi called tho the Immortality ty of at tho the soul except by Ly Ipe epe special cial eil gilt gift from train to who ore aro counted worthy of ot that eternal exists exist wico I other oilier peculiar notions are oro formed 11 through upon Ullon hu human man tuan Interpretation of tho donil letter Dt at ancient scripture Isolated passage 1 t lire uro selected which color to the Various arl Ideas formed and entertained old and those 1110 are dwelt upon ns M n conclusive evidence It fl Is n a fact that almost any ant theory eon cnn be established and to some orno I extent maintained by Jy this thin process of ot j quoting holy writ Take Tol o tho the Bible as ns asI I n R 1 whole although It t Is II composed of ot many nany books written at different per ler and under diverse circumstances by b various hands It will to a n largo large ox ex extent 1 tent explain Itself when thor Ihor thoroughly understood Scripture may maybo maybe 1111 bo be compared with scripture ono one part throwing light t on others and thus many things that ap op appear vomit pear obscuro obscure and contradictory may bo be harmonized anti and made consistent hut after all tho the of ot old I Cannot speak s col an nm tho the living oracles oracie and ond I t tho exact moaning meaning of ot their au ou authors author thor thors cannot bo be explained ns us they tho would expound them j living This the dead letter an guide Without prea opt eit t Inspiration from tram Clod lod the thu experienced In construing VIl Interpreting tho the sayings of ot former t and Apostles will And nad Increase and Conflicting theories wUL be held and taught taugh t to add to tho the i contusion confusion of ot modern Christendom The are arc blest with hat bat Peter Poter sailed d A more sure suro word bt t prophecy which Is Indeed like Ilko a II alight light shining In n II dark place It Is 18 tho the living lIn present word of ot God by revelation revelation tion and tho tue manifestations of ot the Holy Hy By these they have learned Without doubt that there thoro Is LM L a tL spirit n 0 man That It Is an nn Independent nUt It existed l before tho the body was Ir It continues to exist when whon the tho body returns to the tho dust or the tue ole ele elements ments from Irom ruin which It came That the tho body without that spirit Is dead It n leaves leases the body It returns to God Clod I vho Iho gave It II and gravitates to 10 Us lis prop I 4 r sphere phere mingling with Its own on kind I the he Just Jual with the just the unjust with tho the unjust until tho the resurrection of ot the tho theody body ody That all of ot Adams Allam race ruce who have breathed tho limo breath of ot life lito and anti thus havu lIa become living souls will pans pp s through tho experience of ot death deuth hat Is the time of ot the tho spirit and andU t U body Lod and will bo be raised raIned from the Ihl dead tead the tho body anti and tho the spirit being re ro reunited united all 11 to bo b If Judged ju according to their and und then consigned to those thole estates or conditions or glories to they th aro alo adapted through their life lite and ond conduct In mortality Only those who are aro U nl to dwell In the society coclet of It the Father and anti the Son Bon will wilt to that celestial glory glor In that bet Mono ilono Is 13 fully tully enjoyed the thu gift of ot eter etor eternal nut nol life lito which means the full tull develop development ment meat and exercise exorcise and anti enjoyment of ot every faculty lac t and power pOOI and function tf Dr f both bolh spirit and body bod and md capable of at perpetual and Increase All Alt others will enter Into Inlo dif different different ferent C rent degrees of at glory but will not possess those powers and ond that domin dominion ion ton and ond Increase which are compre comprehended In the time term eternal life lite They The will VIII exist and ond have hlo tho tito exercise e of ot such Buch powers as at q they th are ore entitled to being Ing lodged judged according to their several deeds leeds tad ind With the understanding of this ills doc dac trine which Is here liar necessarily very fr and Imperfectly ex the Ihl IhlO O IFer can understand taud referent node matle In the old B to past l tres re rent nt and ond future conditions When they th cad ead such sayings ns as In Ix B G 6 10 For the living know that they shall shallIe Ie but the dead le d know not anything r neither han OUy IIII more mart A n HI ward for rOl tho the ii of ot them In I forgotten Also A Iso hili i love 10 by ii nil t hatred 1111 0 P d th lr envy en vy IH i now 1 nil I have II II 0 they nty more n a portion in tm 11 anything t Int Is done 1000 under the HUM For there thole Is in no Ut woh nor device nor knowledge nor em In III I fl tho limo grave r thoU They sy II III Hint I hit t the tho writer w rl t Cr wan I about timings things under tho the sun SUII that ho was us referring to tho time body bolly pud the grave grno to 10 which It would at atOnio homo time be Ho lie won was not making reference to 10 existence or conditions Hut when the time seine Mine writer after describing the tha dissolution which Is time the common lot speaks of Ot both bolh of ot our i personality r oti llly they thoy IJ that he un time ilia origin and existence of ot time tho higher port of being In Xii chapter xII 7 1 lIe he says Then the dust dull return tu to lie thu earth aTom HH na It II wits was and alid the spirIt shall hull return unto God who It II There are score of ot Unit lint can eM eMbu l bu be picked out of It the Old In Ut purport to thoSe thoRo wo 11 quoted lint Hut their heir context when whan fairly compared co red thAt the lie wilier ritters like Holomon In III this were speaking of oC thin world mid time the stats t te of oC mini tinier r thu tho suit nun without reference II 08 to III hiM bli past pastor t tor or his hl future It will nl o ho found that the sentIments of the time writer are lire In lit souls some plan Imperfectly expressed and lilt his hook must bo lie examined to fully tully understand hili mO Take fake for lor Job vII ti U tiAn An Ag 11 Y iio I I Is and van l away mi so he h that goeth down downto to time the grave shall come ome up 1111 no ito moro more lie IIo shah return no moro more tn to tf his hiM house houlle shall lila his know him any anymore more I If It Job had Saul said nothing further on Oil I thiH thIs would have furnished u a ahue hue opportunity for tor the tho argument ment of ot if those who do 10 not bj ho I i hove In time the resurrection redirection nut Hut tako Job x h 1115 1111 and ami time the IH Is clear cleM Stop SloP IOP at nt tho the twelfth verso verse and aini tho the leader la is left lert In the tho namo po JIll position as os In reading ren tho the quotation above aboc limit Ih lit versos verses II 11 I I unit and 16 Jobs Job faith In tha tho resurrection trout from the tIll dead I I li Ii If paramount And 1111 It II Is ad nd advanced i limit Into knowledge In chapter 23 27 21 All 11 through the lie Out old ex IX expressions X tally may bi itt found conveying the eul n that time the believed that the Ih end of titan man was Wll s as at nt time thu grave giave while other remarks Indicate their un understanding of ot a II future existence both Loth to lo tho the spirit of ot man after death and thu th resurrection of oC tho the body Jody and ro re reunion union In Immortality To understand any treatise or discourse It Is l y necessary sary to 10 know w what shat particular subject Is III treated upon and tho thu selection of ot some or sentence or thereof to lo comment upon Is the time very poorest poro t kind of ot way to 10 learn what an tin author whether r he hue h Is touching upon either olther secular or sacred things thing It would not matter to the Saints If It there thon was not a n of reference rotor nc In ancient scripture to the tho spiritual entity which U Is the tho intelligent und anti ever tent part hart of man The fact that lint toil hau luau It now how no that Ills His Holy HWI bears witness of the tho truth which harmonizes with their i own Consciousness anti experience oX would bo Le for tor o has prom pron promised promIsed heed that lint He would roveal things kept hid from the tho foundations of or the tho world to Ills His Saints and even to babes tind to use an un expression of or the time Saviors It seems seemA strange that believing believIng ing log In n a future life lito and In the tho Bible can ean entertain the tha notion nollon tint that the time Intel Intelligent Intelligent being which In is In the body hody and remains the sante entity while the hotly body bOll passes through BO so ninny many changes goes down Into limb tho Ito grave with tIm hotly body and andIs Is III fl there ther dissolved To think that time the knowledge experience and progress by iy IJ tho the spirit are ar or extinguished when tho thu change chanc called death arH to tous toliS us tie Irrational and It Is discordant with many passages es of scripture died on aim tho the cross Ho lie ex ox exclaimed claimed iii n CI Into Inlo thy I commend comm My spirit anti and It Is stated hosing having said sold thus He lip gave up imp the thu 40 According to Peter Pot Pet III Ill 1820 iSO when Imon put pUI to death In time the flesh fie h Christ went by tho the and preached to tho the spirits In prison those Iho e who hail had been disobedient In tho time days of ot Noah Nooh Hero was ns Christs spirit after leaving I the hotly body to 10 a n number of ot disobedient spirits that they th might hear henr the sums same Gospel Jo el ns as he lit 11 to men mell In the thu flesh lIsh Iv C tJ Paul In his hl epistles J fl speaks of oC tho the struggle which nil all who desire right righteousness I experience between the spirit anti and the flesh lie He also III so talks lalk of ot being at home betas in the body Lod anti and of ot being absent from roam the body to be bo present with tho the Lord of ot being caught up uJ Into the third heaven not nOI knowing whether ho he was wo In the body or out of the body Of OC a n desire do lre to deport depart and lie ite with Christ hut but feeling the need to abide In Iii the time llesh for tor his Work with time the 2 Cor Cur v 00 GO Phil I iJohn 2186 John the Iho saw law time the FOUlS ROUS of o them theta that were vero beheaded for tor tho tue wit noes of etc tote Rev Rov and af of afterwards beheld their resurrection that hint of ot all alt the Mod dead While suffering on Oil the cross Christ promised the time repentant thief Today thou hiatt shall summIt be with me In III paradise If It all there was of at the tho male mIdI malefactor malefactor factor spirit and body bod went vent wen I Into the lie grave how could he be he with Christ that day dllY In paradise We aro ate aware that the contend that thaI the tho word won word spirit as 1111 used In Iii II time the scriptures signifies breath or the of ot lire life and this Ihl In III some Mine Instances may be true tru truTh Time The worth word soul Is III also used In the Bible as 1111 synonymous with spirit Hut when properly understood there li II I n a distinction to 10 be bl made In these terms The Tho word spirit In m scripture some sometimes sometImes times signifies that which gives life lle antI light to alt all men to the personal spirit that Is I the offspring of ot God and Is tab ci In III tIme tho flesh and ond depar whon the hotly body doll dies and also to t the Influence Influence ence of Individuals upon eneim other and upon matter When thee thew differences are arc confounded as meaning the time same me confusion arisen and error in Is the lie lOn con consequence rj sequence Suppose wo Vt u r rend wd the scrip scriptures ores tures thus titus Into Thy Th hanji I commend comment m bath JHU K ig 1111 put to death 1 In he II Mesh v Wl u iun UI U k kt i iby n I Iby by b tl m u u i 1 unto the time br h in Pile n fl How iio I would timers there be ho III In that Instead lI of qt There Th rl U Is l a 1 spirit In man mand d lid the lie I rut t or If t till the t Ii Almighty i laugh I Ilium understanding und Job suppose wo wu substitute breath for tor l how much tight bight lI ht would mould l there thole bo ho In III It Tho Time need heed of oC present Inspiration and amid thin living oracles Is made evident whenever tho Iho conflicting opinions nf ot men mell are uro heard concerning tho the moaning of ot old Time The necessity for tor definite terms onus by I 1 which doctrine In is 11 to tobo tolio bo lio taught Id III l also beyond question In revolution time the personal entity Which dwells III In tho the body bolly of ot man Is Known att UH his spirit which before incorporation In ht time the flesh anti and will vIll con can continue living whan wion time the body hod In Is defunct rime HIP soul Is defined d as aK the time spirit and und body boI when iuen these are 1110 Joined hay hav having hayIng ing the time breath of ot life liCe thy they become a 1 living soul The h resurrection from the 1110 dead leall Is in thu u of IC the time toul The Time which IH lit u a proper property ty t of ot the spirit In its eternal without be Lo beginning beginning ginning and without end ond It U does not go ICO down Into the Iho grave grass nor does It lose loso its tn activity experience e in III army any 1111 of ot the tho changes through which tho limo Individual ual us i In or III out omit I of tit time the physical body hud Tho rho of at union man Is I u IL son comm of or God clod and un partaken of nf tho ito nature and I ties ii nil ty of oC his hm Is divine d Iv lime Father 1 to 10 lie hI throughout tho thoi ml gee I ng to It n tho the of ot eter oter eternal nat nal truth and anti lit When a n solid foundation Is 11 laid by time thu revolution revelations of ut God loti III In tho present nl age agea ngen a n substantial of oC doctrine can be ito reared d Then what was written will out of or obscurity and apparent contradiction Into plainness l anti and harmony and the thus word of ot the III Lord l nil timo will blond together like ilka the time various tints of its tha rainbow into nta pure and and ontI living light |
