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Show OO ENDLESS LIFE; ENDLESS LOSS Editor Standard. Accopt my thanks for the liberal space given to ray sermon ser-mon In answer to Mr. Goshen. I plead the privilege or trespassing a little further upon your goneroslty. Not a word of my sermon was written, but was taken down stenographlcally as I preached it, and afterwards typewritten. type-written. I find that my remarks as printed are neither clear nor accurnto at ono point; namely, the comment on 2 ThosB. 1-9 I should greatly appreciate appre-ciate this substitution for a few lines at that place- "Our second passage 2 Thcss. 1:9. strengthens this position, for. although the same adjective is used as In Matthew, its coupling 'destruction" (eternal destruction) Indicates that tho destroying power of sin will go on forever Neither passage, nor both pnseages combined, positively forbid hope, but nolthcr passage, nor both passagofl combined, offer hope. Thoy prcBent a dark prospect strotchlngout Into the darkness, with not a singfe gleam of light beyond. "Expressions of Ohrlst add to tho appalling blackness, for he speaks of 'the worm that dleth not,' and of 'the flro that 1b not quenched.' ThcBO passages, together with mnny others from different parts of tho Bible, would seem to loavo little room for doubt. I would not dogmatize on ouch a subjoct, but I can personally bco not ono ray of light for tho impenitent impeni-tent beyond the grav. Aa there a endless life far tbc rlghtcaas, so there seoma to be endless loss for tho wicked. Gratefully yours, (Signed) "GEO. R. VARNEY." oo |