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+,TBE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY.

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+,TBE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY. MODERN neology will alter all our conceptions l and. salvation, and in the end it will be as dis- 7°^°QLINOR to <.TOD as it is dishonouring to man. Let WITED AT vvitli a clear and steady eye, and in- of EXCUSING IT as not vital to the Gospel of > t-i st> coom to be seen clearly enough, that **>E GOSPEL on th'S theory of interpretation, instead of ^KING I^S GRATNI appeal to the soul, has, in fact, to R^P(E <* NOT'" in him that believes it. may LO differently constituted so far as tempera- is courued, but this neology will not inspire t ^SRONA. what a change Missionaries go not to souls, but to create them, or to be instruments, !T5LER» of UAT creation nor will it inspire for the ^IQISTRY AS home it lacks the one essential element *11 living ministry—viz., a belief in this, What I' a man* give in exchange for his soul ?" The P^ENCLOUR of man's degradation" is gone. A few F\EMICAL changes will dissolve him into dust. Let TUS NEW CREE(J BE accepted, and a paralysis, in my ^GMENT, will fall on all the noblest efforts of the P^SENT time for the weal of men in our cities, towns, ULLAGES. LLUNK OF it in every aspect of the case. Our very MUST BE altered. Their tone must be entirely <JiCEFent. We shall have to lay arrest on every form SPEECH which speaks of an infinite craving within F 'NAY, WE should have to drop the word soul as to truth. The judges of England will no longer «. ,'ble to utter that solemn, subduing, aw u And may the Lord have mercy on your 1)0 not let us shrink from pushing this consideration 2° EVERY region of thought. Honoured names are SEATED with this heresy. So much the more need WE should cry aloud »NTL SPARE UOT- „BUT 18 fair to say that there is uneasiness, great UN- K^ESS, upon this subject. Wherever my younger P^THREN are settled, let them once preach it, without HEIGHT of a leading public position, and what CON- FLATION there would be Or supposing there were great names to cover them, who can realise the ?*CITEMENT and uneasiness that would be occasioned ? SUMMED up in a sentence, it is this—MAN HAS NO SOUL CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT THAT THE RECEIVE(I doctrine „ he soul's immortality does exercise A solemn in- J over men in general. Let it be disbelieved, JN even crime will assume more fearful proportions, TH* US shrink from facing this fact. What will be of this materialistic annihilationism in the OF those tempted to seduction and murder if they R** ground and warrant for saying, Oh, that i&tlesh blood only. God will never raise that poor feature again to bear witness against us. Neither im DOR WE ARE Christians therefore we have not ^MORTAL souls I put this strongly because men 7^U NEVER accept a doctrine of punishment for merely Uman animals, who are to be raised again just to be ^BED and destroyed; human animals, L siy, So L *S ^UST W^AT they are if they have no immortal uls. This illustration, I know, presents the matter D«RKEST LL8HT> but the anuihiiatiou doctrine I ould affect and must affect all sin as sin, because the ^TURE is different that sins. It is because 1 do not E that this idea has been fully worked out auy- JJJ ERE THAT I press it here, and 1 cannot think that HAVE accepted it have well weighed the AND T 8UBVERTS the entire idea of human nature, CON F URU8 *N CHRIST into a creative power, which bei 8 an entirely new and quite superior order of J Religion is not then a renewal in the GE of God, it is the creator of an immortal soul. H0J. A different concept is thus given us of life I do TIUCTF^ ^OW IMMEA8URABLY inferior, I say how dis- J. Y DIFFEREUT and opposite. MATTE"6 TExtual criticism will never settle such a ^OT IT^*8 seems tq be reverent to revelation, THE at 1FN°LRE8 the fact that the being who comes to denv U 'K&T REVELATI°N bas in this instance to bel °NE ,LT)F the divinest instincts of bis nature, and to *3 NOT MA^E IQTHE image of God. believe that with the acceptance of the doctrine of ■JUBILATION the power of the pulpit is gone because believe that it is the majesty of man which makes Revelation necessary, and which gives glory and OEAUTY to the incarnation of the Son of God. The Churches are beginning to awaken to the consciousness that this annihilation doctrine is not so harmless as it "eems As it did Dot come from Germany, many were tempted to think it is not a "neology," but only a harmless eccentricity. The "uneasiness" at lirst Was not very great, because it was thought that the danger was not vital. But the uneasiness" is grow- LQg, and will grow more and more, in proportion as ^EN see that this doctrine alters our ideal of the J^.VERSE, our ideal of man, yes, and our ideal of God. VY18 weary" reading, this annihilation doctrine, F E to be in a very dead universe If our search THE LIVING God fails if the heathen never know F~LM~RWEU, to-morrow we die! Perilous to our d SR68 PERNICIOUS to our morals this doctrine is the eadhest heresy that ever darkened the hopes of the ^NURCH of God. We read in Life in Christ" p. 435, THR°ERLLNG immortality, as a special gift of God rough Christ, All the old religions of the world 1 "E. AGAINST it—all the old philosophies. It was the WONLH °A WBICH even the faithful disciples of Christ IUFORMC?N8ENT TO LEARN This appears to suggest the I KM? °N LBEY did learn it. I know not when, uttered NT* WHERE- Certainly, if they did, they old «V.;I 0D,E 8entence iuthis respect, to rebuke the IMMORTALITYPO £ LETHE SOUL^ mitUlal L>IVINPELA^°N ^TSE^ becomes glorious, because of the BARRED ^RAN^6UR RACE W^OSE 8^ORY BAS been Us SNM S^D' scholars and divines are now to give elimin !NE* CRITICAL reading of Scripture which vvill LESSEN^ T GRAN(^EUR» 1 think the result will be to tell M 1» RESt in the Scriptures themselves. If you ^ORTAF'T AM D0^ T'LE BEIDG I think 1 am, and im- BUMA 1 ^AS A ^OC^R'NE IS ONLY THE proud conceit of the SHORN11 F WEL1 TBEN your message is broth° highest importance to me; if not tears T,O TLLE INSENSIBLE rock which the rude swain TO 1 B'S plough and treads upon," I am brother I)U8T— I ^RIVES AD(I TO the insects he disturbs. UNDIV °N (^UST- IT IS a dreary doctrine, and a most Scrii *ULE °UE AU(^ THE more you try to prove it from —-77 'U!O ^ESA interesting will Scripture be to me. Le W- M. Slatkam, in the Christian World.

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