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THE FALLAND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.The Fall and its ConsequencesAngels and Men Compared ..The Hope of Re-union The Resurrection and the Life.

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Let us first enquire what is meant by the FALL?To fall, is to drop from a higher to a lowerlevel. What then was the level on which Adam

was created? And what the level to which hefell r The level on which he was created, waspeculiar to himself-as far as this earth wasconcerned. He was its monarch, all the crea-tures were to be in subjection to him; made inthe image of God, he was able to commune withGod, to admire and appreciate the works ofGod, to offer an intelligent and loving adorationto God. The motive-power of his life, was tobe, not his own glory-but the glory of God-

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110 THE BIBLE STANDARD.he was not to live for himself, but for hisOreator-and all the activities of his life, sancti-fied and consecrated, were to constitute oneperpetual act of loving worship to God. Butwhen he yielded to the temptation of Satan" ye shall be as gods," he fell from that highlevel, to the level of the brute creation. Forthe brute lives for itself alone-for tbe gratifica-ion of its passions-it has no thought of God-no knowledge of God-and does not andcannot love God. The" Be-all and theEnd-all" of its existence is itself. Now thisphilosophy of the brute, man has appropriatedas his own; he has reduced it to universalpractice, and embodied and expressed it in theuniversal maxims, "everyone for himself, andGod for us all," This is the Fall. And thoughman is still an intelligent and intellectual being,yet is he using that intellect for the overthrowof divine truth and the denial of divine revela-tion. "Ye shall be as gods" was Satan's firsttemptation. "I am God, and besides me, thereis none greater," will be the crowning utter-ance of man's pride and revolt against hisCreator. To this fearful consumma tion he isnow rapidly hastening. Human intellect, inits measureless pride, is already ascending thealtar-steps, and stretching forth its impioushand to pluck the crown from the brow of theCreator, to call upon Him to abdicate the throne,and retire from the scene, for the world can dowithout God I

Having defined the Fall, let us now glance atthe tempter, or agent employed in bringing itabout. We are aware that the general-we hadalmost said, the universal-belief is that the" serpent" spoken of was really a reptile-thereptile-in some form or another=-flsoa-Con-strictor, Anaconda, or some other creasure of the.snake tribe), that now goes by that name. Butthere is really nothing in the narrative towarrant such a conclusion, a conclusion basedmainly on the sentence, " Now the serpent wasmore subtle than any beast of the field whichthe Lord God had made." The exact renderingof the Hebrew is :-"And the serpent was morecrafty (da?'vm) than every (mi-kol) beast of thefield which the Lord God had made." But isthis to affirm that he was a beast of the field?Certainly not. And it is this hasty and ground-less assumption which has vitiated and becloudedthe interpretation of the entire passage; led.some professedly Christian writers to treat thewhole story of the fall as an allegory (as thoughthe results were allegorical!), and the sceptic tosneer at the narrative, as an empty orientallegend. If we were to affirm that Gabriel iswiser, or Michael stronger than any of thechildren of men-would that imply that theywere children 01men? To ask the question is toanswer it. Neither does it follow that becausethe being called a serpent is said to be more

crafty than every beast of 'the field, that there-I years.' Now here the devil is said to before he was a beast of the field. That no such serpent, and the serpent to be the devil; thteaching is expressed or implied in the Mosaic can therefore be no doubt that the serpennarrative, will we think be manifest to the Genesis, and the serpent of Revelations, iscandid reader from the following considerations. same being, the devil.

(1) If it were a reptile of the serpent tribe Finally, the generic in Hebrew for serpentthat tempted Eve-God must have wrought a siih-riiph, the same as seraph, or from the smiracle, to have endued the creature temper- root. This word i,s translated a fiery flarily with reasoning faculties, a malicious pur- serpent in Isaiah xiv. 29, and xxx. 6, Numbpose, and the gift of human speech, in order to xxi, 8; and in Isaiah vi. 6, it is translabring about the fall! But this would be to seraphim. It comes from a root which signmake God the author of sin; and therefore to burn, roll, vibrate like flame; and perhfrom this conclusion we instantly and instinc- would really represent the appearancetively revolt. motion of an angel, or' a seraph, fallen or

(2) But if it be said in reply to this, that it fallen. In the Millennial age, we are toldwas not God, but Satan who used the serpent "dust shall be the serpent's meat," thatas an instrument, we answer, that there is not say, that there shall be no amelioration ofthe remotest intimation in the passage of two the tempter's, condition, no mitigation tobeings, as concerned in bringing about the fall of the primal curse.of man-one a spiritual agent, and the other a Thi1'dly. Let us briefly point out thereptilian instrument. It is the exigencies of the sequences of the fall to man. The actraditional interpretation, to which we have disobedience on the part of the womanalready' referred, that demand this dual instru- weakness, on the part of the man lawless urickmentality in the fall of man. And we repeat ness. The serpent did not tempt him, butthat the passage affords not the slightest He was not "beguiled," He took thefoundation for such a theory. deliberately from the hand of his wife.

(3) The penalty or punishment denounced penalty pronounced on Adam, was capupon the tempter, utterly precludes such a punishment, the forfeiture of life. "Intheory. The whole weight of the curse falls sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread tillupon the serpent-which, if the popular exposi- return unto the ground, for out of it wasttion be correct, was an innocent instrument in taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust sthe transaction, and no more worthy of blame, thou return," Let the reader note the languthan the rams-horns were of praise for bringing -dust thou art, and unto dust shaltdown the walls of Jericho; while the actual return. It is not said by the Creator, onetempter, the agent who used the serpent as an of thee shall return to dust, and anotherinstrument, escapes punishment altogether, and be plunged into everlasting fire.is not even once named or referred to. 1'0 prevent rnan living for ever in a( , 1 , ) The threatened penalty is not fulfilled in of sin and disobedience and sorrow, thethe serpent-" dust shalt thou eat all the days shuts him off from the tree of life-" andof thy life I" 'I'he serpent does not eat dust, lest he put forth his hand, and eat andIt is carnivorous, and it is not particular whether for ever,"-to prevent his being immortal,it dines off a horse, a deer, or a man. It is said Lord God denies him access to the tree ofof Ephraim, "He feedeth on dust, a deceived the fruit of which, in all probability, wouldheart hath turned him aside." And by perpetually rejuvenated him and arrestedEphraim here is meant the ten tribes. But operation of that law of decay and disintedoes anyone suppose that the ten tribes in any tion, to which all organic beings are subpart of their history ever lived on dust? In The penalty on the woman was a large incrIsaiah xlix, 23, it is said of the enemies of in the population of the world, as a resuIsrael, " They shall lick the dust of thy feet;" the fall. "I will greatly multiply thy sothe same phrase occurs in Psa. lxxii, 9. It is AND THY CONCEPTION." Hence as a result, tthus manifest that the phrase is intended to is in the world a large surplus population,represent a low, fallen, contemptible and children of the wicked one, and they aredegraded condition, a condition of utter sub- persecutors of the" children of the kingdojugation. Hence we read in the next chapter of

(5) It was not a snake, a reptile, that bruised murder of Abel bY,his brother Cain, a~d, ',,' " ,Apostle John, referring to this, says, Camthe humamtyof Christ ( HIS heel ); nor IS of that wicked one, the lawless one, andit a reptile that the Lord Jesus will finally 'his brother, "and wherefore s~ew he hh Because his own works were wicked andcrus . brother's righteous."

(6) Scripture is its own interpreter. In Thus the forfeiture of life, a large surRev. xx. 2, we read that an angel" laid hold of population, and the ultimate extinction othe dragon, that' ancient serpent which is the devil, are the consequences of the Fall.devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand Lincoln.


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THE BIBLE STANDARD. 111

By GEO. P. MACKAY.and with them which keep the words of thisbook: worship God."

Here, then, we will begin our few remarks asto what the angels are, by stating that they are-

(A.) Servants of God, and apparently muchemployed by Him in the guidance, care, andprotection of man. "Are they not all minis-tering spirits sent forth to do service for thesake of them that shall inherit salvation? (Heb.i. 14.) They are

(B.) High in favour and position, being ad-mitted to the inner chamber of Jehovah. Themessenger to Zacharias "said unto him, I amGabriel, that stand in ~he presence of God."And those that appeared to Isaiah, E.zekiel,and Daniel are shown to .have had honoursimilar.

(C.) Angels are holy beings. No others couldbe admitted to the Divine presence. Jesusspoke of them as " The holy angels."

(D.) Angels are poioerjul. beings. We neednot thinkof them hurling great mountains about,as described in "Paradise Lost;" yet they areable to obey all God's behests. "Bless theLord," says the Psalmist, "Ye His angels thatexcel in strength." And Paul says, "The LordJesus shall be revealed from heaven with Hismighty angels," or (margin,) "angels of Hispower."

(E.) Angels are invisible to unaided humansight. "There are angels hovering round," andyet we, poor blind mortals, are mostly uncon-scious of their presence. They have only beenperceived by men with "opened" eyes, (as inthe cases of Balsam, and the servant of Elishaat Dothan,) or when they have assumed a humanform. Angels have often been seen as men,according to the Word.

(F.) They are radiant beings: appearing attimes in great glory. On the first Easter morn-ing, "the angel of the Lord descended fromheaven, and came and roiled back the stone fromthe door (of the sepulchre), and sat upon it. Hiscountenance was like lightning, and his raimentwhite as snow j and for fear of him the keepersdid shake and become as dead men." Johndescribes another as "clothed with a cloud, arainbow upon his head, his face as the sun, andfeet as pillars of fire."

(G.) They are active as the breeze and swiftas the lightning. God" maketh His angelswinds, and His ministers a flame of fire."Gabriel came to Daniel while he was at prayer,though the command was not given for him todo so, until Daniel had begun to pray. (SeeDaniel ix, 20-23.)

(H.) Each seems to have a post of duty, aspecial work to do. One led Israel through thewilderness j another gave the Tables of the Law janother was in the way of Balaam ; another inthe furnace with the three brave Hebrew youths jand another in the den 'with Daniel. Gabriel

THERE are three passages of Holy Writ thatsuggest thought regarding the relative

position of men and angels. First, Psalm viii.4, 5, "What is man that Thou art mindful ofhim? and the son of man that Thou visitesthim? For Thou hast made him a little lowerthan the angels." Second, Luke xx. 35, 36."They which shall be accounted worthy toobtain that world, and the resurrection from thedead, neither marry nor are given in marriage:neither can they die any more: for they areequal ttnto the angels." 'I'hird, H ebreuis i. 3, 4,Christ, "When He had by Himself purged oursins, sat down on the right hand of the Majestyon high; being made so much better than theangels." Lower, equal, higher. Before we canappreciate these comparisons we must under-stand the position of the angels. Let us trythen to answer the question, Who are theAngels?

The beings spoken of in the three passagesquoted are, of course, not the fallen angels,the angels that kept not their first estate."Nor are they disembodied human spirits. Thisit is needful to point out, for the idea is veryprevalent that "the angel band" is formed ofthe spirits of departed saints. Poets andpreachers appear to revel. in the thought whenany good man dies. All must have noticedthis in connection with the mourning for thenoble. minded Longfellow : his own song entitledFootsteps of Angels," written in memory ofhis lost life-partner, is in this strain.

The principal passage supposed to support the'theory that men are metamorphosed into angelsis Rev. xxii. 8, 9. "When I had heard and seen,I fell down to worship before the feet of theangel which showed me these things. Thensaith he unto me, see thou do it not, for I amthy fellow servant, and of thy brethren. theprophets, and of them which keep the sayings ofthis book: worship God." Many quote thewords in italics as incontrovertible proof that thisangel was once a prophet. But he is not speak.ing of his past state at all. His words are I ametc. And why not quote the whole of the verse?If he is a dead prophet, he is also one of themwhich keep the sayings of this book: (viz.) oneof the saints of John's own day. Thus thepoor angel becomes three beings, viz., a deadprophet, a ministering spirit, and a living saintwith all the ills and aches that flesh is heir to.Let our good friends who invent human angelsfrom the language of this verse, read it in thenew version, and their inventive imaginationswill surely cease. The original is there trans.lated, " See thou do it not: I am a [elltno-sernamtwith thee and with thy brethren the prophets,

was sent to Daniel, Zacharias, and the Virgin.Miehael was the guardian of the body of Moses,and the great prince which stood for the chil-dren of Israel. One strengthened Jesus inGethsemane. One released Peter from prison jone stood by Paul when tossed at night upon theangry sea j and another was a guide for Johnthrough the mazes of the Revelation.

(L) All the holy angels are immortal. Howthey attained to immortality we cannot tell jbut Luke xx. 36, clearly shows that it is theirs:"Neither can they die any more." Certainly itwould not be granted unto them without a trialEternal life is far too great a prize for God totrust it into untried hands. The fallen angelcannot be immortal. "Sin, when it is finished,"must bring forth death in their case as in everyother.

Now, God created the human family lowerthan the angelic. Man has not an angel'sposition, intelligence, power, form or glory. Hehas not an angel's powers of locomotion j nor anangel's high duties to perform. Nor has manan angel's immortality. Yet it is 'well to notethat he was made but "a little lower than theangels." Only a little less exalted in station,character, power, glory and life. Man was not,like the angels, admitted to God's immediatepresence, but Eden was an outer presence-chamber, and there God met with him. Man athis creation was not holy, like the angels; thatis, having actually wrought righteousness j buthe was innocent and innocence is only a littlelower than holiness. Man had not an angel'smight; but enough was his to rule o'er allthe earth. His was not an angel's glorious form;he was" of the earth, earthy j" yet of its kindhis form was perfect. Man had not an angel'slife; his immortality was not beyond attack;yet the only thing that could endanger it, washis own act and deed.

But ah, me! Man is now 1nuch lower than theangels! He by transgression feil,-oh, how far!-from the estate in which he was created." God hath made man upright, but they havesought out many inventions." His position,character, power, glory and life are now all lost !God no longer can on common ground communewith him: from Eden he was driven. His in-nocence is but a vision of the past j and it hashad to be recorded in blackest ink "that thewickedness of man is great in the earth, and thatevery imagination of the thoughts of his heartis only evil continually." His power now isgone j the sceptre has fallen from his grasp jand he is "altogether without strength."" Ichabod " is written on his very form j for" there is no glory" now. And even his life isforfeited. Now he is mortal, dying daily, and"ready to perish."

Thanks be to God, however, the lost estatemay be recovered IParadise may be regained I

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112 THE BIBLE STANDARD.Aye, and better than that, man may become that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious seen the doctrine that is contained therein diequal unto the angels." "For God so loved the body." "Angels and authorities and powers tinctly indeed, and yet have striven to learnworld that He gave His only begotten Son that are made subject unto Him." So shall they be The past four years have enlightened me muchwhosoever believeth in Him should not perisb, to them: "Know ye not that we shall judge the ignorance at the outset has disappeared tobut have everlasting life." Position, character, angels?" Even now, "are they not all min. large extent, and yet I am more and more conpower, glory and life, equal unto those of the istering spirits sent forth to minister for them vinced, as the years roll by, that I know lessangels, may all become man's. who shall be heirs of salvation?" The less God's truth than I thought I did.

Unto whom shall these things be granted? servinz the greater " the lower waiting upon the I th k G d' han 0, m t e presence of you all, thaUnto those who shall be" accounted worthy." higher . the scales have fallen from my eyes with regar"These are (1,) the truly Penitent, for fallen Brethren in Christ I "Such knowledge is too to one thing, and that is that He who claimsman must repent of sin: (2,) the Believing, for wonderful for me; it is high. I cannot attain be, and is declared to be, the God of Love, is a"without faith it is impossible to please God: " unto it." The very thought of all this glory I'S h d hat an more: t at the doctrine which man(3,) the Obedient, for "faith without works is quite crushing. When trying to comprehend it, h dreae to- ay with apparent unction, the dodead:" and (4,) the Persevering, for we must my heart is like t b st H tour. ow express my trine of eternal torment, is not contained here"by patient continuance in well doing, seek for feelings properly I do not know. All that can th G dt 0 's truth is exempt from that whicglory and honour and immortality." be done, is to throw one's-self at His dear feet belies His character, and rests as a hideous i

When shall these things be? At" the Re- in praise and wonder. cubus on Christian theology. I thank God thasurrection from the dead." Only then shall any Lincoln. it is not here, but that His bright truth hamen be "equal unto the angels." The best of ever shone throughout all misunderstandingsmen have now neither an angel's character, nor THE HOPE OF RE-UNION. and errors of mind,-the gift of God is eternan angel's life. All are doomed to die. Rut at life, but the wages of sin is death. The coh By GEORGE ALDRIDGE.t e Resurrection of the just the goal shall be ceptions which we form from God's truth coattained. "So when this corruptible shall have (His Fareuiell. Address given in the Temperance cerning our own mortal nature must to a veput on incorruption, and this mortal shall have Hall, Bradford. on April 16, prior to sailing large extent alter our conceptions of the futureput on immortality, then shall be brought to pass for New Zealand.) It is impossible for us to retain, with othe saying that is written, 'Death is swallowed y o u will appreciate, I am sure, the difficulties altered notions of our own nature, the uup inVictory.' " Also this other saying, "They are under which I labour to-night, and will altered conception of passing away to heavenequal unto the angels, and are the children of help me with your prayers and sympathies, so' death, or reunion of one with another at somGod, being the children of the Resurrection." that God's Word may be spoken with all future time in a heaven without locality, andWith this in view, well might the great apostle sincerity, while I may be forgotten. The home with spirits that possess no form or suof the Gentiles say, "I count all things but loss, position feels to me very peculiar and very stance; but we look for a state that is yet-if by any means I might attain unto the Re- trying. My thoughts are somewhat confused, come as a bride adorned for her husband, ansurrrection from the dead." and if at the outset they may appear incoherent, we look for a re-union with those we love,

But does not the third passage (Heb. i. 3, 4.) I am sure I am speaking to those fully in form and substantial reality. The one grespeak of a position higher than the angels I It sympathy with me and who will forgive. hope around which our thoughts must centredoes. That position belongs essentially to The subject I have selected for consideration the light of conditional immortality,-in thaChrist. "He hath by inheritance obtained a to-night is one which should bring a fruitful light of God's Word, I can say-is the returnmore excellent name than they." .He is the source of consolation to us, under present cir- the Lord Jesus Christ from heaven. We looSon; while they are but servants. He sitteth cumstances-that is, the hope of a re-union. I not to pass away to Him at death, but for Hiat the right-hand of power; while they stand have ever tried, for the past four years, since I to come for us according to the promise, "Ibefore the throne, ready to obey. He is the have been connected with our little Church, to to prepare a place for you; and if I go to preparbrightness of Jehovah's glory, "the express speak God's truth; though I am not aware a place for you I will come again to receive yoimage of His person;" while to them it is said whether I have tried to bring forward the graces unto Myself, that where I am there ye may"Let all the angels of God worship Him." of oratory, or have striven to adorn my speech also." The Word of God puts that always

But man can surely never rise to such a place I with those words of rhetoric which catch men's the front. Turn where you will in the NeWell, in his own right he never can, but, (ob, ears at the expense of truth. I may say, in all Testament you will always find that the returlove unsearchable!) in Christ he may, he shall, sincerity, that I have tried that God's Word of the Lord Jesus Christ is the one objecthe does! Believers are identified in all things should be uplifted-that whether men should which all men's hopes are centred. It mattewith their Lord. "Behold now are we the sons hear or whether they should forbear, the first not what side of Christian doctrine you take uof God, and it doth not yet appear what we human consideration should be God's own it hinges on this one thing: He is coming bashall be; but we know that when He shall truth. There are certain things which I have again who has promised to return. The theorappear we shall be like Him." He sitteth at spoken upon here that have appeared to my if you like to call it so, of Conditional Immthe right hand of power. So do they: "He own mind very clear; and I believe to a very tality, puts that to the fore-front also, ahath raised us up together, and made us sit large extent they have appeared clear also to before its bright gleams all false law, all imtogether in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." those to whom I have spoken; but there are moral law, flickers and dies away. We belieThus shall they by and by; "For to him that very many things in God's Word of which I am that He is coming back again, and that in Hoveroometh," saith He, "will I grant to sit with not aware. I have informed no man that I presence we shall meet to find the fullnessMe in'My throne; even as I also overcame, and knew all the 'Word of God. I have been, as it joy. If we are accounted worthy-and you wam set down with My Father in His throne." were, a learner at the feet of the Word, and forgive me, those of you who are partiallHe is resplendent in form: and so shallj have touched the fringe which skirts the pur-, strange, if I speak ~ore esp~cially .to.those wthey be; for He "shall change our vile body, poses of God. I have been like one who has have been united with me in Christian fello


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THE BIBLE STANDARD . 113ship,-I am delighted to know you as brethren cloud rolls between and He is lost to sight.and sisters in the faith, and pray we may be What of that? "As the wind bloweth where itaccounted worthy to stand in His presence and listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, butshare in the rapture whereby we shall be caught canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither itup to Him. Will it not be grand to see Jesus? goeth; so is everyone that is born of theWill it not be grand to look upon Him who Spirit."-John ill. 8. So is everyone that iscame, being in the form of God? He who born of the Spirit. We must be subjected to a" Thought it not robbery to be equal with God, wondrous change, far surpassing our presentbut made Himself of no reputation, and took state; and if we are the subjects of suchupon Himself the form of a servant, and was wondrous changes as this change from mor-made in the likeness of man, and being formed tality to immortality, from our presont state toin fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and that of glory, the change is one superior tobecame obedient unto death-even the death of present mundane influences.the cross." Will it not be grand to look upon Shall we know each other there? It is easyHim who was humiliated, scomed, despised, for me to recognize you; it is easy for you tocrucified, and killed for us? The first sight for recognize me now; but we are subjected to greatall in our future is the sight of Him who died changes, and shall we know each other there?for us. It is said" Yes." The answer comes almost

The passing thought I want you to notice is spontaneously from Christendom: "Yes; wethis-and it helps us to eluoidate the subject shall know you there." How do you know?that is to follow-that the sight of Jesus changes The faith of Christendom goes far into theus iota the likeness of Himself, "Beloved, we belief, and a great deal further than mine; itknow not what we shall be, but this we know, goes far enough to believe that spirits withoutthat when He shall appear we shall be like Him, bodies retain the elements of their identity, andfor we shall see Him as He is." "We look for' that when they meet they recognize each other,the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall and hold converse one with another. I don'tchange this vile body, of our humiliation, and know how. It is believed. Utterances are de-fashion it like unto His glorious body, accordi~g' livered by the thousands, and tracts and pam-to the working whereby He is able to subdue all phlets are issued by the thousand and waggon-things unto Himself." The likeness of Christ load to' prove this; but they contain argumentsis guaranteed in the vision of Jesus Christ in which are not believed by thinking men. Therethe time beyond. is no power of consolation in them. There is

What does that guarantee? It guarantees to no strength for support, no certainty to buildus immortality. We do not possess it in our- upon, no intrinsic value in them. It still re-selves. We are but mortal, formed of dust, and mains an open question. Shall we have theto return to dust again. It will change us to privilege of standing in the land of the blestimmortality, and if we are like Him, we must be clothed in immortality and know each otherimmortal. "Death hath no more domioion there? Can we lift the veil at all? Can weover Him." "I am He that liveth, and was remove the gloom, see the brightness, and saydead, and am alive for evermore." The like- we shall know each other there? The heathenness of Christ guarantees future immortality. mother, in days gone by, as she stood by the

It further guarantees to us glory. What do bed over the body of her dying child, moaned inmen mean by the term glory? It is used to- her agony as she clasped its form to her bosom,day in some very strange expressions which will and thought she would never see her babyperhaps help to elucidate this signification. again. But the Christian mother, as sheWe speak of a glorious deed, a glorious action, a lays her little one beneath the sod, believesglorious battle. But it comes from a word that she will see it again and will know it there.which signifies" brightness," " shining." Philosophers of yore, as they steed around the

In the Mount of Transfiguration" His coun- couch of a dying comrade, in thought wonderedtenance did shine as the light, and His raiment and speculated whether he would be able towas white and glistening." 'When He appeared retain any elements of identity wherehy heto Paul on his way to Damascus, Paul was would be known and whereby he would be re-stricken with blindness. When He appeared cognized. They could not tell, but somehowto John and Thomas, "the whole of His it seems to grow in the Christian that when hecountenance did shine as the sun." has laid aside friends he loved, there is a con-

It guarantees, further, that which many long scionsness within him that again in the landafter, that we shall appear in a superior form in beyond he will clasp the hand and look into thea future state. We are bound now to walk our eyes brimful of love, and see the countenancesstreets in this way, if we cannot afford to ride; he delighted to see and hear the voices he de-but when Christ had risen from the dead He lighted to hear. Somehow he believes it, andtook His disciples to Bethany, and He ascended, through the blinding tears and aching heart heand the wondering disciples gazed until the looks on to the time when he shall clasp the

hands of the friends he has loved in daysgone by.

Is there proof here that will enable us to restconfident that we shall know each other there?If you will turn with me to 1 Thess. iv. 13, youwill read: "But I would not have you to heignorant, brethren, concerning them which areasleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others whichltItve no hope. For if we believe that Jesus diedand rose again, even so them also which sleepin Jesus will God bring with Him. For this wesay unto you by the Word of the Lord, that wewhich are alive and remain UBtOthe coming ofthe Lord, shall not prevent [go before] themwhich are asleep. For the Lord Himself shalldescend 11'01 heaven with a shout, with thevoice of the archangel and with the trump ofGod; and the dead in Christ shall rise first,Then we which are alive and remain shall becaught up together with them in the clouds, tomeet the Lord in the air, and so shall we everbe with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort oneanother with these words."

You will mark that these Thessalonians werein deep sorrow about something: they werelosing their friends and kindred while waitingfor Jesus Christ; and Paul is giving them con-solation for their sorrow-s-telling them to lookaway from the grave to that which He opensup before them. What is it? Many will sayat once it is the return of the Lord to whichthey are to look. Right; but that is not all,because they knew that the return of the Lordwas certain. They expected 'it; and it was nonew revelation to them. We are tol-l that theywere turned from idols to serve the living andtrue God, and to wait for His Son from heaven.They knew of His coming again, but it is notthat exactly which Paul wishes to bring beforethem for their comfort.

They knew that He was coming. There isno doubt that they had heard the story of howthe wondering disciples saw the Lord JesusChrist pass f1way, and how they marvelledwhether He had gone to the angel's city, who,pointing upwards, said, This same Jesus whomye now see going into heaven shall so come inlike manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.

Is it the hope of resurrection He brings beforethem? When the gospel was preached in daysgone by, the hope of resurrection was thecen tral pivot. The disciples of these days arepreaching a new gospel, which puts on one sidethe resurrection, as though worthless; but indays gone by, when this Book was written, theypreached the Gospel of the Resurrection of theDead.

So it is, that while Paul speaks of the returnof the Lord Jesus, and when he sp?aks of theresurrection out from the dead, there is anotherthing which underlies the teaching here. Iruns through it like sweet music, that there wa


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114 THE BIBLE STANDARD.a hope of future re-union and recognition forthose-when Jesus Christ should return fromheaven-who in Christ shall arise. There weshall meet at last, and realise the words of Matt.viii, 11: "And I say unto you, That many shallcome from the east and west, and shall sit downwith Abraham, and Isaae, and Jacob, in thekingdom of heaven."You mark that the patriarchs of days gone byare to have a place in the coming kingdom, andif that is so, those who are privileged to entershall know Abraham, Isaae, and Jacob, and ifwe may single out certain individuals who shallbe known, it is a long way to guaranteeing theonly wish on the part of ourselves.

It is affirmed again in the Gospel accordingto Luke; and in John there is another instance.On one occasion, when Jesus was away, a greatfriend of His died, and Christ was sent for; onHis way He is told that His friend is dead, andas He enters the place, two sisters come out,one by one, to meet Him, and Martha says toHim, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here, mybrother had not died." The Lord answered,"Thy brother shall rise again." It would benice to hear Him say he should rise again, butit would be of very little avail to Martha, unlessshe could know that he 1vas her brother! " Thybrother shall rise again."

You will also remember the striking instanceof recognition when our Saviour was trans-figured. We are told that He took up on themountain of transfiguration, Peter, James, andJohn, and was transfigured before" them. Thedisciples are asleep, and when they wake upthey discern two men. Who are these men?Do they know them? Yes; but they have hadno knowledge of them in the days of their flesh.Moses and Elias never crossed 'their path. Howstrange it is that Peter says, "Lord, it is goodfor us to be here: let us build three tabernacles;one for Thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias."Shall we know each other there? Yes, weshall, for those men who lived and loved in daysgone by, recognised each other in glory.

There are also passages of Scripture whichaffirm this, and cannot be understood in anyother conception. Take the First Epistle tothe Thessalonians, ii. 19: "For what is ourhope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are noteven ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christat His Coming?" "You, my converts, whomI have brought to the truth, you shall be mycrown of rejoicing at the presence of the LordJesus Christ." But how could it be so; if hedid not know them.

Again you will notice the same thought con-tained in the Epistle to the Philippians, andalso in the Epistle to the Corinthians, morethan once.

Paul likens himself to a great teacher. Hehas gone out to these districts teaching men

concerning Christ and the hope of glory, andthe rewards and punishments which these menmust expect. He is warning every man con-cerning the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ,and concerning those rewards and punishmentswhich those must have or endure who acceptor reject the truth. I am sure that there is joyfor all men who accept this teaching, and thatthey will hear the words, "Well done, thougood and faithful servant; enter thou into thejoy of thy Lord." I am preaching and teach-ing for Him in the wisdom that we may presentthem in Christ Jesus.

The doctrine comes out again in all passageslike these, affirming-and very many of thepassages affirm-individual reward for individualwork. Passages which also come out like theseaffirm that those who are standing at the judg-ment seat of Christ shall know the pers?ns whoare brought before it, and shall know why theyare rewarded or punished; for the counsels ofthe heart shall be made manifest, and everyman shall be given the praise that is his. Itshall not be a world of strangers. We shall beable to grasp one another by the hand, andrealise that we are spared to live in His presence,who have worked together shoulder to shoulderhere.

It being certain, then, that we shall knoweach other when we meet, and that there willbe a true re-union, both of body and spirit;where shall we meet? Where shall we meet?It becomes the all-important question for me totry to answer, and the all-important questionfor you to ask. Where shall we meet? Sup-posing we may not be privileged to meet againhere in this state, in this sphere-w here shall wemeet? In heaven? What do you mean byheaven? Do you mean the land above there-somewhere beyond the deep blue sky-beyondthe bounds of time and space-the place wherespirits are apparently floating about like mythsin a golden fog? Do you call that heaven?Wait a moment! Have you read this Wordaright? The place of parting is the place ofmeeting; I don't mean locally, but I mean thatso long as earth is a place where we part, theearth shall be the place where we meet .. " I goto prepare a place for you, and if I go to preparea place for you, I will come again, and receiveyou unto Myself." It is not "I shall come toyou to be received," but that He who ascendedon high, and was lost to the gaze of His disciples,is coming back in order that we may be receivedunto Him.

He left earth in His humiliation; He iscoming back in His glory ; and the partingplace shall be the meeting place. He ascendedfrom the Mount of Olives, and it is written thatwhen He returns in that day His feet shallstand upon the Mount of Olives-the partingplace, the meeting place. This same Jesus,

whom we now see ascending into heaven,shall see in like manner coming again: "ThLord Himself shall descend from heaven withshout, with the voice of the archangel and ttrump of God." We are looking forward toNay, it is affirmed that the whole heaven aearth shall roll away, and that the revelationshall be fulfilled. We read, "Behold, ttabernacle of God is with men." It is not thwe are with God in the sense of going away, bthe tabernacle of God is with men. Here tmeeting place; here the parting place.

It may not be that we shall meet first ofJesus upon earth, but it will be in connectiotherewith, for we are taught to believe thatshall be called away from our tribulationmeet Him.

When shall we meet? Oh! my brethren asisters, it is hard, hard to part! But I wyou and myself to pnt it on one side fomoment, and look onward and forward to sewhen shall we meet? When the Lord himsshall descend from heaven with a shout. Tis when. When He fulfils His own promise,will come again." That is when. Whenredemption of our bodies is accomplished accoing to the promise. That is when. "Icome again" is His own promise, is Hislanguage, and I dare not doubt it.

How soon may that be? I don't kuowdon't know I Ages ago, in Eastern lands, tlooked for Him. Oh! how they looked forchariot wheels as their eyes grew dim. Tlooked for Him to come again from Olivet,the years rolled on and He tarried. We sotimes look on the fleecy clouds, and fancy trathe shining robes and the glorious face;have our views in the gloaming, and try to hthe sound of His thrilling voice, but it isnear. Have courage. The time will come;Word is sure. Let us be patient and wait.will surely come as He said He would, inlight sublime; and we shall be glad whensee His face after the waiting time. Wshall it be? When He comes. And thuslook onward and forward to the time whenLord Jesus shall be revealed; and we arethat we shall be spared to meet together aas wemeet now. It shall be, when we shalgrouped together in His presence, and againhands shall meet in love, and our eyes gazthe full as we realise that we are raised byfor evermore.

"We may now be called to sever,And to other climes be borne,

But we'll meet , to part-no, never-On the Resurrection morn.

HFrom the dry land or the ocean,From wberc'er our lot be cast,

From Old England or NewZealand,We shall gather home at last,"

And now to put to you the word of exhotion; to whom I have spoken times with


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THE BIBLE STANDARD . 115ANOTHER LABOUREII Fall NEW ZEALAND.On April 20, a late member of our Executive

Committee, Mr. George Aldridge, of Bradford,sailed from Gravesend in the Orient Line s.s.Liquria, for Auckland, New Zealand, to assist illthe work being carried on in the colony byMessrs. G. A. Brown and E. H. 'I'aylor, Ourbrother has been a very devoted labourer andpreacher in connection with the Church meetingin the Temperance Hall, and will be sorelymissed. We ask for him the prayers of ourreaders; for his safe passage (and that of hisfamily), and for great usefulness iu the land ofliis adoption.- - - - - - - - - - . - - - - - - - - -

the need to give; the bringing life from abovewas not giving back life; the resurrection of thebody was not the resurrection of the man, butthe mall'S body. Do the Saviour's words notplainly imply that He, Christ, is the true andonly source through which dead men live again?Once more verses 25, 26," Hethat believethin Me,though he were dead yet shall he live; and who-soever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die."Christ's meaning here is not, that he who is deadshall be at the same time alive, any more thanHe means that the believer shall never die, forwe know God's children are dying every day.He means they shall not die fatally as thewicked, but only sleep over the night to wake tonew and vigorous life in the morning of resur-rection. Matt. xxii, 32, "I am the God ofAbraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jaeob.God is not the God of the dead but of the living."It is plainly indicated here that God counts uponhis dead saints as living children, and upondead sinners as dead indeed.

But let me illustrate what I mean. Inbalancing my ledger I come upon a leaf on thepage of which stands an account I know I shallnever recover, and which I hold as bad, lost, ordead money. I also come upon many leaves onwhose pages stand accounts which I know Ishall recover, which accounts I reckon good.But observe, I have not in my possession thegood money any more than I have the bad money,yet I take the good money though absent from meinto account as already possessed and as part ofmy riches. The bad I leave out, and look uponit as no part of my possessions. Just for onemoment observe closely the difference betweenthe two states of this money, both alike in theinterval in which I lack their possession, bothalike, I say, that is, neither of them are presentor within the possibility of my using them.But see, the absence of the one being only tem-porary, deprives it not of its essential existence,the absence of the other being lasting 01 finaldeprives it of all right of existence among mytreasures. The one money is only absent, andreputed as present; the other absent, but reputedas lost. So as the good money is not absentfrom its possessor, yet absent, neither are thegood 01 godly absent from God though absent.The bad, or really absent, I do not intend tospeak about in this paper, but in another.

I shall pass on to notice the manner in whichChrist raised Lazarus from the dead (John xi.43, 44). " He cried with a loud voice, Lazaruscome forth; and he that was dead came forth."If Lazarus was in heaven, would not Christ havein this instance given some light on the subject,and called Lazarus to come down to earth againor to come back to his body again? But no,Christ's whole attention is directed to the grave,which is very singular, if Lazarus was not there.And again, Lazarus lived for thirty years after

number; who have heard me proclaim the Wordof God as well as I could proclaim it,-thematchless Word of God and the wondrous Wordof Jesus Christ, "Who so loved the world thatHe gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoeverbelieveth on Him should not perish, but haveeverlasting life." You have heard me speak ofHis love many times, and I wish I could geteveryone here to-night to realise this great fact.This may be the last time that my voice shallbe heard here. Oh Ithat it be that you hear itnow for good! Will you take Him who has THE RESURRECTION AND THEdied? The cross has been uplifted, and Christ LIFE. Part VI.has died. "Whosoever believeth on Him shall By MARIA GELLETLY.not perish, but have everlasting life." The I shall now pass from the morning dawn ofwords stand as confirmed to-day as when first Christianity to the Christ, or noon-day bright-spoken. Will it not be grand as we pass away ness of Christianity, for higher knowledge on thefrom this earth to realise that the loss of His subject. Turn, therefore, to the 11th of John,Son has been the means of bringing many to to that touching incident where the Bethanythe truth? They have turned to Christ indeed, family has fallen into distress by the removaland they intend to live for Him evermore, and of their brother by death. Listen to the wordsconsecrate themselves to Him evermore a living of Marths, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here, mysacrifice. It is the last time we shall meet brother had not died. Jesus saith unto her, Thyhere. This company will never meet again like brother shall rise again." Notice, Jesus doesthis. Supposing it possible for us to meet, not say to Martha, ,.'Thy brother is not reallythere would be some faces abient. Some would dead, he is in heaven, he is in the fuller presencebe laid beneath the churchyard sod, some gone of God, it is only his body you have buried.long distances ,-nevermore together again, What of that, Martha, the life part of thy brotherexcept it be with Christ, and to meet in His is not dead, but liveth and can never die." No,presence. Oh Ishall it be? Oh I shall it be no, Jesus said to Martha, "Thy brother shallthat I, who have met you, shall realize that rise again," not thy brother's body shall risewhich Paul gives utterance to-that I shall again, but thy brother. If there was a lifu out ofembrace you in His presence, and receive honour the body, the Son of God would know of it, andand glory thereby? May the Lord bless you, would he withhold that knowledge from thisand bring you together into the truth. family, whom he so dearly loved, and asso-

Now, my deal' brethren and sisters in Jesus ciated so much with? Could He stand by andChrist, it comes to the last word I have to say- see the anguish of these sisters and not comfortit comes to the long, long farewell that I mustgive utterance to now. And yet I try to put it them by the assurance that Lazarus was not inaway. I would look onward through blinding that grave but only his b?dy. Yea, more, hadtears and aching heart, but as I. look, I look those sisters been aware of the fact that in thatbeyond the scene, and see a resplendent citydescending out of the clonds from heaven, with grave was only the body of their beloved brother,a massive wall, great and high, thrown above its would they wish, I ask, Christ to bring himgates of pearl. As I believe in that city, and asI see it descending out of heaven, and its gates back from his abode of truest happiness? If so,stand wide open, I see its long streets of trans- surely it were to come from life again to meetparent gold, and see the crystal river, and on death, to come from joy to meet sorrow, I cannot,the other side there stands the tree of life.There the happy groups stand together, and are I will not believe that the most selfish would beredeemed from every kindred and land, every so selfish. In the words of Christ to Martha Itribe and nation; and they are singing thepraises of Him who has redeemed them by His see no ray of light concerning a life out of theblood. I look still; and amongst these groups body. In Martha's answer there is the fullestI see most of the faces I have known and loved belief that her brother was in the grave; "Ihere, and as I stand, many others, their facesall aglow with happiness; a beam of recognition know," said she, "he shall rise again at thecrosses their faces, and we have met. The resurrection of the last day." "I am thehand is outstretched, and the word of greeting resurrection and the life" said Chd~t; lieis heard. The covenant seal is set on everyone, and a land voice above the music of the that believeth in Me though he were dead,city exclaims, "Behold, the. tabernacle of God yet shall he live." Who can think and reasonis with men, and He will dwell with them, andthey shall be His people, and God Himself shall and not be struck with the magnanimity, thebe with them, and be their God. And God shall grandeur, the power, the self-importance con-wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there tained in these words, "I am the resurrection,shall be no more death, neither sorrow, norcrying, neither shall there be any more pain: I am the life." Notice, how could Christ claimfor the former things are passed away. May to be the life, that is, .the element of life itself,you f~rewell !tere now; arid when Jesus Christ, if the life never ceased to be? The credit ofWho 1S our Life, shall appear, may you farewellin His presence. FAREWELL. f giving cannot be claimed where there nev"r was


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116 THE BIBLE STANDARD.he had been dead. And is it likely or possibleforhim to have gone out and in so many years,and to have given no hint even to his loved onesat home, of this spiritual abode? Had the fonrdays in which he had been dead, been to himfour days of perfect happiness in the presence ofGod, would he not, I repeat, have used hisknowledge to benefit his fellow-men j Does hissilence on the subject not rather betoken thatthe four days were to him a whole night offorgetfulness and darkness? And to see thatthe resurrection of Lazarus was a real resurrec-tion of the whole man from the grave, turn toJohn vi. 39: "And this is the Father's willwhich hath sent Me, that of all which he hathgiven Me I should lose nothing, but shouldraise it up again at the last day." Christ speakshere of not losing that which not to lose heasserts his intention to raise from the dead.Notice further, if these were with Christ in anycapacity whatever in a conscious state, their losscould not be prevented by a resurrection, whenthey were never there to be lost. Christ's wordsplainly say, that to save from loss He will raiseup again,-the word "again" pointing threeways, to that which was, to that which was not,to that which will be again. Read again, verses40, 44, 54, a repetition three times of the samewords, "I will raise him up at the last day."Raise up whom? let me ask. Those who seeHim to be the door of their salvation, who bythe assimilation of their will to the will ofChrist, beget in themselves or in their lives,the same Divine spirit. Christ's language hereis very expressive, verse 54, "'Vhoso eatethMy flesh and drinketh My blood, hath eternallife," showing, that as food eaten forms, andkeeps in form, and gives strength and energy tolabour, so the pureness and holiness of Christneeds to be imbibed, acquired, and takenpossession of, if I may so speak, and thus makeus heirs of eternal life. (To be continued.)

CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY.PART VIII.

ByMRS. A.B. MAGRUDER,VIRGINIA, U.S.A.THE first chapters of Genesis begin the history

of sin, and the last of Revelation chronicleits close. The first begins with a tree of Life,the last closes with another tree of Life, inmuch greater abundance: "a river of life inthe midst of the street of the city, and on eitherside of the 1'iver was there the tree of Life."Hence one of our Lord's titles-" Alpha andOmega, the beginning and the end."

The Bible begins with the creation of theheavens and the earth, to which came sin; andit ends with the creation of new heavens and anew earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness!" Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift."

But there is a remark in the article which wehave been reviewing, that offers much allevia-tion-no doubt truthfully-to the awful con-templation of the doom of the lost. It is, thatin Christian lands, those (and they exist inlarge numbers) who have had no more lightthan if born in heathen lands, will necessarilyhave only a heathen's accountability. There aremany men of toil, who from the cradle to thegrave, have known only what it was by hardlabour to obtain subsistence. " He who suffersnor a sparrow to fall to the ground without Hisobservation," knows and will adjust the dues ofall. It is true it is said, "all that are in theirgraves shall hear His voice and come forth,"&c., but no more appropriate application canbe made of the principle asserted on page 74 ofthe Review, which we have taken as our eighthpremise, than its use in this case: "The allmust be qualified by the unde1'stood condition."We understand the Master to speak there ofthose who had heard and understood the Word.The author of the article on Future Punish-ment has made many objections to the doctrineof Conditional Immortality. We will proposeone or two of the many which we might maketo his opinions.

He says, "We believe with Peter that inevery nation he that feareth God and workethrighteousness is accepted of Him; " and further,"that the number of such persons among Paganand Mohammedan peoples is, in general, greatlyunderestimated, to say the least."

We may ask if St. Paul included all undersin, by what means have they been changed?We are told there is "no name given underheaven" by which men can be saved but thatof Christ. Good men-who have been so to theextent of their small light-have had a rewardin the practice of goodness. The good man ishappy in his adversity, and the bad man miser-able in his prosperity; and it has been the aimof all the literature of the world-poetry, novels,history,-to show that each has brought itsresult as "invariable antecedent and con-sequent." The fact has been sometimes dis-puted, because prosperity and happiness havebeen confounded. They are entirely distinct.The virtuous man has often attained his highesthappiness through his adversity. Still theattainments of such an one fall far short ofwhat is necessary to make a man "perfect inChrist Jesus."

It is the necessity which our author findshimself under, to send all human beings to oneof the destinies which he describes on page 67,that causes him to send "good" Pagans andMohammedans to the "presence of God"-feeling quite sure they have not deserved theopposite fate-as he has described it. He says,"All generations of human being, having beenraised from the dead, will then be found severedinto two opposite classes, which will have theirrespective conditions of eternal blessedness inGod's presence, or of bopeless misery in separation from Him, assigned to them," &c. (p. 67).

What a spectacle is this I We know thatamong the heathen but a small number areconverted annually. by the missionaries whomhe invokes; and when we read the descriptionhe has given us in the following words, whatmust be the condition of the immense majority?

He says, on page 62, "Their hapless 1nillionare sinking into spiritual asphyxia, under thfetid and exhausted air of their dungeonsbarred by the triple bolts of ignorance, priestcraft, and oppression." As people in this statcannot be in a fit condition for the" p1'esenceGod," according to the theory quoted abovethere is but one remaining fate for the" haplesmillions," viz.: "hopeless misery in separationfrom Him."If the end in death of all such as have nohad the light of the Gospel (which is far preferable to the awful doom just contemplated) haleft no field for any further efforts of thRestorationists for their welfare, let us enquirif they have any better prospect of benefitingthose who have died in their sins under thGospel Dispensation. The Restorationists wifind their fate as fixed as the former, by thtestimony of the Scriptures, which say, aftespeaking of the resurrection of the righteous" The rest of the dead lived not again until ththousand years were past." Of course, thenduring the intermediate time, there is no scopfor work, for we may imagine life without consciousness, but we cannot imagine consciousnesswithout life. But even allowing our opponentsto give, as they claim for it, the idea of consciouexistence to a state which the Bible characterlzesas one without life, and admitting, for the sakof argument, a disembodied state, we are expressly told in the Scriptures that people arebe judged for the" deeds done in the body;"it would avail nothing to give them disembodiedspirits. And in the same manner there is nprospect of aiding them after the judgmentwhich they are to be raised, for the decisiothen pronounced is final and its execution immediate! Let such as indulge these visionaryideas, go to work with all diligence to help thliving. "Whatsoever thine hand findeth to dodo it with all thy might; for there is no worknor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in thgrave, whither thou goest."-Eccles. ix. 10.

(1'0 be continued.)

CORRESPONDENCE.REPLY TO REVIEW.

Deal' Sir,-I am glad to learn from youcourteous notice of my book that some of youreaders think the immortal (deathless] lifbegins with the new birtli and does not awathe resurrection. Perhaps it may be acceptableto them, and bracingly stimulative to others,you allow me space for a few remarks on thaline of thought.

On page 93, you speak of "the Adamipenalty of the First Death." I do not know whathe "Adamic penalty of death" is. Everything born into this world dies, men in commonwith animals and plants. But when itwritten of the patriarchs, e.g., they died in" good old age." "old and full of days," " infull age, like a shock of corn in his season,death does not appear to me a "penalty."Probably the shortening of human life, sincthe flood, has come as a penalty for sin; busuch a penalty could not be" Adamie," seeinthat he bad been gathered, "like a shockcorn in his season," long before. Does "Adamipenalty" mean the death threatened in Edeand incurred by transgression? If so, the termof the threatening compared with the factsthe case show that the penalty was not inflictedbut commuted, softened into chastisement,through the intervention of a Mediator andsubstitutional death. "In the day thou eatesthereof thou shalt surely die." Adam did nodie" in the day" of his eating, but lived nearla thousand years afterwards, Moreover Chrisdied a premature and substitutional. death f


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THE BIBLE STANDARD. 117-human sin, being made" a curse for us." Now,a penalty cannot be infiieted twice. To exact itfrom the transgressor is to leave no room forsubstitution. If Adam paid his own penalty,and all his descendants theirs, what is themeaning of the Cross? This, and other pointsconnected with it, I have exhibited in the forth-coming work you have kindly referred to,-" The Entire Evidence, &c."

Do BELIEVERSDIE? Permit me another word.You quote two texts in answer ;-" by Adamall die," and blessed are those dead who diein the Lord." Let me quote two texts on theother side. "Your fathers did eat the mannain the wilderness, and they died: this is thebread which cometh down out of heaven, that aman may eat thereof and not die." "This isthe bread which came down out of heaven: notas the fathers did eat and died: he that eateththis bread shall live for ever." What ought aBible Standard to do with such verbally oppos-ing texts? pit them in antagonism against eachother? ignore one class and emphasize theother? Is it becomiug in us to say, Believersdie, when the Master Himself has said, " Theyshall not die ; they shall live for ever?" Andwhen He asserts for them an unbroken life incontrast with the death of the manna-eatingIsraelites? He Himself taught us how toharmonize the immortal life with natural death,by saying, " He that loveth his psuche destroysit; and he that hateth his peuche in this worldshall guard it unto a zoe etemal." By thefailure of psuche a man dies; by the zoe eternal,given him by Christ in the Spirit-birth, he liveson through and in spite of natural death. Thedistinction between psuche and zoe, or zoeaionios, may be "subtle," but the Saviourmade it Himself: and, I may add, all life is" subtle; " nothing more so.I notice that you link" organism" with lifeas though all life implied physical organs. Thereonial life is spirit-life in distinction from flesh-life. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh.and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."Is " organism" essential to spirit? or to spirit-life? Is it essential to the Holy Spirit? 01' tothe living God? If there is no life anywhereapart from" organism," let us declare ourselvespantheists or atheists at once. But if life bea larger term than" organism" (and you admitthat it is by speaking of a "germ" withoutorganism "), let us not trammel ourselves withsuch a burdensome limitation. Organism is acondition of flesh-life: that is its specificnature. But spirit.life is independent oforganism: that is its specific nature. Theresurrection life of our Lord seemed able totake on and put off " organism " at will; for itwas visible one moment, and invisible another,palpable and impalpable, ponderable and, anon,imponderable. We gain nothing, but losemuch, by non-appreciation of the clear testi-mony of Scripture. A Bible Standard shouldgather up and accurately measure the whole.Now the psuche life is an organising power anddies with the organism. The aionios zoe (im-mortal life) is independent of organs, andinheres in the non-organic spirit. Spirit is thebasis of personality and identity, and in con-nection with life whether mortal (psuche) orimmortal (aionios zoe) is "the" person. Psychenever was the person, but simply the frailperishable link uniting the spirit with a materialorganism and so putting spirit in communica-tion with the material worlds.

As some of your readers favour this generalposition, as almost nothing has appeared inyour columns to support it, and as a word ortwo may freshen up the attention of your otherreaders, let me venture to add further, that the"second coming" of our Lord is singularlyabsent from St. John's gospel. Matthew dealslargely with the external aspects and relationsof the Kingdom, but John writes of its internal

administration, spirit, and power. The latterdces not tramp again the path of the synoptists ;but guided by the Spirit of revelation reservesthe "second coming" for the Apocalypse.There he delineates the relationship of earthlykingdoms and national history to the cause ofChrist on earth. But in the gospel he treatsof the believer's personal union and communionwith his Lord in vital, deathless, and insepar-able bonds.Does not your limitation of Christ's personalpresence make Him less than divine? and lessnow He is glorified than He was declared to bein His state of humiliation? "The onlyhegotten Son, which is in the bosom of theFather." "No man hath ascended into heaven,but He that descended out of heaven, even theSon of man which is in heaven." This wasspoken of Christ in His incarnate state. Andthe Apostle says, He "ascended up far aboveall heaven that He might fill all things:" andfurther "He flUeth all in all." Surely thesepassages claim for Him a personal presencecommensurate with "the all." How then canyou exclude Him from the Christian's death-chamber? Moreover, He said" Lo I am withyou always, even to the end of the age;" and,"Where two or three are gathered together inMy name, there am I in the midst of them."To explain these texts by saying Jesus is withthem by the Holy Spirit is surely to add need-less and unauthorised words to the sayings ofJesus.To uphold the authority of Scripture wemust be as severe in 110t reading into its state-ments more than they contain, as we must befaithful in holding fast what they tell us. Wemay neither add to nor take from. what iswritten.

Fearing to trench farther upon your space,I am, dear Sir, yours truly,C1oyden. W. Griffith:[We very unwillingly take up our pen to reply

to the above. We have so little love for con-troversy with our friends that, but for the per-sonal nature of Mr. Griffiths' letter, we shouldhave kept silence.(1) "Does' Adamic penalty' mean the deathth7-eatened in Eden and incurred by transgres-sion? "Such is our belief.. The warning ran thus,-according to the literal and accepted meaning ofthe Hebrew, which our correspondent has over-looked-" In the day thou eatest thereof, dyingthou shalt die;" Whilst the sentence har-monized therewith" In the sweat of thy faceshalt thou eat bread, till thou return uuto theground,-for dust thou art, and unto dust shaltthou 1et1Lrll." The warning and sentence wereone-death. That of the former was not, ofnecessity, immediate; dying or corruptibilitywas, but death itself was the eventual result ofcorruptibility, or dying, the means employed tobring about that result being, exclusion from the"tree of life." Death, though long delayed,ultimately resulted therelrom. As, hut for sin,Adam would have become immortal and livedfor ever; so, by sin, he became mortal and died"Thus death was the" Adamic penalty" whichfell on all the race. We fail to see that the de-Ierred nature of this penalty altered the fact ofits being a penalty-a real and terrible loss.(2) "Christ died a premature and suostitu-tional death for human sin." _

How" premature t " He came in "the full-ness of time." If" substitutional;" in the or-thodox and accepted meaning of that term, Mr.Griffiths' position seems to us right, for" apenalty cannot be inflicted twice." We do not,however, attach such a meaning to the term.Adam was our Federal Head, and that whichwas borne of him was blood-fiesh ; as he wascm"j'uptible, dying, so were his offspring ; thusall die in Adam. Christ is our Second-Federal

Head-the" Second Adam," and that which isand will be born of Him in Regeneration andResurrection is spirit-flesh, or" a spiritual body."As He.is inc01TILptible, immortal, so are His off-spring, the members of His Body: these all livein Christ, for "your life is hid with Christ inGod." "When He who is our Life shall appear,then shall ye also appear with Him in glory."For ourselves, we know no other substitutionthan this, viz., that of the Second Adam as ourFederal Head in place of the First. There isno twice-inflicted penalty here. Believers, inand through Resurrection, live eternally in,through, and by Christ their Head: unbelievers,after resurrection, die eternally in Adam, theirhead.(3) "Do Believers die? "So we think. "The servant is not betterthan his Lord." Thus," Christ died for oursins," "Jesus died and rose again," and be-lievers "die in the Lord." 'Ve do not" pit"in "antagonism" "verbally opposing texts."Those quoted by us refer to natural death;those quoted by our correspondent refer to thesecond or eternal death. Believers cannot sufferthe latter penalty, being made" equal unto theangels, neither can they die any more."(4) s , If there is no life anywhere apart from, organism,' let us declare ourselves pantheistsor atheists at once."We do not see the necessary connection; butlet that pass. Such was not OUl'assertion. Webelieve lJ1we spirit may exist as the First Cause,the Creator-though our reason cannot grasp it-but we doubt its existence in anything caused,any creature life. As even believers. though" made equal unto the angels," will be C7"eatures.we regard them as organized beings-or spiritualbeings. As such they are not spirits, but possessspiritual. bodies. Thus Paul, in 1Cor. xv , says, It is raised a spiritual body "-in contrast to"a natural body "-" There is a natural body,and there is a spiritual body." Blood-fleshcannot inherit tbe kingdom of God, because itis corruptible; spi1'it-flesh can, because it is in-corruptible. This change cannot be taking placeperpetually, at natural death, for Paul speaks ofit as one, and future, "In a moment, in thetwinkling of an eye, at the last trump,' As re-gards our reference to a germ "without 01'-ganism," we need only quote our exact words:"At most this new life of the Spirit is but agerm more or less imperfectly developed, havingno recorded organism."

(5) We seriously demur to the inference drawnfrom the proposition that "The resurrectionlife of our Lord seemed able to take on and putoff 'organism' at will." 'Ve submit, it wasonly in seeming. The properties of that glorifiedor " spiritual body "-the type of ours-enabledit to be made invisible at will to mortal. eyes;and its lightning-like rapidity of motion enabledit to appear and disappear without the meansbeing noticed. This seems, to us, a vastlysimpler explanation than to suppose that Christlaid off and put on organism at will, as thoughit were a mere mask, or article of clothing.(6) "Does not your linntation of Christ'spersonal presence make Him less than Divine?"We reply, to pure spirit we can concede allthat Mr. Griffiths' claims for it, and such wasthe scope and meaning of our review statement;to Christ's glorified humanity, or "spiritualbody" we cannot, however, nor are we called to.We can only consider Him as in heaven and onearth at one and the same time, as referring toIUs dual nature-the Divine in heaven, thehuman 011 earthr-=En. B.S.]

PREACHINGOTHEDEAD.Dear Sir,-Thanks for April number of BibleStandard. I have-read with interest Mr. Laing's

exposition of 1Peter iv. 6; but there is one im-portant word in the text which he has failed toembrace in his observations. 'I'hat word is hina,


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QUESTIONS.R.R. W. (Leeds) says :-" I suppose theresection of the Church of England who believepraying for the dead? They gather their befrom the writings of St. Paul. I have soug

but cannot find one passage which givesslightest ground for the belief. Will you kingive your opinion on the subject, by so doyou will perhaps benefit others as well asself. I shall be glad, too, to know if there isAssociation in Leeds, which teaches the doctr

" that," "in order that," sustained by the strongexpression of design with which the verse opens,"For to this end." May I then briefly ask,Would Mr. Laing represent the Apostle as mean-ing to say, "For to this end was the Gospelpreached to the saints now dead, in ordt? thatthey might be put to death by persecutors?"I ask this in all candour, feeling uot 'at all un-willing to reconsider the passage.-J.B.R.,London.

to confess it. I will write you again soon. D.VI am going to see if we can have a Branch Association. Do you know of any in India?"-C.O.

NEW ZEALAND.-Auckland.-We have to report this month some few additions to ounumbers. There are many in our congregationwho are almost persuaded, and we hope to sethrough the coming month a large increase inour membership. Our meetings are well attended. The Thursday night's Bible Classreaches in attendance about 100. We are gladto see such an interest manifested iu the studyof God's word.Mount Eden.-During the last month we havehired the Mount Eden Hall, in order to corn

mence a Sunday School; we also hope to bable to commence services there in a littlewhile. It is a promising district, and we trustthat great good will be accomplished in bringingmany to a knowledge of the Truth in the suburbsTent Meeting.-We are glad to be able to report that we have commenced our tent work a

Mangare Bridge. The tent will accommodateabout 230 persons. 'Ve commenced our serviceon Sunday, Feb. 12th, Bros. Wilcox and Dixotaking the services on that day. We have helmeetings nearly every night since, and we' arglad to say that a great interest is alreadcreated in the truths we hold. It is our inteution to keep the tent where it is for the nextwo weeks, and then move it to Onehunga (D. V-New Zealand Bible Standard.

nominations, so that they might receive themon the Sunday morning, and I am very pleasedto state that I have seen it prospered by theAuthor of all truth-and I hope to see the truthrun and be glorified."-H.H.LINCOLN.-Mint.lane' Chapel.-" Brother G.

Aldridge, with his wife and family, ca~e hereon April 17th, to spend a day or so With the,Pastor before proceeding to New Zealand. Ad-vantage was taken of this visit by the friendsconnected with the Church to entertain them attea on the evening of Tuesday, the 18th. Ameeting followed, at which about seventy werepresent, and besides words of farewell and God-speed being spoken, a small purse of money waspresented to Mr. Aldridge, as a token of regardand good wishes. He gave ant-address, then,upon 'the certainty of reunion through thecoming of onr Lord, and Resurrection.' "" The closing meeting in connection with thewinter session of the Mutual Improvement Classwas held on Wednesday, May 3rd, in the Chapel,when an excellent Lecture was delivered by theesteemed Editor of the Bible Standard. Thesubject chosen was' The Twentieth Century, orA Peep into the Future.' The Lecturer showedthat, according to the opinion of many studentsof prophecy, this nineteenth century might bethe last of the present era; and, therefore', indealing with the twentieth, he dealt with it asthe first of the Millennial age. He describedthe dying throes of the present dispensation andthe life struggle of the new; then, in glowinglanguage. depicted the glory that shall followduring the reign of the Prince of Peace. Theeffect of the lecture was somewhat marred by asevere storm, accompanied with thunder andlightning, occurring during its delivery; but theaudience was interested to the end, and after.wards many testified that pleasure and profithad been derived. Mr. \V. Mortimer occupiedthe chair, and the Pastor and Mr. Wm. Bausorproposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Brooks at theclose. It was carried unanimously."-Communicated.

COLONIAL.CANADA.-Toronto.-" The times in which we

live are very ominous-iniquity abounds, newcrimes are springing up, and amidst the bountiesof Providence, there is a spirit of lawlessnessabroad which is alarming. There is' distressof nations with perplexity;' the antagonismbetween capital and labour is becoming veryalarming, and 'the powers' in high places arebeing shaken. Are these the indications of thecoming of Him who will make all things new?The believers may well p.-ay, 'Come, LordJesus, come quickly.' I hand you a P.O.O. forthe amount of my account, 4 14s. 9d., and Ihope to hear that the Association and the BibleStandard is growing in strength and usefulness.I have thought that the removal of the greatimpediments to the progress of Divine Truth,-the stereotyped creeds and traditions of men,-should form a special. object in the prayers ofbelievers. May the Lord give us all wisdomequal to our necessities, that we may more fullypromote His glory."-J.L.INDIA.-Bangalore.-" I love the BibleStandard, and wish, from my heart, we had alike truth-speaking paper published in India, in -which we could give expression to our thoughts 'and views from time to time; but, alas! thepapers here are so orthodox that, for the inser-tion of anything, not agreeing with man's in-LIVERPOOL.-Clubmoor Hall.-A lecture was alienable immortality and eternal life in hell,delivered here on Sunday evening, April 30th, you must pay dearly-as an advertisement. Weby Mr. Albert Smith, of Blackburn, subject, are sadly in want of tracts-c-truth- speaking

" Eternal Life, or Eternal Death." tracts-for free distribution. You who haveCARLISLE.-" I am happy to say the truth is leading men of all denominations on your side,spreading very well, considering the opposition little know what we poor, weak, foolish, base,we have to fight against."-A.J. despised things of the world have to contendEASTRO~RNE,-" I am sending these tracts to with. There are not a few who know the truth,each Member and Minister of the different de- I but the truth hath not, as yet, made them free

REPLYTOTHE ABOVE.The Editor sent me the foregoing query, thatany reply I have to offer might appear alongwith it. I am glad this has been done, as my

reply requires to be very short. I have to thankJ .B,R. for his criticism, though it makes shortwork of my construction of the words" put todeath in the flesh." Certainly, I had no in.tention to " represent the apostle as meaning tosay :-' For to this end was the Gospel preachedto the saints, now dead, in order that they mightbe put to death by persecutors.' " My glosswould require the word although to be supplied, Thus, in order that although they might, &c."But this would require the following" but" tobe rendered" yet." I am not sure that J.B.R.would consider that allowable. Indeed, I haveno desire to maintain the point. It in no wayaffects the point of the article in question, IfJ .B.R. and the interested reader will kindly turnto the April number, p, 88, and score out fromthe word" only" in first column to the end ofthe paragraph, and then read the whole article,they will find the argument quite unaffected bythe omission. In J.B.R.'s candour and goodfeeling I have the firmest confidence.- W. Laing,Edinburgh.

SPECIAL NOTES.WORDSOFCHEER.

S.C. writes :-" I enclose a donation (lOstowards the work of the Association, and wisit every success in its efforts to spread thtruth." E.A.G. writes :-" Enclosed is postaorder for 10s. in response to your' Word to thWise.' I have had it on my mind some timto send, but that brought it to the point. Wwelcome the Bible Standard and Rainbow vegladly every month, as there is no reading equthereto." W.D.' writes :-" I enclose twpounds, being one from self and one from mwife, to funds of the Bible Standard."

A WAILOFCOMPLAINT.A correspondent writes-in all kindnessfeeling-to state that there are amongst t

friends of the truth those who" sigh and moufor the paucity of results from our Association.We regret two things, (1) That we have notcomplished or realized It tithe of our desires ahopes, (2) That any of our friends should" siand mourn" because we have not been ablemake bricks without clay, or bread from stoneMay we be suffered to remind such that therenobler occupation for them than that namenamely, pmyer and labour. Sighing and mouring, of this kind, never yet helped a good woor developed nobility of character. Manygood purpose that has perished in its inceptiomight have moulded the destinies of men anations, had but others prayed and laboureinstead of sighed and mourned. As an Assoction we might say to all our friends-

HKeep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow:The way is lonely, let me feel them now."

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With Lot 2, we give Warleigh's Twelve Discus-sions, cloth, 5s.; with Lot 3, Welcome's Planof Redemption, cloth, 5s.; with Lot 4, Forster'sPsychology, Longman's, 21s.; with Lot 5, APlatform 'l'icket for the next Conference.

General Note.-We have sent out already 50 Packets.One friend at Gravesend has had 4. The President hasgiven 8 Packets, the Secretary 4, al l of which we hope to benest eggs.A1'1'ENTION J-THE STOCK HAS GOTTO BE CLEARED OUT, AND THE ASSOCIATION HAS GOT TO DO IT.-Yours truly,R. J. Hammotui, 62, Maida Vale, London, W.

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of the publisher of a modern work on Satan-written by a clergyman named Ormiston."WANTED!FlFTY SUBSCRIBERS

for our Treasurer's Five Shilling Parcels. Eachparcel will contain double value of our SpecialLiterature, for gift, loan, or sale. 50 parcelshave been forwarded to date, but as we arewishful to get into circulation all the stockwhich now encumbers our shelves, we plead for50 additional orders. Where our friends cannotpersonally dispose of such parcels, though willingto subscribe for them, they will be forwarded tosuitable distributors, on receipt of order and re-mittance. Address, Robert J. Hammond, Esq.,62, Maida Vale, London, W., who has kindlyundertaken to personally pay the carriage on allsuch parcels-within the United Kingdom.

VALUEDPRESENTS.We have great pleasure in thus publicly ac-knowledging the kindness of the Rev. H. S.

Warleigh, Mr. J. J. Hobbs, and" Bartemy," inpresenting to the Association the balance oftheir works for distribution at nominal rates.Friends who will take a dozen copies of any ofthe reduced. works advertised in this issue, shallhave them at half the rates named therein-more the carriage or postage. Kindly help thusto get them speedily into circulation.

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