THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
3RGOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS, OREGON
Census Work Is Almost Finished In Co
Mrs. Juanita Echols Reveals To Pilot
The 1950 Decennial census
count of residents of Curry Co.
is rapidly nearing completion,
Mrs. Juanita Echols, enumera
tor, told the Pilot, Monday, and
lists will soon be ready for for
warding to headquarters for a
final tabulation.
“I would like to thank local
“This friendliness on the part
of all the citizens has been out
standing and is really appreci-
a ted by the enumerators and
myself,
’’ she told the Pilot.
organizations and public officials
“
It
is
important that every
who have assisted in making this
person
be
counted.
If anyone has
count a success, with their ready |
been
missed,
please
notify me
co-operation. I would also like
(or
fill
out
the'
form
elsewhere
to thank each and every person
in
this
paper)
and
immediate
ar-
whom the enumerators have
contacted for their courtesy and rangemements will be made to
kindness, which has made a dif get the necessary information.
“Information about the total
ficult job more pleasant.
count for any area must be ob-1
tained from the district or na-•
tional office since all of the in
//
formation obtained is contiden-
ital,” she concluded.
test day. and certainly, the Bible
For convenience of those who
does not contradict its own teach may, by being boarders, itiner-1
ings. In fact it plainly states that ant workers, or other reason, a
“All go unto one place; all are' convenient form has been put
of the dust, and all turn to dust I
in the paper to help complete a
again.” (Eccl. 3:20). And that |
job which will soon be done. Thei
place is the grave. (Job 30:23-24) form is self-explanatory.
Eight times the Bible speaks of
the SOUL itself as going into I
the grave: Acts 2:31; Joh 33:18.
22, 28. 30; Ps. 30:3, 89:48; Isa.
38:17.
The World’s Best Climate
home, is up. Work is being done
by the Kesslers.
Mrs. Goldie Smith, Brookings
post master, left last week for
a six-weeks vacation. She went
first to Salem, then to Portland
and Seattle. She will heave Fri
day, May 19. by plane for Las1
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Vegas. New Mexico.
John Hogan left Monday for
a 10-day or two weeks selling?
trip to the Coquille and Coos Bay
area, for Battleship roofing com
pany. He told the Pilot he had
been having gratifying results 'll
the local area
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For District Attorney
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WHAT IS A "SOUL-SLEEPER?
Seventh-Day Adventists are
sometimes called “soul-sleepers”
because they believe that the Bi
ble means what it says when it
Hates “the livipg know that they
will die; but the dead KNOW
NOT ANYTHING” (Eccl. 9 5).
But we don’t object to that term
because it places us in good com-
pany. In the Bible, death is call
ed a sleep 54 times and Jesus
Himself calls death a sleep in
John 11:11-14.
Notice how Job tells us where
There are some who believe
the dead are: “But man dieth,
that the soul is immortal and
and wasteth away; yea, man giv-
cannot die. The Bible mentions cth
up the ghost, and where is
the woMd “soul” 1700 times but
he? As the water fail from the
never once speaks of it as be
sea, and the Hood decayeth and
ing immortal. In fact, the Scrip
drieth up: so man lieth down and
tures teH us that only God has
riseth not; till the HEAVENS
immortality (1 Tim. 6:15-16) and
BE NO MORE, they shaJl not
1 Cor. 15:51-54 show us that im-
awake, nor be raised out of their
mortality is God's gift to the j
O that thou wouldst hide
righteous at the resurrection! SLEEP.
me in tie grave that thou
which takes place at the second
wouldst keep me secret, until thy
coming of Christ. Can the soul
wrath be past, that thou wouldst
die? “The soul that sinneth it
appoint me a set time, and re
shall die.” (Eze. 18:4).
member me! If a man die shall ।
Paul speaks of those which
he live again? All the days of
“sleep in Jesus” in 1 Thes. 4:
my appointed time WI l L I
13-17 and goes on to say: ‘For,
WAIT,
TILL
MY
CHANGE
this we say unto you by the word
COME. Thou shalt call, and 11
of the Lord, that we which are
will answer thee; thou wilt have
alive and remain unto the com
a desire to the work of thine
ing of the Lord shall not prevent
hands.” (Job 14:10-15).
them which are asleep.”
“For the Lord Himself shall | “If I wait, the GRAVE is mine •
descend from heaven with a house; I have made my bed in
shout, with the voice of the arch the darkness.” (Job 17:13). The
angel, and with the trump of time when Job expected to be
God; and the dead in Christ shall awakened from his sleep in the
rise first: Then we which are grave when the heavens will be
alive and remain shall be caught no more is at the time wnen
up together with them in the Jesus comes in the slouds of
clouds, to meet the Lord in the heaven to gather his saints.
air: and so shall we ever be with 1 (Rev. 6:14-17; Matt. 24:30-31.
If one man has an immoral
the Lord.’’
I This shows that the dead in I soul, all men must have the same,
Christ do not go to heaven when Therefore, if the dead in Christ
they die but remain asleep in were to go to heaven at death,
their graves until the resurrec that would mean that the man
tion. 1 Cor. 15:16-18 shows us who dies without Christ must be
that without the resurrection, the somewhere burning in th fierv
good people who have died are tortures of hell today. Even be-
perished. This could not be true fore the day of judgment. But
if they went to heaven when they we can be thankful that is not
died. In fact, if they went to'
Bible picture. The dead “know
heaven when they died, what not anything.” their thoughts
would be the use of a resurrec have perished (Eccl. 9:5-10; Ps.
tion which might take place hun 146:3-4). They are ASLEEP in
dreds of thousands of years la their graves and to the dead in
ter?
Christ it will seem but a moment
There could be no reason for until they look up into the face
Christ to come back to the earth of the Jesus they love who has
the second time to gather His come back to this earth the sec
saints (John 15:1-3) if they had ond time to gather His own.
already gone to heaven at death. Then families will be re-united
If the wicked go to hell-fire at and all will go to heaven togeth
death and the righteous to hea er. If our loved ones were now
ven at death as some teach, in heaven they could not be
there is no use of a final judg happy there looking down at the
ment day at the end of time or earth and seeing our tragedies
for Christ to come to reward and unhappiness. God’s way is
every man according to his surely the best way.
works. (Matt. 16:27; Rev. 22:12)
We’re sure this brief presen
This idea of the righteaus go- tation does not answer all your
in,«? to heaven at death and the questions concerning the state of
wicked going to hell-fire at death the dead, so drop us a card to
destroys the Bible teachings of day and we’ll gladly send you
the resurrection, the coming of free of charge the pamphlet en
Christ, and the judgment at the titled “The Mystery’ of Life.”
I
tival, one of the first Oregon
Coast events, especially of floral I
nature, was subject of Comman-1
der Scott’s radio program last
Sunday over CBS stations.
“Romance of the Highways,”
the Greyhound program, which
Commander Scott has built up
to millions of listeners each Sun-,
day, is a masterpiece of descrip
tion, and enjoyed by all.
Also included on the same pro
gram was the Rhododendron Fes
tival at Florence on the same1
dates, and of the Garden Club
show at Portland. Friday to Sun
day of this week.
NEWS
Business visitor to this area
this week was Robert D. Fisher.
architect from Grants Pass who
met with the building committee
of the Seventh-Day Adventists
Monday afternoon.
Much of the framework for
Conner Kessler’s new home, on
the lots opposite the Goldsberry
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