F f t C hristian M essenger “GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” VOL. II. .i » MONMOUTH, OREGON ; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1881. ....................... . ’1 . ................... . NO, 7. "J"................ . ......... it was necessary those should be, j I will give you an extract from Mc­ death of the body.” This we can an­ Preachers and Preaching. whom he commissioned to found and Garvey’s Commentary on Matthew, swer by direct .statement of Solomon. C hristian M essenger , establish his church. Hence we think that will be more satisfactory than Ec. xi. 7, “ Then shall the dust return Scio, L inn < 0R Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi­ that Paul had it revealed to hitn that aiiy thing that I could say about the unto the earth as it was; and the 1 eb. 3, 1881. anity, and the diffusion of general in­ he was to ba a sharer in this great i Dear Memwnyer : meaning of the passage : " Gates of spirit to God who gave it.” Many formation. blessing, and because of such revela: , hell—not correctly rendered hell, but questions can be asked just here: 1 desire to say a few words about Price Per Tear, in Advance, 92.50 tion be ' could use the language he hades. Hades is contemplated as a Preachers arid Preaching, in Oregon, All business letters should be. addressed Why do all spirits go to God before to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary does in regard to the other apostles, walled city, waging war against the the judgment; and if they all go to and more e-peciaily in the Willam­ Stump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. and, to his expectation, immediately church. Jts gates are made the to him, do they remain with him, and ette valley. Advertisers will find this one of the beet after death. Enoch was taken from symbols of its power, because the where is God, &c. But we must re­ I snppose that every one who is at mediums on the Pacific Coast for* making the Patriarchal dispensation to heaven; military i&ces of an ancient city al­ member we walk by faith anil not by all conversant w- »»!>:•• rk as a' their business known. Elijah from the Jewish; and what ways issued forth from its gates, and sight, or sense. In divine revelation | people, in this valley, ;a<; awtare that RATRS OF ABVERTISI NO : more fitting than that those grand! the gates may be considered as send­ we shall not be governed by om we only have one preacher to where ii» i rfTTM rM ) 1 Vr soldiers of the*cross, the apostles; and ing them out. All the power by reason, or sense, but by the word of we have the need, of three, at any i iMh . .'777 $1 00 Í2 50 S4 CO #7 00 fl2 00 20 00 especially Paul the grandest of them I which hades, the place of disembodied 7 CO 12 00 4 00 2 •Ml h Col........... 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U. ll«vlt' tlie rich man and Lazarus. see now after the Japse of 600 years the home of JesUs, knd wait there, ference to the number of ministers. The most that could be claimed from when the church had apostatised, God and the wicked into hades. I shall - (Continued ) them in regard to the condition of the still has a people in it, and calls to give only a few brief proofs that the Now there is a question in my mind The other Scriptures to be examined wicked, di ad, would be by inference. them to come out. And if you will righteous gc 4o God ,and heaven. as to whether or not there'can be any are those in which Paul speaks of his We desire to close this investiga­ examine Mosheim, Neander, Wadjng- When I say the righteous, I mean the thing done as -tHnpw trow ata n d, t» expectation, that he will go to Christ tion by the consideration of two ton, and Arcbard’s history of the righteous man or woman. I know relieve this state of affairs. For it is immediately upon bis death. These passages, which we believe tob4 plain Baptista, you will find that when the this sounds foolish to the Sadducee, to certain that we can never do the passages are as follows : 2 Cor. v. 6-8, in. their teaiffiing, as to the’wicked church went into apostacy, God’s speak of a man after the death of the wbrk which the Lord has called us “ Therefore we. are always confident, dead. 2 »'*4, v. 10: “Fur we must people did come out and kept coming body. But we are in gdod company, out to do, while this gjeat deficiency knowing that,"whilst we are at home all appeVrbefore the judgment seat of out for many years, and became a dis­ Paul says he knew a man whether in as to Preacheis and Breaching contin­ in the body, we are absent from the Chriat, that every - one may receive tinct people to thia day. They have, the body or out of the body, he knew ues. And while 1 doubt the ability .Lord ; we are confident, I say, and the things in body, according to that no doubt, much .of the smell of the fire not, and surely the divinely inspired I of any man to give a sufficient prac- ' willing rather to be absent from the he bath done, whether it be good or on them, and have brought many of Paul knew whether .there could be ticable solution nf the d fliculty, yet body, and to be present with the bad ' We i ave nut of this quotation the relics of their mother with them, such a being as a' man out of the in the hope th:c uie good lifight Lord.” Phil. i. 21-24 : " For to me to two words, which were confessedly but thank God their faces have been body. I shall not jirosecute this in­ How from imp; m ions live is Christ, and todlelsgain. But placed in it r»yr1iing James’ transla­ towards Jerusalem, and we still toil quiry any further unless desired, as made, I have ■ rr««M •-rhe •■■«,• and if 1 live in the flesh, this is the fruit tion, as in their judgment, necessary on the road back, along the old land­ it will be involve^in the question in in this direction 1 beg I t<* offer of my labor; yet what 1 shall choose to complete th • sense, but which we marks. The mists and fogs are slowly hand to some extent. the following‘thou- .« i*-re dosing. I wot not (know not). For I am in a believe in this instance, as in some clearing away, a relic is dropped here Could there not tie steps taken In John xiii. 36, Jesus says to bis atrait betwixt two, having a desire to others, to obscure it, and also to make and another there, all along the road. disciples, “ You shall follow me' after­ which would in-lin e Bro. S ( Adams, de|iart, and to be with Christ, which a tautology. Correctly rendered from ’Tis true there are many more yet on wards." Read the context. In John of Salem., to go oui from tirn* to time, is far better; nevertheless to abide in the original it teaches that both the hands that can ba spared-; but slow xvii. 24, be prays to his Father that as strength and opirortunity would the flesh is more needful for you.”1 reward and punishment are to be re­ was the fall, slower to rise. they might be with him that they permit, and preach a few good strong We think that this expectation by­ ceived in the body. Rev. xx. 12 : “And 2. “ What and where is Paradise?” might behold his glory. ' In John xiv. discourses in various localities f If it Paul, which is so evident from these 1 saw the dead, small and great, stand A few extracts from Smith’s Bible e I 3, he »ays : “ I £o to prepare a place can i>e done i.*ur plea would certainly passages, arsse in this way. In the before God“ and the dead were Dictionary will throw light on this ■for you,” in his Father’s house. Paul g athrr dre n c h ami <■! ai mOer from prayer of our Savior, as recorded in judged according to their works,” quo y. ” Paradise is a word of Per­ speaking of hini as our forerunner his labors. Also, during vacation, John 17th chapter, he makes this " an*I they were judged every man ac­ sian origin, and is used in the Septua- into heaven, not into Paradise, or Pres. T. F Cainpf.< ]| and even some petition to his* Father, 24th verse: cording to their works,” “ and whoso- gent as a translation of Aden. The Abraham’s bosom. But he has enter­ times during «el ‘ >> oii'lm up nti^lit, ** Father, I will that they also, whom ever was not found written in the theories of the Rabbis were that it ed heaven itself, and'lis at the right by proper arn»n ■ ni ni on the T?rt thou hast given me, be with me w I h r book of lite, was east into the lake of was a far otf land, a -region where hand of the Father. of the brotherbo. I. o - indúct il to lake I am; that they may behold ui v tire.” These passages plainly teach, there was no consuming cold or Again in Heb. xi. 10, he says : “ He the field in tr > •nt< rest .of I they may be made an exception io Tit*) Loid willing we will endeavor assume nothing in the robber out-law This is in keeping with «Paul’s “de- pective. «phci the rule, and upon their death r- I to an« v< r ill.- first question next week. but the most rudimentary forms of sire to depart and be with Christ,” one or I t o, « eeived into his presence, that thev popular lielief. The answer to his (Phil. i. 23), and to be "absent from Bro. - l’i.i,ip Muik’’? . L R H. Moss. Monmouth. Fed. 12, 1881. may be with him, and bebold Lis prayer (to-day shalt thou be with me the body and present with the Lord,” brethren are Viry m • d, j, glory. Let it be notul^, tbit this in Paradise) gave him what he needed (2 Cor. vii. 8). And Stephen could no one *Lom J w< mu »«. prayer in their favor, is a proof of th< Bro. Newton Stone’s Questions. most, the assurance of rest a peace. say, when under the inspiration of the work v i ti n*f in a meeli ___ » correctness of our conclusions upon 'The word Paradise, spoke tor him, a« Spirit: “Lord Jesus, receive my cle Philip Mink- \ Lfear Bro Campbell: this subject, for if all Christians t,a» it did to other Jews, repose shelter »<• it uots 11 ] t vi ndvri-d anti alide, visions and revelations of the Lord.” that the church has been established parable, of the " rich uTan an J Lazar­ Bro. Stone, and if they are not suilic lifted up in uno .•'■¡ng pi ay et to G d and hence the question is, has it ' And.lest I should be exalted above us.” To this place, there can be no iently full and satisfactory, ami you for immhrtai life It i...i n-tuiinl measure by the abundance of the ceased to exist since. It >yll be doubt, were gathered the souls of the desire it, 1 will give more evidence, from annihilation and sought, by revelations.” “ For in nothing am I needless to prove that the church And just, until Jesus opened up, by a new many a m . ci ilice tnd libatigli to pla­ especially on the home of the just. cate the Giver of Life ar.d v. n urn behind the very chiefeet apostles’’ kingdom of Christ are identical, as and living way, through his flesh, the You re-in- the glorious hope of the him a bief&ed r ■ o ption finn *b. ib. We think we are justified in conclud­ marly all Bible readers admit that door of the holy of holies, when he just, And_witl. whet un.-jo-skst ie joy nd . ing, that our Savior desired this favor From the Bible standpoint then that ascended up on high and “led a love millions of men an I Women have I. N. H odgen . for bis apostles, both as a reward for kingdom that Jesus set us was to be multitude of captives.” See margin dwelt Upen th reve• kdjromisrs u.at their labors, and because it would be an everlasting kingdom. See Daniel of Polyglot Bible, Eph. iv. 8. Hither­ — In warm weather put your eggs they should live again, lati credible a fitting continuation of the life of ii. 40, “ Shall never be destroyed.” to no one had ascended to heaven. in cold water sume time helot yon that a beiieiicint Creator wuuid im­ plant this consuming desire, and In ar are ready to use them. those who received such abundant Matt. xvi. 18, " On this rock (Chriat) See John iii. 13. I will build my church, and the gates — A true test for egp* >• to drop tl « a in this prayer nring continually from Bro. Stone ’ s third inquiry is, “ Do »•▼•lation-, and were so fully imbued water, and il the iurge end co-ui* op they the licr.rta of Lis depend»nt creatures, of hell shall not prevail against it ” J •pints go to Gt*d when freed by the are not fresh. vith the power of the Holy Spirit, aa and yet give no heed ’ Thr Interior. FcaolfLo ♦ r