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Can anyone doubt from the fo re g o
lug testimonies that man is o f the
earth, ear b y? " and without a retur
ruction from the dead his case is hope
less? As Paul says, " I f the dead rise
not again let ua eat and drink lor to
morrow we d ie " I Cor. 15:32.
Th# whole lenur o f Scripture ia to
the effect that the dead are uncon
acioua, “ asleep," awaiting the rcaur
rection morn. To «oppose that *hey
are now elive in heaven or hell and
will be brought forth at the day of
judgra .nt to see if they sh >uld have
been in those pieces is unreasonable.
Immortality is not inherent in the
human soul. Only by patient contine
ance in well doing can anyone hope for
immortality, ami then the only prom
ise is that it will he conferred et the
resurrection, uot at death
Man in
his natore is mortal, subject to death
and disintegration, and his s«de hape
is that at the judgment at the last day
he m<y be accounted worthy to re
ceive the " g i f t o f God which is eternal
life .” Rom. 6:32.
dedicated to the worship o f the sun.
It is ‘ raced from that day right down
through thu age* to the present time.
It came into the Chfiatlan church
through paganism in the fourth cen
tury.
Pa an Rome, nominally con
verted to Christianity under Conatan
tine, brought in their pagan ritea and
ceremonies into a then fallen church,
the Papa'y.
Included in these was
FRESH
the pagan Sunt day, tna old festi"al
of the Sun God Astart, which became
Easter, and the 1 ule featival, which
was also a form o f sun worship, re
vamped into Christmas or Christ mass.
The change from the seventh to the
first day o f the week came about grad
ually, taking about a hundred years to
make it complete.
No, to the careful and honest Bible
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student,
seeking for truth, there is not
I AMRiCANTOWCOCQ
the alighesr. evidence in support of
Sunday keeping. But the S A B B A T H
JE H O VAH , T H E
SE VE N TH
that this was another Sunday meet OF
i.ig, but they have to strain pretty D A Y , instituted at the C R E A TIO N ,
hard to get “ after eight days” in be SANC 1FIED and set ap artfor a U o L Y
tween two Sundays. Now the object and SACtvEU use, planted right in the
■very Prit! ay at Nyssa, of writing these things is plainly stat heart of hia law at Sinai, and living in
Publish«!
Oregon. by
ed in veree 13.
"These things are the hearts o f his people from that day
written that ye might believe that to the present time, and will be per
H. F. BROWN
Editor Journal. — In tegard to your
Jesua ia the Christ, the eon o f God. petuated In the ‘ Earth made n ew ."
and that believing ye might have life •See lsaih 66:22:23, is as eternal as God correspondent’s explanation of the
Enter'd at the Postnffiee at Nyssa. through his name.” They were not himself.
D M ACLAFFERTY.
passage "v e rily 1 say unto you this
generation ahal1 not pass until all these
Oregon, as second-cinis mail matter written to >stablish Sunday «acred-
things be fu lfilled ," I would like to
nesa. Acts 20:7 gives an acceunt o f a
s iy a few words.
meeting held on the firet day o f the
SU BSCR IPTIO N R A T E S :
A careful reading o f the context will
waek
This meeting was at Troas.
One year, in advance.............. $1.60 Paul had been with them seven days
rradily show the impossibility of all
- months, in advance....... .... .75 and win about to depart ou the mor
the events spoken o f being compre
Editor Journal:- Having shown in hended in one generation. This diffi
row
The meeting was in the evening,
at the close o f the Sabbath. They previous articles that the popular doe culty, which apparently involves
came together to break bread, possibly trine o f hell and o f devils are both contradiction of the Bihle, arises from
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the Lord’s Supper, although there ia unscriutural, and having made the a faulty translation o f the orginal
no word to that effect: Paul preached statement that both doctrines are the Greek text.
In this explanation the word "g e n e r
to them till midnight. The young mao result o f belief in the inherent immor
jì
Entychus fell out of a window and was tality of man, we will now produce ation” is giveu much attention, while
the real trouble hes in the word ful
Editor Journal.—The recent review killed, verse 9 Paul went down and Scriptural proof to show that man, in
of the Sabi s‘ h question from the put- restored him to life, verse 10. They stead o f being an immortal being, is filled.” This word “ fulfilled” is from
the Greek “ ginomai” and according to
pit can hardly bo allowed to pass with then came up into the upper room and just the reverse; that he is subject
Robinson (as good an authority as
to
death,
and
the
only
hope
he
has
of
broke
bread
again,
and
Paul
preached
out challer.ee.
The statement that
in the future is through a any) means "t o begin to be.” Ac
"immediately after the ascension o f till day, verse 11. (N ow if this story life
cording to the Greek text Jesus does
Christ the riis iples began to ob had been published in one of our daily resurrection of the body at the last
Berve the first day o f the week os papers, what would be the outstanding day when the righteous, and they only, not say that "th is generation shall not
pass till all these things be fulfilled,”
the Christian Sabbath" Is wholly feature, the young man being restored shall PU T ON immortality.
A t creation God breathed into Adam but " t ill all these things begin to be
without foundation. There is not the to life, or the day upon which it was
first inference in the Bible attaching done?) Then Paul, on Sunday morn the breath o f life and man became a fulfilled," a statement in perfect ac
Not an immortal one, cord with the facts o f history, both
any saeredness to Sunday or the first ing, departed on his journey across living soul.
day o f the week. The day is mentioned the isthmus to Assoa, a distance o f 19 mark vou, for he was told that in the sacred and seeular.
eight times in the New Testament, and miles on faot, while bis companions day he sinned he would surely die.
in not a «ingle instance is there a hint sailed around in the night, a distance The word immortal is used but once in
SE ALE D BIDS.
that it was to take the place o f the of 40 miles, to meet him at Assos, the Bible, and then applied to God,
Scaled bids fe r truck drivers, carry
when
they
took
h'm
in
and
sailed
on
1 Tim. 1:17, and the word immortality
Sabbath. Let us examine these texts
all drivers and janitor will be received
carefully, and honestly. The first four the MetylsHe 35 miles further, all on but five times; onoe »hat Goa O N L Y at tbe office of the clerk for District
Sunday,
verses
13
and
la.
No
Sabbath
hath
it;
once
that
we
should
seek
for
occur tn the Gospels, and simply state
No, 26. Tbe bixls for janitor should be
the day o f the resurrection. Matthew ksep'ng here, surely, and tnis meeting it; once that it ia brought to light for the briok school house, also an
28:1, Mark 16:?, Luke 24:1 and John occurred 80 yeays after the ascension through the Gospel, and onoe that it is other bid Air tbe two houses Bids
20:1. Then in Mark 16:9 is the »ta t -
The last mention o f the first day o f ¡to be put on at the resutrection. I will be opened August 29. Tho board
ment that he appeared F IR S T to Mary the week is found in I Cor. 16:2.(where j Tim 6:16, Rom. 2:7, II Tim. 1:10, 1 reserves the right to reject any and all
Magdalene Then in John 20:9, "th e Maul tells the disciples to lay by HIM ¡ Cor. 15:52-54, Tbe phrases “ Immortal bids.
same day at evening” Jesus appeared IN STORE, on the first day o f the soul,” “ never dying aonl,” "im m or
By order o f the school board.
to his disciples as they were gathered week, a certain portion o f hia earnings tal spieit,” "deathless spirit,” "sp irit
Mra. H. R. Sherwood, Clerk.
togathsr behind locked dours for fear for the poor saints o f Jerusalem. land,” ate., which are so often heard
o f the Jews. These men were in their This was not a collection- taken at a from the clergy, A R E N O T IN TH E
F A R M W A N T E D — Wanted to hear
CANNOT
own home where they all lived to public meeting, os some would have us W O RD OF GOD; Y O U
gather. See Acts 13. Mark 16:14 de believe. Other translations and Bible F IN D O N E OF TH EM IN T H E PI- from ow nerof improved or unimproved
farm for sale, in this vicinity. L.
scribes this same meeting and says commentators make it plain. Grun- BLE.
Jones, Box 438, Olney, III.
Can
you
believe
man
to
be
immertal
Jesus appeared to them as they sat at field says, “ by one’s s e lf at home;”
meet, partaking o f their evening meal, Robinson, "b y one's self, in one's when the word o f God nowhere teach
which shows they were not having a house at home;” " a t one’ s home or es such an idea?
Can yon believe the soul will never
religious meeting o f any kind. They house," Liddell or Scott.
die when God says “ The soul that sin-
did not believe he had risen, versts 11
Well, the query naturally arises, neth shall die. ” Eexk. 18:4.
and 13, and Jeaua upbraided them for
how did Sunday come into tha church?
Can you believe that Job endorsed
their unbelief, verse 14, last clause.
and Two-
How do we come to he keeping Sunday this dogma when he said “ my soul
It was evening, the first day was past,
Horse Brand overalls go
for the Sabbath? The historii i makes chooseth strangling and death rather together. Wherever there is plenty
the second day was at hand. Surely
it plain Calls it. ‘The Venerable Day than my life .” Job 7:15.
ol hard work, there is Bure to be lota ol
we can find no Sunday sacredness here
hard wear on overalls.
o f the Sun.” "T b ; Wild Solar H liday
Can you believe that DavM embraced
Now Thomas was not present at this
o f all all Pagan tint« s.”
the uoctrina that the soul would never
first appearing and when the disciples
The day was ret Rpart for sun wor die when he proclaims that “ none ean
told him of it he would not believe. So
"A F T E R E IGHT D A Y S ," Jesus ap ship. I t started in Babylon more than keep alive hia own soul?” Again “ He
peared to them again, very likely in 2000 years before ' final. Nimrod, the (God) spared not his toul from death.”
the same place, Thomas being present, first sun worshiper, great grandson of Psa. 22:29; 78:66.
Can you believe that
when the
and was convinced, John 20:26. Sun Noah, went down into the land of
day keepers try to make it appear Shinar and built Babylon ant] a temple breath or spirit goes forth from man are built to do a man’s work and have
at death end he returns to the earth been the standard for over 50 years.
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Can you believe that the dead are
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the Lord, neither any that go down thousand rips.
into silence?” Psa. 118:16.
Can you Believe that sheol or hades
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is a place o f consciousness when the
Scriptares say “ There is no work nor
device, nor knowledge, nor wi idom in tells they are genuine.
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Can you believe that the dead know
more than the living when God de
dares “ The dead know not anything?”
Ecc. 9:6.
Can you believe that man is immor
tal when the Bihle tells vou that man’s
mortal? Job 4:12
Can you believe that man has an im
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