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-OUR LIFE AFTER DEATH.”
(Continued from page one.)
to preach to them? We have
two things, then, to explain.
First, if those to whom Our j
Lord preached were "the irre
trievably Lost,” why should He (
have gone to plead with them! \
Secondly, if Paradise is the same 1
as Heaven, why should Our Lord
have spent one moment preach
ing to them, as St. Peters Epis-1
tic tells us Our Divine Master j
did? In very truth these words '
of SI. Peter’s Epistle lead us to!
draw another inference, which
is this: If Our Lord “went to
preach to the spirits in prison,”
does it not show that the Para
dise or the Intermediate World is
not a Period of Unconsciousness,
but one in which men have their
minds and can be reasoned
with? Beyond all question
it does. However, before we go
any further, let us answer the
question, “Do good men godirect
io Heaven as soon as Death
comes?” That they do Not, I
beg you to recall again Our
Lord’s words on the cross, “To
day shalt thou be with Me in
Paradise.” We know then, from
'Our Lord’s own lips that He, the
Christ, went to Paradise, or
what the Apostle calls “the place
of Departed spirits.” In other
words, there is an Intermediate
State into which we enter when
Death comes. There is a wide
spread idea among Christian
people, due to careless reading
and erroneous teaching, which
makes them think that Heaven
or Hell is enteied at the moment
of Death. However this is not
so, as will be seen in a moment,
when we bear in mind that such
an immediate ,and ‘‘at once” en
trance would absolutely do away
vwifh Our Lord’s teaching about
His Coming to judge“the Quick
and the Dead.” Why should Our
Lord tell us so much about that
Last, Great Day, if there was
"not to be such a Day? If men at
Death go at once to Heaven or
Hell, would it not do away with
the necessity of a Day of judg
ment?
Again here is another Fact
that can not be disregarue.
is this. Did not Our Lord Him
self go into the Place of Depart
ed Spirits during those three
days His body lay in tihe grave?
The words of an inspired Apostle 1
tells us he did. Truly, it' Any
One would be sure to go straight
to Heaven, when Death had
come, would not the worst inti
del admit that Our Divine [Mas
ter would have been permitted
to do so? And yet He did not
do so, and so we cannot but
know that No one ever will.but
that we all pass into the Inter
mediate State. Paradise, there to
wait the Final Judgment. The
Bible, then teaches every care
ful student that there is in the
Intermediate Life beyond the
grave, a vivid, conscious life:
that all men go there when they
dpart this life. No man has
ever yet gone to Heaven. No
man has ever yet been judged.
The Bible teaches that All who
: have ever left this Earth life are
yrf waiting from King Solomon
to ICing Edward: from St.Paul to
the poorest soul who may have
died in Newport last night. Yes.
the Bible teaches us the faithful
• who have died in Christ are hap
py and blest: that they depart
to be with Christ in the beauti
ful Training School. “The Para
dise" or “Park of God" as the
lews called it. The Park is not ^ i
:he Palace, but it is in the Pre- ,
hncts of the Palace. Paradise is !
not Heaven, but it is the Outer £
Court of Heaven. In short, none | r
of the Dead ever enter Heaven
at the moment of Death, for <
even Our Lord Christ Himself {
did not do so. j1
Mark you, it was after His <
Resurrection that the Master 11
said to the Magdalen, “Touch 1 s
Me not, for I have not yet as-11
cended to My Father.” j
The next question that arises, |
is, What is the Condition of
those woh have left this Earth
life and begun Chapter Two of) *
their Existence? j;
We have already seen, it is S
not an unconscious and sleeping
Existence. But now let us go
on to see t hat it is a State in
which we live and think and
speak.
j
There are at least three such
instances in Holy Scripture. The
first is that of Samuel. He had
beendead four years and yet at
the bidding of the witch of En
dor, he returned to Earth from
among the throng of moving !
Spirits and spoke with Saul, who
had ordered that witch to call up
Samuel. What is more, Saul in
the Mesh, recognized Samuel in
the Spirit and was greatly trou
bled, too, when he was told what
would happen to him, Saul, on
the morrow.
The next instance is that of
Moses. He came back of his
own accord, although he had
been dead for hundreds of years.
Never-the-less, this same Moses,
the Law-giver, appeared to our
Lord and his Apostles or. the
Mount of Transfiguration and
talked with them. Besides this,
the Apostle Peter recognized
Moses and was eager to make a
tabernacle for him,
The third instance which proves
that we are to be Living, Think- ]
ing and Speaking Beings in the
Intermediate World is the case j
of Our Lord Himself. He cer
tainly was dead and His torn
and wounded Body was laid in a
Tomb for three days. Above and
beyond this, St. Peter tells us
what Our Lord did during those J
j three days that His Body was in i
(the grave, which were nothing]
less than days of activity. Aye.
is it not written that Our Lord !
“went and preached to the spir-;
its in prison?” How could He
preach and why would He do so,
unless those Spirits in the Inter
mediate World were Real. Liv
ing. Thinking Beings?
To sum up. then, what has
been said and what we need to
remember. The first thing is
the Church has not told us that
the Son of God lived and died
for us that we might know
something, but that we appro
priate those facts in such a way !
that we may Do and Become
something. In fine, we must Be
something, so that God can D
something with. us.
The next thing we need to re
member is. that Our Lord did
Not descend into the Place ofj
Final Punishment to preach, but1
into the Place of Departed Spir
its-r j
Next, we are to bear it well in
mind that "Paradise" does not
mean “Heaven.” for no one of
the millions, who have died have
yet entered Heaven, except the
Son of God Himself; that even
He. at His Death, entered Para
dise and not Heaven, for He told
the Magdalen the very Day of
His Resurrection, "Touch Me
Not. for I have not yet ascended
to My Father."
Another thing we need to re-'
member is that the Day of
Judgment must come, before we I
can pass out of the Intermediate '
State and enter into Heaven or j
Hell. This is true because no
one is perfect at Death and so is
far from being prepared to enter
Heaven. Furthermore, it is
written. “Without Holiness no
man shall see the Lord.” For
this very reason, we go at Death
nto the Intermediate State,
i here we grow either in Holi
less, or continue Unrepentant
,nd therefore draw on more and
nore toward the Second Death.
Finally, it is thoroughly Un
Icriptural to think that in Chap
er Two of our existence, we are
isleep and unconscious for aeons
»f Time, since the case of Sam
lel, Moses and Our Lord Him
lelf prove the opposite of this, ,
>ecause We know they were cap
ible of Speaking and Thinking j
md therefore must have been
living Beings.
The.se three Samuel, Moses,
md Our Lord were as Human |
is you and I are, and as one (
much of Human Nature makes j
ill the world kin, much, then
loth it behoove us to do all we ,
:an to put down self and its un
awful desires, that we may.
more effectually serve God here j
and by His help and mercy con
tinue to look forward to the Fi- s
nai Consumation,chanting faith
fully and prayerfully. |
“So long Thy power hast blest
me, sure it still \
Will lead me on
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag |
and torrent, till the night is ,
gone;
And with the morn those Angel
faces smile.
Which I have loved long since,
and lost awhile.”
We have received from Little
Rock the following mysterious
letter:
“Did the woman arrive? She
was due in Bentonville Monday.
“In haste, Wanda.”
Well, now, “Wanda” dear, we
don’t know whether the woman
arrived here Monday or not.
We do know, though, dear
“Wanda,” that our wife found
your letter in “our” pocket and
the fireworks of the 4th of July
were as nothing compared to the
pyrotechnics which made a
“halo,” a “hello” and a “hell-oh”
around our smiling face during
the lecture which your sweet
mysterious letter brought on,
and had “the woman” you refer
to come, our home would have
resembled Dante’s Inferno. —.
Bentonville Sun.
\\ e received a similar commu
nication and decided the press
agent for a washing compound
or tea biscuit was probably try
ing to flirt with the advertising
space. -«■ |
To Punish Escapes. ~
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 12.—The
legislature several sessions ago
passed an act by which an es
cape from the State penitentia
ry or Reform School, became a
crime, and the escaping convict
can be tried and convicted for it,
the same as other crimes, with a
punishment from a few months
up into years. Only once or
twice, when the action of the
escape was especially nggravat-1
ing, has the law been enforced.
Now the Board of Penitentiary
(. omniisioners intend to bring
the old law from its hiding place
and make use of it.
The Commission is of the
opinion that the certainty that
a convict who escapes will be
given an additional sentence, if
:aught, will do much in prevent
ing convicts from making a
break. As it is now, the short
:erm man who escapes, loses on
V the “good time.” or a month
or so he would have secured off
'or good behavior. A prosecu
rion for escaping, would double
iis sentence, at least, and few
men would make an attempt un
3er such conditions as these.
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ST. PAUL’S CHURCH.
The services at St. Paul’s Epis- j
copal tomorrow will be as fol
lows:
Early Communion at 7 a. m.
Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
Morning Prayer and Sermon
at 11 a. m.
Evensong at 8 p. m.
Mark the change of the early
celebration.
The subject of the morning
sermon will be, “God Knows
Best.” The Rev. Henry E.
Spears will officiate. The Rec
tor and congregation will make
all strangers welcome.
METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching morning and night
by the pastor.
Epworth League at 7 p. m.
All are cordially invited to
these services.
B. L. Wilford, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The regular Sunday services
bv the pastor at 11 and 8 o’clock.
Sunday school at 9:30 and
Westminster League at 7
o’clock. Following the morning
sermon the Lord’s Supper will
be administered.
J. F. McKenzie, Pastor.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
The paston will fill his pulpit
at both hours Sunday at 11 and
8 o’clock in the evening. Sun
day school at the regular hour.
The members are especially urg
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S. D. Grumbles, Pastor.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
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Sunday School day. A very
special program has been pre
pared for this occasion. AU the
Sunday Schools are urged to
observe this day, especially of
i fer prayers for the World’s Sun
day School Convention now in
session at Zuric, Switzerland,
Preaching at 11 a. m. and at
8 p. m. .Christian Endeavor at
7:15 p. m. We want you to
worship with us.
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