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Show David Utter i.s that the stars shall fall from their day of judgment and all souls and divided into two are great companies. been in heaven have already judgment day of reuniting is places. Then comes the to be brought up and judged sort a a of Some of the souls time and for them the long golden wedding, as it were, their souls and bodies, and their sentence, a sort of duplicate copy of the permit to enter heaven that was given In conducting this judgment one thing is them at death. absolutely decisive - had the defendant faith in Christ? After this is answered in the affirmative other not be considered, but just no hope whatever. answer A things mayor may the negative and there is may have lived a good life, it in man may have been honest and truthful and kind, may have been public spirited and helped to build school houses and churches, may have endowed orphan asylums, and given money that has converted several heathens, but if he has not been able to believe that Jesus Christ was God, why in the day of judgment he is set on think of what becomes of those the left. on And it is the left hand - pitiful to if anyone believes it. burning in fire and brimstone is said to be an obsolete faith today, somewhat inconsistently, however, as the statements of Scripture on the subject are plain and were evidently meant to be taken literally. But this is a small matter, for the doom indicated by this strong language even if taken figuratively, is to be thought of as being just as severe and hopeless as the mind of man can picture. The soul is to be abandoned by the God The idea that souls suffer the who created and failed without hope to torment redeem it. and forever. of It is to be left to suffer It is thrown into a state where no reform or regeneration will be possible for all eternity. There is to be no further probation, the doom of the sinner is sealed. "Away with those who preach probation after 1 77 |
