End of the Wicked.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 346, 3 September 1889, Page 3

End of the Wicked.

Mb Habx took up a review of Mr Scott’s last discourse, ‘Annihilation,* on Sunday afternoon, In dealing with the words used by Bible writers to denote the fate of the tricked, Mr Hare said it was not dealing honestly with the subject to be guided by suqpdary meanings. That the word * destroy ' was the first and correct signification Of the Greek Apollumi, and that thia word Was fully justified in its application to the af' antediluvians, as apart from the resurrecion they would never again exist. To say that Christ preached to the spirits of this people at the time of hie death. Was either io affirm fbat thert'was hope after death, or else that want to tantalise them by telling them efwhsteould never be. The preaching to the spirits in prison was done by the spirit of Christ (I Pet,. 1,11) through Noah to the antediluvians in the time when they were prisoners under sentence for 120 veers while the ark was preparing, The speaker went en to show that‘the’Scriptural use of the terms' consume, devour, and burn, as also the ‘definitions of the words themselves, Would not admit of an established figurative meaning. That consume meant extinction of being was proved by the fact that in being consumed they pass into smoke (Ps. 37.20). That devour bad the same signification was proved by the statement of Nahum, 1.10, • • They shall bo devoured utterly as stubble fully dry. 1 (Rev.) and that burn conveyed the same Idea was seen in Mai. 4 1, when they are said to burn up root and branch. That the unquenchable and eternal fire did pot »re that would paver go out, W firs that would burn till its work was done, and there was nothing left to burn, The Gates of Jerusalem were burned with unquenchable fire (Jer. 17, 27), •nd Sodom suffered the vengeance of eternal fire (Jude, 7 verse). That the fire employed would be material fire as sei forth in the Baa and also by Wesley and Ebanezer founders of the Wesleyan and Presbyterian Churches. That the punishment of the wicked would be coeternal with the life of the righteous, but it srould not be a process of everlasting punish* .Sent, put everlasting destruction (2 Thea. 1.9), haying I*B ? n *i in the second death (Rev, 20 ; 14.16), from which there would be no resurfeqtion, That the teachings of Christ were explicit. The wicked were to be tares—grase— Met into a furnace of Are (Matt. 13,42). The weeping would cease because they were to malt away (Ps. 112, 10). They were to be gathered as dry branches, and cast into the fire (John 15, fi). Tfiat tfia fire into which they were bast could not be one they had brought with them, as it is to be prepared tor thg Peril (Matt, 95, 41), That it would burn them up root and branch (Mai. 4,1), and so redoes them to ashes (verse 3), They would wen be as though they had not been (Obad. 1,16). In dyeing, eternal life was sat forth as the gift of God through' Chris;, the P**jd *ho i* ro regain all that was IMt bf Rm first Adam,