xxiv. 15), that until those words can be proved to form no part of

inspired Scripture it seems to me mere waste of time to argue about it.

The favourite argument of the advocates of this doctrine, that "death, dying, perishing, destruction," and the like, are phrases which can only mean "cessation of existence," is so ridiculously weak that it is scarcely worth noticing. Every Bible reader knows that God said to Adam, concerning the forbidden fruit, "In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely _die_." (Gen. ii. 17.) But every well-taught Sunday scholar knows that Adam did not "cease to exist," when he broke the commandment. He died spiritually, but he did not cease to be!--So also St. Peter says of the flood: "The world that then was, being overflowed with water, _perished_." (2 Peter iii. 6.) Yet, though temporarily drowned, it certainly did not cease to be; and when the water was dried up Noah lived on it again.

It only remains for me now to add one more last word, by way of information. Those who care to investigate the meaning of the words "eternal" and "everlasting," as used in Scripture, will find the subject fully and exhaustively considered in _Girdlestone's "Old Testament Synonyms_," ch. 30, p. 495; and in the same writer's "_Dies Irae_," ch. 10 and 11, p. 128.

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Transcriber's note:

p.8 thing changed to think p.38 the burden o changed to the burden of p.77 beecome changed to become p.148 still remain to be changed to still remains to be p.241 Aphorisims changed to Aphorisms p.320 all lasses changed to all classes p.335 thorougly changed to thoroughly p.469 still fresh on you mind changed to still fresh on your mind Hyphenation of words is inconsistent and has been left as in the original.