Excerpt from Man Not Immortal: A Review of "Rev." N. D. George on Annihilation
Isaac taylor, a learned and justly eminent Chris tian writer, has said, with how much truth an already large and still increasing number of studious ones well know, that, When once this weighty question of the after life has been opened, and when it shall have come into the hands of well-informed biblical interpreters, a controversy will ensue, in the progress of which it will be discovered that, with unobservant eyes, we and our predecessors have been so walking up and down, and running hither and thither, among dim notices and indications of the future destinies of the human family, as to have failed to gather up or regard much that has lain upon the pages of the Bible open and free to our use. The truth concerning man's nature and destiny is, we are compelled to believe, an essential part of the much that very many Christians have failed to gather up, although it has lain upon the pages of the Bible open and free to their use.
To a consideration of the weighty question of the future destinies of the race this work is devoted; and the importance of reaching just conclusions is aug mented, if possible, by the fact that they involve a de termination of the great question of duration of evil. Experience has shown, it is believed, that there is no View concerning the doom of the impenitent which is so eminently calculated not only to impress the mind with the immeasurable advantages of conformity to divine requirements, but also to incite love to the Creator, as that of reduction of the persistently rebel lious to non-existence, when it is seen that against that state is set an eternal life of blessedness, to be had upon the simple condition of obedience. And yet not a few candid minds think they see in a contemplation Of the final destruction of evil, the removal of a real and proper restraint. What is the truth of the matter? Should first be settled, for surely the truth, whatever it is, and however antagonistic to our prejudices, is alto gether beneficial, while error must of necessity be other Wise.
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