"WHERE DEAD?"

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2017, 26 March 1914, Page 2

"WHERE DEAD?"

LECTURE BY MB. R. HOLIJSTEH. Dpcidcdlv . unconventional . .rellgiwiii viotvs were expressed by .Mr.' R. Hol-listet-j a yoitug Aniericiin journalist and leetui-er, wlid udiressc4 a largely a.tt.etuled moetitij;. in the Town Hnli last evening. Sir. E. Xclsor., who presided, explained tJat the mooting was not oriianised om beltalf of any sect or <t«-r.oAtii-.atitiii, but, purely 'in the interests ef Bible study. Sir. liollistor's Icelures are doliveiod under the auspices of the inieniaticHal Biblo Study.'' Association J It was at first proposed to. utilise the ■ Concert Ciismber htsi cveiiing. but. as ; ■somewjing iiko 'fifteen hiimti'cd peo-pie assemblixi. a move liad to he tniuio into ' the bia Town llalK v! j

■ Xfri< taok' as his subject, "Where are the Dead?" a question, q,s' lie remarked, -of universal human interest-, since even" the profligate and th'e flippant ivei:o often Keenly (onscious of tlra lass of dear ones.' There were many gtefit parties nowadays, bat,.the greatest of all Whs tilts brotherhood of sorrow. .After to aching nptm tlic opinifljts heid at different stages in history by members of various Chtistiaii denoniinr.tions, -ifr. Hollister fftat-cd tlvat his ieeeiit experiences in the Orient had Convinced liijti that mniy of the missionaries located in Eastern countries would be better at home; by their mistaken teaching they were bla.splientiu.jr agahtM My name and their - Sacrifices were in vain, Ho cited the. oases of an intelligent- Hindu editor wlicin he had met, This man rejected the teachings of the. missionaries, explaining that he had heon told tjiat- the Christian Pod was one. of wisdom, justice, fliid truth: that- &ere iva.s. only «ito road to -salvation, and that lip must take it or tie lost. This Hindu . demanded to be infarmed where-.liii loved mos were who had died, a-itd where were the millions of Ms race who had gone down to the tomb Inuring heard nothing, of t-Ivo gwi) tidiaigs, He_ declared that he would rather Jain his loved ones in Hell than Jive 'in Heaven with such a Cod'. Mr. lloliister went on to. c'buteiid that. light on this groat q.ucstiaii must be sought ill the Scriptures. By soiise people the Biblfe record ha.d been rejected as unscientific, kit _ when -tlio . matter was approached in a proper spirit it. was found that the Bible story was in accord with all properly auttaitipatcd Scientific ka'iGW ledge and philosophy.' it was a sctoiuif.e fact that man had been formed' out of the dust of the earth. In Ms succeeding. remarks Mr. Hollister rejected the theory of evolution, and asserted that man liad been eimted a little lower than the angels, jiau had been created perfect to- live for • over, but lie sinned and sentence of death was pro'iounred upon Mm Uiic! oxceuted. Men had been dying ever since sentence was' proitou-irced upon their first anceter t-STS, not iiecause of their own siii®, but because of the sir. of. those ancestors. It was. strange that. Some religious; teachers taught that .when men. died. tiioy were not dead, but more alive ilian ever. From his subsequent observations, it appeared that ,\lr. Hollister. accepts the Christian, belief that- Christ : is the Saviour of mankind, but reject's : the belief in eternal torment. . Hfi holds I that at the Resurw.ction Christ, will ea.ll tl-w sleeping nidliflns of earth to life. "The 'world/ 1 the lttturer 'declared, "sleeps'in hope;" Illustrating lis belief, he said that- Abraham'was called fori. l ' by. God to found a great nation, but when Abraham died lie "sleptwit'h his fathers," So. it was with all the patriarchs of old, and the Apostles, fbey "t'eli. asleep" to wait far the waking time. All . mankind svotrld «:<» tn sleep, but when tlie new day came Christ .vouki call them forth. I/or Uu> elect el mankind there was a special salvation., but ill addition to that there would be x resurrection of all humanity—of all tile dead. Concluding his address., Mr. fjnllistcf declared that tlic world was full of people not good enough for [■leaven, and not bad enough for Hell. This question ho will elaborate to-ni'd:!. svhen he is to sjiojik-i».t the. Town Rail, takifig as his subject, "Hell—Two Ways 3ut." ■

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