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5>rise to find men transmitting, from age to age, 

 the knowledge of a truth, the outcome of which 

 would be their ruin in a world of outer darkness 

 —when such knowledge is falsely based, and 

 supported by a fanciful imagination! If we are 

 to interpret the facts of mankind, we must do so 

 in keeping with the laws governing men's 

 thoughts, beliefs, and actions. And until we 

 know thai men have a selfish interest and pur- 

 pose in the propaganda of the doctrineof endless 

 doom, we must believe that such propaganda is 

 the result, not of selfish choice and human error, 

 but is the resultant of an inevitable that controls 

 them, and causes even "the wrath of man" to 

 praise God. 



Rev. J. B. Reimensnyder aptly says:—" Assur- 

 edly, them there can be nothing repugnant in 

 this doctrine to the moral intuition of mankind, 

 if, without any other light than that which 

 shone forth from the temple within, the race yet 

 felt constrained to acknowledge and adopt it! 

 But rather does this affirmation of the eternity 

 of future punishment by the non-Christian reli- 

 gions of antiquity, prove that it is one of those 

 generic truths going down to the foundations of 

 human thought— one of those necessary ideas 

 irresistibly demanded by the rational constitution 

 •of man— one of those great luminaries of natural 

 religion, whose rays, even amid all the benight- 



