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Volume IX.
Boomer, North Carolina,, September, 1919.
Number 11.
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BULLITT HIT THE SPOT
ing for a 1 ittle Hole to
Crawl Into.
A VERY CIVIL
'compromise at many points in
order to obtain it, and his prom
ise that all foreisrn debts of the! "
All the Silk-Hat Brigade Look- Soyeit government would be j But a Lon Keen 9ood Vn Just
paid, was never made public,
Bullitt said, -because the Presi- i Z, .'
, ' j Glennville, Ga.,
dent would not agree. - Aug 12tn, 1919.
Great buckets of blood!
Adam choked on an apple
core !
Stop and let that soak in.
The President would not agree
And Moses having a tooth f or Bullitt's report on the Bol-j Dear Brother:
. . u ;i-4-i u ; i am periec
olLLlctLlvlJl LU IIliVClC
j ide a that in EVERY case of your body, which of course puts was looking for Christ to come
ueuui me spirit returns to oa your soul out ot business at the i FROM heaven back to the earth
WTW h Vu sametim. Andifyouweretol Jn lst Corrinthians 1:7 he
vTAAn ' agSn haVe hodKM e yr speaks of "WAITING for the
t00i ld-never again have con-j coming of our Lord." How could
don t it? Then what becomes of scious existence. 'But back of Paul to rhvit in hpnvpT1 nnfl
Z I tZ. m "? Sfta"dS 1 the "ait mm
the spirits of the WICKED i that God intends for you to hve f 9 wru;
I nPQn crfk tn ll 14 I .1 . o t- Haofh V 1 s orrom nnH ws-i.- i- .-1 i
i v 6y w cvw uwui . ; agoui, cum uicil VirtUIlUl UCSUUy ; OSSian rhlirrh hp 1Vi- "Whan
... , ... , cvv wicii iv 19 a vicu vase : uiicvuuu unuges over ine i THPM
shevist
public.
Why?
pulled !
If I ain't run ker slap-dab in
to a fine mess of testimony now,
I iust want you to hush, as
Tom Watts says. unfavorable to the Bolshevist ! soul, or spirit, is another. I base
Wait a minute government as Wilson and com-1 mv. belief on the following
vvciil i iiuiiutc. o 1 scriptures
Let's start at the starting pany wanted it to be. j 4hen shall the dust return to
place and keep it all straight as If Bullitt had come back and? the earth as it wag and the
we go along. said that Lenine had horns four spirit shall return unto God who
Ready? feet long and could s waller young gave it." Eccl. 12:7.
All right. babies as fast as they could be "Fear Him which is able to de-
ninfmfc fViof stroy both soul and body m
back last winter when w " r , Matt 10:
report would nave been on tne
jthat none of them sro to
perfectly honest in all devil at death.
the j stream of death and makes it him in glory Which seems to
proper to say that the conscious ; hP. vpw niain PviHpn th pq,,i'
entity which we speak of as j didn't evnpct to hp with PhWct
that 1 preach, but 1 know that JBut wait a minute.
totXn I MteJettJ" tSiJ ndef JfeS? -oul, although for the iime in glory BEFORE that time. In
mistaken, i oeneve mat tne that thp smnts nf thp wickpd hpino-rpndpvp nnnmnc m. . . . .
Simply because it was not as j body is one thing, and that the j dead so to heaven and eniov i not finallv destroved. Rut if Von : til A . 1? ' .lan a J :1 . ai!lTuAe
nappmess.tnere aiong couia set asiae tne nope ot tne f or His Son from heaven." In
with the spirits of the righteous, resurrection, then when a man j stead of telling the Thessalonian
hell." Matt. 10:28.
What, is vnnv intpi-nvptntinn
wires before you could say scat. of these scriptures ?
It he had told that Trotsky had I believe that the soul,
forked cast-iron hoofs and a spirit, lives after the body
Away
the peace conference at Paris
was just beginning to warm up
and was able to shake one leg
a little, the main question was
what to do with Russia. Bolshe
vism, was n the saddle and w w v " w v "And fpavnnt thPTn whiVh kill
didn't show any disposition to i skillet-lids, that report would the body but are not able to km
n-pt dmvn Atid 11 thrm hvavp. i naVe been a11 0Ver the WOrld in the SOUl." Matt. 10.28.
nnvim. onMiPv nt thp pnn- about the tenth Part of nine sec" 1 am in a straight
fThen how are you going to fix
it?, ;
; There ' is no distinction made
betwreen the good spirits and the
bad spirits in the : verse you
quote. They simply all return
to God alike.
I So if the wicked spirits that
i go to God are not enjoying a
or I conscious life of bliss, evidently
1S i the righteous are not, either. If
steel tail with barbs on it and ! dead. I base this belief on the j tijere was so much difference in
eyes that looked like two red-hot foiJ0Awi scriptures:
De
ference were just about plum
scared out of their britches, as
Shakespeare says.
Well, there was a newspaper
gliy by the name of William C.
Bullitt hanging around there
with nothing much to do, and
Mister Secretary Lansing sug
gested to Mister President Wil
son that they send Mister Quill
Driver Bullitt to Petrograd, Rus
sia, to talk matters over with
Mister Bolshevist Lenine and
find out what he was trying -to
do, anyhow, and what terms he
would compromise on.
ends. If he had told that there twixt two, having a desire to de
tois nnhndv left niivp in RhrriV part and to be with Christ,
condition between the two
classes of spirits that return to
God, surely there would have
been something said about it.
a u a T u- V ad will destroy both soul and
modern orthodox teaching, that uv:fl fMc. .-. .m.
lrillp vnur hndv ho wnnld liovo .,- i . . j .i ... .
: r , ; saints to go to unnst m heaven,
finally and utterly killed the j he told them to WAIT here on
whole thing. That would be the i earth and Christ would come
last ot you. back to them. In lst Thessa-
The verse under consideration lonians 4:16-17 he tells how(the
says that God is able to DE- dead in Christ shall rise and be
STROY both soul and body. But i "caught up to MEET the Lord
remember this if the soul were in the air." Now if those dead
immortal, God Himself could not j people have already been with
destroy it. You can't twist the j Christ ever since they died, what
word DESTROY into meaning is the sense in saying they will
eternal torment in hell. When a ! MEET him ?
thing is DESTROYED it does! How much more evidence
not exist, and as long as a soul .would it take to rmwinrp von
exists in torment that soul has
not been DESTROYED.
The manner in which God can
which is far
was in heaven, but Paul knew
verse should read this way:
"Then shall the dust return to
Doay is mis: When a sinner
goes into the SECOND DEATH
(from which there is to be kg
except the Bolshevist army and
VVrtO 111 UCtl VtJI, MUll X civil XWiV ., j . n i-t I ..--.,. . . .
three old witches, and that they tw ;f hp darted hk hodv e earth as jt was and lf the resurrection) then his whole be-
lived entirely on dried human would become dust. It was his ' 18 ood man his spirit ing is uiiHy gone forever. That
flesh, there ain't steel vaults soul or spirit that would be with $f wUn thp 1 deed be Ut '; extuictlou
,1 . ,v . n i . bad man his smnt shall sro to the nf hpiTio-. -
enousrh in Paris to have kent Christ; ; nevertneiess, to aome - 1 "
that repoi't locked up
that Paul never expected to go
to heaven at death ?
And now a few words about
your last point.
You say that Moses, although
he had died more than a thous
and years before, was with
Christ at the Transfiguration.
Why, my dear sir, you have evi
dently read the scriptures very
But because Bullitt's report
showed that the Bolshevist lead
ers were not very different from
other men, that they had suc
ceeded in establishing good or-
, der, and that they were willing ;
cavelpsslv or vnn would know
in the flesh (to have the soul re- u?!" , ., , r The MKbl DEATH certainly better than that The truth is
main in the body, and thus for you see it aon t react tnat j WOULD be utter extinction oi that Moses was not there at all
the body to live) is more needfui way. being except for the hope of the , Neither the body, soul, spirit nor
for you." Phil. 1:23-24. , It ; don t say a word about -any resurrection. But that hope , other part of Moses was
If my interpretation of these ! of the spirits going to the devil, bridges the chasm and makes us ; pi.esent there on that occasion,
ine main lnieiencts is vnai
" ... . .'. . UL
look upon the first death as a , ., . .
i and it surprises me that a maa
SLEEP from which there is to " F , , , ,
i ii a. x -i-o rnckT ail cm rn i;nn hist aiiicp.
13 tne Collect lllLerpreiaUOIl : j .a.. 'vu vw vv rf vnnv cptip wnnld nvA-o cnh
MnM ha hnnVH The spirit is just the "breath i be an awakening. But. mark ot Jom !ns,e yold maKe s?ch
wras
considerably -more than
a I of life."
make peace why, ; bom; yet he was with Jesus at
to pay their debts and compro- ! thousand vears before Jesus .was . After God made Adam's-body
: mise and
! tn-eat howliner tom-cats! it the Transfiguration. How do
Well, Mr. Bullitt very obedi- j would neyer do to gend out a re. you explain this? If you say
ently ambled ott to Petrograd on pQrt ike that
his appointed mission, and in due j w i, ?
And then what?
Can't you see through it?
time returned to Paris.
He did not add anything at air to
it except the "breath of life.
that Moses' body had been resur- See Genesis 2:7. - "
rected, where is your proof ? If Now that "breath of life that
it was not his resurrected body, i V00- oreatnea into Aaara wdt
a slip as that. Is it possible that
Matthew
j vu vino n iivu uwiiv cvi v ,
art w i, w om, you have.never read
thing - 17:9, m which Jesus pointedly
Now as o Paul's i ''desire toV5ld ' -diacfpleir as they ce
depart and be with Christ." n from
Kf wn u rtf had seen a VISION ? lou cer-
If we didn t have any more of : , . , , . o ,rTC!TrixT ,
Paul's words to compare with AlTw "r".".
this, there might be a chance to ?, .inmff if,
NEVER the real
Did he have
make?
Yes, boy.
Did he make it?
He certainly did.
any report to
"J'- , i . . mi. l - l Vi i 1
:v " , : Try" T: ' , i,, . ,v fhnt wP flri 1 u nf h,-r,v u nmg. inat was just a nttie
now ao you escape tne conciu- v,vw , ; ' "xltVc : - o. nf ti.p k'ino-om of
Rion that it was his disembodied breathe. But the process ol means. There is no denying le 0;1
The Bullitt report didn't tally spir
with thp biV Rcarv tales about ible
T...- . could talk?
rvuSMa tnat ine Aim uau uetn j am in earnest and want tc
circulating, and so they either
it, which could be made ms- breathing common air started, that the language in that parti- IT " " Vlt tht time
, and was conscious, and up liie and conscious m , . lend? itself yery etlS
i jrtQTYi Qnn ip nr.i ,m viri i ii v - i 0001 lr rt ti-iqt in t oitwdt'Iti nn : -
l.m.-.-.. 4-1.114-Vt T4- i3 4-r oovmnt
Was that report given out to had to suppresg repQrt Qr ac to and x
knowledge to the world that shall be very much disappointed
thav hrd misvATirPSftTited Russia, if you give me an uncivil answer.
c piAoC Hon't vidirnlp me for be-1 But the combination ox. roost
And now Wi son, losing, and tf I S, i two thto,. made a "Uving ,f
mi liik i en l ul liik liivm-iiiuuiva t i:i i
fivp t tyiovp if fpll ovpv thnt re- 1 wrong, l HKC youi ivxiiicmiuu
tives to move it iell ov ei that le- , trvinB. to wie-rfe out from un-; niTi
port, and that was the last any-; der responsibility of sending
the world?
It certainly was NOT.
A silence so heavy that it j
would have taken forty locomo- i
ING SOUL.
! There were just two things to
! start with a lifeless body and
the "breath of life."
Nothing else was added.
But the combination of those
down for
Bulitt to Russia. They are;
trying to pretend that he just ;
sorter went on his own hook, Now that
and that he ain't got more than : reasonable
half sense, nohow.
body heard of it.
The curtain was
shore-certain.
But, oh, boy !
Just looky!
Up goes the curtain at Wash
ington, D. C, on Sept 12.
Our same William C. Bullitt
is before the Senate Foreign Re
lations committee as a witness.
Lodge is trying to use Bullitt to
shoot some more holes in Wil
son's rubber. doll, the league of
nations.
whole story of what
Bullitt told that committee
makes mighty interesting read
ing, but the fun begins when he
starts in to tell about that trip
Jto Russia. It's a thousand
wonders the Ass-ociated Press
would have told it, but it did.
Here is the juicy bite:
. "A wealth of information, re- i don't give three whoops
garded as more or less confiden-1 whether you believe what I say
tial, was given by the witness or not if you don't, somebody
during his three-hour statement. cisc wni. Anyhow, I'm
In February last, he said, he was talk.
sent by Secretary .ansing to Pe
Very truly,
W. B. SCREWS.
Reply. v
is a sensible and
letter. There
Yon notice that the smrit "re-
! turns to God who gave it."
Then the spirit must be some-
hr -fhof if oimrotof
But when you examine the 1 ,i i l" y i
words carefully and without any ! self that Jt was onlT a vlsl0n-
i preconceived notions, they do j wnai aoout tne vision tnat
not neeessarilv mean that at all. donn ine eveiaior naa on me
Poor old Paul had a pretty tough Isle of Patmos, when he saw all
time of it in his earthly life. He , the wonderful things that are re
was constantly being persecuted corded m the book of Revela
by powerful enemies, and he suf-' tion? Do you contend that all
fered for the tmth's sake about those things were actually there
as much as any man could suf- &erore Jonns eyes in a m la
thing that God GAVE to Adam, j fer. And of course it was hu- AL ense ou have Just as
What did God GIVE to Adam maniy natural for him to some- much to claim that all the
except his body of dust?. ! times wish that his troubles things recorded in Revelation
Nothino- at all except the i WPrp nt pnd. He had a DE- 'were LITERAL HAPPENINGS
is breath of life. ' i SIRE to depart and be with as you have to claim that the
tc I challenge the world to pro-! Christ, but there is not a word APPEARANCE of Moses at the
But they can't put that across, talk and reason with a man like j auce a synaoie ui ou w maicate tnat ne ri e-
mU . I,- u . T4? t Wov Kirv, f hp i that Gk)d added anything else tx) to be with Christ as soon as he I could go on for a solid week
They sent him that If I can make lum the (i those t He just wished that the but I just must
And they don t dare to deny point he will acknowledge it. There we have absolute proof ufe 0f trouble and the sleep of , h rf,, . . ,
that the report he brought back He may be sorter hard to con- that the spirit COULDN'T be death were all over and that the 7ave a ""7 roo1m in tne papei
was a true renort. vince. but when once convinced anything else except the oreatn time had come tor him to be ; BUurcuuiis
But it got the same treatment he will be a wheel-hoss for the of life. with Christ in the Kingdom of
that the truth generally gets- truth. . ?w.as lonLw t happinfhS
. , life is m a man it belongs to to be set up on the earth. He
it was suppressed. So here we go. him and it keep3 him alive. was looking forward to that
But, thanks to the Lodge com-; Your first mistake, Mr. Screws But when the breath of life happy time with' longirfg anti-
mittee, it is now out good and is in supposing that the soul and leaves a man's body, where does cipation, just as every true
nlp.ntv. and T noticp. that none of thp srnrit avp one and the same, that breath of life go Christian does today. But foi
them have dared to sav it is a You cannot find any Bible autho-
some satisfaction in trying
Come again, brother.
AW, YOUR BIG TOE !
lie.
Bullitt has got the whole silk-
"My fellow citizens, 1 am go
ing to devote every influence I
have and all the authority I have
Does it nack ur all the man's fhp oakp of his friends whom he from this time on to see to it
Jl Wit VCllllllfb Ji!V -.iiw vxw X , . 1 . . j
ity for using the words inter- conscious mental faculties and might bless and comfort by liv- that no minority commands tje
changeably as you have used emotions in a little invisible ing among them, he was willing United States. Woodrow il-
them. The spirit and the body suitcase and go lugging them on to wait and face the struggle oi son in nis speecn at seattie.
hatted gang looking for s. hole a e two different things, and to heaven?
to crawl into, and there ain't there is no soul about either of It certainly does not
nary hole little enough.
them. But when these two
things are COMBINED they
produce the soul.
Now to your first reference:
life awhile longer. And .yet at that very minute
Vflvimia nfrhpv nlarps in Paul's Via -qo -oninn- fVi nomAvot in
It simply goes out into the writingg ghow that he had nc .n
mmon atmosphere. All tne exDectations of -going to heaven , r, , .. -
t belongs to God. It is all a Xn he diedf We must not doze the RePW;can majority ,n-
trograd to bring back from the
Soviet leaders a statement show-
common
air
Dart of His infinite estate, so to . , of A,1inc;An1 frnrn Vpad- to accepting his League pro
"Then shall the dust return to speak. And that is the sense m ; -ust one little kXVSigV2i0i. gram. And he was wanting a few
the earth as it was, and the which it goes back to mm. ! We should read and study all of thousand capitalists to have
gonna spirit shall return unto God who j Now to your next quotation m j pauj,s writing and see whether more voice in the labor dispute
gave it" Eccl. 12:7. - ; Matthew 10 :28. You have mix-; th regt f it bears out the;th millions f workers
ru 4.uu u4-9 aA nrx hof vpvsp hv Twitting- the ., .i x i i inan nidiiy minions 01 oiKeis.
vviiu is niiiiy wcuivmg auuui ; vv "jf viiww 1 - o - 1 tnouent 01 koiiiu lu iieavcn cii
The dead, you say. last paix 01 it nrst. cut x tai
v Ed Howe ,111 the August num- Y b t . h t t f dead ? i handle it either way. The cor-
ber of his "Monthly," rises tojDoes it it mean the righteous j rect reading, however, is this :
in rr fhp PYflnt. tPVTTlR On Which 'inmn'ra' "ill frmrovmviwif final- ' Jnod fV uri niraA AnAt Hv "And fear not them which
they would agree to peace. This iv become -so bad everywhere ! does it mean both ? I think you kill the body, but are not able to
- '
can i death. And we will find that it Ana ne was vvanun 10 ve m"
does not. Pwight here in this teen million Koman catholics in
same epistle to the Philippians this country more power in the
(chapter 3, verse 20) he says: government than ninety million
For our citizenship is in hea- lirotestants.
cvcij niicib j v" v . 11 j VM- v
1 1 1 1 1 i 1 . .... .. 1 1 U -n nmtse Turit-H mn ThOT ki 1 1 fill- 111 1 . Illll, I XLllCi. J.C.l n 1 1 . rW
i-eport, which torn among otner that anarchy will become the " "rtVC ! uAt " V T : VJwmT ahlp to Tir'TV1, , , Don't that look a plum sight
i:u ..
XIIC1C VUU occ iaui
hin,r of o-ood ordrv established i ww f 9 ofvoi thet'e means eumjr " i0 i 4 ""r" 7.. " ; lor tne saviour, tne ira uesub
v " " o,jr www. Luunuiuv-, ohnilt Q Hpd tllHtl
XvXXx cwvmw . vvv
by the Bolshevists, Lenine's de- about the size of it, Uncle Ed. :gardlegS of w
sire for peace, his readiness to ; it don't miss it much right now. S good 0r bad, ax
i ii i j : un
re-; ootn soiu ana uouy m-ucu.
ii j
h ether he was The meaning here is tnat men
and it conveys the lean take your present lite and kill ;hwven t be with Christ, but he
Christ." There you see
was not thinking about going to .lority rule .
Now jist dea't it?