A Friendly Letter, with a Reply
By Editor
We give this week an article from the Sabbath Recorder, entitled "A Friendly Letter," with a Reply by Bro. Cottrell. Had we time, we should be glad to say a word in reference to our work, "Mortal or Immortal," which is criticized in the article. We will just add that our friend presents us in a wrong light when he represents that we refer to the attributes of animals to prove that man is no more than a brute. Those who carefully read the work, will see that we refer to them to show that every argument which the believers in natural immortality use to prove that man possesses an immaterial, immortal soul, proves the same for brutes, and hence proves too much. But our friend surrenders all his previous argument, when, in conclusion he admits that eternal life inheres only in those who have been born again, or have put on Christ. This cuts off, at one stroke, all the wicked from having eternal life in them, and all even who have believed in Christ, if they fall away; for no other eternal life is anywhere to be found in the Bible, but such as Christ promises to his people. We have it by faith now, and shall have it in reality "when he who is our life shall appear;" for John tells us that God "hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." 1 John v, 11; Col. iii, 4. Instead therefore of shaking hands with a "tiger," we extend the hand to Mr. Davis, and say, "Hail, brother," we are after all not far from the same ground on this subject.