Untitled article by D. T. T.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 19, 1867

Can it be Possible?

By D. T. T.

1. THAT man, whom God says he will “destroy,”—punish with “destruction,”—suffer to be “destroyed,”—cause to “perish,”—send to “perdition,”—“consume,”—“devour,”—“kill,”—“slay,”—“blot out,”—“hew down,”—bring to an “end,” so that he shall “lose life,”—“not be,”—“see corruption,”—be “burned up,”—“torn in pieces,”—“ground to powder,”—“cut off,”—and “brought to nought,” so that he shall “be as though he had not been,”—“utterly perishing in his own corruption,” can have in him, either by creation or promise, the power of an endless life?

2. That a creature made of “dust,” likened to “dust,” said to be “dust,” called “clay,” called “earthy,” compared to “chaff,” to “stubble,” to “tares,” to “dry branches,” to “thorns and briars,” to a “worm,” to a “beast,” to “thistle down,” to “grass,” to a “dog,” to “swine,” to a “sheep,” to a “goat,” to an “ass,” to a “serpent,” and to every thing mean, and despicable, and low, and vile; to every thing combustible, perishable, and corruptible; he being “wood,” “hay,” “a thing of nought,” a summer “flower,” etc.,—can possess a deathless spirit, a never-ending existence, an immortal soul, as men and women do persist in asserting? Say, can it be possible? D. T. T.—in World's Crisis.