To Correspondents by James White

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 26, 1861

To Correspondents.

By James White

A Coventry: Your correspondent from England seems to have written very wide of the mark. The “Appeal to men of reason and common sense” is not an appeal to them as to whether, if sinners, they are guilty, but as to the nature of their punishment. We hold that true reason and revelation agree. God has not endowed his creatures with reason, and then in his revealed will taught them doctrines continually at variance therewith. The threatening of punishment to the wicked, to be effectual, must accord with true reason, and true ideas of justice. The popular view of this subject does neither; and hence we see such multitudes spurning it altogether and landing in the bogs of infidelity, or Universalism. The remedy for this evil is the true Bible doctrine of future punishment, a punishment which any man upon sober reflection can see to be both reasonable and just, and therefore know to be certain. We think a further examination of our publications, till he gets a correct impression of our faith, would benefit your correspondent as much as a review of his present remarks.

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