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November 28, 1963 DOIOAL ORGAN OF. Ttit.$0001-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH * Was Man Intended to Eat Meat? —Page 4 * A Golden Autumn rid Herald in Poland —Page 15 A sermon presented on the southern California telecast, The Adventist Hour. HE average American believes firmly in his con- camp for a time after a period of active service. When he stitutional right to the "pursuit of happiness." returned to his outfit he wrote a letter to General George TAlmost compulsively he explores every possible Patton, thanking him for the privileges he had been route that may lead to this wonderful end. Some go up given. General Patton was very surprised. In a reply he the road of romance, some down the highway of pleas- stated that for 35 years he had tried to provide comfort ure, others through the dark alleys of money-seeking, and convenience for his men, and this was his first letter position, or publicity. Most of these roads prove to be of thanks! blind alleys, dead-end streets. Ingratitude is a problem. Have you ever stood by as The shortest and surest route to happiness is by way a gift was given to a child? A parent usually will coach of a happy, thankful spirit. "In every thing give thanks" him, "Now, what do you say?" Children (I Thess. 5:18) the Scripture says, and this is a wonderful and adults alike have the same motto for Christians. We have so many things for which problem of learning to be thank- to be grateful—the very air we breathe is a gift from ful. Most of us never come to the God for which we should say "thanks." He mixes just place where we are as thankful as the right proportions of oxygen and nitrogen so we we should be. don't burn up and we don't suffocate. Everything about Jesus pointed up this prob- us God has planned in the right way. By the miracle of lem in Luke 17. Christ and the photosynthesis, the sun reacts just the right way on living 12 disciples were approaching a plants to provide food for us. Let us thank God. Samaritan village. On During World War II, a soldier in the third armored the outskirts they saw a group division in the North African theater was sent to a rest (Continued on page 8) .46t The attitude of gratitude is important for both physical and spiritual health. Glut Thanks By Harold L. Calkins Minister, Temple City, California Vol. 140 No. 48 Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers-3 Influential Voices Speak Out for Conbit onalism in tbe Zev¢nt¢entl tentur9 By LeRoy Edwin Froom s cred poets, and Latin secretary dur- i g the tumultuous years of the Corn- onwealth. Educated for the church nd trained for holy orders, he was lienated by the tyranny he found in t e church. First an Anglican of Pu- r tan leanings, and finally an Inde- endent, he sought for the complete •isestablishment of the church, and as an apostle of religious liberty. He became an outspoken proponent •f conditionalism, asserting that man i. a unit, not separable; that the death •f the body is the extinction of life; t at the whole man suffers privation •f life; that our crown of righteousness not yet received; and that souls are of in heaven during death. This he ven wove into his immortal Paradise ost. Time, he held, is annihilated • uring the death sleep, with the grave he guardian of all men till the judg- ent day. Though his last years were spent in blindness, his vision never ivimmed regarding conditionalism. I ET us keep clearly in mind the Dr. Peter Chamberlen Another "Christian poet," George (d. 1683), illustrious English ither (d. 1667), imprisoned in New- point and purpose of this con- court physician, stated tinuing recital. First, condition- that death is a sleep, with a ate and the Tower of London, sim- alism, as we shall see, was on the resurrection awakening. 'lady believed that man is a candidate increase in the seventeenth century. or immortality, and that the soul is Thus, there was a continuing line of today are inheritors of these truths onexistent apart from the body. Rec- witnesses, diverse celebrities, bearing and divine provisions. So condition- or John Jackson also held this view their testimony not only in Britain alism made slow but steady gains nd set it forth in his Belief of a but on the Continent. Some had fled throughout the seventeenth century, uture State. from repression in Britain to the more and took on greater momentum in tolerant atmosphere of Holland, Ger- the eighteenth and, especially, the mprisonment for Holding many, Switzerland, and other lands. nineteenth century. ortality Thesis New lights sprang up as a result. There was a widening range among Persecution's long arm still reached Second, Biblical truth was unfolded the advocates of conditionalism. For ut to oppress those conditionalists only gradually as the Reform move- example, the founder of Unitarianism, ho had the temerity to go into print ment developed following the launch- John Biddle (d. 1662)—thrice impris- n conditionalism. One such victim ing of the great revolt. For example, oned, and once banished for his "XI as Richard Overton ("R.O."), who not until 1633 was baptism by im- Arguments" for Unitarianism—held n 1643 produced Man's Mortallitie, mersion stressed by the Baptists. From to immortality for the saints alone, hich for safety was published by them it spread gradually to other with utter destruction for sinners at ohn Canne, likewise a conditionalist, groups. Later, Wesley urged the truth the second death. ver in Amsterdam. It was revised and of Free Grace, and this too became On the other hand, there was John nlarged under the title Man Wholly a leavening influence. We and others Milton (d. 1674), greatest of English ortal. 2 REVIEW AND HERALD, November 28, 1963 So great was the stir created by its purgatory. And he 444 .4 appearance that the ecclesiastics maintained that SOW demanded that Overton be appre- there are no con- 0:0 hended, and the House of Commons scious disembodied MANS 03* ordered author, printer, and distrib- souls, but that body utors to be sought out, for any pub- and spirit will be lic denial of the immortality of the rejoined at the MORTALLITIE:4:i> soul was then, under law, visited with resurrection. The OR A TREATISE 4> severe penalties. Overton had exposed same was true of 01) the errors and absurdities of the im- German Frederick Wherein 'tis proved, both Theologically and Phy- mortal-soulist positions, refuting them von Stosch. lorophically, that whole Man ( as a rat icttaikrea- A with scripture. In August, 1646, he Again in Eng- tom ) is a Compound wholy mortall, contra- was arrested by order of the House of land, the literal ry to that common diftintlion of Snide and Bay : 444 Parliament and committed to New- resurrection of the And that the prefent going of the Sonic into Hea- ' gate prison. Released, he was again righteous dead was yeti or Hell is a meer F id ion : And that at the Re- committed, this time to the Tower of being emphasized fiirrea ion is the beginning of our immoral% and to, London. When once more released he by such scholars then AOuall Corcirtmiatitn) and 8.1/vatien, and as Dr. Nathaniel fled to Flanders. Further printings not before. ail> followed. Homes, Puritan di- With all donbtes and Cbjetlions Anfwered, and refolved, 4, He was imprisoned a third time. vine. He held to both by Scripture and Reacon i adifeovering themuld- wier; Why? for holding that during death the literal resurrec- Attie of Lialbernies, and Alaturdities that arife man ceases to be until the resurrec- tion of the sleep- from the fabeieof the Scale. tion. And that man, mortalized by ing saints at the Alfo divers other Myfteries., as, of Heaven, Hell, Chrills humane II refidence, the extent of the Refurre&ion, the New Adam, must be immortalized by Second Advent, ill which transcend- Creation &c. opened, and prefented to the Christ—that all hope of immortality tryall or better Judgments. is grounded in the resurrection. The ent event would .11••••••••••••., printer-Baptist clergyman John Canne also bring about .By K. o. - • ft (who introduced marginal references the destruction of oat 0 into our English Bibles), braved harsh the wicked. 2 That which Afalleth the fonner of men, befalleth Betlis 5 even one 0 reprisals to bring forth Overton's book. Baptists such as thing befalleth them ail : el: the one eYeth, fo ti.yeth the °thee ; yea they 41) have allow breath, JO that tn.inhath no rein ninence above a beafi 5 Ikte He was similarly banned from Eng- Samuel Richardson for 411 if ViMitj • Ecelefiaftes 3. 19. 9tP land for his conviction that eternal (1658), of London, life is available to man only through took a leading part al P...u.sTsa.trAst feb Christ. in denying the eter- Printed by job,* Comte /limo ,Dom. 1643. nal-torment dogma. t Illustrious Court Physician A distinguished a Conditionalist Cambridge profes- 4. 14PrI 4. 'MMtritaln 47474nti Next we note the illustrious Seventh sor, Dr. Isaac Barrow (d. 1677), illus- Day Baptist court physician to James trious Greek scholar, mathematician, Richard Overton's Man's I, Charles I, and Charles II—Dr. and theologian, declared that the Martallitie created a stir in wicked would not be punished eter- England. The author Peter Chamberlen. Highly trained later was imprisoned. and greatly respected because of his nally.