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teachings of God's word on these important

points are neither obscure nor contradictory;

they may be understood by common minds.

But what candid mind can see either wisdom

or justice in the current theory? Will the

righteous, after the investigation of their

cases at the judgment, receive the

commendation, “Well done, thou good and

faithful servant: ... enter thou into the joy of

thy Lord,” when they have been dwelling in

His presence, perhaps for long ages? Are the

wicked summoned from the place of torment

to receive sentence from the Judge of all the

earth: “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into

everlasting fire”? Matthew 25:21, 41. Oh,

solemn mockery! shameful impeachment of

the wisdom and justice of God!

The theory of the immortality of the soul was

one of those false doctrines that Rome,