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J. H. Newlln Writes or the Visit
of His Family to Scenes of
Mrs. Newlln's Childhood.
Several weeks, nineo Mr. and
Mrs. J. If. Nowlin of Harrison,
Nebraska, made a visit of several
days in l'lattsmouth ami vicinity.
Mrs. Newlin was limn in Cass
county, but liail not visited the
land of her childhood for over
thirty years. Mr. Newlin is editor
of the Harrison Hun, and in writ
ing home to bis paper, ha Hid
following l.o nay in reference to
their visit here, after they bad
loft Omaha:
"At :20 p. in. we left Omaha
over tin It. A. M. road fur I'lnlls
inoiith, Cass county, where we ar
rived al .r p. m. The next morn
ing we hired a livery rig, and, in
company with the drive, Mr Wil
cox, who, by I be way, is a very
entertaining man, and Mrs. John
McNurlin, a childhood friend and
PCboolniale of Mrs. Newlin, we
drove out to the old borne of Mrs.
Newlin's, the place where she was
born and spent her childhood
days. The old homestead is
riliialed about leu miles west ami
north of I'lallsmoutb, within a
few rods of the I'lalle river, and
within I hroe-(uurlcrs of a mile of
Culloiil, known in early days as
Conrord. The obi bouse was just
the name as it was when Mrs.
Newlin left there in January,
1871). The farm is now owned by
a Mr. llclllinger, who made us
welcome, ami invited us to take
dinner with the family. I tot li the.
liost and hostess made it pleasant
for us and Mrs. Newlin explored
iUo old home from cellar to gar
ret. We spent a happy time there
and tears of joy were shed over
the old homestead, and we will
never forget Mr. and Mrs. Ilel
flinger for Hie kindness shown in
helping Mrs. Newlin locate Hie old j
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is in, and we think it about the swellest line ever shown in
Phttsmouth. We have them in hih ami low necks, long
and short sleeves, lace and embroidery trimmed, at from
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Sharpen an Farm Tools
Willi a Farm Special Gunck!
There is no grinding you cannot do with this
grinder and do it easily and right. There is no
chance of going wrong; no chance of taking tem
per out of tools. Carl oundum is what the grind
ing wheels arc made of; and is twenty-five times
faster than a grindstone and six times faster than
emery. This machine can be seen at
John
fpots that are only iicmory now.
"After a few days spent in call
ing on old friends whom she had
not seen or heard from for thirty
two years, we went back to town.
We also visited the old Oak Hill
cemetery, where her father,
mother, two brothers and one
sister are buried. It was no
trouble to locate the W. W. Con
ner lot in the old cemetery, and
strange as it may seem, one of
the two 'Riant cotlonwood trees is
still standing at the head of the
lot. Although it had been thirty
years since Mrs. Newlin had seen
the cemetery, she could almost,
locate the lot without help.
"Friday morning we crossed
the Missouri river into Iowa, our
first stopping point being at
Olenwood, where we spent nearly
three hours. From there we went
on to Claranda, reaching there at
2 p. in.
"Wo are having a fine time
visiting at. the home of my sister,
Mrs. H. McKerney, who was nu
old-time chum of Mrs. Newlin's
when they were both girls. They
had not seen each other since
they were married and my sister
bad never met my daughters, Jes
sie ami Jlessie. It is sure an en
joyable treat, and all are enjoying
themselves fine."
First Visit In Ten Years.
I Mrs. II. I. Sumlell of Oakland,
Nebraska, is in the city visit InR
old-lime friends and acquaint
ances and is a guest at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Horn.
Mrs. Sumlell was a former, resi
dent of this city, residing here
about twenty years ago, and has
a large number of friends in Ibis
vicinity who are very much
pleased to see her. Mrs. Sundell
visited here about ten years ago
and this is her first visit since
that time.
S.' J. Reams, a prosperous
young merchant of Cedar Creek,
was a visitor in the city today, at
tending to business matters, and
was a pleasant caller at this
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MOVE, AND FARMERS BUSY
W. F. Gillispie of Mynard, the
king grain buyer of these parts,
was in the city last Saturday. In
conversation with him he told us
that some of the corn crop is be
ginning to move, the price of 40
cents being about what some of
the farmers believe will he the top
for this spring; at least a few
cents would not make much dif
ference if it should come when
the farmers are busy in the corn
fields. Mr. Gillispie has, within
the past few days, bought some
thing like 10,000 bushels to be
delivered at Plattsmouth, and
about 15,000 to bo delivered at
Mynard. The farmers are very
busy shelling and hauling in
order to get the delivery made be
fore the heavy spring work sets
in.
Consult Omaha Specialists.
Dr. J. T. Hrendel of Murary
came up this morning to take the
U. iV M. train for Omaha, accom-I
nanieil liv lfra Ttocuie TupL-ur- muli
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Mr. lien Dill, both of whom are
going to Omaha to consult spec
ialists in regard to illness of a!
complicated nature. Mr. Dill goes
to see Dr. Melroy in regard to bis
heart trouble, with which be has ;
suffered a great deal for the past
year or more. Mrs. Tucker goes
to see Dr. Allison.
Buys New Matthewson Car.
Oroer Will has just presented
himself with n new $3,500 car of,
Matthewson build, which is a
beauty. The machine has a blue
body nnd yellow wheels and is a
very handsome car. He purchased
it of Ralph Duff, the auto dealer.
Miss Mary Foster was a pas
senger to Union yesterday morn
ing, where she spent the day with
her parents and remained over
until today and will visit a num
ber of the rural schools in the
western part of the county.
TEN!
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WHY A
RESURRECTION
The Resurrection Doctrine Pe
culiar to Christianity, but
Known to No Other.
What If the Dead Should Not Rise,
Would This Affect Christian
Faith and Doctrines and
Prove Them All False?
PASTOR RUSSELL PROVES IT SO
London, April 18.
-The London Tab
ernacle was crowJ
ed to hear Pastor
Russell's Easter
sermon on "The
Resurrection Hope
the Only One." His
text was from I
Corinthians xv, 12-18:-
"Ilow any some
among you that there Is no resurrec
tion of the dead? If Christ be not
risen, then Is our preaching vain and
your faith Is also vain. Then they
ulso which are fallen asleep In Christ
are perished." He said:
For years God's people have had ex
cellent Ribles, and thus have been
blessed far in advance of our brethren
who lived during the Dark Ages. But
we hare read our Riblcs too carelessly
and often have most of us wondered
at the great stress St. Paul laid upon
the resurrection. Rarely Is the subject
preached uion now and rarely Is It
ever thought of except as an absurdity.
The reason for this Is not far to seek.
From childhood we have beeu taught
that nobody Is dead that In dying ev
erybody, pood and bad, becomes more
alive than ever iK'fore; that this allve
ness, to the saintly few, means spir
itual powers nnd an Immediate en
trance Into heaven, death being swal
lowed up In life. The misaintly masses
also, we nre told, have piickcged sensi
bilities after dylng-they become more
alive, more able to appreciate and suf
fer pnln.
'Our Oalhollc neighbors tell us that
the majority immediately go to Pur
gatory, there to be tried by various
sufferings and tortures, and later, en
ter heaven. Our Protestant teachiiiRs
have been to the effect that tli un
saintly musses, until for the preseuee
of Cod and the holy, will be consigned
to an eternity of awful torture and
made very much more alive to suffer
ing than before. Thus we have been
tauRbt to believe that death Is a portal
or door Into an Intenser life that no
body i diad. Many of us iK-rplexed
ourselves, and were perplexed by oth
ers. with questions respecting how
there could be a "reurif(Ko 0 thr
drad" If nobody Is dead. We avoided
the question, or go ve the answer, "Mys
tery; go run and play."
Rome, Indeed, attempted a patchwork
of the matter and told us that those
In beaveu were happy, but not so hap
py as though they had Indies and that
after thousands of years of craving for
a body (which they bud used for only
a few years), they would get It back
again for all eternity Others said.
"No. our bodies have been only a clog
and a hindrance and from the moment
of death we will be better ofT without
them; aud we do not know why the
P.lble should tearh a resurrection of
the dead, to get back bodies that we
would be glad to be rid of " Respect
ing the wicked, we said that after
roasting for centuries without a body,
then, to Intensify their pnln, the body
would be resurrected and they would
huve double suffering. What bosh!
What foolishness! Is It any wonder
that many of the bright minds of the
world learned to doubt everything cou
tiected with religion and the Rlble?
Rather the wonder Is that, seeing
things so obscurely, we did not u II re
pudlate everything.
Now What Do We Find?
With the clearing of the mists of ig
norance and superstition, with a better
light reflected from oue page to au
other of the Rlble, the resurrection sub
ject clarities and the statements of
Jesus and the Apostles and Prophets,
which we thought so strange, become
luminous and soul satisfying.'
When once we see that "the wages
of slu Is death" and not eterual tor
ment; and that the Rlble hell Is the
tomb and not a fiery furnace; and that
nil mankind go to throl, to hmlrs, just
ns did our Savior; then we beglu to
see that what we all need Is to be
saved from nhrol, from And", as was
the Savior. A resurrection-salvation
Is thus the salvation -liopo of the
Church and of the world
What a relief this Klves us as ro
spirts parents, children, neighbors,
friends and the heathen, who have
died out of Christ, uusalntly! What
comfort It brings to know that they
nre sleeping In the great prison house
of death, unconscious of the lapse of
time, waiting for the Redeemer. Who
will as King set up Ills Kingdom In
glory, associating Ills Rrlde with Him
self for the blessing of all Hie families,
of the earth. The bringing forth of
the prisoners out of the prison house
of death will be to set before then:
under the glorious provisions of the
New Dispensation an opportunity for
lift rtrrlastiitt). h.v obedience to the
laws of the Kingdom under the as
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sistance of th Heavenly One the al
ternative bclu. not eterual torment,
but death -Second Death.
All Souls Go to Sheol.
Some one may say. "Pastor Russell,
what about the soul? If the body poes
to iheol, hadet, the tomb, where goes
the soul?" I reply that it Is the
foul that goes to htl, to hades, the
grave, the tomb, the state of death.
Although the words hrol and kadet
are translated mare more times than
translated kell, nevertheless they re
fer, not to the mouud of earth, which
Is In the nature of a monument, but
to the secret, bidden condition, prefer
ably styled the tomb, the abyss.
The Prophet David wrote. "Thou
wilt not leave my soul In sheol (the
tomb, the state of death), nor suffer
Thine Holy One to see corruption"
(Tsalm xvl. 10). St. Teter quoted
this on the day of Pentecost and ex
plained thnt It Is a prophecy In re
spect to Christ Jesus. David's soul
was no delivered from sheol. and be
did see corruption, and his sepulchre
the Apostle could refer to. Rut he.
being a Prophet. sjKike those words
respecting Jesus, that His soul would
nor be left In sheol,: that His omJ
would not see corruption. St. Peter
says that this prophecy was fulfilled
In our Lord-In that ne was raised
from the dead on the third day. He
tells us that Jesus was put to death
In the flesh, but quickened In splrit-a
spirit Being far above angels and prin
cipalities and powers and every name
that Is named. Our Common Version
Rible declares that our lord's soul
was saved from hell hades (Acts II.
27-31).
David. In the Old Testament, used
the word sheol. St. Peter. In the New
Testament, used the word hades. There
Is no dispute amongst scholars as to
what Is signified. The words sheol and
hades are well known to refer, not to a
place of Buffering or torture or anima
tion of any kind. but. to the uncon
sciousness of the death state. Jesus
arose from the dead, from hades, the
grave, and not from a place of torment
The so-called Air.tles' Creed declures
that Jesus descended Into hell, but
arose from the dead on the third day.
All scholars know that nothing In the
words iro and hades has any relation
ship to tire or pain or suffering or con
sciousness, and thus this phrase of the
Apostles' Creed Is universally ex
plained As Jesus descended Into hades, so do
all mankind As the Father raised
Him fromjhe dead on the third day.
so It Is promised that He will raise us,
the Church, from the dead. More than
this, the unjust also, those who have
ut been approved of (Jod In the pres
ent life, shall all le awakened from !
the sleep of dentb. They will come
forth Informed respecting sin. having
lived nnder the reign of Sin nnd Death.
They will come forth that they may
learn the ways of righteousness, the
reward of which Is life everlasting.
The glorified Jesus and nis glorified
Church, the Rrlde. will be the Royal
Priesthood, whose special work for a
thousand years will be the uplifting of
mankind, not only from the tomb, but
also to perfection of life, "every man
In his own order" or rank. The uplift
ing will bless as many as are willing,
lifting them from the degradation and
meanness and Imperfection Into which
nil have fallen by one man's disobedi
ence, under the laws of heredity.
Burst ths Bars of Death.
In the poetic langunge of the hymn.
Christ Jesus "burst the bars of death"
In His resurrection. It was not pos
sible for Him to be holdeo of death,
writes the Apostle (Acts II. 24). The
Divine verdict went forth that He had
been faithful and that to Ulm should
come the reward of life upon the high
est plane the divine nature (Epheslans
I. 20. 21j.
Our fancies mny legitimately picture
that the holy angels marveled at the
Redeemer's experiences from the time
that He left the heavenly glory and
was made flesh and dwelt amongst us
until, by Ills resurrection change, He
returned again from the earthly na
ture to the heavenly plane, "far above
angels." As they sang at Ills nativity
a rapturous song of glad tidings of
great joy to all people, so tbey were
filled with amazement, surely, at bow
the Father permitted Him to be tempt
ed and tiled and poured for Him His
cup of suffering, which He drained to
the dregs. They marveled when "lie
died. Hie Just for the unjust." They
looked nnd wondered, as hour after
hour He remained in the tnmlv dead.
Their loyalty to the Heavenly Father
was tested during that period, but was
rewarded when ihey beheld that Di
vine power raised llim up even to a
more excellent glory than that which
He bad before.
With what alacrity the angels muxt
have acknowledged the risen Oue. in
harmony wiib the Father's declaration. ,
"Let all the angels of Uod worship '
dim." "Worthy Is the I .unit, to re- I
reive glory nod honor, dominion, might j
and poAcr" The point to hi .eclall.
noticed Is the ihnnur of nature which
Aur Redeemer expcreiieed in Ills rcsur-
reel Ion. That thamie did not take place
during It'" Hirer days of Jesus" luirl ;
al. but during the tlnee aud a half .
years of Hi ministry , whic'i ended
Kith Ills reoil reel Ion. When llnrtj
years of age He cave Himself lie ur- '
rendered llh cartlih prh lieges and
li-'hts and iiopeo Into the Fi titer's 1
Hands, t, in' ol'ist'eM to ever) thing
wh'.i h Divine riihtencc iiiIlIiI per
mit. At that moment Ills sacrltli e of
II is flesh was accepted. The evidence
of Its ncceptnitit' wn the Imputation
of the Holy St.lrli. which as n cbve
rested upon lli'ti and exercised a
tticl.eiiing and llinuilmitlng Inlbionce
upon Ills mind. en.. tiling Ithn to nn
derstand inure ili:m tinman ihlngs and
'o perform tiftc than human acts.
It was Jesus, m New Creature, be
o 'teii of the Spirit at Jordan, that did
the mighty works of the Father. His
flesh. His humanity, was gradually laid
down sacrtnclally. In harmony with
the DIvlue providences. Oe drank "the
cup" which the Father poured for nini.
Divino Powtr "Brought From tho Dead
the Groat Shepherd."
This Easter Sunday celebrates the
momeutous event of our Lord's resur
rection from the dead. His resurrec
tion is either a truth or a falsehood.
In our text St. Paul ussures ns that If
It Is untrue, our faith, our hopes, our
preaching and teachings are of no avail
useless. If the resurrection of the
dead Is Impossible, then the resurrec
tion of Jesus was impossible. If tbe
resurrection of Jesus did not take -place,
then we have no proof, and ne
ground for believing, that Divine pow
er could resurrect the Church. If Di
vine Power "brought again from the
dead tbe great Shepherd of the sheep,"
It Is" Jehovah also who will bring tu
from the dead by Jesus, in God'a due
time.
Let none avoid tbe question! Lei all
decide at once! Either we believe In a
resurrection from the deod. or we do '
not believe In It. If the resurrection
be a myth then, says the Apostle, all
those who fell asleep with faith la
Christ are perished they ara not io
heaven. Purgatory nor eternal torment.
If we believe In the resurrectiou of tbe
dead, both of the just and tbe unjust,
then, logically, we must believe that
they are dead, except In tbe Divine
promise, purpose, arrangement. The
decision of this resurrection question
Is a most momentous one, as It affects
practically every doctrine of the Chris
tian Church. If we get straight the
doctrine of the Ransom effected through
the Redeemer, and the doctrine of the
Resurrection of the dead, all of our doc
trines will fall Into line, and all of our
absurdities, which have troubled us so
long, will fall out of the way. and all
of tbe Scriptures will be found bar-'
monious In teaching Divine Justice,
Wisdom. Love and Power.
Christ the First-Fruits.
"But now is Christ risen from tbe
dead and become tbe flrst-frults of
them that slept" (verse 20). Ah. thank
God, the Apostle did not mean to In
sinuate the possibility of our Lord's
not having risen. Merely, he would
put the question thnt we might see
how weighty is the subject how much
depends on the answer. He exultantly
answers. "Christ Is risen!" We re
joice In this for several reasons. First
bow sad It would be If He who laid
aside His glory and was made fiesb
and tasted death on our behalf should
have lost by His loyal endeavor to
serve us nnd to do the Father's will'.
How glad we are that He Is risen, and
that He was not raised again In the
flesh, wltb tbe loss of Ills heavenly
glory, but raised as the King of all, far
above nil others, and partaker of tbe
divine nature!
Secondly, we are glad on our own
account, and on account of all man
kind: for If our Lord Jesus bad not
been raised from the dead It would
have proven one of two things either
that He had not been faithful up to
the Divine standard, and therefore
that nis life could not be a satisfaction
for the kuman life Inst in Adam, or else
It would have proved thnt Uod. who
bad promised to raise II Ira from the
dead If He would be obedient unto
death, bad been unable to do so; and.
If unable to raise Him from the dead,
we, likewise, would be without hope,
even If our sins were cancelled by vir
tue of His sacrifice.
Tbe Apostle's words give a further
suggestion: Our lrd In Ills resurrec
tion became "tte first-fruits of them
that slept" This signifies that none
was ever raised from the dead before
nim. As another Scripture declares,
"He was the first that should arise
from the dead." There were Indeed
others awakened from the tomb, by
Jesus Himself and also previous to
His Advent But they" were merely
oirakened, not lifted fully up out of
death conditions to perfect life. Tbe
Redeemer was the first to have such
an experience. Rut the Apostle's
words mean more. If Jesus was the
first-fruits of them that slept, there
must of necessity be after-fruits. And
this the Apostle proceeds to prove, de
claring that "as all In Adam die. even
so all In Christ shall he made alive"
(I Corinthians xv. 22 1. Glorious resur
rection hope! Precious Bible! Tbe one
Book alone which teaches a resurrec
tion of the dead, or that the dead are
dead.
The Apostle proceeds to tell us that
the dead will not all be resurrected
together at once "but every man In
bis own order" (I Corinthians xv. 23i.
The first order or rank will be the
Church. Blessed and holy are all they
that have part In the First Resurrec
tion; tnpy shall be priests of
God and of Christ and shall reign with
Him a thousand years (Revelation xx,
li).
This work of raising the dead will be
the work of the entire reign of Mes
stnh. as explained In our context:
Christ must reign until He shall have
put all enemies under His feet the
Inst enemy will be death. As during
the Mediatorial reign mankind shall
rise up out of their Ignorance, weak
nets, slu, depravity, they will be com
ing out of death conditions Into life
conditions; they will be In process of
raising up -resurrect Ion.
This does not prove, however, that all
of Adam's race will receive the gift
of God. eternal life, but it does prove
that all will be blessed with the o;or
tunitji of attaining that glorious re
ward. Whoever, after having the re
lease from death put within his grasp,
shall decline eternal life on the Divine
terms will die again, hut not because
of Adam's sin -It will not be the Adam
1c death. That Second Death wp be
complete destruction. Those sinners
will die the Second Death without hope
of further redemption or resurrection.