areer."

This is the teaching of the new sect. They rejoice in their emancipation
from the bondage of orthodoxy. Mr. Watts says:--"My past nineteen years
of religious life I regard as so much lost time taken up with the fables
and follies of man's fleshly mind, systematized upon a pagan theology;
and although I honestly thought myself right, and strove hard to lead
others, yet I am now fully persuaded it was all done in ignorance of the
true knowledge of God." He tells us the Evangelical party in the Church
or Dissent do not know the Gospel. "Nothing can be more clear," he says,
"than that this (their doctrine of the resurrection) first item of the
Gospel as preached by Jesus and the Apostles does not form any part of
the teaching either of those who pretend to be the successors of the
Apostles, or the sects and parties of Dissenters who have imbibed their
system of theology from the same polluted stream." The doctrine of the
soul's essential and inherent immortality is a pagan myth. For the
heathen there is no future life; for them what Macbeth wished has come to
pass, and life is indeed

"The be all and the end all here."

The mere belief of this doctrine relieves orthodoxy of the perplexing
problem, What becomes of the heathen? and of course strikes at the
foundation of the doctrine of purgatory. Yet we are not to suppose there
will be no punishment for the wicked and the disobedient; they shall
beaten with stripes, and then, according to the righteous Judge, enter
upon that second death state, from which there shall be no
resurrection--an opinion the direct opposite of that of Origen and
Archbishop Tillotson, first promulgated in modern times by Dr. Rust,
Bishop of Dromore. The Calvinistic formula is also, in the opinion of
the Christadelphians, a mere travesty of the subject of the atonement.
As to man in general, he is born to die. God treated the first man
federally. He put him on probation, and in him all his successors stood
or fell. We never read of immortal, never-dying souls in Scripture, and
to foist such a meaning on 2 Cor. v. 8, as that it proves the existence
of a separate state of disembodied spirits, is to handle the Word of God
deceitfully. Once Mr. Watts believed in a kingdom in the sky, a throne
in the heart, a seed of Israel, a New Jerusalem and promised land, all
mystically referring to something at present existing in the so-called
Christian Church. He does so no longer. His e