knows this, hence his labor to render them unimportant. ¥o
labor to make them unimportant, is virtually to labor to fix upon
the Saviour the character of a trifler. To say that all men ehaU
he accounted worthy, is to make the Saviour utter nonsense.
Why is the qualifying phrase thrown in, if there is no distino-
tion in the future world ?



286 VNIYJCRSALISM NOT OV THS BIBLS. [Pait L

It will not be admitted that the Savionr taught by implication
in this passage, that a part of mankind would never be nuaed
from the dead, as that would be fatal to Uniyersalism ; for, ac-
cording to that theory, if tKej are not raised, then are they an«
nihilated ; and, if annihikted, then are they not saved.
With this text before us, one of three things must be admit-
ed : either Christ used words without meaning, or he taught
that some would never rise from the dead, or else he had respect
to some particular condition or resurrection in the future world.
