to the Gentiles, ver he shall bring forth judgment unto truth; he shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth, and the isles shall wait for his law." And again: Jer, 23: 5- Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto Daniel a righteous BRANCH, and a king shall reign, and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. These passages are direct predictions of the commencement of Christ's reign on earth, and they show that he was to set up, establish, and execute judgment in the earth. But the gentleman, for obvious reasons, paid no attention to them!

appear to my mind, that I believe I would risk the whole question on it. Take the 42d and 44th verses of Matt. 24th, and I defy mortal man to avoid the conclusion that Christ was to come and that he designed his disciples to so understand him during their lifetime. You will recollect that this discourse was delivered to the disciples privately. (verse 3d.) Now read these verses: Watch therefore; for YE (who?) know not at what hour your Lord doth come." Again: Therefore, be ye (who?) aso ready; for in such an hour as YE think not the Son of man cometh." : Thén they were to watch, they were to be ready" for in such an hour as they-the disciples-thought not, the Son of man was to come!... There is no getting away from this argument. No wonder the gentleman passed it by in silence

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But the greatest failure the gentleman has made, and one by which he has lost every thing, is in relation to the phrase, “this generation," in the 24th of Matthew! You will recollect that in the speech before my last, I called his attention to the fact, that "all these things, the coming of the Son of man included, were to take place during that generation. In his next speech he replied by saying that this generation," meant this family or race of the Jews, and that the Jews as a race had not yet passed away; he also said that Greenfield gives this as the first meaning of the word genca and allowed that I had no right to depart from the first meaning! In my last, I denied his definition of the word, and also denied most unequivocally that Greenfield gave that eb aher as the first or any other meaning of the word--which was equivalent to accusing him of misrepresenting Cen field. I then took the ground that the phrase, this genera tion, never has such a meaning as he gave it, but that it al was means the men of this age"" those living at the time, &c., and that I would risk the whole question between us upon this issue. And what has he said in reply ? Not one word!! I did expect that he would attempt a reply, al though I knew he could not be successful.cid di

I will now tell you what Greenfield does say of this word, and all he says. He gives it but two meanings, viz: 1st a "a family, generation, descent; 2d, an age, race, or generation of men, including upon the average, a space of thirty years.' This is the definition he gives the word genea. Its first and

primary meaning is, one family or household, one descent, or the offspring or children of one parent or parents the .descendents from one head. In its secondary meaning, and with regard to time, it denotes all the families or people liv ing at that time, including as an average, a space of about thirty years, or three generations to a century. This is its length on an average; but one generation taken separately, will extend much longer, so that there was no impropriety in saying all these things would take place, before this generation" closes, although the time might be more than thirty years distant.

I will now give you the testimony of two eminent commentators on this phrase:

WHITLEY. "These words this age or generation shall not pass away afford a full demonstration that all which Christ had said hitherto, was to be accomplished, not at the conversion of the Jews, nor at the final day of judgment, but in that very age, or whilst some of that generation of men lived; for the phrase never bears any other sense in the New Testament, than the men of this age."-Annot. on -Matt. 24: 34. beimmoui ga to m

LIGHTFOOT.This generation shall not pass, &c. Hence it appears plain enough, that the foregoing verses are not to be understood of the last judgment, but, as we have said, of the destruction of Jerusalem." Exer. on Matt. 24: 34. ! ་་」

I must also add the testimony of BLOOMFIELD, author of The Greek Testament, with English Notes." He says: "he genea aute" (this generation.) Notwithstanding the des, nt of some, the phrase can only mean "this very generation," "the race of men now living."-Notes on Matt. 4:

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This is enough. Were there no other evidence in the book, the fact that the Savior said, "This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfiled, is sufficient to show that the Son of Man was to come in the clouds of heaven in his kingdom-to establish his reign, and reward men according to their works, during the lifetime of some who saw and heard him. I will risk the whole question, yea every thing, upon this fact. The phrase, I maintain, never a edi noqu gaibojom.com d inatishadi UT

had, never has, and never can have, any other signification than "the men of this age," or those living at the time.

Now, my friends, in view of what has been said on both sides, during this day's debate, you will excuse me, I hope, when I give it as my firm belief that, while Mr. Franklin has failed, most signally failed to establish his proposition, that the "coming of the Son of Man to judge the world" is yet future, I have proved by the most incontestible evidence, such as cannot be gainsayed, that this "coming of the Lord" is a past event. That it took place, as predicted, and looked for by the early christians, during the apostolic age, when the Jewish t temple, city, and nation were destroyed, and the kingdom of heaven or reign of the Messiah, was set up in the earth. This I

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ask of you is, to examine our arguments, and the evidence adduced-weigh them well, and then judge for yourselves.

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The proposition before us to-day is one in which all are deeply interested. It reads as follows: Do the Scriptures teach the final holiness and happiness of all mankind? 1 affirm-my friend denies. I believe ALL the wicked will be saved. He believes SOME of the wicked will be saved. ther one of us believes any will be saved IN their wickedness, but FROM their wickedness" from their sins." He believes in the salvation of a PART of mankind. I believe in the salvation of ALL mankind; and here we join issue. I now proceed to my first proof-text: Matt. xxii. 23: 32. "The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection, and asked him saying: Master, Moses said, if a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were seven brothers; and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased; and having no issue, left his wife unto his brother. Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh; and last of all the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the