A Challenge to Debate To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuma Dany New sin. when I read Dovay letter in to-day's issue esteemed journal I lifted up my voice and wept! Verily, his mourniul efforts in attempting to prove that I was self-contradictory in my letter of January 26 make sad reading.
Controling my emotions for the moment, may 1 be allowed to ask Dovav where, in my letter, did I "seek to prove that the Kingdom of Christ is not material (not material, therefore. spiritual)."
When I spoke of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the first Day of Pentecost I referred to the Church. mot to the Kingdom. To confound these two eternal verities speaks of spiritual strabism or mental myopia, and at such instances we burst into tears.
Let me define my terms: when I. and other Bible students, speak of the Church we mean the spiritual Body of Christ. "Elect according io the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ... begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefied, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven," (I Peter: i-2, 3, 4). This Body, according to the Bible, is specifically chosen by God, and no earthly religious organization has anything to do with the choice When Bible students speak of the Kingdom of Christ they, according to the Scriptures, speak of a literal Kingdom (not spiritual, therefore material), In this Kingdom, which Christ will in due time set up, all the promises God made to Israel and Judah will be literally fulfilled. Bible texts declaring these glorious facts are too numerous to quote, Space forbids my saying more: I shall not answer any refutation of the above facts as I do not wish to abuse the privileges of these columns and give rise to a series of religious arguments—which are interminable. If Douay is not satisfied, and I know he is not, I challenge him to a public or private debate on the above two questions, using the plain pronouncements of the. Bible as the final authority.
Bmir STUDENT
Shanghai, Jan, 28.
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