Bible Standard May 1879 is now available online.
Everlasting Punishment by Rev. H Constable from this edition has also been republished.

Republished from Bible Standard November 1878 pg 109-112

My DEAR SIR,
The substance of the following letter formed part of a lecture which I lately delivered on the great subject of Conditional Immortality. You were so good as to say that you thought it would be of use that it should appear in print, and I have much pleasure in complying with your wish.
Among the advocates of the doctrines of Conditional Immortality there is a very general agreement upon many, find these the most important points of our question. Mr. White, who more than thirty years ago stood up almost alone for this truth, and has lately given us his able work on “Life in Christ;” Mr. Minton, who has for many years endured obloquy and sacrificed his professional interest for what he knows to be God’s truth; and I who later in the day than either of these have entered to do my share of labour in the vineyard, are all of us agreed that fallen man has no essential inalienable immortality, and that consequently all who are out of Christ, and so continue, will perish, that is, will be destroyed and come to an end in the scene of future punishment subsequent to the judgment day. On this point-the greatest, I doubt not-we are, thank God, fully and heartily agreed. On this common ground of ours we stand with united front, alike opposed to the two great errors of the day-the Augustinian error which affirms misery for the wicked as long as the Eternal God Himself exists, and the error of Origen, who pictures in the future ages those who here were reprobate together with the fallen angels-all of them -at various intervals of time-brought back through pain and shame and chastening to God, to glory, and to bliss. Our common view of Conditional Immortality, as I understand it, condemns both these views, and condemns both of them alike.

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