Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.—I Peter 3:19. This is the subject of an article by Pastor Russell published in No. 1 book of "The Public's Journal," an Arabic paper of New York. After I studied this long article and noted all the unimportant and misleading explanations, I found that the purpose of the writer is to disapprove the fact that certain holy spirits visit men sometimes. And also to prove his teachings that the dead have perished, body and soul, and that God shall create them again in the resurrection; and having found that what he intends to prove and disapprove is not true in either case, but that it is contrary to the truth, my sole aim was to prove the truth and unveil the untruth, I say after asking God's help. Pastor Russell selected the above passage and wrote, taking no heed to what precedes or follows. In the first place, to argue with his views, and secondly to keep its real meaning hid from those who read his article, and thus allow them to swerve from the right. Now, to show the untrue explanations he gave, let us review what precedes and follows the passage he selected for a subject, so that the truth shall be clearly discerned by all. 1st Peter 3:18-20, "For Christ also hath once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the spirit." By which also (or by the spirit) went and preached to the spirits in "prison", and in the 20th v. we know who are the spirits in hell—being thosewho were disobedient in Noah's days—eight only being saved by water—which proves to us that they are human spirits in the Apostle's saying. I Peter 4:6, "For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead that they might be judged ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.