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a criminal and disgraceful act with his last moments embittered by conscious guilt too mansions of bliss and thereby rescues him from the horrors of his guilty conscience, from thy prison, and perhaps from the gallows. And now for br. J. H. C's world of thinking in one desperate moment. I do believe that if the best and the worst man on earth could be placed side by side not knowing the fate that was awaiting them and a dagger should be plunged deep in their hearts at the same time their death pangs would be similar and that neither of them would think much about their past life before Father Abraham would be soaring away with them to that house not made with hands eternal in the heavens. The tenets that br. J. H. C has quoted to silence me if there is no punishment after death only to go to prove that the wicked boady[[?]] deceitful men who were prematurely cut off were greatly blessed while the righteous were left to struggle on through the trials troubles and tribulations of this world. The tenet quoted by br. Quimby (viz) the righteous are recompensed in the earth much more the wicked and the sinner is the most rightly objection to my view but as I believe that thousands believe this world without meeting their recompence I bring forward this tenet.Tho hand join in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished which to my mind is proof that they will be punished somewere, now I do not contend for this because I wish it so it would be the source of happiness to me if I could believe with the majority of universalists between that death is the end of punishment but these two things I do believe (first) that the whole human family are destined for heaven (second) every one that arrive safely there will have left all his sins behind him and he will not in that throng find one single Pharisee who will dare say stand by I am more holy than thou Amen Charles A. Paine
from Rodgers family letters [8], 1830-1890 →
Transcribed by sanderson · 10 / 24 / 2026
a criminal and disgraceful act with his last moments embittered by conscious guilt too mansions of bliss and thereby rescues him from the horrors of his guilty conscience, from thy prison, and perhaps from the gallows. And now for br. J. H. C's world of thinking in one desperate moment. I do believe that if the best and the worst man on earth could be placed side by side not knowing the fate that was awaiting them and a dagger should be plunged deep in their hearts at the same time their death pangs would be similar and that neither of them would think much about their past life before Father Abraham would be soaring away with them to that house not made with hands eternal in the heavens. The tenets that br. J. H. C has quoted to silence me if there is no punishment after death only to go to prove that the wicked boady[[?]] deceitful men who were prematurely cut off were greatly blessed while the righteous were left to struggle on through the trials troubles and tribulations of this world. The tenet quoted by br. Quimby (viz) the righteous are recompensed in the earth much more the wicked and the sinner is the most rightly objection to my view but as I believe that thousands believe this world without meeting their recompence I bring forward this tenet.Tho hand join in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished which to my mind is proof that they will be punished somewere, now I do not contend for this because I wish it so it would be the source of happiness to me if I could believe with the majority of universalists between that death is the end of punishment but these two things I do believe (first) that the whole human family are destined for heaven (second) every one that arrive safely there will have left all his sins behind him and he will not in that throng find one single Pharisee who will dare say stand by I am more holy than thou Amen Charles A. Paine
from Rodgers family letters [8], 1830-1890 →
Transcribed by sanderson · 10 / 24 / 2026
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