TO CORRESPONDENTS

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A. A. THOMAS: See the question of the day of Christ’s crucifixion discussed in REVIEW No. 12 of last volume, and in other places too numerous to mention.

W. G. BRALLIAR: It is true that Mosheim was a writer of the 18th century, and Neander of the 19th. Whatever statements they make concerning the early ages of the Christian era, they must draw, like all other modern writers, from evidences which have come down from those times. But they are not the writers upon whom Christians rely to prove the authenticity and genuineness of the New Testament Scriptures. Historical evidence can be traced back to the days of the apostles themselves. See chapters 17, 18, and 19 of the work, “The Bible from Heaven.”

A correspondent asks us to inform him where Lot’s wife is at the present time. It has been a long time since any one has been able to trace her movements. The fact of her falling under the judgments of God for her disobedience, would preclude the possibility of her being in Heaven. There is equally good evidence that she is not in hell. The last we hear of her in the Scripture record is, that she was a pillar of salt between Sodom and Zoar. If our correspondent designs to ask what has become of that monument, or if any traces of it can be found at the present time, we answer that explorers who of late years have searched for it, report that they find no trace of anything which can be identified as the remains of that unfortunate woman. There is nothing, apparently, in her being turned into a pillar of salt which would necessitate permanency. The material would probably waste away and in process of time entirely disappear, though Josephus declares that it was in existence in his time, and Clement, following him, makes the same claim.