Everlasting and eternal are from the same in the original. “Everlasting punishment,” and not everlasting annihilation, nor everlasting extinction of being, nor everlasting non-existence, is what the Lord threatens. Matt. xxv. 46. At the same time the righteous enter into “life eternal,” the wicked “go away into everlasting punishment.” The original word _aionion_ here is translated, in the common version, “eternal” in one place, and “everlasting” in the other. There is no reason for not translating this word the same way in both places. It means precisely the same in both places. At the same time we repeat, that the righteous enter into “life eternal,” the wicked “go away into eternal punishment.” The same word used by the Lord, in the same sentence to express the duration of the life of the saints, is used to express the duration of the punishment of the wicked. It is as likely that the life of the saints shall terminate, as that the punishment of the wicked shall cease. There is no word in any language that more certainly expresses unlimited duration than this word _aionion_. It is used to express the duration of the life of the saints, the praises of God, and even the existence of God. A word may be used with less than its full import, but _never with more_. ENDURING HARDNESS AS GOOD SOLDIERS. It matters not from what cause we suffer, whether inability on the part of brethren, or parsimoniousness, we must bear hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, suffer and toil on, for we shall reap if we faint not. We must not raise up a money-loving and worldly people; and in order to this end we must not be _money-loving preachers_, nor _worldly_ men ourselves. This is our security against the evil of covetousness. We do not believe the Lord will accept meeting in two or three conventions in a year, and making three or four contributions and a few speeches for missionary work. We must have more telling evangelizing than this. This kind of work is demoralizing the brethren and drying up all the veins of generosity in them. We shall have more and more _dying churches_ till we change our course and go out into the field as we did thirty-five and forty years ago, and hunt up these churches and wake them up. We must not live with the idea of _sending_ some one to them, but we must _go to_ them; and they must not be _helpless creatures_, and think to support those who go to their relief by _relating their stories about their being few and poor_, but do according to their ability, and not let the preacher who visits them sacrifice more than a dozen of them, and they only do their little _occasionally_, and he making his sacrifices _every meeting_. This will not stand in the day of judgment. HOW A PREACHER MAY STAND FAIR.