This debate was held in Cincinnati, Ohio February 23-38, 1908 between Charles T. Russell and L. S. White.
Propositions:
1. The Scriptures clearly teach that all hope of salvation, today, is dependent upon accepting the Gospel of Christ as revealed in the Scriptures, and that such acceptance is confined to this present life.
Affirm: L. S. White
Deny: C. T. Russell
2. The Scriptures clearly teach that the dead are unconscious between death and the resurrection-at the second coming of Christ.
Affirm: C. T. Russell
Deny: L. S. White
3. The Scriptures clearly teach that the punishment of the (finally incorrigible) wicked will consist of conscious, painful suffering, eternal in duration.
Affirm: L. S. White
Deny: C. T. Russell
4. The Scriptures clearly teach that the first resurrection will occur at the second coming of Christ, and only the saints of this gospel age will share in it; but that in the resurrection of the unjust (Acts 24:15) vast multitudes of them will be saved.
Affirm: C. T. Russell
Deny: L. S. White
5. The Scriptures clearly teach that immersion in water "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," of a believing penitent is for, in order to, the remission of sin.
Affirm: L. S. White
Deny: C. T. Russell
6. The Scriptures clearly teach that the second coming of Christ will precede the millennium and the object of both-the Second Coming and the Millennium is the blessing of all the families of the earth.
Affirm: C. T. Russell
Deny: L. S. White
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