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Barnhouse stated: “I hate Saturday as a Sabbath religious day. I hate it because Christ hates it.” (Taped telephone conversation between Barnhouse and A. L. Hudson, May 16, 1958 - printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Evangelical Conferences of 1955- 1956.) Martin wrote concerning the state of the dead: “As far as this writer is concerned, although he is in definite disagreement with the doctrine [“Soul Sleep”], it does not constitute a bar to our having fellowship with them, ...” (Eternity, Jan. 1957) Barnhouse wrote concerning the  investigative judgment: “It is to my mind, therefore, nothing more than a human, face-saving idea! .... We personally do not believe that there is even a suspicion of a verse in Scripture to sustain such a peculiar position, and we further believe that any effort to establish it is stale, flat, and unprofitable!” (Eternity, September 1956 - Emphasis in original.)