Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-22


NJ death With tho body: II spirit and
matter are equally tangible 70 him, We
would like 10 knOw how the spirit was
handled. In the flmt place, however.
would like 10 know whether he
really believes tho spirlt was
the deiormod object he has be.
lore described, viG minus brains
! NntrlligenCe), feet, eyes or ears.
! take II, ihther, that his idea OF 10 il
simply nothing more than "tho breath
Oh NE, 40 some Of his school believe,
thht II has no more form, intelligence,
nor separate existence than has A
breath that ~ ditluscd with the sur.
rounding atmosphere. 10 H., thon, the
proof OF Tue existence OF the sDifit or
soul-not the breath OF life-aiter death
that IS the principal point at issue; and
that being proved, wheteiot the nects.
slty for the hOdy's resurrection.
Now, while the Scriptures contain
but little positive teaching M 10 the
Immortality OF the soul, that great
truth IL everywhere implied, and the
whole Christian world has received IL.
Our Adventis, friend says the Bible
docs not imply any such thing; that
the very opposite Is taught. Ia support
oithis he quotes o. iOllOws:"For Na6oth
~ not alive, but duad;0 "you nthcrs
did eat mamma In the wilderness aud
nto dead" David il both
dead ana buried" "Tho dead ia Christ
shall rise hrsl;" Gle being dead yot
spcaktth;n abraham IL dead ana the
prophets" Llsafus Ia dead.n Ac.
| cording to Webster, death IL "the ok.
tinction Of bodily lifc,n no says, aud
the declaration OF tho Bible, ~ quoted,
slate that all those men are dead aud
not alive. Their, again, "they are In
the grave Not simply the body, but
thu man, the person himself Is there.
IL docs not say part at man goes
There, or that the house In which tho man
lived goes thofo, but Il saws that ho him-
holf, tho man, IN there. Notice carefully
the Scripture "Dust thou ART, aud unto
dust shalt thou roiuru"-Gon. o. 10.
Now men arc not spirits, and the
quotations M 10 20 and NO being dend
have mo- bearing on the point at Issue.
The fact that the body Of anyone SUE
Tered diaolutiOu In no PROOF for or
Against the continued existence Of the
spirit. But, says he, the quotations do
not say that only part Of the man
goes TO the grave. Do they say that
part OF the man docs not go 60 the
grRve2 DO the Scriptures not say that
it?H
But what Is more, the Scriptures do
not state that "Dust thou art, aud unto
dust shalt thou return" dust thou
srt' IL not found IN the Hebrew Bible.
The verb art IL an addition made by
translation, and the original words
read: dust, thou to dlsk h1N return"
This Is somewhat different to "Dlat
thou ART" The facts nre that man h "a
compound OF body AMI spirit; We are
agreed upon that Now when this
compound II dissolved, the body re-.
turns to dust, but what becomes OF the
other partb2 The Adventist practical.
ly breaches annihilatiOnl they cease
10 exist, he states. In the grave man
knows nothing. The dead have no
thoughts; aud In support OF this he
quotes. "Put not your trust In princes,
uor In tbs son OF man, In whom there |
N no help. His breath goes fjrth, he |
returnoth TO his earth; ~ that uCry dlni |
hn thoughts perish" Ps. liB:S I. Can
n man he Ia heaven or hell alive and
and have 10 thoughts?"
Well, VIZ should say not. but let Us
not jump to unwArranted conclu-.
Ions. Thinking Ia the function OF
the brain, through which the
spirit acts, aud when Il
ceases TO DO In conjunction with the
spirit thought perlshus, 1. o., runs out.
Z or Ia "A latin root and means through;
iSh implies motion or passing; hence
when the body dies, tue Thoughts
perish or pass out Of II. Therefore
'Ihe dead know nothing-hava no
lhoughts"-iu the grave. Ii takes the
'pirlt and the body together {, form u
man; the body Is In the grave, but the
'pitlt Is the living, conscious entity,
he intelligence. IL II a part OF the
Creator, who Ia tho Father Of our
pirIis. He Ia eternal, therefore our
Ipirlts, being his Offspring, must DO
,ternal also.
The writer Of the tract goes on TO sny {
hat death 10 simply sleep, and quotcs {
many passages from tho Bible 10 show \
hat 10 was frequently llhencd thereto. =
And Hezekiuh slept with his fathers" q
! q sample Of them, the others serve {
he same purpose and, therefore, 1t Is
unnecessary to repeat them. Then he O
ums up Ia the following words: I
II tho Saints arc dead, thoy arc not
1.-Two. They arc In tho grave, they ara
OF In heaven. II they have no Thought. l
iou thoy are not thinking. II they know G
olhing, thon they are not Intelligent. II {
iey are asleep, then thOy are not awake. n
. thoy arc TO be rewarded nj tho ludg- II
tent, they are not hoinR rewarded now. Ii
no' this tho doctrine OF tue Blblo2 Il
with the exception OK tho reference
, tue Judgment, the above IN not tho Il
0ctrine OF the Bible in relation 10 the n
lirit OF man; II may 10 10 his body. II
nd now | viii proceed to give the e
roofs. a
"Thc Lord God formed man from the c,
ust OF the ground ltho tiist 'oG the' b
not In the oflginail, Rnu Dreathed u
ITO his nostTil the breath VI life, ami Of
IAN became living soul" Con. IL: Of
The breath Of GOD Is the Spirit OF
cd; aud this same breath OF life Ia In n
very living man, but It is not dust and a
les not return To dust. Neither Is IL ri
rat which constitutes his individuals. p,
and identity. The same that was nj
I'd 10 Adam Is said 10 all mankind, 4,
For all are OF the dust anu all turn 10 d,
lst again" Coming down 10 Ahta. /,
Am, however, we learn that no WAS II,
10 OF the "spirlIS Of just men made M
'nect," Not perfect Hs a maa IN IN
hrist Jesus-simply perfect as q spirit. AZ
required the resurrection OF the n,
'dy, when tho spirit would be- united m
ith II, TO constitute the perfect, Rlori- HI
ID man. Stephen, when hp was IA
ing stoned 10 death cried IN
H., "l40rd Jesus, receive my spirit" DIN
Now we no not know what spiritual dr
distance Ia In ITSELF Just rs wa can. IA,
II tell the nature oil many ethereal pF
bslangps. such us ain, cRlofir. etc l.,