Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-05-02
Opinions of Several well Known
DivineS on an Interesting
Subject.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE SOUL
Does 1t Enter at Once into q Fu-
ture state, Or Is There q
Sort Of Antechamber
World Beyond the
Grave.

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tervieweG the we'll known divines OF
that city on the question After Death,
What? Some of the best replies are
quoted below: .
We may reasonably suppose that
going out of the body makes no chang
in the soul. Self consciousness is not
affected. Memory, reason, love, are
the same, and we must suppose the
real being has the form it had in this
world-a spiritual body and what cor
responds to sight, hearing and speech
in this world. There is no reason to
believe the body will ever rise again.
The spirit has its owa body Death
is resurrection, risiag, standing up in
the new life.-Dr. H. W. Thomas,
Peoples Church.
Iu the frsi place, death is not an
entity. 1t is simply term we use to
indicate the separation OF the soul
from the body. The soul remains
concious. preserves its identity, and
enters Immediately upon the life for
which it is fitted, beng just as much
adapted to that new world or state of
things as it was adapted at birth to
this world and to its earthly condi.
tions. Of course what that new life
is we do not know, but the soul is fit
ted or correlated to it as in this world.
Bishop Fallows, Reformed Episco-
pal.
The personality whatever that
may be-of each human being imme.
diately after death goes to the place
Of departed spirits, which, like this
would, has various grades and divis-
ions, and where each one Twill he in
the place best fitted for him, as based
upon his opportunities and acts in this
present life. In this state all will re-
main until the resurrection and final
judgment, the time Of which is utter
Iy unknown, and which, the Bible
says, is Gods profoundest secre t..
Great changes may take place in the
conditions Of beings in this state.
They may improve. They may dete-
riorate. We can not have our free
will, though we may terribly weaken
and vitiate 1t. After the fi1al judg-
ment all will be assigned to heaven or
hell, but there are just as many 'gra-
dations there a. elsewhere in Gods
universe. All will not be equally
happy nor all equally miserable. DIR.
Clinton Locke, Episcopal. g
understand that the future life
will be in real sense the contipuation
of this in which we shah carry for.
ward to fuller lengths what we have
here begun. Ldolnot understand that
its form and place are distinctly re-
vealed or that they are important.
What Is important is that 1t is vitality
connected with the present life, and
will be good or EVIL, happy or misers-
BILE for us, accordingly as We now live.
Rev. Willard Scott, Congregations
alist.
Man rises Immediately after death
in his spiritual body, sensibly colici
GUS in the spiritual world, and lead
thereafter in that world : perfectly
normal human life in continuance q
the lite begun in this world. Ths
spiritual world Of which be thua b.
comes conscious Is simply the aoul o
this world, in it and correspondinl
with it - the spirit that 4. the aaa
in biz spiritual body y in BIZ netnra
body.-Rsv. 1. P. Mercer, e9od| :
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