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 Il Enter ut Once into Q Flu
ture state, Or Is There q
Sort OF Antechamber
World Beyond the
Grave.

The Chicago Tribune has lately in
terviewed the well 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 70
believe the body will ever rise again.
The spirit has its ewa body Death
is resurrection, risiag, standing up in
the new life.-Dr. H. w. Thomas,
Peoples Church.
In the frs, 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, being just as much
adapted to that new world or state of
things as it was adapted at birth to
this world aud TO its earthly condi.
tons. 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 be 10
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
ly unknown, and which, the Bible
says, is Gods profoundest secret.
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 final judg-
ment all will be assigned to heaven or
hell, but there are just as many gra-
dations there as elsewhere in Gods
universe. All will not be equally
happy nor all equally miserable. DIR.
Clinton Locke, Episcopal.
understand that the future life
will be in real sense the continuation
of this in which we shall carry for
ward to fuller lengths what we have
here begun. LIDO not 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 misera-
BILE for us, accordingly as we now live.
Rev. Willard Scott, Congregation
alist.
Man rises Immediately alter death
in his spiritual body, sensibly consci-
GUS in the spiritual world, and leads
then eater in that world a perfectly
normal human life in continuance Of
the lite begun in this world. The
spiritual world Of which he thus be-
comes conscious is simply the soul Of
this world, in it and corresponding
with it as the spirit-that is, the man
in his spiritual body is in his natural
body.-Rev. L. p. Mercer, Sweden
borgian.
The righteous % Straight 70 haven