The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-26
VOX POPULI.
CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE GRAVE

| Mortal soulists, with their millennial
dawnism and other soul sleeping isms,
| seem to be busy in Pensacola of late,
| making speeches and leaving on our
door steps printed statements, such
as materialists have made all along
through the ages. What seems to me
| to be the final analysis of some of these
statements are as follows. Il give them
here. I hope I am mistaken, you may
draw your own ooncEusionS).
1. 1t seems to me they teach that
the only difference between a man and
q bull frog while in the flesh, is a
man has more brains, but they have
the same kind of soul. And when
man dies he is in the same state the
bull frog is.
He has gone to the same p3ace-to
10 where, to where they know not any
thing about any thing. But at the
resurrection, God will make man over,
for God hasn't forgotten him. Here
is what they say in Watch Tower Of
Jan. Is, 1910, which is before me as
/ copy. (Read and draw your own
conclusions). The scriptures agree
from first to last that the dead know
not anything It is the
Scriptures that tell us where the dead
are, and their conditions; that they
are experiencing neither joy nor sor-
row, pleasure nor suffering, etc.
According to this, when the body
dies, the soul dies. They are one and
the same in this respect. If a man
can kill the body-he can and does kill
the soul also So when a man dies,
ne is like the little boys pig, "he dies
all over" ceases to be, not only upon
earth. but knows nothing as to any
other realm of existence. That is, sou.
and body in death becomes nothing.
They say this is a comforting doc
trine. This / admit must be with
some people, and would also be a COM
fort to some on the other side if true.
In conclusion, what sayeth the Scrip
lures? They quote Fec. 9:5 For the
living know that they shall die, but the
dead know not anything" etc. Take
this as they do-without any quaiifica-
tion-then the dead never will know
any thing, but this proves too much for
them, so they run to other Scriptures.
So win We, for that is the way to do;
get all the testimony and then render
your verdict
Evidently the meaning of this Scrip
ture is The dead know not any thing
as to what is going on in this world,
after they leave it, neither have they
any more reward as to this world;
when a man dies he is done with the
afEafrS OF this WorlQ-nence Know no
more about them. See Job. 14:21 His
sons come to honor, and he knoweth
it not, and they are brought low, but
he perceiveth it not of Them Is
63:I6 Doubtless thou art our Father
though Abraham be ignorant of u.s.
Happily we have a like expression.
Know not any thing" in the Scrip
lures concerning certai nmen. Sam
1911 And with Abraham went two
hundred men out of Jerusalem, that
were called, and they went in their
simplicity. and they knew not any
thing
It could hardly be supposed that
this, If the boy had gone to uncon-
scious men with him To fight for him
and yet it is said They knew not
any thing"
Sam. 1928 David said, concerning
his little son who died. II shall go to
him, but he shall not return to me"
There could be but little comfort in
this, if the boy had g oneto uncon-
scious nothing and as to David hav-
ing in mind the resurrection, when he
would do this, Is not logical, for then
the child could so to David as easy
as David could go TO the child.
2 Cor. 12.1-4. Paul tells of one