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ARE THE DEED
ALIVE" His SUBJECT
Evangelist l.. l.. Froom Discusses
This Interesting Subject At
NIid-Week Meeting.

s'The indefinable, immaterial, i'm
mortal soul, of modern theology,
does not exist Such a phantom is
flatIy Contradicted by the plain
words of scripture" said Evange-
list l.. E. Froom, Wednesday ev-
ening, St the Adventist Chapel, on
Travers street. The address was
on Are the Dead Alive?" Said
Mr. Froom:
The record of mans creation is
the most direct way to learn OF
mans nature The body was form
ed of the dust Into 1t was
breathed the breath of life with
its vitalizing, Hfe-giving power.
The tody, before inert and help
less, became a living, moving pow
err. The living man was produced
by the union of body and breath OF
life. He thus became living
SOUL Gen. 2,~7.
Matter, vitalized with the
breath of life,', can think, see,
hear, feel, taste, smell. Is there
an immortal soul in the chicken
that makes it see and eat, seek
food and fly from danger? No ami
NAL below man enjoys the dlstinc-
ton of being credited with an.
immortal soul. Yet the Bible says
that all living creatures have the
breath of life,' Gen. Z, Is. That
is the reason they are alive and
not dead. All living animals are
called living SOULS Gen. 1. 3O,mar-
sin.
"The Bible also describes the
dissolution of man. 1t is just the
reverse, the complete counterpart of
the creation. The record of one
begins where the other ends, and
goes right back through the re-
verse process. When the breath
of life is separated from the body,
death must result. Thus David
says, His breath goeth forth, he
returneth to his earth; in that
very day his thoughts perish, Ps.
146, ga. Solomon says, Then
shall the dust return unto the
earth as it was; and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it,
Eccl IL, z.
In death there Is no life: Death
is not life in heaven, or hell. 1t
is not life at all. To die is not
to live-to stop living. 1t is the
complete cessation of life There
is no intelligence, no consciousness,
no memory. The future Life is not
a continuation of the life that
now is. It's an entirely new life.
1t begins not at death, but at
the resurrection.
I'm death there is absolute ces-
Sation of conscious existence. Thus
in Eccl 9, Sc, The living know
that they shall die; but the dead
know not anything; for the men,
love, and their hatred is now per-
ished.' Notwithstanding the fact
we are told that when we die we
shall spend our time praising the
Lord. the sepiRtAnesssas s.szla=eeae sas-
there is no remembrance of thee;
in the grave who shall give thee
thanks?' Again, The dead praise
not the Lord, neither any that go
down into silence Ps. 6, 5. g
death is an unconscious sleep.
Thus in Ps. 13, IS, Tighten my
eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death.
Christ agrees with David when he
says, Our friend, Lazareth, sleep
eth Paul agrees with both when
he speaks, in 1 Thess. 4 16, CON
corning them which are asleep.
David, the man after Gods own
heart, is not in heaven, but is
sleeping in his grave. Acts 2, "a,
explicitly says, For David is not
assembled into the heavens Job
says, man lieth down and riseth
not till the heavens be no more,
they shall nor be raised out of
their sleep all the days of
my appointed time will 1 wait till