Connecticut Will Contests Doctrine of Immortality

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1900

Connecticut Will Contests Doctrine of Immortality

A SHORT time ago there died in Connecticut a man who, in his will, described the doctrine of the immortality of the soul as “unscriptural, unreasonable, and pernicious.” Believing thus, he willed a considerable portion of his property to be used in making “free and plain to all who will follow it the way to eternal life.” And now his will is contested on the plea that “attacks on the doctrine of immortality are against public policy.” In these times of intellectual, judicial, and religious darkness, it is possible that this contest may be sustained. We shall take particular interest in following it, to see.