The State of the Dead

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 15.

The State of the Dead

ONE so-called orthodox poet writes:—

"Where are the dead? In Heaven or hell Their disembodied spirits dwell, Reserved in bonds of clay Until the Judgment-day."

While another sings of being by death "released from cumbrous clay." Now if the latter be true how can the first be? for while both agree that the dead go at once to their reward, the one has "their disembodied spirits" "reserved in bonds of clay," while the other has them released from clay. Which is right? or are both wrong and the Scriptures right when they teach, as they do in every part, that the only hope of a future conscious existence is dependent upon a resurrection from the dead?