Proof of the Soul’s Immortality
By Editor
THE following question and answer clipped from the Interior of September 6, will be of interest to those who feel sure that the Bible is just full of texts which prove beyond the peradventure of a doubt the immortality of the soul. Of course they have never been able to find the texts, but they nevertheless imagine that they exist; the editor of the Interior is in about the same fix; he believes the dogma but can't prove it. The question and answer are as follows:— "EDITOR OF THE INTERIOR: Would you be so kind as to publish in your paper a satisfactory proof of the immortality of the soul, or if that is too much trouble, to name a work where such proof may be found, and oblige.
Ulysses, Neb., September 1, 1889. SEEKER FOR LIGHT." "There are a great many analogies both within and without ourselves, which point to the immortality of the human spirit, and these have been set forth in many treatises. The Presbyterian Board of Publication (Philadelphia), would furnish one or more of them on application. But there is only one proof, only one demonstration, and that is in the resurrection of Christ, a fact verified by many indisputable witnesses. A Christian, by living near to God in obedience and prayer, gets direct testimony from the witness of the Holy Spirit in his soul. But this evidence is not capable of being imparted by one man to another. He can testify that he has the testimony, but he cannot communicate the testimony itself. Only the Spirit can do that." Just how the resurrection of Christ proves the immortality of the soul the Interior does not explain, and we confess that we do not know. To us it seems that the fact of a resurrection being set forth in the Scriptures as essential to a future life, is a most positive testimony against the dogma of natural and inherent immortality.