What Does the Bible Say?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Oct 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 41.

What Does the Bible Say?

So many times we read, since the death of the noted agnostic, words like these, "Ingersoll knows now if he did not know before that," etc.,—conveying the idea that he has entered upon larger knowledge. But, according to the Holy Writings, we should say, "Ingersoll does not know now even if he did know before," for "the dead know not anything;" "his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." He will not know anything till that great day when God shall awaken the sleepers of the dust.