Pitiful by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 33.

Pitiful

By Editor

Pitiful.—A recent contemporary quotes the following in a letter from a correspondent:—

About two weeks ago I thought it would be interesting to have the opinions of the leaders of the different denominations on the state of the departed; I will not say dead, for there is no death; only to material forms. Well, the first I encountered was a Seventh-day Adventist minister; and I asked him, Where are the so-called dead? and he said, "They are nothing, so of course are nowhere, but they are as tho they had never been." Sweet, that! very! but comment is needless, for we know differently.

We are sorry if any Seventh-day Adventist minister answered in that way, because it is not true; it misrepresents God. Never will it be said of men that "they are as tho they had not been" till after the second death. The dead, according to the Bible, are asleep. Such a reply as above, if it were given, was pitiful.