Immortality Dead!

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 37.

Immortality Dead!

Immortality Dead!—This is one of the absurd anomalies of the doctrine that men are naturally immortal. There are ever-recurring times when the most ardent advocates of the hallucination are drawn out to an admission that their heroes are dead. From a quasi-religious journal we take this expression by way of illustration: "Lincoln is dead, and Garfield is dead, and McKinley is dead, Grant is dead, and Sheridan and Sherman, and nearly all the immortal commanders who in the great war carried our flag to victory." And that is the kind of immortality men get from a sentimental adherence to the old delusion uttered in Eden, "Ye shall not surely die." One would think that the consequences to Adam and Eve of believing this falsehood would be sufficient to guard their posterity for all time against placing their confidence in it. But even those who profess faith in Christ, in whom only is life and immortality to be found, do not learn from the terrible lesson of the Fall, that man's boasted "inherent immortality" ends in death. "The soul that sinneth it shall die," is the fiat of the Almighty; and surely the promise of the adversary, "Ye shall not surely die" has been proven a most disastrous fallacy—a delusion and a snare to countless thousands.