A Scientist on Immortality.
This is what the great Russian biologist, Elie Metschnikoff, has to say of the immortality of man, in his recent work, "The Nature of Man;" for which we are indebted to the Springfield Republican:— Science can not admit the immortality of the conscious soul, for consciousness is a function of special elements in the body that certainly can not live forever. . . . Death brings absolute extinction, and it seems unbearable because of the condition in which it surprises us. It comes before man has finished his physiological development, and when the instinct of life is still strong. Of course the theologians will say that he ought to keep to science and let theology alone; but it is a significant fact that the theologians, driven from Scripture, which teaches the possibility of immortality for man, declare that Science teaches it. Immortality is possible and assured in Christ Jesus.