ONE of the latest additions to the vocabulary of the Spiritualist or immortal-soul doctrine is the expression "heavenly birthday." The anniversary of one's death is called his heavenly birthday. Two such anniversaries—one of a once prominent man, and one of an equally notable woman—have recently had extended notice under the new appellation, in quite pretentious Christian papers. It is true that every real Christian must needs have had a heavenly birthday in order to have become a Christian. "Ye must be born again." "Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." One's conversion, or birth of the Spirit, is a birth into the kingdom of heaven, and might be deemed a "heavenly birthday;" but if that change be not effected until death, it does not speak very highly of one's professed Christianity during lifetime. Not only so, but if the heavenly birth be not a conscious fact before the death of the individual, his chances of ever having a "heavenly birthday" are gone forever; for "the dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence." Ps. 115:17. "In death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the grave who shall give Thee thanks?" Ps. 6:5. "For the grave can not praise Thee, death can not celebrate Thee; they that go down into the pit can not hope for Thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known Thy truth." Isa. 38:18, 19.