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Proof of Immortality

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 19.

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Proof of Immortality.

Dreams are, in some degree, a proof of immortality,—as an evidence that the mind is not so fettered by the body as to be incapable of a separated and higher existence.—True Wesleyan.
Dogs and other brutes "dream!" Is that "in some degree, a proof of immortality?" Does it prove "that the" dog's "mind is not so fettered by the body as to be incapable of a separated and higher existence?" Yes, just as much and as truly as man's dreaming does. Mind, in all created beings, is the result of a living organism. Till our dreamers can show us mind where there is no such organism they cry in vain "O Baal save us!" To the law and testimony, if any man speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Where is "the law and testimony" that saith man has an immortal mind? No where. Then "let him who hath a dream tell a dream; but he that hath" God's "word let him speak it plainly: What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord."—[Bible Exam., Feb. 1.]