IMMORTALITY by J. Clarke

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1859

IMMORTALITY.

By J. Clarke

"Why, even the heathen nations believed in the immortality of the soul. Socrates, Plato, and a host of others, taught it in their lectures, and will you be behind even the heathen?"

"Is it possible that a person brought up as you have been can sink lower than even the heathen?"

I admit, friend, that heathen philosophers taught the doctrine of the soul's immortality, and that is the source from whence it came to us. Satan handed it to Eve in Eden, "Thou shalt not surely die," and the same doctrine has been industriously propagated ever since by Satan, and heathen philosophers are the very ones he chose as his agents. They refined and distilled the doctrine to such a degree that it was an easy matter in the political christianity which flourished about the age of Constantine, to engraft it upon the papal stock.

J. Clarke.