IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3843, 23 April 1881, Page 2

IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,— My friend Mr Wood having attempted to reply to several of your correspondents on the subject of the immortality of the soul, allow me to call his attention to a conversation on a certain Sunday afternoon, which myself and others had with him upon this all-impor-tant subject, when he stated he could produce from the.Books of Moses scores of passages to prove a ■ hereafters r-1 challenged him to produce one. Is it not a fact that from the Mosaio dispensation we have derived pur own social, moral, and religious laws ?, then I take it for granted we have; no better authority than Moses, up to the present -time he has not given me one. Still he keeps up a correspondeneeto your paper upon this momentous- question. Allow me to ask him' through your' columns to give your readers one passage from,the five books of Moses wherein is taught this wonderful doctrine ; if he can do so he will have solved a problem that I hive not and

satisfy a number of sincere seekers after truth, aad I may say settle the question. —lamr&c., Goliath.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —I think we have got to the end of the chapter in reference to the immortality of the soul, and all that is now needed is to pronounce the benediction, and dismiss the subject with a blessing. I may honestly congratulate myself on having gained the victory over my opponents. They not only have not refuted the arguments which I used to prove that the Bible teaches that the spirits or souls of men exist after death, but in most cases they have never attempted to do so. Mr Wood quotes one passage to prove - his point, that is, "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of Godus eternal life." It is strange that he cannot see that that which terminates at death is not eternal life. Yet this is^ his way of reasoning. The fact that spirits exist after death is known to thousands and tens of thousands, and this knowledge is spreading with the rapidity of lightning; but as Mr Wood denies this fact, I have gone over to his own ground, and stood upon his own platform and vanquished him, so much so, that he has no way to escape but by denying the Bible teaching that departed spirits are still alive, for the word of God says so, and he cannot refute it by deny-, ing it; and when he cannot answer my arguments, then he resorts to personal abuse by calling me a " demon spiritist," or, in plain English, I am a devil. He would not consider me over polite if I was to say that he was a conceited, ignorant old fool, and yet this would not be as bod'as what he calls me. This sort of language may irritate, but never con- - vince. Threats and foul names never do J__ any good, therefore I avoid them. If any one was to meet this saint, I wonder if they would know who was the saint and who the devil! lam afraid it will make us sick if we get a stale old dish hashed up from Enoch again. I am sure it ought not to have a resurrection.—l am, &c, J. Hoen.