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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
important doctrine that the soul of man is

not naturally immortal; that eternal life is a

gift suspended on conditions, and to be

acquired through Christ alone; that the dead

are unconscious; and that the rewards and

punishments of the future world lie beyond

the resurrection and the day of Judgment. This

strikes a death-blow to the first and vital claim

of Spiritualism. What foothold can that

doctrine secure in any mind fortified by this

truth? The spirit comes, and claims to be the

disembodied soul, or spirit, of a dead man. It is

met with the fact that that is not the kind of

soul, or spirit, which man possesses; that the

“dead know not anything;” that this, its first

pretension, is a lie, and that the credentials it

offers, show it to belong to the synagogue of

Satan. Thus it is at once rejected, and the evil

it would do is effectually prevented. But the