BW Dr. Kassabian (left), of
Los Angeles, and his as-
sistant, Dr. Hethcock, who
offered to ‘“petrify’’ the
body of King George 1 of
Great Britain, plate it with
bronze, and place tt in a
niche of Westminster Ab-
bey.
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HI: Boston Post,
Dec. 14, 1935, reported an address en-
titled, “The Mystery of Death,”
delivered before the New York Acad-
emy of Medicine, by Dr. Alexis
Carrel whose fame, mm the popular
mind. rests chiefly on his having kept
tissue from the heart of a chick living
in a laboratory test tube for more than
twenty-four years. In this address there
were ~o many facts and intimations
that fully corroborate Inspiration that
I cannot refram from commenting on
them from a spiritual viewpoint. All
of these facts, and many more, have
been a matter of divine revelation for
many generations.
Science has, throughout the history
of man. interested itself mm an en-
deavor to find the source of hfe and to
produce it spontancously, but without
the least encouragement of success.
Revelation says that God ‘breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, and
man became a living soul.” (Genesis
2:7.) There 1s no other way of pro-
ducing hfe.
Dr. Carrel 1s reported to have, in this
address. defined two kinds of death—
reversible and irreversible. This is
right. for that is in accord with in-
spiration. ‘Death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned.” Romans
Ho 12. Tt 1s appointed unto men once
to die. but after this the judgment.”
Hebrews 9:27. At this judgment a
decision will be made as to a second,
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eternal death for the transgressor, or
eternal life for the obedient.
The first death 1s always “‘reversi-
ble.” The second death is visited upon
the disobedient only, and 1s always
“‘irreversible.”” “They shall be as
though they had not been’ (Obadiah
16), burned up root and branch (Mal-
achi 4:1.)
What is man’s condition after the
first, that is, “reversible,” death? Dr.
Carrel says, “A possibility, very re-
mote, 1s suspension of life.” No,
Doctor, not at all remote as to fact.
Suspension of life,—or may we say,
lapse of life,—is, together with death.
the most certain thing of all human
experience, with but one exception:
and that is of the righteous living when
Christ comes and cstablishes His
kingdom on earth and translates His
living followers into an immortal
existence. The righteous living at
that time shall never see death. (Reve-
lation 21:4.)
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Suspension of life?—Yes, of all who
have ever died, after whieh there will
be a resurrection. “ And many of them
that sleep in the dust of the carth
shall awake, some to everlasting life,
and some to shame and everlasting
contempt.” Daniel 12:2.
“Part of the human personality
may escape death,” Dr. Carrel is
quoted to have said. To this we say,
“No; decidedly no.” No sentient part
of the human personality of those who
die escapes “reversible” death. Here
The MYSTERY of
LIFE
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By
Wells Allen
RUBLE, M. D.
i= the greatest error ever foisted on the
human race. In the beginning God
sald: “In the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die.” Genesis
2:17. The evil one countered with this
error: ‘‘ Ye shall not surely die.” Gen-
esis 3:4.
He, the devil, has been enunciating
that falschood throughout the history
of the world, and even today many
Christians believe his statement in
preference to that of God. In reference
to the claim of spiritists that survival
of the soul has been demonstrated,
Dr. Carrel commented: “The impor-
tance of the facts on which such specu-
lations are based cannot be denied, but
the interpretation of the experimental
results seems to be incorrect.”
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Right, again. All seeming evidence
of life after death rests on trickery,
or on the activities of the evil one and
his emissaries in an effort to bolster
up his first recorded lie and thus to
delude and lead away God's creatures.
No, there 1s no life after death as vet,
save the few recorded cases of special
resurrection. Our dead friends are
asleep. Christ said of Lazarus, “Our
friend Lazarus sleepeth’™ (John 11:11),
after he had been dead four days and
decomposition had begun (John 11:
39). “I go, that I may awake him out
of sleep,” added Christ, and He raised
him from the dead. Agam, when
Christ was called to the death chamber
of the daughter of the ruler of the
synagogue, He said of her, “The
damsel 1s not dead, but sleepeth.”
Mark 5:39. Although the people
sneered, Christ raised her to life.
The “reversible” death, to God and
to all who accept His word, 1s the sleep
in which the unconscious ones await
the resurrection.
“There 1s no scientific proof at the
present time of the survival after
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