it not; and they are brought low, but he
perceiveth it not of them." If the dead cannot take cognizance of matters
of so much interest as these, how can they communicate with the living as
the spirits do?

4. _No Remembrance of God._--David, in Ps. 6:5 and 115:17, again testifies:
"For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give
thee thanks?" "The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into
silence." Is it possible that any righteous man, if he is living and
conscious after going into the grave, would not praise and give thanks to
the Lord?

5. _Hezekiah's Testimony._--Hezekiah was sick unto death. Isa. 38:1. But he
prayed, and the Lord added to his days fifteen years. Verse 5. For this he
praised the Lord, and gave his reasons for so doing in the following words
(verses 18, 19): "For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate
thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The
living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day." This is a
clear affirmation that in death he would not be able to do what he was
able to do while living.

6. _New Testament Evidence._--The New Testament bears a corresponding
testimony on this subject. None will be saved except such as Christ raises
up at the last day. John 6:39, 40. No one is to receive any reward before
the resurrection. Luke 14:14; 2 Tim. 4:8. No one can enter God's kingdom
before being judged; but there is no execution of judgment before the
coming of Christ. 2 Tim. 4:1; Acts 17:31; Luke 19:35; etc. If there is no
avenue to a future life by a resurrection, then all who have gone down in
death are perished. 1 Cor. 15:18. Such texts utterly forbid the idea of
consciousness and activity, on the part of any of the human family, in
death.

This part of the subject need not be carried further. It has been dwelt
upon so fully simply because of its determinate bearing on the question
under discussion. Spiritualism rests its whole title to credence on the
claim that the intelligences which manifest themselves are the spirits of
the dead. The Bible says that they are _not_ the spirits of the dead. Then
if the Bible is true, the whole system rests upon deception and falsehood.
No one who believes this will tamper with Spiritualism. One cannot have
Spiritualism and the Bible, too. One or the other must be given up. But he
who still holds on to the theory that the dead are conscious, contrary to
the testimony