It is more comforting to think that those who persisted in sin are not conscious.

The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead denies that the soul is still living.

But St. Paul tells us that Jesus alone hath immortality. I. Tim. VI., 16.

St. Paul says, “The cross to them indeed that perish is foolishness; but to them that are saved the power of God.” I. Cor. I., 18.

You quoted the text, “Fear not them that are not able to kill the soul.” But Christ went on to say, “Fear him who can destroy both body and soul.”

Ezechiel XVIII., 4, says, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

But in IX., 5, we read, “The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.”

Ecclesiastes III., 19, tells us that the death of man and beasts is equal, and that man hath no pre-eminence over the beast.

Does he not say, “He returneth to earth, and in that day all his thoughts perish”? Ps. 146, 4.