PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. PRIMARY QUESTIONS.

CHAPTER II. IMMORTAL AND IMMORTALITY.

CHAPTER III. THE IMAGE OF GOD.

CHAPTER IV. THE BREATH OF LIFE.

CHAPTER V. THE LIVING SOUL.

CHAPTER VI. WHAT IS SOUL? WHAT IS SPIRIT?

CHAPTER VII. THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD.

CHAPTER VIII. THE FORMATION OF THE SPIRIT.

CHAPTER IX. WHO KNOWETH?

CHAPTER X. THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN MADE PERFECT.

CHAPTER XI. THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.

CHAPTER XII. DEPARTURE AND RETURN OF THE SOUL.

CHAPTER XIII. CAN THE SOUL BE KILLED?

CHAPTER XIV. THE SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR.

CHAPTER XV. GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE.

CHAPTER XVI. SAMUEL AND THE WOMAN OF ENDOR.

CHAPTER XVII. THE TRANSFIGURATION. MATT. 17:1-9.

CHAPTER XVIII. DID CHRIST TEACH THAT THE DEAD ARE ALIVE?

CHAPTER XIX. MOSES AND THE PROPHETS ON THE PLACE AND CONDITION OF THE DEAD.

CHAPTER XX. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.

CHAPTER XXI. WITH ME IN PARADISE.

CHAPTER XXII. ABSENT FROM THE BODY.

CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE BODY AND OUT.

CHAPTER XXIV. DEPARTING AND BEING WITH CHRIST.

CHAPTER XXV. THE DEATH OF ADAM.

CHAPTER XXVI. THE RESURRECTION.

CHAPTER XXVII. THE JUDGMENT.

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE WAGES OF SIN.

CHAPTER XXIX. EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT.

CHAPTER XXX. THE UNDYING WORM AND QUENCHLESS FIRE.

CHAPTER XXXI. TORMENTED FOREVER AND EVER.

CHAPTER XXXII. THE END OF THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL.

CHAPTER XXXIII. GOD'S DEALINGS WITH HIS CREATURES.

CHAPTER XXXIV. THE CLAIMS OF PHILOSOPHY.

APPENDIX. MORALITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE.

INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED.

INDEX OF THE PRINCIPAL TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATED OR EXPLAINED.

GENERAL INDEX.

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