The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

to the conception of the natural immortality of the soul,.and the theory of the disembodied spirits of the dead.. We admit that the subject is difficult for our finite mindsto grasp. We. cannot understand it completely. By andby, when that which is perfect is come, and when we knoweven as we are known, doubtless we shall be able to comprehendit clearly. We can, however, understacd it tosome extent. . .The ' PllonoQrrrph Illustration.The illustration which I have found most satisfactoryto myself, and also to others to whom I have suggestedit, is that of the honograph. It is hinted at by the lateCharles T. Itussee in his fifth volume of " Studies in theScripturea '' (last two ygraphs of chapter 18) :-" Butdoes doubt cry out : How could God in resurrectionreproduce the millions of earth completely so that eachwill know himse? and profit by the memory of presentlife experience ? We answer that in the phonographcylinder even man b able to preserve his om words and 1reproduce them ; much more is our Crtator able to reproducefor the entire race such brain or m as will perfectlyreproduce every sentiment, thoug=d experience.David seems to refer to the power of God in a mannerthit might be applicable either prophetically to theresurrection, or reflectively to the first birth. He says :-"' I will praise thee ; for I am fearfully and wonderfunymade. My substance [organism] was not hid fromthee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in thelower parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substancebeing yet imperfect; and in thy book all my memberswere written which in continuance [gradually] werefashioned when as yet there was none of them '-Psa.180 : 14-16."To follow out the illustration of the phonograph in