Further, the author writes:

'Without going to the Word of God, even for its terms, Conditionalists

have decided that, since the Fall, man has in his nature no element

which survives death'.

Anyone who is acquainted with the work of Edward White, Canon Constable

and J. R. Norrie, to mention only three names, will know that the above

statement is not true to the facts.

The appeal to prejudice continues throughout the pamphlet.  'A

hesitating support'; 'texts are bent to the theory'; 'figures are

manipulated'.  Such expressions as these appear in its pages without

reference, proof or support.

Another phase of prejudice is illustrated by further statements on

pages 5 and 6.  Mr. Pitt writes:

'It is impossible to believe the Scriptural truth of the Atonement and

the doctrine of Conditional Immortality at the same time'.

And the reasons given are as follows:

'The Conditionalist must be wrong, because if Christ did

substitutionally die for sinners, He was annihilated'.

'When we argue that Christ must have been annihilated, if annihilation

is the penalty of sin, the Conditionalist retorts that He must suffer

endless torment, if that is what the unsaved sinner is to endure'.

Mr. Pitt cannot see the perfect fairness of this retort; the argument

that condemns the Conditionalist condemns him also, but prejudice prevents

him from realizing it.

Throughout this pamphlet we find illustrations of another type of false

argument, which is very common in controversy -- the process of putting words

and phrases into the mouth of one's opponent and then condemning him.

Advocates of Conditional Immortality quote the words, 'The wages of sin is

death': Mr. Pitt puts into their mouths the word 'annihilation'.  If death

were not followed by resurrection, then death would approximate to

annihilation; but the latter term can only rightly be used of the second

death, for Conditionalists universally acknowledge the teaching of Scripture

concerning a resurrection of both just and unjust.

Another weak point in the pamphlet is the way in which 'authorities'

are introduced.  On page 6 we read:

'Montgomery says in an exquisite concentration of truth, "It is not all

of life to live; not all of death to die"'.

And on page 7:

'The spirit returns to God Who gave it, not to be "merged in the ocean

of eternal energy" as Spencer, a high priest of materialism, says, "but

to some abode appointed by God"'.