Nor is there probation for the soul after the body dies.

The Scriptures teach the ruin of the final rejecters of Christ; Christ teaches plainly that they who reject the Gospel will perish in the endless darkness of night.

But eternal punishment does not necessarily mean eternal suffering; hence the hypothesis of the soul gradually shrivelling for the sin of its unbelief.
The amiable Presbyterian sniffed at this as a sentimental quibble.
Punishment ceases to be punishment when it is not felt--one cannot punish a tree or an unconscious soul.

But this was the spirit of the age.

With the fires out in hell, no wonder we have an age of sugar-candy morality and cheap sentimentalism.
But here the Unitarian wickedly interrupted, to remind his Presbyterian brother that his own church had quenched those very certain fires that once burned under the pit in which lay the souls of infants unbaptised.
The amiable Presbyterian, not relishing this, still amiably threw the gauntlet down to Father Riley, demanding the Catholic view of the future of unbaptised children.
The speech of the latter was a mellow joy--a south breeze of liquid consonants and lilting vowels finely articulated.