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Les diagrammes suivants lllustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 22 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 CO ■\7^ I i^vJ^^^v^ ?, THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE SOUL, BY "V^ls/L. "W. K;OBEK;TSOJSr. TitUe hf'oil th.-tl 'lo iu;tu ' TO TIIK AkoI'MENT "^Scripture, viz- P,.« ::'.'!' once to the two ill, 1-4. " Of every tree of tl K«rdf.n«i. " ^•'•' »'»'h Ood «.««i. ye Hhall not eat of n """ d..ol,e''<■ of ho,mp,„„.|y„,,,,,^ impeachment of ,^ "/■ "" ®"P«'. "h-" prof.s'Jchr?sIf.n'"la?,'' mTdeThia ' r ''""' """ ""> ™" '""J-ity of our first p„.ent., the very f„ld° J" ''«■ °""'«' ""y «l>e deeeiv.f „f oaily branding .he Aim'ig ;t r„?r'"'? »"^ '•<'?•. P^.i stond.ng the fact, that fhe evTdence*„f ■""''"' "^ «^. ""'"ith- ob.ery.tion proves ,ha. God epok, 1 ^ T"™"' «Porionce and • «h.bu true godlinea. and wisdoTtV '"' '"'' "-at they alone -se, the divine penalty aaTptr^ -n'^^r'.'" i^""" «-' obvil' e reronce to tl.o iw„ 1, and Gen. iii, 1.4 comnoandio^ the •tho tree of the know- , Mho tlay thou eaton I 'noil Shalt die".) ..^:rr;rc■iir„^r.rrr::•;::■'r^^^^^^^^ and unto duat Hhalt thou return. decl/.'!l?'1 «"^.««fo''ce' mind, that if few would ques- Jlsehood, for his lo the effeci of > just here, and nents am I be. ye shall swell/ Serpent, when authority and 8t majority of e deceiver of hope, practi- lies, notwith. aerience and ' it they alone I and obvious PEniTHV-P^Vu.*:T" """ ""•'"•''"'«•«"' not. 18 LIKE THE I.EAHT8 THAT *u;rrr;rr/i;t';?rr^^^^^^ """r/Tr-j" -»''"" ^bereu nohdp. THOUOHT^ PERISH. .-kwlvhi/ '" ' "^ ^"^^ ^*^"^ ^^Y. HIH bef:,i!^ t^ ;r :.^ r n;:;,rnrETii -^^^^^^^^ ftreolA, tVuaoA) sothatamanhaih no nrp.J. °^«««' y«». "'^y have all one ALL 00 UNTO ONE PLACE ALL A^E Sk THE duhV A vn v??'"^?.'."' '" "•"'^'' = AGAIN. "-Eccles. III. iD-ao. "'*^' ^'^^ '^^^' ^URN TO DUST •' Whatsoever thy hand flndeth to do. do It with all thvn.ia-i.. , ... . r^rr To.*"°"''"^'- "- '^'-- ^^ -HEt^HA^irWHS'iE^B ^^^^^^^^^^ In prosecuting our inquiry regarding this fundamental article of chr.stmn doctrine, we will now endeavour lo answer the question What Constitutes a Soul? By turning to Gen. ii. 7 we read.— We would respectfully call the readers attention to the three ollow.ng points in the order in which they occur, in the atve descriptionof the creation of man;- animite.^'"' ''"' ^'™'^ '^ '^" "^"'^ ^^ '^' ^'■"""^' ^^' «« ^'^'' '"• 2. There was then breathed into his nobtrils, the breath of life. . n ^ ,!^!'u. u^'" *"''°^' ^''^^ ^'^^ •"*" '"'•'"ed «f the dust of the ground, but hitherto inanimate, became alive. "A LIVING SOUL." • Rn«>h is translated spirit In connection with both man and beast In verse 21. •"trntrnmiiiimmm M ri e mnJ!^u\^'' Observed that there in not in thin narrative, the re- 2T1 I . "" '"'"•"'■'"' soul haying been imparted to n.an in this aet of creation ; any .uch assumption on the part of commenta- o,s ,. s,mpl^ gratuitous and wholly unwarranted ; but on the con- lZuJ^T' T '^"^ "^^''^ '^"^ ^""" ^'''•'"«*^ «f *he dust, which con- stituted the bouI; inanimate until vitalized by the breath of life when It became AN ANIMATKD OK LIVING SOUL. and 27, we will discover that soub could eat flesh, and that under cer- Ivl^ntTf^^'T' ''''^. '''''' ^"•'^••^•^"" ''^ ^^ •«• '^"'^ further, in the event ofthe.r disregarding thi. injunction, such souls were to be cut a^efe^eno^'^T "'^r'^'^''^*'""^^ be ascertained bv a.efe,encetoLev.xx. 1 6; which forms a rather remarkable com rrn?^°" , ''°^"'"'' ^^P^'-'^'^'on ^hich assumes the soul of man to be inherently immortal. v* ujon lo ih« oI"i?'"^ ?"f """ ""'• ^ ^' "^^ ^'" '""'^^ ^^'^ ^"'"^her discovery that the children of In. ac 1 began to complain at the absence of flesh to eat o^jting ,ha. the continuous manna diet had the effect of dryin, S 2^ away; quite reasonable from the standpoint of truth and com- mon sense but inexplicable from .he position of those who have assumed te soul of man to be immortal and absolutely indepen en of material influences as to its living existence. penaent iHaiahpiophecying of the death of Jesus (Isa.|(iii. 10-12), says.— In Iho ai-et instance, Isiiiah lelU iis tbut it wiiii " Ms SOUT '• ik., wa, to bo made an offering fo,. ai„ , and i„ the Jeond pffe tut he ..wa, not left there; neither did God ,.«,l hie ho./.net 1 ."l?. urrativo, tho ro- parted to man in I't of commonta- but on the con- lust, which con- breatli of life, 3 to Lev. vii. 18 that under Cor- fu rth or, in tho wore to be cut ascoitainod by marl^able com- ) 80ul of man to discovery that ' of flesh to eat, of drylnring for sin ; )EATH; and islated hell,) e to see cor- jption, but raited him up again, whereof— Peter said— wo all uro Mtnehses. (lod in reproving iHraol, by the mouth of Jeremiah, Hays: — " AiKo In thy HklriN lit found the bUml ../ the aOULSof the poor innoeentt." Showing beyond a doubt that kouIs could be muidereil, and »hat »ey contained blood, which on being spilt could stain the garments of leir murderers. I will now furnish a. few ilhiHtiations— out of tho manj^- at my i-poiinl— of how tho tinnslatoiH of onr English Bible have tried to iiippress this important truth, via: the identity ot tho human soul with lie physical organism. 1. In Gon. xiv. 21. When the King of Sodom is represented as aying to Abraham, "give mo the PKKSONS," what ho actually did ay was, "give me the SOULS." 2. In Gen. xxxvi. G, where wo are toll, that, " Esau took his vivew, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the PERSONS of his ouse;'' tho sentence in italics should have road. All tho SOULS of lis house. 3. In Ps. XXX. 3, the psalmist says, " O Lord, thou hlenUh the earth, and subdue lt."-Gen. 1. 27-28. " And Abraham took Saral his wUe, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their sub- stance that they had gathered, and the SOULS that they had gotten In Haran."- Gen. 1 : 27-28. " All the S0UL9 that came with Jacob Into Egypt, which came out of his loins, be- sides Jacob's son's wives. All the SOULS were three score and six. And the sons of Joseph, which were born to him in Egypt, were two SOULS. All the SOUMofthe house of Jacob, which came Into Egypt were three score and ten."-Oen. xlvi.,a»-ai7. It i!< in the light of such indisputable facts and divinely estab- rwhed principles as those indicated, that we catch the full meaning of our Saviour's woi-da, when he prayed to God on behalf of his fol- lowers, in the words at the head of this paper, " Sanctify them through truth," or can appreciate the scope of the Apostle Paul's Urgent .- ..I.. ^ti^~, ^r VtAliAnAMo of "Rrnma vrliAn hn aftin !— * ,{ 10 A^v ^ "^ nT*' ^''"' therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present i/owr bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which Is your reasonable ser- vice, and be not conformed to this world (age); but be ye transformed, bj, ttu renewing Of your mind, that ye may prove what Is that good and acceptable and perfect will of uod."— Rom. xll. 1-2. Or that we can grasp the spirit of the Apostle's declaration of the immutability of the divine law, when in his epistle to the congre- gation at Galatia he exclaims as it were in tones of thunder:— " Be not deceived, God Is not mocked, for whatsoevera man soweth, that shall he also reap."— Gal. vl. 7. How true, bow important, y^t- how littte, understood, such prin- ciples are, an^ bow disastrous and humiliating the results that follow such ignorance, whether viewed from the standpoint of Patriotism, Humanitarianism or Christianity. Wfe will now consider the nature or composition of " the huttiarSoul;" and try to ascertain by a reference to Scripture the exa^t light in which this important matter was viewed by some of the principle characters in bible hiBtoiy. In Gen. xviii. 2*7, we read : „n.n n;«'l^''H*wS^*T»y^'' *""* "^"^ •■ ^''*'°'** °°^ I *>'^v« taken upon me to speaK unto the r^rd, WHO AM BUT DU.ST AND ASHES" Could Abraham have thus spoken of himself, had he believed he possessed an Immortal Soul; or as some of the more imaginative of our ecclesiastical biethern would put it, "a sparA of the divine nature:' Such a thing is utterly inconceivable, and the patriarch's, words force upon us the conclusion that, as far as be was concerned, he knew nothing about the immortality of the soul. The psalmist David must have been of the same mind with Abraham as to the nature of man, for if we turn Ps. ciii. 13, we find him saying: — "Like as a father pltleth his children, so the Lord pitleth them that fear him- For he knoweth our frame, HE REMEMBEREItH THAT WE ARE DUST." How could David have given expression to Huch a sentiment, had he believed that God bad imparted to dvery human being "a spark of himself,"^^AN IMMOJiTAL SOUZr It was David who said, when speaking of man in death, and his resemblance to the beasts that perish :— pJ'xuTu!'''^^ *"^^ "^ '"*'' '" ^^^ ^"""^^ (Sheol), dealh shalt feed on them."- I A 11 In the face of such au emphatic enunciation of the principle of man's complete subjection to death, on the part of the psalmist, we wonder how men can profess to believe and teach man's inherent im- mortality, a doctrine which is without the least warrant from Scrip- ture, unless the statement of the Serpent contained in Gen. iii. 4, is to be regarded as such. Isaiah treating of the same subject says :— fadeth" rLISL.k . .^ ^'*'""' "' "''■ ^^^^' 'fhe grass wlthereth, the flower fMdeth , Because the spirit (ruaeh or breath)ot the Lord bloweth upon if Surelv the sTaTj^ro^'e'r-iraT f rer'^'""'' ^'^ «-"^«^«^»'. ''"^ '^^ .^ ^'ouTaT/s^^U Then Peter reasserts the same solemn fact of man's fleeting nature, in almost identical language, thus :— OPOR°I«i'"Th*"^'''^'"fu'^^^^^^'^"^ GLORYOPMAN, AS THE FLOWFR Of th^^ n?H i I "Tr ^"»^«''*'*h. and the flower thereof falleth away ; But the word or the Lord endureth for ever."— 1 Pet. I. 24. Let the reader mark well the language of Peter in this case; He not only says that all flesh is as grass, but to leave no room for. equivo- cation on the basis of an assumed distinction as between man's physical organism, designated in the text quoted, "flesh," and the .['immortal sour of popular tradition, he emphasizes his words by saying "AND ALL THE GLORY OF MAN, AS THE FLOWER OF GRASS." I8 it, possible to believe that Peter could have spoken thus of the nature of man, had he been a believer in man's natural immortality ? We think not, for had he believed that man was possessed of an im- mortal sou I, he would have recognized that feature as being man's highest glory, which, being immortal, could have born no resemblance to the transient nature of the flower of grass. In the further prosecution of our inquiry as to the, testimony of Scripture, regarding the human Soul, we will now undertake to prove that ^ SOULS CAN BE SLAIN OR DIB, Which we feel sure can be both easily and satisfactorily accomplished, if satisfaction depends upon clear and indisputable evidence as to what the Scriptures teach, r.'lative to the question under discussion, as may Le gathered from the following :— \^\ . 12 «nd"t;?."i.l.l*l'"'^'',°!*""''°°'' Makkedah. and smote It with the eUg. of the sword or Juh «.f to'?' ''V "T '"."'•<1'>«,^ --^ toolc Hazor. and smote the King there- was not any left to breathe, and he burned Haror with are."-!^* xl. i Jl ' "The SOUL that slnneth, IT SHALL DIE.»-Kzek. xvlll. 4.20. from the error of bia way, swA^r*«l'?rJ?!!°''''*"'**'® ''•"°'> oonverteth a sin. SHALL SAVE A SOUL PROM DEATH. "-Jas. v. 20. The following passages will further illustrate the zeal of the translatoraofonr English Bible for traditionalism, as opposed to the plain and obvious sense of Scripture. Balaam, in bis address to Balak concerning the children of Israel 18 represented as saying :— • ' £«/iJ^dl"?L*^«.H'''f.1.'^'\"'/"*^**'*"**'''^""^ ^he fourth part of Inrael ? Ut MEdi, the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like hls."-Num. xxlH lo: Instead of saying, "Let MR die," etc., what Balaam did sav was "LETMYSOULDIE^A«rf.a/A./,Aer/<7A^«o«V'«^c. ^ ' Job, vindicating his personal inte^M-ity from the suspicion of dis- honesty in his transactions with his fellow-men, is made to say:— h»JIY?'^'«!"',°T**'""*'™*'"''*'"»^^''« '""«»'« likewise thereof comolaln • ifT ^nn^l ^TT "■"'•'""'»' "I'""'" ••"•• ''-"i i "»r to« cau«d the auuiiti of the owners to expire." Elihu, in his remonstrances with Job, when speaking of the hypocrites in heart, is represented aa having said :— "They die In yoirth."-Job. xxxvi. 14. vr^rrml^r*!^ ^''''° ''®*'^' ^'"^ ""^ was :— "THEIR SOUL DIETH IN xOUTH," etc. To the honest mind, further comment upon the foregoing facts should be quite unnecessary, while for such as are not honest, further remark would be equally out of place. In conclusion, we will now undertake to show that SOULSarere- cognized as nuch, when dead; and at the same ti.cie. further confirm 13 >f the sword. fere tJurein ; King there- (A« SOULS HEM ; tbera L at tiU way, ime an the BD."-tt©v, »1 of the i to the • of Israel, of Israel ? n.xxili. 10. »ay was, n ofdis- r:— laJn; If I 0/ to loose lused the ?of the TH IN g facts fui-ther 3 are re- con firm the utter dishonesty of the translators of the accepted version of the English Scriptures, and also the equaly unreliability of those who, while professing great zeal for godliness and truth, wink at the most palpable perversions of Scripture, in their willingness to pander to popular ignorance and superstition for an easy living. Turning to Lev. xxi. 11, we read :— Which should have read, "Neither shall he go in to any DEAD SOUL," etc. • '' . In his Instructions to such as were under the obligations of special vows, Moses was instructed to say ;— anm ' * v '**^' !^** ^^ «eparatelh himself unto the Lord, he shall come at no DEAD ouuLi, — Num. vl. 6. But our english translators have deliberately substituted the word body for soul. They have taken the same unwarranted liberty with the sacred text in such Instances as the following, viz: Num. ix. 6. Num. xix. 13, and Hag. 11. 13. Beside which, we could furnish overwhelming evidence of the systematic manner in which the truth concerning the Soul has been mallclouslyfalsifiedin the interests of the selfish few, who for their own base ends are ready to sacrifice every claim of patriotism human- ity or truth. Po«- ye:irs it has b-jen charged against me, that I twisted the Scriptures to suit my own purposes, by those who are making their hying out of the advocacy of Immortalsoulism and its associate super- stitions. It ha^ also been quite common for the same class of persons to stigmatize those who deny the natural immortality of the soul, as being infidels or atheists; while they were well aware of the fact,' that their calumnies were groundless, and only intended to injure those they could no longer use; and at the same time, to detor all they could from making truth a matter of personal inquiry, well knowing tnat such inquiry would prove fatal to their assumed authority. But nevertheless thought Is being quickened, and the old superstition**' of the middle ages, impiously called Christianity, are fast retreating before the steady advance of increasing light and knowledge.