SOUL. Christ and the

There is no formal exposition in the recorded sayings of Christ of the doctrine of the soul, its origin, its nature, its union with the body, its powers, its laws, and its fate. None of these form the subject of elaborate argumentation, or of brilliant discussion. Proof is never attempted. Jesus spoke to men as if He knew that they did not need proof, and that they already had within them the highest proof of which the subject admitted. He spoke of the soul as of a truth ascertained and indisputable, which men had wickedly excluded from their minds. He spoke like one whose office was to announce that of which they ought not to have been ignorant, and to remind them of that which they ought never to have forgotten. His method was direct appeal to the spiritual nature-clear, solemn appeal, in a matter of which He left themselves to be the judges. His ministry was a proclamation, in all places, circumstances, connections, of the doctrine of the soul. Hence this doctrine lies underneath all His teachings, or is closely interwoven with them, is directly suggested by them, often conspicuously stands out from them. He is resolved that the world shall know and believe that there is a spiritual as well as a material nature in man, an invisible, precious part of his being, and that the forgotten mind is a profound, a universal reality. This was involved in His doctrine of a reign of God; in that of sin and that of pardon; in that of religion, since its place and its essence alike are spiritual; in that of prayer and that of worship; in that of piety toward God, and in that of human virtue. His entire ministry rests on the basis of man's spiritual nature, and without this would be utterly unmeaning. His teaching was indeed a voice to the world on behalf of the soul, familiarizing the lost idea, and pleading for its restoration.-Dr. J. Young.

SOUL. The Conversion of a

It requires all that is in God to convert a soul.-J. H. Evans.

SOUL.-A Definition of the

The soul is a conscious being, endued with a power of self-reflection which distinguishes rational man from all inferior grades. It actuates the mind or understanding within, as that again gives motion and direction to the outer frame; and is in every one alike the source of his highest happiness and his keenest misery—of all his moral and intellectual feelings-of all that in each one makes the man.-Archdeacon Hoare.

SOUL.-The Development of the

God has permitted the soul to sink in dust that it may burst its way through error to truth, through faults to virtue, through sufferings to bliss.—Engel.

SOUL.-The Funeral Obsequies of a Lost

What-if it be lawful to indulge such a thought—what would be the funeral obsequies of a lost soul? Where shall we find the tears fit to be wept at such a spectacle? or, could we realize the calamity in all its extent, what tokens of commiseration and concern would be deemed equal to the occasion? Would it suffice for the sun to veil his light, and the moon her brightness?—to cover the ocean with mourning, and the heavens with sackcloth? Or, were the whole fabric of nature to become animated and vocal, would it be possible for her to utter a groan too deep, or a cry too piercing, to express the magnitude and extent of such a catastrophe?-R. Hall.

SOUL.-The Greatness of the

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul: it is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, large as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.-Emerson.

SOUL.-The Immortality of the

It must be so, Plato, thou réason'st well!

Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?

Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
"Tis the divinity that stirs within us;

'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.-Addison.

He who will not admit the immortality of the soul is forced to deny justice, morality, duty, conscience, God; and by that denial, to sap the foundation of all society.-Nicolas.

SOUL.-The Loss of the

The loss of the soul ranks next to the loss of its God.-E. Davies.

SOUL-Remembrance concerning the

Let those who are instrumental in bringing one sheep into the fold of Christ on earth, remember that they add one harp to the chorus of heaven.—Dr. Marsh. SOUL.-The Source of the

From the hand of Him who loves her ere she sees the day, the soul comes like a babe that wantons sportively.-Dante.

SOUL.-The Steadfastness of the

The soul that has a firm and living faith in her theology, will be to heretical thoughts, even in their most violent form, as the moon to the ocean in the fiercest battles of her billows: she will look calmly down, and with majestic silence move on her way. Dr. Thomas.

SOUL.-The Worth of the

The worth of a single soul immeasurably transcends in importance all that material greatness and splendour of which the wildest ambition could frame a conception.-F. Arnold.

SOULS. The Care of

The care of souls committed to persons among us, is not an absolute, undefined, and unaccountable thing; but it is limited as to places, persons, and duties; -they are to teach the people committed to their charge.-Bishop Stillingfleet.

SOULS at Ease.

Would it indeed be possible to despair of despairing souls? The souls that appal us are the souls at ease. Those who doubt of their salvation, because they

SOUL. Christ and the

There is no formal exposition in the recorded sayings of Christ of the doctrine of the soul, its origin, its nature, its union with the body, its powers, its laws, and its fate. None of these form the subject of elaborate argumentation, or of bril liant discussion. Proof is never attempted. Jesus spoke to men as if He knew that they did not need proof, and that they already had within them the highest proof of which the subject admitted. He spoke of the soul as of a truth ascer tained and indisputable, which men had wickedly excluded from their minds. He spoke like one whose office was to announce that of which they ought not to have been ignorant, and to remind them of that which they ought never to have forgotten. His method was direct appeal to the spiritual nature-clear, solemn appeal, in a matter of which He left themselves to be the judges. His ministry was a proclamation, in all places, circumstances, connections, of the doctrine of the soul. Hence this doctrine lies underneath all His teachings, or is closely interwoven with them, is directly suggested by them, often conspicuously stands out from them. He is resolved that the world shall know and believe that there is a spiritual as well as a material nature in man, an invisible, precious part of his being, and that the forgotten mind is a profound, a universal reality. This was involved in His doctrine of a reign of God; in that of sin and that of pardon; in that of religion, since its place and its essence alike are spiritual; in that of prayer and that of worship; in that of piety toward God, and in that of human virtue. His entire ministry rests on the basis of man's spiritual nature, and without this would be utterly unmeaning. His teaching was indeed a voice to the world on behalf of the soul, familiarizing the lost idea, and pleading for its restoration.-Dr. J. Young.

SOUL.-The Conversion of a

It requires all that is in God to convert a soul.-J. H. Evans.

SOUL.-A Definition of the

The soul is a conscious being, endued with a power of self-reflection which distinguishes rational man from all inferior grades. It actuates the mind or understanding within, as that again gives motion and direction to the outer frame; and is in every one alike the source of his highest happiness and his keenest misery-of all his moral and intellectual feelings-of all that in each one makes the man.-Archdeacon Hoare.

SOUL. The Development of the

God has permitted the soul to sink in dust that it may burst its way through error to truth, through faults to virtue, through sufferings to bliss.—Engel.

SOUL.-The Funeral Obsequies of a Lost

What-if it be lawful to indulge such a thought—what would be the funeral obsequies of a lost soul? Where shall we find the tears fit to be wept at such a spectacle? or, could we realize the calamity in all its extent, what tokens of commiseration and concern would be deemed equal to the occasion? Would it suffice for the sun to veil his light, and the moon her brightness?—to cover the ocean with mourning, and the heavens with sackcloth? Or, were the whol fabric of nature to become animated and vocal, would it be possible for utter a groan too deep, or a cry too piercing, to express the magnitude an of such a catastrophe ?-R. Hall.

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul: it is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, large as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.-Emerson.

SOUL.-The Immortality of the

It must be so, Plato, thou réason'st well!

Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?

Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
"Tis the divinity that stirs within us;

'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.-Addison.

He who will not admit the immortality of the soul is forced to deny justice, morality, duty, conscience, God; and by that denial, to sap the foundation of all society.-Nicolas.

The loss of the soul ranks next to the loss of its God.-E. Davies.

SOUL-Remembrance concerning the

Let those who are instrumental in bringing one sheep into the fold of Christ on earth, remember that they add one harp to the chorus of heaven.-Dr. Marsh. SOUL.-The Source of the

From the hand of Him who loves her ere she sees the day, the soul comes like a babe that wantons sportively.-Dante.

The soul that has a firm and living faith in her theology, will be to heretical thoughts, even in their most violent form, as the moon to the ocean in the fiercest battles of her billows: she will look calmly down, and with majestic silence move on her way.-Dr. Thomas.

The worth of a single soul immeasurably transcends in importance all that material greatness and splendour of which the wildest ambition could frame a conception.-F. Arnold.

mitted to persons among us, is not an absolute, undehing; but it is limited as to places, persons, and duties; ople committed to their charge.-Bishop Stillingfleet.

pair of despairing souls? The souls that who doubt of their salvation, because they

SOUL. Christ and the

There is no formal exposition in the recorded sayings of Christ of the doctrine of the soul, its origin, its nature, its union with the body, its powers, its laws, and its fate. None of these form the subject of elaborate argumentation, or of bril liant discussion. Proof is never attempted. Jesus spoke to men as if He knew that they did not need proof, and that they already had within them the highest proof of which the subject admitted. He spoke of the soul as of a truth ascertained and indisputable, which men had wickedly excluded from their minds. He spoke like one whose office was to announce that of which they ought not to have been ignorant, and to remind them of that which they ought never to have forgotten. His method was direct appeal to the spiritual nature-clear, solemn appeal, in a matter of which He left themselves to be the judges. His ministry was a proclamation, in all places, circumstances, connections, of the doctrine of the soul. Hence this doctrine lies underneath all His teachings, or is closely interwoven with them, is directly suggested by them, often conspicuously stands out from them. He is resolved that the world shall know and believe that there is a spiritual as well as a material nature in man, an invisible, precious part of his being, and that the forgotten mind is a profound, a universal reality. This was involved in His doctrine of a reign of God; in that of sin and that of pardon; in that of religion, since its place and its essence alike are spiritual; in that of prayer and that of worship; in that of piety toward God, and in that of human virtue. His entire ministry rests on the basis of man's spiritual nature, and without this would be utterly unmeaning. His teaching was indeed a voice to the world on behalf of the soul, familiarizing the lost idea, and pleading for its restoration.-Dr. J. Young.

SOUL. The Conversion of a

It requires all that is in God to convert a soul.-J. H. Evans.

SOUL.-A Definition of the

The soul is a conscious being, endued with a power of self-reflection which distinguishes rational man from all inferior grades. It actuates the mind or understanding within, as that again gives motion and direction to the outer frame; and is in every one alike the source of his highest happiness and his keenest misery-of all his moral and intellectual feelings-of all that in each one makes the man.-Archdeacon Hoare.

SOUL.-The Development of the

God has permitted the soul to sink in dust that it may burst its way through error to truth, through faults to virtue, through sufferings to bliss.—Engel.

SOUL.-The Funeral Obsequies of a Lost

What-if it be lawful to indulge such a thought-what would be the funeral obsequies of a lost soul? Where shall we find the tears fit to be wept at such a spectacle? or, could we realize the calamity in all its extent, what tokens of commiseration and concern would be deemed equal to the occasion? Would it suffice for the sun to veil his light, and the moon her brightness?—to cover the ocean with mourning, and the heavens with sackcloth? Or, were the whole fabric of nature to become animated and vocal, would it be possible for her utter a groan too deep, or a cry too piercing, to express the magnitude and e of such a catastrophe?-R. Hall.