Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-02-24

The ABOVE, MIR. Editor, Is an extract from a
short but instructive essay which appers IN
your paper oil the 2lL rstant. To tho truth
there presented assen, mus, be given with one
exception, AMI tina, is found in the sonte nee
jus, reci,ed and is thus expressed: "The spirit
lives forevef," BY the spirit l suppose is
meant the soul. But IL the spirit or soul live
forever. il must be wholly independent of The
body Tor IT'S existence, no whist snding the fac,
tina, willis here, i, is seriously affected by the
condition OF this physical organization. Tha,
men when dead will live again, is sorip,ural,
and therefore an uudeniable truth; bu, from
what potion of scripture, or upon what princi.
pc of philosophy or reason is it asserted that
the ,pirt or soul survive, the hody2
II, in the mulurliciryof your engagements as
Editor, you can find time TO answer this guess
tion you will greatly obige
ALloUIS.
In endeavoring TO answer tie question OF
our correspondent as il deserves, we lear we
should be violating the not npochryphal adm
milton Of "1he Preacher" "seek not ont he
things that are too hard for thee. neither search
the things that are above Thy strength :" never.
,heesS, we may, perhaps, with proprieiy Srecu-
late revsrenily upon all of Revelation, and form
our opinions from what we therein find, with>
Out wrong or harm. Upon This subjec, we have
formed our opibi IN, from the impression, gem
efal and perhaps vague, that revelation has
made apon our mind. Notwithstanding the
pride OF art and science, cavl as so ne will the
truths of revelation taught us all We know.
They are the fouada lens OF science, the
! prpunfi which for
lion and constant support. "The poor Indian,
with ,ntuored mind," though he may ''see
God in the clouds and hear him IN the wind"
has no farther conception OF him than III II he is
the Great Spirit that lives at the head Of his
happy hunting ground. He has no conception
OF a seli-cxiscnt, eternal. omnipressnt, omnis-
Gent power whose works are boundeSs, and
all created 70: an end or purpose. Where
then first comes our knowledge of Astronomy
or the desire TO attain that KIN owledge OF of the
Philosophy Of matisr or mind From the
truths oi the Deity, who is the creator, in his
revelation.
To that we must then look for our bes, in for :
nation OF Him, his works and hi, designs for
US here and hereafter. In that revelation we
find, in Gen. land The Lord God lorme man
VI Nuh' W 'hc Ri'utut anu pICdincU INTO
his nrstIils the breath Of life; ard man be-
came living soul" This breath was not
simply life, che why was not the same express
sion used when he gave life 10 the animals he
I had created. The one he mode, an animal
with enough OF instinct 10 take the food i could
get, defend us body, and seek necessary res,
when weary; but into man he brealhed the
meath OF life e'ernal-a part of the DEITY,
spi' I, sou, which, in entering the body be.
came an independent, distinct free agent, which
II must ever remain. IL directs and guides
The body-h determines, acts IN The BODY
through the VIII ITS subject. Shall we say
then ih~, it + not Independent, OF physical ~.
gan'z lion? II is OF and fr, N God the boly
IS OF and from The earth. Ii, gires The soul,
Vie holy he builds for its earthly ienemen,.
The soul, by nature, is pcrfeci-of God Ihe
b ty impeiiect-of earth. The power and
propensity Of the soul to sin is from the body.
Avarice, last, and sluttony are the foundations
on which we build sins m .untain hish. |, the
soul cum, e.led 10 be eyer encountered with
this propensity 10 sin Ii not, whence arises
The nettSSty OF purifying thiS or making anoih>
~ body in which 10 inhabit state where there
IL NJ Sin3 Nohing IN the mate, iaL, or, if YOU
Will, present world, is Nrnscd in vain. Shli!
we suppose Iaat vain thing is formed foI the
iu'ure world? II il eats and drinks, has pas
SONS and is clothed, the tendency TO SIN must
exist. i! not, il is no b. dy. but spirit.
The usual expressions, as we un lersiand
Them, tend clearly TO incuIcl'e The idea that
the body dies. Our Savior says, Take no
thought fa' The morrow; what We shall eat -,
wnatye shall drink, or wherewiIh We shall be
clothed."' This evidently refers to the body
"a no; worth thought Paul 10 the Romans
says, 1--WE seek The spirit they follow The
fl sh in unightcousness." To The CorrnIhf-
ans he says, it is tue, "Sown in corruption.
raised ia interruption, ""Sowa in the natural
body, raised in the spiritual BODY" But we 10
not perceive that the inference necessarily fol.
lows, that heSpIriiual budy is material lhi ng
either uh or without connection with the
present body. That The soul has a h ipe winch
is fellow soul may see, may commune with,
and that The SpIft may look upon The earth il
inhabited, hat Splrils OF dear, parted friends.
are, II we prove ourselves worthy of their
care and consideration when their sous by
d'ath are enabled to bio d, iance 10 matter and
sce 'our motives, lowering around us and
leading us 20 right, To virtue and Il G. ID we
do not doubt, we cannot; but did We believe
that they possessed body having in it aught
of the material we should be a believer in
On 'stS A II Is, we are satisfied that
miracle NUT he uT0ushl to raise the body, or
Il cast The film Of material organization from
cur eyes.
Our Savior rose again on the third day, the
stone was rolled away from the sepulc ne and
the bodi goHci hut He existed before He was
connected with the body; isAst have been
Split be ore he had material body, aud his
resurrection and ascension, yoald MOP in pro.
liability, have been 10 boGy. At les<r, we can.
not conceive hat body nov al The nghf han +
O. Ciot. WIS irnot Il en- by mir,cle, taken
away ~ SHOW plpa1'y To tehol ier>, an tbro,
! them f a. IL