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| PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SOUL AND Eli
~ Martyr Payne, M D., etc. New York
Harper Brothers. Memphis; d. Wade, 29I
Main street.
Here Is q book that will bring great
comfort to those souls who find in the
Bible a balm for every wound, and who
look within its pages to find the solution
Of every problem OF life-scientifo or
otherwise. Il is in remarkable contrast
to the scientific publications of our dav,
and is as thorough in its espousRl of the
orthodoxy Of the days of the authors
| boyhoOd as il is energetic in its almost
/ denunciation of modern rstionalism,
which is growing at a rate fearful to con-
template, Is VIZ think, the legitimate fruit
! OF the WOrldliness and ~selfshness, the love
| of show and a desire for ectGf which crops
cut so frequently-too frequently in those
who themselves are leaders in the church
OF Christ. DE- Payne, who is s venerable
disciple OF Esculaupius, in. this work, the
fruit Of years, trenches upon the ground
covered by DR.. Hodge in his AnthropOl-
ogy. He rejects the idea of the soul as q
material substances, ~interprets the Bible
literally, and scouts all definitions Of
time or seasons that would bring the
Mosaic account of the creation In har-
mony with the theory of biologists. DIR.
Payne in this is IS much to be admired
for his bravery g. for the unquestioned
ability he displays in the calculation #
his philosophy. He admits that good and
sven religious men differ from him. but
that does not prevent him from firing
pellets Of Wit-sETcaSm mixed with
Biblical statement that g half century
since we're more difficult to combat
than in these days of the Dsrwinian and
other theories, which DR.. Paine so heart
lily condemns, He hates the now prevail
ent msterialistic doctrines, and attacks
them earnestly in the first chapters, which
are devoted TO a denomination of the
existence of the soul and ths reputation of
the ideas OF Darwin and his followers.
In these he carries us with him and al
though we may not quite accept his mode
Of putting this doctrine, we yet give our
adhesion to q belief in the soul, its &C.
~cOun5sbtlity and responsibility both here
under a government of law and hereafter
TO the GOd who is hssd ovsr all, supreme:
by whom sal things were made, and
without whom Wss not snything made
that was made, in whom wss life and the
was the light of men," We believe
there Is q great first cause by whose fat
al things exist, both great and small,
and that as He called the material world
existence and continues il by law, SO
he perpsbustes his hsndiwOrk in man in
the hereafter. His creation was signalized
by the beginning OF that reign of laws
which IL remained for such earnest work.
ss MsUry to develop, showing us that
fierce Winds arise from natural causes,
and that the currents Of the ocean, until
recently q bugbesr TO mariners, have their
n the goodness of God, who by
them maintains the equilibrium of heat
snd cold that makes IL possible for North
ern Europe TO be inhabited by men of u
race. But it Is not against this positive |
science that Dr.. Payne in7eighs, though
he is too old q fogy sven to en-
terrain 1t as heartily as he might.
The author places himself upon the COM
accepted ground that with the op-
p~onents of msterislism admits of little
questionable intellectual and material
elements OF tbs composite man; and ar
CUES out, IS he thinks, lsgitimately accord
9TH manifestation of both elements,
He is equally at war with the followers of
Berksly, who held that everything
spirit, and thR5 all apparent forms Of
material world were but ideas Of the
mind; and with the materislists who hold,
n the language Of Huxley, that thought
nay be regarded as q modification of
nstter, DR., Payne accepts the universal
consciousness of man 81 the basis of bis
work thst there is al intelligence / n man,
he operations ofWhioh are as different In
heir nature and manner from the opera
ions OF matter IS it is possible TO con-
,eiVe, and thst there Is also a veritsbIe
nsterislism in the world whose msnifes-
atoms and laws are peculiarly its own,
The authOr accepts both entities, and Ia
Jors to prove that they are never merged
INTO nor COMPOUNDED with each other, we
My know matter by its properties, we
10 not know it by Itself. For instance;
ye know a stone by its qualities of
lsrdness, extension, and color, solidity,
'ut yet We never cali any Of these
Qualities the stone itself. All OF them
AIKEN together, go to make up the mate
ial thing We call 2 stone; but we remain
q ignorance ali the time, and ever must.
( what the thing itself Is. Our knoWl- ,
dge of matter is very limited; our &C.
usintsnce with mind, or intelligence, is
lore extensive. We know the mind by
IS qualities or faculties, understanding.
free will-all of which 90 10
make up the spiritual thing We call the
Oul, but what the thing itself is we know !
though q knowledge of 1t is more
and varied than our knowledge
( matter. We have q sounder warranty
u believing in the spirituality of the
1ul than we have for believing in The ma
of the outer world. A belief in .
isterialism, to the exclusion of spirit, !
author contends, is abandoning the
,ToDger for the weaker reason, setting
tide the greater for the lesser proof. We {
,cspitulRte the contents Of this book: :
be Introduction and the first FIVE
are occupied with a DEM
lstrstion OF the existence of the
and tho rsfutatiOu of the material Z
Is. In the mex six chapters the subtle {
llscies based on the new doctrine of the '
reservation Of forces are tracked out and
The eleventh chapter is de-
tied to the defense of the Mosaic nara
yes of the creation and the flood; the
7eltth to showing the insuffieienoy of
o evidence on which excessive antiquity
claimed for the human race on the 3
nth; the thirteenth TO an excoriatiou of
Biological g~eologists; the fourteenth to
analysis Of the Bible account of the 81
sstioD as bearing upon the existence of a
Q soul while the b tteeHth and sixteenth
Sat Of animal instinct. There ia Also
% appendix on the Organization of the
nth; another on the Flood, IN which an
calculation is made, showing q
az Noah's ark WsE big enough, Accord
z to the Dimensions attributed TO &c. 10
ID all the animals the Bible says it die:
d a third on the coal formations AZ tes-
ying TO the delugo.
TALL MAx OF WESTON And his WIFE.
By "Oyer Forty" Nashville, Tennessee.
NAAAAgAA 1AA 4 - 1890 - Ahagl h
treet.
Here is a book the moral OF which, like
that emanates from the same sOurcs,
good, and that other than Sunday
,ool readers may pause with profit as
n as pleasure. Taere smoothing Ike cant
It's pages. 1t is a simple story that, like
|, lie Of an individual, conveys its own nj
raj. Indeed it is the story of a lie, m
!, conclusion OF which IL summed up
the paragraph on psge 800, which tells
that the hero, listening to . sermon on
ext, hCon1e unto ms, all ye that Ia
I and are heavy laden, and I will give
D rest. - il converted from the ways Of
world and gives himself unto Christ,
anne a legislator and g judge whose
mons are to-day the law Of the land
4 be for centuries to come. We hone
i this good book and all the other pub
Of this sociesy viii IND not only I
dy but extensive sale.
II TIE STORM, AND OTHER STORIES.
y Ouida- Philadelp hia: J.Bfppincou q Co. nc
Lemphis; Boyle & Chapman.
his is a collection of stories from the :
A Of s writer whose power OF delinea- az
q Is admitted 70 be far beyond any =
ng the book-making art In female
Ids has yet been able 20 serve US. As
shings else from 0uida'B pen, these sto- Le
are OF absorbing interest, wonderful ali
Q lnBlgns iDto the motive, the secret
rkings OF the soul which they afford J
sre Is apeculiar fascination IN sn she 20
that none can resist and all give wi
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