The New York herald., 1872-07-07
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
July 7---Seventh Sunday After Pcnte-
ccss-"The Most Precious Blood"
RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR T0-CAY.
Herald Religious Corrc-
spondence.
Tho Immortality OF the Soul
Discussion.
Tho ssChurch of tho Dolly
Vardcns.'
QUESTION FOR SWEDENB0RGIANS
Can o Sincere Jew Become Sincere
Christian
TIE NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN CHURCH
st. Anne's Reception in
Brooklyn.
DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION
Non-BeIievers In Eternal
Punishment.
Changes and Movements Among
the Ministers.
TIE NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN CHURCH
st. Anne's Reception in
Brooklyn.
DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION
Non-BeIievers In Eternal
Punishment.
Changes and Movements Among
the Ministers.
Services To-Day.

Services To-Day.
Bishop Snow will tell "How the Last Trump
gounds' this afternoon at the University.
Rev. Dr.. Flagg breaches morning and evening at
the Church Of the Resurrection.
Bt Thomas church will be open every Sunday for
divine service during the summer. Holy Commu.
nion win be administered to-day.
Rev. Isaac Riley viii preach at the Thirty-fourth
street Reformed church In the morning and at four
O'Clock In the afternoon.
Thomas Gales Forster, trance speaker, win
Iecture in Apollo Hall, morning and evening He
does not state Ills subject-perhaps he does not
know 1t yet himself.
Rev. DR.. Frank A. Farley viii preach IN the
Church of the Messiah Park avenue and Thirty.
fourth street, in the morning.
Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr, will preach in the
Cnrch of the Holy Trinity at halfpast ten O'Clock
In the morning.
Ia Zion church there win be services In the FORE
noon and evening.
Rev. e. M. Grant viii preach to the congregation
sethe Fifth Universalist Society In Plimpton Build
ing, whittier the members have removed from
Chickering Hail. In the forenoon.
Tho Immortality Of tho Soul Discus
sion.
+ would be somewhat amusing to follow the dis
putants In the HERALD on this subject were 1t not
painful to earnest seekers after truth, founder
ing amid pitfalls and stumbling blocks, merely for
the want of lucid definition OF the word on which
their discussion Is founded. The disputants In this
case have fallen into the common error OF many
theologans by taking for granted that soul and
spirit, in the Bible use OF those terms, means one
and the same thing, when the very reverse Is evi-
dent to any one who will take the trouble to
investigate the subject To begin at the beginning,
the first time the word 'sou" occurs in the Bible is
n Genesis, H., Z, which reads husband the Lord
God formed man OF the dust OF the ground and
breathed into his nostrlls the breath Of life and
man became living soun Here is clear, simple
statement of the origin Of this thinking, acting,
responsible being called man-an organized being,
In which the neshly and the spiritual, the earthly
and the heavenly are so interviewer as to act and
react each on the other-every desire and appetite
and passion of the eshly nature being good In ITSELF
but liable to abuse unless kept In check and under
control Of the spiritual or moral elements OF this
strangely combined organization. To have said that
this man became living spirit on this blending of
che earthly and the spiritual would have been con-
tradiction in terms hence the propriety of the term
~soul," as expressing condltion neither earthly
nor spiritual alone, but combination OF the two.
It e to this organized being man, under the desig-
nation OF soul, that the laws or God are adapted
and addressed-laws perfectly applicable TO his
wants, and which would not apply to any other
condition OF being. "Thou shalt not steal" is
command that neither the animal nor the angel re-
suires, because it is not adapted to their separate
Individual natures; but its strict observance by the
human soul In its social sphere is OF the utmost i'm
portance TO the peace and harmony OF that sphere.
These commands are therefore addressed to the
SOUL The soul sometimes Obeys aud receives the re-
aud sure is as certain as the smart attending the
thrusting OF the hand into the fire. III soul sin,"
III soul touch any unclean thing" are common
che various shades OF disoDedience to Gods laws,
which were addressed, under the name Of soul, to
man rs man-not to the spiritual part alone, but to
the whole man. In whom sometimes the spiritual
predominates aud sometimes the animal Lady
byron " said to have described her husband
Is pretty certain that he was fair
representative OF those impus,ve natures which
bad-not from necessity, for that idea would upset
the doctrine OF free agency and make man mere
to e truth ss Of o
is he who brings his baser passions In subsection
- the higher faculties Of his nature and thus con-
In Ezekiel xviii, 90 we read, "The soul that sin
meth IL shall de," and in verse 27 we read, In con-
tinuation Of tine same subject, "when the wicked
man turneth away from his wickedDess that he
hath committed, and dOeth that which Is lawful
and right he shall save his soul aliven Is
OF IL the organized individual man--not the mystic
rous, subtle essence which Is more properly called
0plrlJ lB IL not equally eV1uenJ JnaJ Tie ucstu
spoken Of Ia not the natural death Of the body but
q state OF normal deatn which Is the condition OF
every one who is In q state OF rebellion against
God IL is the death In which first parents be-
came involved In the day that they rebelled,
although their natural death did not occur for
many years. and from this moral death there Is a
moral resurrection for St. Paul says "You hath He
guckened who were dead In trespasses and SINS"
Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life he
that believeth In me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live.v Now, we know that
one who Il literally dead cannot exercise
the faculty Of belief 1t ls evident therefore, that
II 10 those who are cropping their way in the dark
ness OF unbelief and the shame and degradation OF
moral death who are the ft subjects OF Christ's
moi a resurrection, which takes place when this
degraded soul awakes to the consciousness that
God s love, and tnat Jesus Christ the living per-
sonal revelation OF that love to a sinful world,
through the medium and operation OF the Holy
Spirit, which readily finds its way to every loving
believing heart. This belief, however, must not be
simply blind, credul0us acceptance OF q man.
made creed, but such tl0ng faith Ia the power Of
love, as exhibited In Chrsts life and DEATH az
ahall ni the soul with love to God and love to man.
Any faith or belief that tails short OF that will fall
just 70 far short of working moral resurrection.
There. are many other Scriptural passages, too
numerous to quote, In which the distinction be-
tween soul and split Is clearly drawn, all going to
confirm the view above expressed. The question
whether the soul In the Bible sense OF the word, Is
immortal is therefore, easily solved; for, partak-
ing, as part OF Its organization, OF the earthly
nature, winch is cOrruptibc, n dissolution OF the
partnership between the spiritual and the neshly