The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-09-06
The Soul.


 ties. The moral power of the soul may be chased, as the will, conscience, affection, or love. IT Ifperverted by evil, these lose their control over the man, and he becomes nor- bib or reckless.
 The vill is king. Here is the determining power by which the actions of the entire man must be governed. Whether he decides right or wrong, for good or Ill, the "will' must determine. If there be an enlightened "conscence' and q sound ''reason,h there are stronger reasons 10 hope that the decisions will be wise that the life will be governed by the sound principles of truth and justice. The conscience, when interrupted, dstin- guishes between right and wrong by view ing the action in its moral aspect. On the | other hand, treason" would ask, how would | the action appear, and what will be the re- suits or in matters of business, it weighs the chances of gain and loss. Again, love and memory lend their aid to the will, in making decision in favor of this or that. 1T memory holds CD to what is evil, and that evil ie loved, unless reason and conscience have stronger influence upon tkc will, the evil tendencies will be triumphant, and that man will be sure to go astray, whether the temptation be toward falsshood, dishonesty, blasphemy, intemperence, impurity; his career will be downward, and hat for the merciful interpretations of Providence, hi, end will bc dreadful. But if the scales turn on the side of right, if the whole soul and mind be inclined to the good and righ, way, if the will is braced Hp so as to decide not to go astrsy, there vii. be an uhspottcd life, Ike the soul. "As q man thinketh so is he." "Out of the abundance of the heart the rrou,h speaketh." If all within is pure, and all without is right, what beautiful life ! Then life will be a success. From the heart, i.e, soul, proceeds action, whether to holi- ness or sin, hope or despair, to heaven or hell. If that be wrong, the lie cannot be right 1T the inner life Is only pure, the outer If, will be unspotted. Such s man, measure him which way you will, up or down, right or left, he 'is all right on the square" "Friend- ship, love, and truth" will.be in him, and de- tended by him. 'Tbe pure in beart," the living Christian is the highest style of man of this class, there are many too few, though they will never become fewer; for the tid' is moving, and the scales are poising in thu right direction. With a true Philosophy and sound Theology, millions are crowdin; to the fore front of human progress, anc thereby clearing the way up to the hghes standard Of human perfection, for other mil lions now living, and the uncoanted millions yet unborn. This living up to the Creator laws, natural and revealed, make. of q man maa. Such men have arisen to the spex 0 moral grandeur before the eyes of the world and of whom it is said, "the righteous shal be in everlasting remembrance" O, mar hopored of God, head of creation, heir C eternity! As
 Emerald isles on oceans sleeping;
 Skies that seem to stretch forever;
 These shall fall, but hoa shalt n<rer.
 As we have observed, "man is . trinity, with atinities and dependencies, which s unite the physical, intellectual, and mor' natures, as to make but one intelligent, ire and responsible being; and in order ths each nature may perform its functions vel the body must have health, the mind know edge, the soul purity. The food and pr lection for the health, sustenanee and wig of the frst, as it i, earthly, come from ear,i the knowledge, for the second nature, reach out far beyond itself, and embraces facts, pri ciples, laws, of things visible and jnyisib material and immaterial, natural and spi itgsi, of this world and others while q purity for the soul, the soul being spir can be derived only from divine Spir This brings God and man together; the man spirit, so to speak, touches the Diyir whence 1t derives its purity, and the pow to overcome evil And we read, Thus sai the high and lofty One that inhabiteth ct nity, whose name is Holyi l dwell in high and holy place with him also that Is spirit of the humble, and to review { heart of the contrte ones" This union vi God, during the measurement of human Ii ensures sn eternity" of happiness, wh God "inhsbiteth.' The outward appe Ance of man does not indicate what he req Is; nor will what he has done, prove all is. He needed q revelation from God to
 dextand himself; his relation, to human and Deity, time and eternity. Here Is
 unfolding of man. true greatness, name That he is the ossping of God, and heil glory, the child of immortality.
 As you behold hlm snthr roned in bis fut glory blooming in his unfading youth, or
 galing himself in the dvnsr felicities C
 higher life, rising, by an eternal progress
 on naseals of sneh surprising glory and gr
 deur, to those lOflier heights, where now
 tall Srchangel soafs and sings, which far cred the fSlloss conceptions of the T