The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-07
BRIS1OL.
Business is very dull in this town at
present.

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izc yccum soon.
The Bristol village school com.
mcnccd yesterday. A. d. Soarles, teach.
er.
Mr.. A. g. Hill was the victim of a
runaway near Rockydhle the other day.
lie was not injured though thrown out,
Tho Mayo broihecs were to com.
mcnce to show on Wednesday evening,
but their principal performer was so
drunk it had to be postponed
Mr. Joshua lockwood, who has a
cidermil in the west part Of the town had
a large quantity Of apples freeze up and
spoil by the sudden approach Of the cold
weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos llasscltno, who
have been west since August last.
visiting relatives in five Of the western
ttates, have returned home. Mrs. Has
seltino was badly out of health when they
went away, but is greatly improved.
The school district in South Bristol
had fifteen applications for teaching their
school this winter and failed to agree up.
on candidate. 1t was finally left to
the selectmen and Carlos Sumner was
hired. The school was to commence yes.
terday,
Edward Whittemorc got slightly
mixed with a couple glasses Of poisonous
liquor at Bristol village the other day,
and he was taken to the lock up and next
day fined. 1t is thought if it had been
one of the village roughs who had got
into trouble the authorities would have
winked at it,
On the third Sabbath Of November
(2Oth) Rev. Mr. Boswortb, of Bristol,
the Evangelical Advent preacher, preach.
ed, in pursuance Of a notice previously
given, in reply to Mr.. Stewart, taking for
his text Psalm 1897, "Whithcr shall
60 from thy Spirit ? or whittier shall |
flee from thy presence ?" In the cxor-
dunn he said In all languages words
have what is called their literal aud also
their mctaphoricsl meaning, Soul, mind
and spirit arc all used to denote the
thinking principle of man. Soul is op-
posed to body. Mind and spirit arc op.
posed to matter. Soul is used in the act
i've sense, mind more commonly in the
passive; the soul acts, the mind receives
By figure Of speech soul is used for
person. We speak Of the number of
souls, that is persons, in town; of
person as the soul Of society, That figure
of speech in rhetoric is called metonymy
by which the effect is put for the cause
or the cause for the effect, as, gray.hairs
for old age the coutainer for the thing
contained, as, the kettle boils the sign
for the thing signifiod, Us, tho crown for
royalty, the sword for the military occu-
patton, the pen for the profession of let.
tiers. So in the text both spirit and pres.
ence signify God himself AS soul is
used fguratively, so, also, is spirit. We
say of an apple, it has lost its taste, it has
lost its spirit Where we read that "God
is love-" "God is truth" "God is fire."
"God is light" they are all figures of
speech. But when we read that "God is
spirit" and those who worship him must
worship him ''in spirit and il truth" it
is, doubtless, the simple statement Of fact.
There are many places in tho scriptures
where the word spirit is used iguratively,
but child can usually distinguish it in
such places LIST. There are a large
number Of passages whore soul is clearly
used to signify the man, which may be
ftf. 1
Gen. 4G 26. "All the souls that came
with Jacob into Egypt, besides Jacobs
sons wives. were three score and six"
&c. ID There is a large class of texts
where tho soul is used to signify the
power that thinks and feels and reasons
in distinction IRON the body, as, Ps. $3.50,
my soul shall be joyful in the Lord p
also, Mich. 6:7, "Shall | give my first
born for my transgressions, the fruit Of
my body for the sin of my soul ?" &c.
How it is possible with the Bible in hand
to doubt this position is is difficult to
comprehend. Sd. How the soul and body
exist together no one attempts TO explain.
But that they are distinct from each
other and may have separate destiny
is evident for anything that appears to the
contrary. The body was created without
life and God breathed into his nostrils,
then man became living soul. 1t is
said of Rachel, Gen. 50, Gas her soul was
departing, for she died." The widows
son was dead at Sarepta and Elijah
come into him again, and the child that
was dead revived again. LIST Kings 1922.
4th, The writers Of the scriptures with
out attempting to prove the distinction
between the soul and body, refer to it as
if nothing could be better understood, US
ing any form of speech deemed best
adapted to serve their purpose. The
apostle Paul speaks with entire freedom
of his distress and poverty and suffering,
even unto despair OF life, but though
our outward man perish, yet the inward
man is renewed day by day." I'd Cor.
4 ;l6. Again he exclaims, 81 delight in
the law of God after the inward man, but
| sec another law in my members war.
ring against the law Of mind" Rom.
1921, We do not expect 80 make the
case clearer than these passages exhibit
it. but our resources are inexhausliblc
and VIC must turn to another feature Of
evidence. 9th Our Savior in answer
to the cayil of the Saducecs gives us an
incontrovertible argument, to which no
objector has ever attempted a serious re-
ply, and that decision should be consider.
ed final. Mat. - 30 Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob are now still living, but
their bodies are long since returned to
dust. Do we need to pursue this argn-
ment further? VIII not those who set
this aside reject all the evidence Of scrip.
ture 9th, The whole theory of religion
rests upon the doctrine Of the immateri-
ality and the Immortality Of the soul.
The nature of the christians experience
is spiritual The great change of heart
which constitutes him christian IS spirit
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