The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-09

YOU up out of your graves, ami shals
put my spirit in you and ye shat live.
So then we see that when man was ere
ated there was no life or intelligence ~
the body until God caused breath on
air to enter III. So In the resturec~
| ton of the dry bones, showing the
| final resurrection, there was no IN
| telligence or power IN the body, untii
God again caused this breath to enter.
| From this we learn that there Is y
/ life giving power in the air that we
breathe. and that God calls this vitall-
| ling power His spirit Tor life). Spirit
/ means life. '"Then the dust shall re-
turn to the earth as it was, and the
/ shirt aife) to God, who gave It,
| From the foregoing we find that the
| life giving force that goes out from
| Cod is transmitted through the air
we breathe. thus attesting the fact that
all life flows from God, as there can be
no life without breath. This holds
rood in every form of life. In the
vegetable kingdom we find that life
| Is projected and kept in force by the
| infusion of air. Strip the plant or tree
| of its leaves. the medium through
| which God transmits the breath OF Ire,
and it will die. SO in all forms OF AM
nal life There can be none without
the inhalation of air. So we see that
in some mysterious way, we know not
how, the atmosphere about us is ener-
| gized by life giving power from God,
and that, when infused into material
bodies, in Gods appointed ways, 1t pro-
duces individual life, and when with
drawn, individual death.
Then God tells us that He produced
the soul, that active, intelligent force
within us. that governs the whole man,
by infusing into the material body His
spirit or breath; and SO If His spirit
(breathl is withdrawn from the body,
the intelligent force (soull ceases, and
remains nonenity until Gods spirit
life) and the human body are brought
together again. When God took His
shirt flifel from Lazarus, the soul
human lifel ceased, and remained in
that condition until Gods spirit was
returned, when he again became a
living soul thuman being). Has it
ever occurred to You that if Lazarns's
soul had been alive and in some other
place that he would have given some
intimation of such to his friends. We
frequently see where mention is made
of the death of the old patriarchs, that
they gave up the ghost" Ghost is
another name for spirit or life, so they
simply gave up the life and it went
back into God (the great reservoir),
and their bodies into the grave, to a
wait the resurrection. When they are
brought up out of their graves and
Gods shirt again enters their bodies,
there will be recreated that action
force, the soul, and they will again be
living beings. This may be made
palmer by simple illustration. Take
a locomotive, perfect in all its parts,
every bearing, polished and oiled, its
boiler filled with the purest water that
comes out Of the earth, place 1T upon
the best steel rail, upon perfectly
graded road, and yet it is dull, slug
gish thing, with no activity, no lie,
and ii will take many men TO move IT,
Rnt amply heat to the water and You
at once create a force that viii carry
that, engine a mile q minute, that will
keep in motion the wheels OF com
merce and revolutionize the trade Of
the world. Withdraw the heat, and
the force at once ceases, and you de-
stroy the greatest power In the affairs
Of men. without conflicting with that
law Of science, which says that no par
ticle of matter can be destroyed, an
argument sometimes used to prove the
indestruetibiIity Of the soul. Bring
the heat again in contact with the
water and you recreate the force. Ii
may be said, that if the infusion of the
same spirit or life into all bodies pro
duces the life in each, then the plant,
the fish. the beast and man would have
the same kind of soul or life. This
does not necessarily follow. The re-
suit is governed by the kind Of mate
rial acted upon. The same heat APP
piled to common water produces com
mon steam; applied to crude turpen-
tine produces spirits Of turpentine;
and to the decomposed grain produces
alcohol, etc. The Apostle throws light
on this when he says that 'all flesh is
not the same flesh; but there is one
kind of flesh Of men, another flesh Of
beasts, another Of fishes, and another
of birds" And that the glory (life) Of
one Is above the glory (life) of the
other SO when Gods spirit is breath
ed into the body Of man, the highest
order of earthly creatures, an intelli-
gent force, the soul (human life) is
created, that may, upon conditions, ex-
list forever, or vice versa, cease to exist
altogether
In a communication like this / can
only outline the matter, but have tried
to produce sufficient evidence, from the
only authentic source, to show that the
soul is but the human life, or force
created by the infusion of Gods spirit
into the human body, and dependent
for existence upon the unison Of these
two elements, therefore, by their sep
aration it may be destroyed. II we
find the preponderance OF Gods en-
,phatic declarations sustaining these
conclusions, they must be right Hear
what God himself says: For in the
day that thou eatest thereof, thou
shalt surely die" Who, or what,
should die? Not the body only, but