Gunnison news-champion. [volume] (Gunnison, Colo.) 1905-1932, 1923-10-26
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body alone Is not the man. II YOU ask
me has man a soul. say, no, man does
not have a soul. Man is a soul. and
the soul has body. The body is but
the Temple in which may reside the
soul, the self, the man.
Physically, bodily, as an ANNA
merely, man is bested by many of his
fellow team mates of the earth. A
horse can nun faster. An elephant
can lift more. An ostrich or a mule
can strike harder. An ant is more in
dustrouS. A butterfly dresses prettier
And a monkey can chatter faster. As
body merely the man is n poor ami
NAL. But the body of man as the
Temple in which the soul lives be-
comes elevated, enobled. beautified far
beyond any mere animals body. The
resident mind, the resident soul, the
resident self governing, directing.
shining out through the body makes it
thing Of beauty and of grandeur.
Men may look upon the worlds most
majestic temples. And their souls are
stirred within them by beauty. Men
are thrilled by great cathedrals into
reverential awe and worship. High
aspirations kindle mems souls in the
presence OF cathedral lines of symme-
try and glorious outline. But not one
structure Of stone and mortar can
compare to the Temple of the Body
inhabited by living soul and possess
ed by the Spirit of God. No wonder
Shakespeare burst out with his paean
of praise to man. what 4 piece Of
work is man! How noble in reason!
How infinite in faculty. In form and
moving how express and admirable'
( In action how like an angel! In appre-
hension how like god, The beauty Of
. the world!The paragon of animalsw
| But man is all this not because Of
/ the body alone, but because of the
inner man, the resident within the
I Temple. This Temple of the Body has
. two residents-the man, the self, the
/ soul-YOU, and the Spirit of God.
And il makes a lot of difference to
the body what kind of resident is
within it. Give me two opposing foot
ball teams Of equal weight, man for
man, of equal physical fitness and
! training, Of equal egility and speed,
/ but let the men of one team have 4th
grade intelligences, and the other at
least Of the intelligence of the average
two teams play against each other.
No question as to which team will win
the game. Only a question of how big
a score the intelligent team can run up
( in the playing time. The difference
I is in the soul, the character of the re-
sident within the Body.
I This term, the soul, needs more
careful definition even than the term
careful definition even than the term,
the body. As we have noted the soul
is not something which the person or
| the body has. 1t isn't anything that
can be saved by putting it away in a
/ safety deposit box. The soul is the
life, the very self.-all a person is,
f, And the souls salvation is not some-
thing which you get for the soul. 1t
isn't something that you buy, or beg
or earn apart from your daily life.
: The souls salvation is condition
grown into, condition into which you
grow up determined by your way of
I living. 1t is goal reached, a game
! won. You do not save your soul in
! one down or in three nor four, nor in
one game. 1t takes the whole game
of life well played to win a soul, to
make a self, to save you.
Saving ones soul is life long ad-
venture. 1t is a never ending ro-
nance, Saving ones soul is not the
rescue in security and bliss Of an ethe-
real spirit-spook in the life beyond.
Saving ones soul is the making of Z
personality, the creating of a self, the
forming a character, the winning Of
lme's goal
By the way person responds to the
plays of life. by his ability to know