People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — Stop and Think. [ARTICLE]

Stop and Think.

Is man such a mystery as theologians teach, possessing entities the eye can never reach, the outer man of dust was made, in which they all agree, and in this there dwells a soul, and spirit making three by this arrangement, don’t you see a triune man appears; mysterious as a three, one god who centers everywhere, for in the outer man there dwells the mystic man—the soul; also a third or spirit man, which makes the compact whole, soon body man returns to dust; the spirit man to god; the soul man down to hell is cast, to writhe in lire and blood. Now if that is true Cain must for six thousand years in these conditions dwell —one Cain in dust, one Cain with God, the other Cain in hell.

Now please hear what the word of God says is the man. Gen. 2-7: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Again the word of God says: The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life, therefore I live by breathing the breath of the Almighty, not by virtue of an i nmortal soul inherent in me. Now, friends, there is no such word as immortal soul found in all the book of God, but we are invited to seek for immortality by patiently continuing in well doing, but if men have immortal souls they have no need of seeking for what they are in possession of already. But that is not irue for eternal life is the gift of Gtd through the Lord Jesus Christ, the life giver.

H. M. BABB.