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inates. When did the life of the acorn begin ? Did it 

 begin when the acorn ripened and dropped to the 

 ground or when it germinated? If it was alive when 

 it first matured, and germinated five years afterward, 

 what became of its life between its maturity and its 

 germination ? Is it not reasonable to suppose that the 

 Creator endowed it with life when it germinated ? 



Can we believe that the heat of the mother's 

 body is, alone, adequate to generate life in the fer- 

 tilized ovum? Can we believe that the heat of the 

 sun and the moisture of the earth are, of themselves, 

 sufficient to generate life in a grain of wheat, a grain 

 of corn or an acorn? 



It follows that the fertilized human ovum must 

 be directly and specially endowed by the Creator with 

 the power to absorb and assimilate food, to develop, 

 grow and live ! The Creator in every instance strikes 

 the vital match ! 



Sec. 49. Proposition 16. Every Human 

 Soul is a New, Direct and Special 



Creation 



The soul is defined as : "A substantial entity, 

 believed to be that, in each person, which lives, feels, 

 thinks and wills." (Cent. Die. 7, p. 5781.) 



I hope, and believe that every human being has an 

 immortal soul; and if this be true it must be his or 

 her own, for we cannot imagine that the same soul 



