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REV. JAMES GOSSET-TANNER, M.A., ON 



more alcohol down his throat the man will soon not be dead-drunk, 

 but dead. 



It was to him a subject for reverent wonder that so long ago we 

 should have, Eastward, in a religious address to philosophers, so 

 accurate a summary of the functions of spirit, soul and body. 



Lieut. -Colonel M. A. Alves said : — I wish to express my thanks 

 to the Reader of the Paper, firstly, for those things in it, with which 

 I am in hearty agreement, and secondly, for giving an opportunity 

 of discussing a subject which I believe to be of great importance. 



When the Apostle Paul wrote the words, " the spirit, and the 

 soul, and the body," he was referring solely to regenerated men. 

 These, as such, are individual creations, being Divinely begotten. 



To find out what man is by nature, we must go to the earlier 

 chapters of Genesis, correctly translated. There I find (see Gen. i, 

 26-27), that man was a special creation distinct from that of the 

 brutes, and in the image of God, and in this latter respect, distinct 

 not only from them, but the male in a measure distinct from the 

 female (see also Gen. v, 1, 2). 



In 1 Cor. xi, 3-10, the Apostle Paul emphasizes this sex distinction. 

 Spiritually, and in Christ Jesus, there is no sex distinction (see 

 Gal. iii, 28). 



In Gen. ii, 7, we find that into an earthen model God breathed 

 " a breath of lives " (no definite article), and man became — What ? 

 That which the whole of the lower animate creation named in Gen. i 

 already were, or possessed, viz., a " living soul " (see Gen i, 20, 

 21, 24, 30, and other passages in Genesis and Leviticus, rightly 

 translated). This " breath of lives " is called breath of spirit of 

 lives " in Gen. vii, 21-23 ; and it is there mentioned as the common 

 property of fowl, cattle, beast and creeping thing, as well as of man. 



This to my mind shows that man and brute have one originating 

 life source, and that this source is a creation of God and not a part 

 of His own Personality. Indeed Adam's easy fall in the presence of 

 temptation is evidence to me that it was not Divine in its essence 

 (see 1 John iii, 9). 



I consider that, as water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen, 

 so the soul," in its first Bible sense, the property of sentient 

 beings alone, is the result of the union of spirit of life and matter ; 

 so that the natural man is, Bi- not Tri-partite. 



