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distinct from faith, may be considered the basis of religion. We are always in 
danger of riding our hobby to death : hence, to say that religion is ! based o 
rein is as little erroneous, as it would be to say that it is based 
Reason and faith are twin sisters-it is impossible to separate them m 
Christian experience. Religion based upon reason without farth would be pure 
rationalism; and religion based upon faith without reason would be pure 
superstition. (Cheers.) It is by the union ot the two under the teaching 
God’s Holy Spirit, that we conceive what God is, and that we can receive from 
Him the gift of everlasting life. As to spirit, soul, and body, I find that 
Mr. English, in his 5th section, calls them prime factors in human nature, 
co-ordinate and inseparable. In some respects, this is perhaps * • * 
are separable, however, in this respect ; that pneumatology may be considered 
as the science which relates to the spirit ; psychology may be considered 
separately, as the science which relates to the soul ; and physiology may be 
considered as a science quite distinct from the others relating to he naWre 
of the body. As matters of thought and subjects fin ^study, those three 
things may be viewed as separate and distinct sciences. T e o y, 
would be simply the human frame ? 
Mr. Row.— I think not. . .. . , , TWl 
Mr Titcomb.— I do not mean in its dead, but m its living state, -h ^ 
the soul, according to this paper, would be the vital ethical capacity ^ man s 
nature, and the Pneuma would be the pure immaterial spirit Now the 
question we have to discuss-for this is the crucial point of the paper is 
not that the body can be separated from the other two, tha no one 
would dispute, but that the soul and spirit are separable and are separa. 
Ty death, "the loul being mortal and dying, while the spirit is “a and 
g L to its rest. Now we ought seriously to protest against that ppsitiom I 
should be sorry if it went out to the world that the \ ictoria Institute, 
was designed to conserve the principles of religion, should speak so loose 
upon the question of the soul, as to give its imprimatur to the doctrine tha. 
the soul is mortal, and dies, and is disintegrated. 
The Chairman. — One of our rules is that members a e md viduaUy 
responsible for their opinions. We do not give an imprimatur to anyth.n, 
“tlT^iilTothtlhat the soul, as the ethical part of man, survives 
after death, and is inseparable from the spirit I will give - proofs &om ft. 
New Testament. The parable of Lazarus and Dives wH cH we read yes 
terdav in church, although it is only a parable, yet really m ts nature does 
£a moral relationship on the part of the disembodied portion o 
man after death with that which has been left Muni The^oul m heU^ 
described as recollecting-there is memory, as sympathizing w th andfeel^ 
for tbe misery of those who belonged to him y ms ip m j egug 
there is an ethical capacity surviving after j do not know 
Christ, who spoke as man never spake ; and if that ’ 
ho4 the Psyche can have died, and the Pneuma alone have 
are both so inseparable, that I cannot understand how they could be sep* . 
