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soul I forget who it is, but some one has said that the body is the house 
in which the soul lives, but the soul is the house in which the spirit lives, 
and I think that illustrates the case very admirably— at least it appeals to 
me more than anything else. Death comes and separates the body from 
both soul and spirit ; it does not disintegrate the soul from the spirit, 
they, being inseparable, go together to their eternal resting-] place, and l the 
soul and the spirit are capable of being really touched, both together, by the 
higher power of the Holy Spirit, as in the twelfth verse of the fourth chapter 
of the Epistle to the Hebrews : “For the word of God is ^ ulck 
ful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even o = 
asunder of soul and spirit”; not separating but dividing between the , 
reaching into the spirit and renewing it. The soul, I nnagme, “ 0 , 
touched! but the spirit not reached, and that accounts for the fact that in the 
New Testament the spirit is sometimes spoken of as going to eaven, an 
the soul is sometimes spoken of as going to heaven : they are ado P‘ ed as 0n - 
because when the spirit has received its higher life it has sanctified the su 
We come to the crucial text of St. Paul, where he prays that God will 
sanctify them in body, soul, and spirit. When a man is converted from sm, 
his affections are brought into play, and his body is brought into subjectio i, 
“ whole man becomes sanctified. It begins in the spirit passes through 
the Z, and the moral and ethical part of man, and is then distributed 
through the members. That is the exposition of it. (Cheers.) 
Kev Edward White.— I have listened to the proceedings of this evening 
^interest, and would be glad to be allowed . * offer one or two 
observations. The first subject on which I should like to say a word 
tTS ural language. It has been proved this evening that if there 
be ^ny exact or scientific language at all in the Bible, it * " ^ 
employed. A remark made by Mr. Graham appears .to me to be £ 
that the only approach to scientific language on th e > soul is to**®* tj[ 
the Epistle to the Corinthians. If we look back to the ’ - f 
find it is truly said in the book of Job that there is a spirit m man. But I 
guard myself when quoting from Job, for there were three or four 
friends of Job whose utterances were not always the utterances of wisdom 
and in fact they are condemned at the end as not having spoken accorai g 
0 L nCnd Of God ; and when any of these discourse philosophically 1 wil 
no be boun, by his statement. But why should there have been a greater 
exactnessChen than now 1 I apprehend that they spoke then as now m- 
tl f sou j or of spirit. There is a passage in Ecclesiastes whic 
t^fSt fo/in the third chapter it is said : “ Who knowe th 
the rnach of man that goeth upward, and the ruach of the oeast 
, par th ? ” Now there the sacred writer speaks of the animating 
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in vain to look for strict and scientific language in the Bib e. 
approach to it is in that important passage on _ the .creation of man, , on ^wh 
St Paul comments in the First Epistle to the Corinthians- G^dfom^ 
man of the dust of the earth, and he became a living soul. En„ 
