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The Chairman. — I am sure we all join in giving our most hearty thanks 
to Mr Graham for this admirable paper. (Hear, hear.) s a now 
glad tothear any remarks that those present may desire to make upon 
Eev J James. — I agree with our Chairman that we ought to offer our 
heft Ihanta to Mr. Gmham for his paper. It contains some admirabk 
nassaaes some of which are most eloquent and most true, such as that in 
the 10 th section, which speaks of the various growths of Gods creatures an * 
that in the 16th section, which deals with the soul and the spirit. But at 
te same time, there ara two or three points which have struck me in con 
,. w -ri mT)er and in regard to which I cannot altogether a„ree 
wlthMr Graham ; and I should like to throw them out for general consider- 
Ition -First of all, I think the title of Mr. Graham’s paper is at variance 
with his argument, which favours a quadrupartite rather than a tripartite 
division of man’s nature. Besides the body, Mr. Graham speaks of the anl ™ 
soul or that which we have in common with the brute creation ; and then o 
the rational soul, which is something quite distinct from the amma so , 
tdlo distinct from the spirit. There are, therefore, four parts of man s 
nature distinctly and elaborately described in this paper, with the exception 
of the first part, or body, of which very little fa said, that being seeming y, 
for the most part, taken for granted as the basis of : the .human be f. 
bodv soul and spirit are the three parts spoken of by the apostle, and tna 
gives us a tripartite division ; but here we have the body, the animal soul, 
the rational soul, and the spirit ; or a fourfold division. It appears to me 
to be one of the great faults of the paper that its argument really tends to 
nnalnartite and not to a tripartite division of mans nature. Then 
there is Lothei reason why I think it would have ten^otaW 
a different title for the paper ; because it is one o 
tendency is to show that in the Holy Scriptures, both in the Oldano . 
Testaments (with the exception, perhaps, of the writings of St. P aul), thrt 
“fa always followed with which Mr. Graham commences his third 
section : — 
O As a revelation to man as man, Sacred Scripture is written in the lan- 
guage of the people. Its style is popular. 
The paper might almost have been entitled “ An Argument to show thalinthe 
Scriptures the uses of the words ‘ Soul’ and ‘ Spirit’ are Popular Uses, and 
00^ Scientific, except in the writings of St. Paul.’’ The same may be said 
with regard to the word “ heart.” There are elaborate passages in this paper 
shot that nephesh and the other Hebrew words, and <f«X 4 and «*>»«, and 
si s ssis. 
