(5) 
0 UII soul will never die. 
It is even impossible that it should die. 
The human body, being material, has. parts; these parts are sepa¬ 
rated, when the soul, or vital principle, leaves, the body; the body then dies. 
But the human soul has no parts; it is a simple substance; it can not 
be dissolved; it is immortal. 
“Dust thou art, to dust returnest,” 
Was not spoken of the soul. 
Even the ancient philosophers soon discovered that as none of the 
properties of matter will apply to the operations of the mind, the human 
scul must consequently be a substance distinct from the body—pure, sim¬ 
ple, and spiritual, incapable of dissolution, and susceptible of a much 
higher degree of virtue and happiness, after release from its corporeal 
prison. 
One thing alone could annihilate the human soul, namely, the om¬ 
nipotent will of God who created it. 
But what design could anyone presume to impute to God in such a 
supposition ? 
After having created the whole world for man’s benefit, would God 
create man, and yet. have the intention of letting him perish %—Hence the 
Resurrection of the body at the Last Hay, when the deathless soul shall 
inhabit its former tenement. 
Man’s soul, therefore, must be immortal. 
“This is what all nature cries out,” says a great Christian genius, 
“this is what is impressed on our heart by the Creator”* this is what all 
* “Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
This longing after immortality? 
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror 
Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul 
Back on herself and startles at destruction? 
1 Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 
And intimates Eternity to man, 
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.” 
—A Christian Poet. 
