Show A LIVING SOUL ONE of our contemporaries speaking epe aking of an on of twenty tons of gu powder on a vessel expressed surprise that whatnot conot not a soul on board was killed P the astonishment was wad very natural the expression of it correct but an other olber contemporary noted for its lack of logic and persistent misrepresents t ion of its opponents says thesues Th the eques question Is lenaw how much gunpowder des it take to kill a soul but maybe may be our contemporary does not believe thit men have immortal sou souls 1 I the dishonesty which runs rune through nearly all the alleged arguments of the paper that manufactures this query to is seen in the addition of the word immortal to the language of its adversary that to la its common method it either adds to or takes from the pos tion of its antagonist and then proceeds to demolish demol teh it with more or less exultation nobody pretends that any amount of gunpowder would kill an immortal soul but it does not take much gunpowder to kill a man and the dictionary informs us that the word soul means Is a man a human being P 1 it was certainly marvellous marcellous marv ellous that so vast a quantity of explosive matter was fired furedi on a vessel containing many hu man beings and yet not mot a gjul on board ra was killed the spirit of man to sometimes ciallela the soul of man in that sense the terms are synonymous the ever is the more proper terms terro because it is ie not confounded with the soul used to designate the whole person we are told in the good food book that in the beginning god made man of the dust of the earth that he ele breathett breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became Is a living I 9 it ii was aa the whole man body breath and spirit that was a living soul I in latter day revelations it is stated that the spirit and the body form the soul of man and the resurrection frota from the dead is the redemption of the soul this to is in harmony with the of the old and the new testaments and yet not discordant discor dai dat t with the use of the word soul as equivalent tol spirit when used to designate the personal spirit of man when we read accounts of the lo 10 loss L or preservation or danger of so go many souls 0 every person of common sense and common understanding of labugu language A g 0 knows know 8 that t the h e w word ord meana individuals individual and not merely their im mortal spirits when there came cam out of egypt under moses so many hundred thousand souls the sacred record that gives the number does not mean that their spirits came outi out but theair chii lr entire personalities perhaps however the carping critto critic who added the word immor immortal BO as to raise a dispute intended the whole thing for a joke if go he to have la belled it for like others of his bis similar efforts it contains not the tiniest spark of humor and is only noticeable of its dishonesty and if ifft at Is meant to be funny it ought to have either a bead or a tall tail to it to let the reader know he is expected expect eoj to laugh instead of feel disgusted |