Man in Life and Death.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 344, 29 August 1889, Page 3

Man in Life and Death.

There was a fair attendance at the Theatre on Tuesday night, when two of Mr B. H. Scott’s discourses on 11 After Life ” were reviewed. Mr Hare contended that tbs image in which man was created was that of a personal likeness, and not merely moral attributes. That God was a personal being (Heb. 1,3), possessed of form (Phil. 2, fl), of hands, face, and *baok (Ex. 33, 21—23), was seen and had feet (Ex. 24, 10). That the sentence pronounced against Adam was that of physical death, as set forth in the explanation, “ Dust thou art, and unto dust sbalt thou return,” That there was nothing in the account of man’s creation (as, said the speaker, admitted by Mr Scott) that showed him to be in possession ol an immortal spirit. That it was the brain to which man was indebted for his power to reason and think, and not to a supposed immaterial spirit entity, and that all thought ceased with the disorganization of the body (Ps. 14S, 3,4.) Mr Hare went on to show that the Greek word Pneuma, translated spirit 288 times, ghost 92 times, wind onoe, and light once, in the New Testament, did not present the idea of a personal intelligence, but was defined by Dr. Gall as “ wind, spirit, ghost, breath, and life.” That the word Psuche, translated soul 58 times, life 40 times, and mind three times in the New Testament, did not contain the idea of immortality, but was defined by the same author a ” animal life, life, the soul, the mind, the emotional nature, the heart.” And that although the original words translated soul and spirit, and also 40 other different ways, were found about 1700 times in the Bible, they are not onoe coupled with such expressions as deathless or immortal. That the word immortal is found but once in the Scriptures (1 Tim., 1,17) ; that immortality is an attribute of God (1 Tim., 6, 16), was brought to light by Christ abolishing death (2 Tim., 1, 10); it must be sought for (Rom, 2,7,) and put on at the resurrection (1 Cor., 15,53.) Time would not permit of a review of the discourse on “ Future Punishment,” but Mr Hare promised to deal with it on Sunday afternoon,