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60 sooner at liberty to call your attention to the infinitely more important uses, resulting from the same sense, which may be called spiritual and eternal uses.

You are, perhaps, again surprised to hear that any spiritual and eternal benefit can be derived from a sense which, in general, is regarded (if it be regarded at ail) as connected only with the body, because conducive only to the well-being of the body. But, my good Friend, I am persuaded your surprise will cease, if you will only give yourself time to reflect, that there is a certain relationship subsisting between soul and body, in consequence of the latter deriving from the former, not only its original birth, but also its continual life and support, consequently all its powers of sensation; and that, by reason of this relationship, what is true of the body, in a natural way, as an organization of matter, is true also of the soul, in a spiritual way, as an organization of spirit. For hath the body its eyes and its ears, by which it is enabled to see the various objects of this material world, and to hear the sounds proceeding from material objects? The soul, also, (as I have endeavoured to convince you in two former letters) hath its eyes and ears, adapted to the superior purpose of seeing and hearing the grander and more real objects of the spiritual and immaterial world. For the same reason, and on the same