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474 What evidence have you of Soul or Immortality within mortality? Even according to the teachings of natural

science, man has never beheld Spirit, or Soul, leaving a body or entering it. What evidence is there in support of such a theory of indwelling spirit, except the evidence of mortal belief? What would be thought of the declaration that a house was inhabited, and by a certain kind of persons, when no such people were ever seen to go in or come out, or were even visible through the windows? Who can see a soul in the body?

Question. — Do not brains think and nerves feel, and is there no intelligence in matter?

Answer. — No, not if God be true, and mortal man a liar. The assertion is erroneous, that there can be pain

or pleasure in matter. That body is most harmonious, in which the discharge of its natural functions is least noticeable. How can intelligence dwell in matter, when matter is non-intelligent, and brain-lobes cannot think? Matter cannot perform the functions of Mind. Error says, “I am man;” but this belief is mortal and far from actual. From beginning to end whatever is mortal is composed of material human beliefs, and of nothing else. Only that is real which reflects God.

Man is not in matter, nor of it. He is the image and likeness, the idea, or reflection, of Spirit; and Spirit

cannot be reflected by matter, mortality, or sin. Mortal man is really a self-contradictory phrase, for man is not mortal, “neither indeed can be,” but immortal. If a child is the offspring of