the good and punish the wicked. The fancies of your wise men, Plato and Pythagoras, are naught. The soul is not life itself, but is merely a partaker of life. The life is in God. He gave and He can take away. If you desire to know of this doctrine, you may learn it of the prophets, who lived long before the time of your vaunted philosophers, just men on whom rested the blessing of God, men who spake by the spirit of God and foretold the future. These alone saw and declared the truth to man without