Lord's remark, recorded in the 26 verse of the xvi chapter of the gospel by Matthew. In addition to the text I would also refer to Isaiah lv: 3: "Hear and your soul shall live." Psalms xix: 8: "For the redemption of their soul is precious."

Although the soul is of inestimable value; yet to judge from men's conduct, we would come to the conclusion, that it was of but little value, for men give much more attention to temporal matters. Feeding and clothing the body, and making money seem to be the desideratum of human life; and the soul is neglected until death comes, when it is forever too late; then if they had it they would in the language of queen Elizabeth of England say: My kingdom for an inch of time."

The value of the soul is shown, in its having

been created immortal and thus closely connected with the angels. Our bodies are beautifully, wonderfully and mysteriously made; the hand is admirably adapted to the uses for which it was formed; what a tattler the countenance, often unwillingly revealing the owner's mind; and the eye the only telescope that enables man to make accurate observation of objects near by and those at a distance without readjustment. All telescopes that have been invented by man have to be readjusted. And what a marvelous mystery the brain, the present home of the soul, parts of the machinery by which the confined soul operates; they are all of earth, earthy, and are rapidly tending back to dust from whence they came.

One of the indications of the value of the soul is its reasoning powers; although a man may have lost both legs, and an arm, and the remainder of him, be worn to a skeleton by disease, his mind is vigorous as it was in his palmy days. The soul loses none of its vigor as long as there is enough of the body left to hold the soul in. When the soul is about to leave the body it is thought to shine brighter than at any former period. "God •

breathed into man the breath of lives, and man became a living soul."

Solomon says in death: "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return to the God who gave it." Job who antedates Moses by one hundred and twenty years, says "there is a spirit in man," while Paul, the apostle says "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord."

2. The faculties of the soul, inform us of its value. 1. The understanding is the eye of the soul; it is the window through which the light is transmitted to the soul. A question is presented, the understanding examines it carefully then passes it over to that other faculty called second judgment. This faculty weighs and determines more accurately, and after deciding, hands the question over to the third faculty called the will, which chooses or rejects. There is a fourth faculty called the affections, which hates or loves an object. There is also the fifth faculty called memory by which such things as we wish to retain are laid carefully away in the store house for future use. The sixth faculty called conscience, pronounces a judgment on

all we say or do: if it approves it gives us pleasure; if it disapproves it lashes us.

Of what immense value must be the soul since God has given it such precious faculties. They make man resemble the angels.

3. The value of the soul is shown by its immortality. It pleased God to make the soul an undying creature. Immortality seems imprinted on its nature; all nations, tongues and people consider the soul immortal. The learned European, the eloquent American, the ingenious Chinee, the nude Indian, all consider the soul's immortality a settled question. This idea has undoubtedly been handed down by tradition; it must have been taught to man by God, for unaided by revelation man could never reason up to immortality.

Man believes it, longs for it; whether ignorant or learned, he has a great dread of annihilation.

The value of the soul is shown in what it cost to redeem it-the life blood of the only Son of God, he who was all human and descended to the lowest condition of our race; and was all divine and reached to the throne of the highest majesty in the heavens, and thought it not robbery to be called equal with God,

Nothing less than this divine blood could redeem the soul; all the blood ever shed on Jewish altars, could not redeem a soul. The soul looked through its window at the apple fall, and solved the problem of the attraction of gravitation by which the various worlds are made to revolve in their respective orbits. How animal life-an immaterial substance, can dwell in the blood-a material substance, is a mystery; but only one of many mysteries, connected with and created for the soul; and although they all must perish, and yet when the sun dies with old age and sends his last flickering ray of light athwart the heavens, the soul will be marching on in immortal youth.

When man was created there appears to have been a conference held in heaven. God said, "let us make man, in our image and after our likeness." God, his Son, and the Holy Spirit, the creator, the provider, and the enlightener. God signifies creator; Lord, provider; Spirit, enlightener. God created all things. The Lord provides for man's redemption. The Spirit enlightens through the word. The spirit or soul is intelligent and can talk, Mark v: 10. " And the spirits besought Jesus that he would not send them away out of the

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