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a trace behind." What! when I die shall I cease to exist? Is there nothing in me more lasting than this clay body of mine? An ungodly science answers, " No; there is nothing." " I have dissected many a man," says a learned surgeon, " but I have never found a soul." But religion answers: " It is false." True science crys out, " I will not wholly die." The great human family assents I have a soul. We read in Genesis that God made man of the slime of the earth, to His own image and likeness did He make him. Now, is man's body an image of the living God? A clod of earth the image of a pure spirit — a mass of bone and flesh and blood the image of an angel! No; if man is like unto his God the likeness must be in that breath of life, which Genesis further tells us God breathed into the face of the new-made Adam. And that breath to be like God must, like Him, be a spirit; and to bear the stamp of the Blessed Trinity, it must have the three faculties of memory, understanding, and free will. Now that is exactly what I mean by a human soul; a pure spirit endowed with memory, understanding, and free will. My body, therefore, is dust, and into dust it shall return, but my soul is a spirit that came from God and shall return to God. My body was born of mortal woman, and like her shall die, but my soul was born of God, who liveth forever and ever. My soul is a spirit and invisible, and so cannot be seen by the doctor's eyes nor touched by his knife. Let me place a live man and a corpse side by side, and let me ask that learned physician wherein they differ. " One,"