be soul; and then they doctor this soul as if it were not even a material
sense.

In Dr. Gordon's sermon on The Ministry of Healing, he said, "The forgiven
soul in a sick body is not half a man." Is this pantheistic statement sound
theology,--that Soul is in matter, and the immortal part of man a sinner?
Is not this a disparagement of the person of man and a denial of God's
power? Better far that we impute such doctrines to mortal opinion than to
the divine Word.

To my sense, such a statement is a shocking reflection on the divine power.
A mortal pardoned by God is not sick, he is made whole. He in whom sin,
disease, and death are destroyed, is more than a fraction of himself. Such
sermons, though clad in soft raiment, are spiritless waifs, literary
driftwood on the ocean of thought; while Truth walks triumphantly over the
waves of sin, sickness, and death.

The law of Life and Truth is the law of Christ, destroying all sense of
sin and death. It does more than forgive the false sense named sin, for it
pursues and punishes it, and will not let sin go until it is
destroyed,--until nothing is left to be forgiven, to suffer, or to be
punished. Forgiven thus, sickness and sin have no relapse. God's law
reaches and destroys evil by virtue of the allness of God.

He need not know the evil He destroys, any more than the legislator need
know the criminal who is punished by the law enacted. God's law is in three
words, "I am All;" and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim
of another law. God pities our woes with the love of a Father for His
child,--not by becoming human, and knowing sin, or naught, but by removing
our knowledge of what is not. He could not destroy our woes totally if He