THE OVER SOUL.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, 26 March 1842, Page 12

THE OVER SOUL.

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all 'the organs; is not a function like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison — but uses those as bands and feet ; is not a faculty, but a light ; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie —an immensity not possessed, and -that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A. man is the fagade of a temple, wherein all wisdom and good abide. What we commonly call man — the eating, drinking, planting, counting man — does not, as we know' him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect ; but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his actions, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue : when it flows through his .affection, it is love. And the blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. The weakness of the will begins, when the individual would be something of himself. ' All reform aims, in some one particular, to' let the great soul have its way .through us ; in other words, to engage us to obey. — Emerson. CHURCH-GOING, . An old man, who had walked every Sunday for many years from Newhaven to Edinburgh, to attend the late Dr. Jones's church, was complimented by that venerable clergyman lor the length and regularity of his appearance in church. The old man unconsciously evinced how little he deserved the compliment, by this reply: "Deed, sir, it's very true; but, aboon a', I like to hear the sugh and jingling .>' the bells, and ,see a' "the braw folk." — Laird of Logan. ■ * VULGAR ERRORS RESPECTING THE BA-