NO SYMBOL FOR “SEPARATE SPIRITS.”

            “There is obviously nothing in the whole circle of the social or material world, that can properly symbolise the spirits of the martyrs.”—Lord’s Expos. Apoc. The reason of this is that there are no such existences as the living spirits of dead men. —On the author’s favourite principle of analogy there can be no symbol of “disembodied ghosts;” for as there is nothing of the kind there can be no resemblances to symbolise. Where there is no thing there can be no sign. God does not employ symbols where there is nothing to represent.

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