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own thoughts, wgrds and deecir, and not those of otheraunless we choose to make them our own. God is leaving- ,each of us to the freedom of our will, while at the sametime he is seeing to it that all things are working togetherfor good to tho86 who love him, who are the called according' to his purpose.Thns one great diilerence bekeen a phonograph and ahuman being is that the latter is possessed of a conscience,the ability to discern what is right and what isawrong, andhe has freedom of will to choose between the two, to acceptor reject aa he desirm.(2) The other great difference betrreen 8 phonographand a human being, is that the machine cannot voluntarilyobliterate or deepen the marks on its records once theyare made. Men, on the contrary, can do this to a greateror less extent. In order to understand this, let us considerwhat is a living soul.A Livin* Soul.The word of God says : " The Lord God formed manof the dust of the ground, and breathed into his ,yostrilsthe breath of life, and man became a living soul (Gen.9 : 7). When man was formed of the dust of the und,the elements of the earth, he had all the potensea of .hearing, speech, thought, and action, but, without thepower of life, none of these could be put into force. ThenGod breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,-thespirit or power of life. Then, and- not till then, manbecame a living soul. Thns we see that the soul is notthe body, nor is it the spirit of life, but it is the wholesentient being, the being which is endowed with senseperception.The dominant part of the sod L the will, the thinkingpart of a man. This is the re, the red person, for in asense the body b merely the instrument of the will. Yetthere can be no will without a body. A man whose brain