It was her hobby to declaim against the popular idea of the existence of the human spirit apart from the body.

With her this was equivalent to a witch riding on a broomstick or going to heaven on a moonbeam.

Spirit is breath--so she dogmatically affirmed--and when a man breathes out his last breath his spirit leaves his body.

But it was her especial delight to declaim against the Pagan notion of the immortality of the soul, and to affirm that the Bible says nothing of the immortality of the soul.

A Bro.
McPherson undertook to contest the matter with her, but, not finding the scripture he was looking for, she exclaimed with bitter and vixenish speech, "Ah! You can't find it! You can't find it! It isn't there! I told you so!" And thus this couple were fast demoralizing the church, Billy Greenwell, the richest man in the church, being wholly carried away with this fanaticism.