I sat down and wrote out a statement of the subjects on which I proposed to speak in all the evenings of the coming week.

The first commanded universal attention: "Does the spirit die when the body dies ?" They had never thought of that.

They had been thunderstruck when this woman told them that the Bible says nothing about the immortality of the soul, but beyond this they had never gone.

There was probably more Bible reading that day in Ripley than any day before or since.
At night the house was jammed, and "the woman" was there, Bible in hand.
I began: "The Bible speaks of a man as composed of body, soul and spirit.

The body is that material tabernacle in which a man dwells, and which Paul hoped to put off that he might be clothed with a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.