Davidson College Notebook

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Dr Thornwell tells the following anecdote about a Baptist Minister to show how little faith he puts in Ghosts &c A Baptist preacher was once in a country which believed strongly in Ghosts stories. After he heard a wonderful account of one by a man the preacher said, "Well I know all good souls go to heaven when they leave the earth, & when they get there, they never want to leave there; & when one gets to hell he has no permission to leave there; so none are likely to come back to earth".

The anecdote related by Herodotus about Croesus & Cyrus & Solon, in which Croesus [c??es] Solon three times, may be found in Sermon on Mount P. 101 The story of Mungo Park, the great African traveller who had such consolation in contemplating the beauty of a small moss in the wilderness as to be the means of saving his life. See Sermon on the Mount P129

Mr Cohen tells the following anecdote: I was walking through the field once in Arabia & a Mohammedean met me & asked me Some questions about the Trinity. He said it can be shown there ever existed a divisibility in the Godhead for a single moment, then there cannot be a Trinity. Then he said "Christ said it is finished & gave up the ghost." I asked him for his knife & cut a branch from a bush & asked him what I cut? He said the branch. I told him I cut the Sun, which was shining on it too, but could not take the Sun. So the Spirit never left our Savior when he died. It was only his body said I give up the ghost