LECTURE 25
OF THE SOUL AFTER LIVING THE BODY
Once the soul departs from the body, it encounters a lot of accusation and confrontations. The wild beast of hell surrounds and gloats over it to see if it will be theirs for eternity. Accusations upon accusations are brought forward against it before the Chief Judge who sits on the eternal throne.
The soul stands alone before God and in the multitude of the hideous demons to be cross-examined on all its actions and inactions even to the slightest negligence.
The devil and his angels then brings up all her offences (both true and forged lies) and then argues out his case to the Heavens, on why it should be theirs for eternity.
Oh what terrible hour that will be - when the King of Kings will judge my soul there in the midst of both divine and fallen angels. Will the love I had for God and humanity be found sufficient to cover the multitudes of my sins?
Blessed indeed is the soul who in such a state is protected by the alms he gave out to the poor and the injuries he forgave his neighbors. Blessed indeed is he who on that day may have grievous wounds on his neck to show for the chastisement he endured for Christ and for the harassment he underwent for choosing the Cross. Such a soul has very little to fear on that awful hour.
THE SOUL
By James Montgomery
What is the thing of greatest price,
The whole creation round?
That, which was lost in Paradise,
That, which in Christ is found.
The soul of man,--Jehovah's breath!
That keeps two worlds at strife;
Hell moves beneath to work its death,
Heaven stoops to give it life.
God, to reclaim it, did not spare
His well-beloved Son;
Jesus, to save it, deign'd to bear
The Sins of all in One.
The Holy Spirit sealed the plan,
And pledged the blood divine,
To ransom every soul of man;
That price was paid for mine.
And is this treasure borne below
In earthly vessels frail;
Can none its utmost value know,
Till flesh and spirit fail?
Then let us gather round the Cross,
This knowledge to obtain,
Not by the soul's eternal loss,
But everlasting gain.