EVERYTHING that has a name is either material or immaterial; either an entity, or a property of an entity; a personality, or an attribute of a personality. By entity, we mean a “real being or existence.” By property, we mean some peculiar quality of the entity, which exists because of the existence of the entity. By attribute, we mean the same thing, though perhaps more properly applied to living, intelligent beings. Property and attribute are used as synonymous terms. When we speak of an apple as being sweet or sour; of a body as soft or hard, heavy or light, dense or porous, tough or brittle; these are properties of the bodies named. Love, mercy, and justice, are attributes which can exist only in living, intelligent agents, entities, or personalities. These properties, or attributes, do not exist after the entity, or personality, is destroyed. Pain, sorrow, hatred, thought, life, desire, sympathy, etc., are properties of certain living entities; but when the personality is destroyed, these peculiar properties perish at the same time. No property can exist any longer than the material organism of which it is an attribute. Attraction, caloric, weight, elasticity, density, etc., are properties of bodies; but they never exist independently of material organisms. In other words, all properties or attributes of entities are immaterial, and never exist any longer than the bodies to which they belong. For instance, if a being feels pain, sorrow, or joy; love or hatred; all those attributes cease when that personality is no more. No attribute, or property, ever can exist by itself; any more than we can have a shadow without a substance, or a hole in a body after the body is entirely destroyed. No amount of immaterial properties, or attributes, can make a material, personal entity. Hence, love, thought, desire, life, patience, meekness, mercy, justice, etc., have no existence, but in name, without a real, personal entity. In the case of our Creator, mind and personality are co-eternal; as in man mind and personality are co-extensive. They begin together, and the mental properties never extend, or exist, beyond the life of the physical constitution. All personalities are organized bodies. All immaterial things are but properties of material bodies, and cease with them. The mind of man is not an entity, but a collection of attributes, or properties, peculiar to that wonderful organ called the brain; hence when that is deranged or destroyed, the mind is also deranged or destroyed. It is as impossible for man to think without an active brain, as to live without breathing. No attribute of an object is an entity; neither is it a component part of that with which it is connected. The weight of water is not water; the motion of a watch is not a watch; the soul of a man is not a man. In these cases, “weight,” “motion,” and “soul,” are only attributes of the bodies. When we speak of the soul of a man, we mean either his life, or a state of feeling; and both of these are immaterial properties, which exist no longer than his personal organism. When we say man is a soul, then the word soul stands for man as a personal entity. This is a common use of the word in the Scriptures. No property, or attribute, is organized, and, therefore, cannot be an entity. No entity can ever become a property. No collection of properties can make a personal entity; hence the mind, which is a collection of mental properties, such as memory, love, hatred, reason, desire, etc., resulting from the action of a material organ, can never make an entity, or a personal, intellectual, moral agent. No attribute has an independent, conscious existence.—World's Crisis.