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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 45.

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The Soul of the Child

No. 663. The Soul of the Child. 1 Kings 17: 22.

PLEASE explain 1 Kings 17: 22: "And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived."
It simply means that the life of the child came into him again. It says in verse 17 "that there was no breath [that is, breath of life] left in him." Elijah prays, "Let this child's soul come into him again." He did not pray that the child might come into his body again, but that the life, the breath, the vitality, might come back into the child again, and it did, and the child lived.