rallel passages have the translators
rendered it "soul;" and that is Matt. 10:28, where it is the source of all
the misunderstanding on that text.

6. _Souls Under the Altar._--As a part of the events of the fifth seal as
described in Rev. 6:9-11, John says he saw the souls of the martyrs under
the altar, and heard them crying for vengeance. If they could do that, it
is asked, cannot disembodied souls now communicate with the living? Not to
enter into a full exposition of this scripture, and the inconsistencies
such a view would involve, it is sufficient to ask if these were like the
communicating spirits of the present day. How many communications have
ever been received by modern Spiritualists from souls confined under an
altar? In glowing symbolism, John saw the dead martyrs, as if slain at the
foot of the altar; and by the figure of personification a voice was given
to them, just as Abel's blood cried to God for vengeance upon his guilty
brother (Gen. 4:10), and just as the stone is said to cry out of the wall,
and the beam out of the timber to answer it. Hab. 2:11.

7. _The Medium of Endor._--Aside from the direct teaching of the
Scriptures, it is still held by some that there are scenes narrated in the
Bible which show that the dead must be conscious. The first of these is
the case of Saul and the woman of Endor, whom he consulted in order to
communicate with the prophet Samuel, as narrated in 1 Samuel 28. Here, it
must be confessed, is brought to view an actual case of spirit
manifestation, a specimen of ancient necromancy; for the conditions,
method of procedure, and results, were just such as pertain to the same
work in our own day. But then, as now, there was no truth nor good in it,
as a brief review of the narrative will show. (1) Samuel was dead. (2)
Saul was sore pressed by the Philistines. Verse 5. (3) God had departed
from him. Verse 4. (4) He had cut off those who had familiar spirits and
wizards, out of the land, because God had forbidden their presence in the
Jewish theocracy, as an abomination. Verse 3; Lev. 19:31. (5) Yet in his
extremity he had recourse to a woman with a familiar spirit, found at
Endor. Verse 7. (6) She asked whom she should bring up, and Saul answered,
Samuel. Verse 11. (7) Saul was disguised, but the familiar spirit told the
woman it was Saul, and she cried out in alarm. Verse 12. (8) Saul
reassured her, and the woman went on with the seance. Verse 10. (9) She
announced a presenc