# The Worth of a Soul

Language: en  
Author: Edward Payson  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2003, Number 1  
Source pages: 32  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/parenting/the-worth-of-a-soul/>
Original PDF: 2003\-01\-remnant\(1\)\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, January/February 2003](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2003-01/>)

![A boy and girl looking upward against a dark background](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/c6b20a81-a3a4-4ede-81f0-85af17290dba-1.jpg>) 

Photograph above taken by  
Lynn Weissenfelt • Alpine Portraits

How inestimable does the worth of the human soul appear—how clearly is it seen to exceed that of the whole world—when we view it as endowed with the capacity of being made equal to the angels\!

How momentous an event occurs when such a soul is born into the world; when an immortal being commences a flight through endless duration—a flight which will raise him high to an equality with angels or plunge him low among malignant fiends\!

Think of this, ye parents\! Ye, to whom is committed the care of giving to this flight its earliest direction, and on whom largely depends, under God, what its termination shall be\.

*Edward Payson*

## Magazine citation

- [A boy and girl looking upward against a dark background](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/c6b20a81-a3a4-4ede-81f0-85af17290dba-1.jpg>): Lynn Weissenfelt • Alpine Portraits