Some 322 years ago a 28-year-old Scot by the name of Henry Scougal lost his life to disease. Scougal shared many personal attributes and accomplishments with Charlie Kirk. He took on significant roles at an unheard of age, such as teaching Philosophy at a college when he was 20. His subsequent ministry was spent primarily as a Professor on university campuses. When Scougal was nearing death in his 28th year, he wrote a treatise called "The Life of God in the Soul of Man." The treatise was a private letter to a personal friend, not intended to be published more broadly. "…but Bishop Burnet, seeing it, appreciated it so highly that he hastened to give it to the world with the most generous and earnest commendation. "It was written," he says, "by a pious and learned countryman of mine, for the private use of a noble friend of the author's, without the least design of...
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