New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-12

4 -, .-, :. experience, our own con
suen @ sbunJsu,. scc. the Divine teaching
St. Pspl's testimony, Isl 90. 49, n.t.r., nj
aud definite. He Gays: " The rs. .Is =,
" and there is q spiritual body" A. 'rs1 30 a.
his spiritual BODY as HIMSELF wh5e the as,>,, - ~
il but m outside which he wears Temporarily. AZ
in his Second Episte 10 the Corinthians at tn ena
Of the 4th chapter, he says: Though ocr outw: Nu
man perish yet the inward man is renewed DIV
"by day. The things which are seen
"sre temporal; but the thisgs which are rot see.o
"are eternai For We know that II our earthly house
I" Of tabernacle were dissolved, We have building
" Of God, a houee rot made with hands, eternA in
" the Heavens" Can anything be palmer Paul
saw that his physical body was wesring out win
labor, suferiss and yesrs. But he says that is a
hight affection; for his inward nsn, his spiritual
body. grew stronger d6y by dsy. Tisouter body
was tenporal. 1t was veIy well thss il should
wear out and he put ~. There was 4 spiritual
body within il invisible to rst,r5s eyes, which was
eternal. Ybe dissolution Of the outer, tls natural
bedy, whi.h he regarded ss only tent or-taber-
racle in wh;ch he WIS temporarily stopping, would
r,lease the Inward man, the s?irisus body, which
was not tent like the other, Sat something moro
pei nanent-a1d be calls il Sorsc, buidrI- Of
God, which wOod contnse eternsly in the heavens.
ST John :" saw under the altar the souls of them
" tsst were slal' for the wor of Sod" and heard
tbeT voices and ssw white robes given unto their
And Sealn lie spesks OF seeing tine souls Of them
- ths. were behesded for the wtpess Of Jesus" |
He sew ALEC multitude of the redeemed prasing |
the Lord for their sayatou An Of these were evi-
IDENTIFY haman beings, in the hrrnan form. with hui
man affections and tn snehts. He one glori-
Gus that he mistOok him for the Lord, and hnelt 10
worship Gm; but the angel forbade him, saying,
" am tiny fellow servant, and OF Shy brethren that
have the testimony of Jesus" Peter, James and
John saw Moses and Elias on the Mount, talking
with Jesus, not shapeess phanton,s, but as men.
The Bibe is full of sthrmations Of the reality.
that the material body is but coverings house OF
clay i'll which the man dwes-a tabernacle formed
of the dust os the earth, 10 be resolved to dust
again when the spirit enters the world Of spirits.
This body is of dead matter, in no essential respect
unlike other matter Now, inertia the absence OF
life, is one of the universal properties Of matter
Spirit is living, matter is dead. The material body
has an appearance of life while the living spirit re-
mains in it-aDd no longer.
What then is the Resurrection lt is simply the
release of the spiritual body or soul, from its ma
teria covering. When the material body falls |
away. The man stands forth in the Spiritual world, |
spirit among spirits. This change is not effected
nstantaneously. 1t occupies longer time with |
some than with others, but is always accomplished
within three days after the heart has ceased to beat
The man rises into the spirit world as truly man
as before lie enters into the society OF congenia
spirits and is active and as full OF life as ever he
Was in this world. Ii he is truly good man no
assends into the heavens, an angel among angels.
If wicked man, he makes bis bed in hell.