The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-06-03
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The Heavenly BODY. tVhat Isfe9

WouldDe jlke,I Etft EFH1fEt
sIt must be nearly all 'subpuse,i u
she said for we are nowhere definitely
told. But this is certain They will
be as real as tIleses'
"But these you can see, YOU eal
touch.'n re'2sst = sta'7T asail6a4S4 s6f
what would be the use Of having
body that yop can't see and touch I
A body issa Jody,, not a spirit. Why
should you not, having seen Roy's old
smile and heard his own voice, clasp
his hand again, and, feel bis kiss on
your happy lips7 MO sso9g us4o ID
t'Itis really amusing" she continued,
''to sum up the notions that coed peO-
ple-excefIent people-eyen thinking
people-haSe Of the heavenly body:
Vague visions of floating about il, the
clouds, of balancing a white robe
on, perhaps-in stiff rows about 4
throne, like the angels in the old pic
lures, converging to an apex, or ranged
in semi-circles like so many marbles.
Murillo has one charming exception. /
always take a secret delight IN thai
little cherub Of his, kicking the clouds,
ii the right hand upper corner Of the
Immaculate Conception; he seems to
be having good time oft, IN genuine
baby fashion. The truth is, that the
ordinary idea, if sifted accurately re-
d1ces our eternal personality to-Qds. p
''Isaac Taylor holds, that, as fat as
the, abstract idea of spirit is concerned,
it may Just as reasonably be granite as
other 55iI 5g4z 1Ja- - b 1ia 8a1alV
"Mrs. Charles says d pretty thing
about this. She thinks these 'saper.
spiritualized angels very 'ausatisfac4
tory beings, and that the heart retains
with loving obstinacy to the young
men in long white garments, who sal
waiting in the sepulchre. aa" ID ossav
''Here again cling to my conjecture
about the word 'angel'; for then we
should lesrn emphaticalIy something
about our future selves p a5sou sa' aaFf
wAs the angels in heaven, ,"aog
"equal unto the angels awe are told in
another place,--that may mean simply
what it says At least, if we are to
resemble them in the particular respect
of which the words were spoken, And
that one Of the most important which
could well be selected, lit is not unrea-
sonable to infer that we shall resemble
them in others. In the Resurrection
by the way, means, in that connection
and in many others, simply future state
of existeaee,witheut any reference to
the time at which the great bodily
change is to come. aag saai4ik sdr
g But this is a adigression, as the
nOvelists say. was going to say yythas
it bewilders me 10 conjecture where
students of the Bible have discovered
the usual foggy nonsense abOws the
corporeity OF heaven ss1 @. Hia laqna9
''If there is anything laid down Id
plain statement, devoid Of metaphor o.
parable, simple and unequivocal, it is
the definite contradiction of all that.
Paul, in n--his-pFefaee to that sublime
apostrophe to- death, repeats and reit-
crates it, lest we should make a mistake
in his meaning a8aouarq7 s,tlo 1aaAs
- "G'There are celestial bodies. SiasIt iB
raised a spiritual body There sisaiqa
spiritual bodg.'r sIt is raised in incorL
rnption.' sit Is raised in glory. i 1T IS
raised in power Moses, too, whente
came to the. transfgnred mount in
glory, had as real a body as when be
went into the lonely mount to die.sS',.ss
"Bat they. will be fddiferens from
these7" -. ~ u -,
"The gleFy of fthe-teRFestial is one,
the glory ofthe celestial another Take
away sin and sickness and misery's and
that efritselI would make differences
enough - bsx6 gass tsa snh saF 3ssw
II s'Youodo not supposesthat we shall
look as, we lock now ?,ss1l o5l 20 % sasa
jag ''Icertainly do At least, | think It
more than possible that the ''human
form divine or something like it, is to-
be retained. Not only from the faCt
that risen Elijah bore it /, and Moses,
who, if he had not passed through. his
resurrection, does not seem to have
looked different from the .othe5---I
have to use,those two poor prophets on
all occasions, but, as we are told Of
them neither by parable nor picture,
they are Important that angsls
never appeared in any other, but be-
cause, in sinless Eden, God chose it
for Adam and Eve. What came In
unmarried beauty direct from Bis hand
cannot be unworthy Of His other Para.
disc beyond the stars 1T would
chime in pleasantly, too, with the idea
of Redemption, that our very, bodies,
free from all the distortion of gull,
shall return to something akin to the
pure ideal in which He moulded them,
Thea there is another reason, % and
stronger. ~ as a55 81" 2at'e .s,i ssaee
"What is that q .sSs.Isa -.i .isff i's- .ea
''The human form has been borne
and dignifed forever by Christ And,
further than that, he ascended TO His
Father in it, and lives therei in it as
human God to-day From 's1Rs Gulss
Ajar," by Il. STUART PHELPs. as5 b5I
IHs. get Bt siuQa
"A lady noticed boy sprinkIing salt
on the side walk. to take off the ice.