The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-10


aitsiy boid. But thl5 Is sssiain. They
will be as real as these"
But these you can see, you can
touch"
What would be the use of having
body that you can't see and touch
A body is a body, not a spirit. why
should you not. having seen Roy's old
smile and heard his own voice, clasp
his hand again, and feel his kiss on
your happy lips?
1t is really amusing, she con-
tiLued, to sum up the notions
that good people-excellent people,
even thinking pe0Dle-have OF the
heavenly body. Vague visions OF
floating about in the clouds, Of bal
ancing-with a white rope on, per-
haps-in stiff rows about throne,
like the angels in the old pictures, con-
versing to an apex, or ranged in 5 mi
circles like so many marbles. Mu-
rillo has one charming exception. |
always take a secret delight In that
little cherub of his, kicking the
clouds, In the right hand upper cor
ner of the Immaculate Concept !;
he seems to be having a good time Of
it. In genuine baby-fashion. The
truth is, that the ordinary idea, if
sifted accurately, reduces our eternal
personality to-gas.
Isaac Taylor holds, that, as far as
the abstract idea of spirit is concern
ed, it may just as reasonably be gran
lite as ether.
'' Mrs. Charles says a pretty thing
about this. She thinks these super
spiritualized angels very unsatistac-
tory beings, and that the heart returns
with loving obstinaey to the young
men In long white garments who sat
waiting In the sepulchre.
Here again | cling to my cOnjec-
ture about the word angel; : for then
we should learn emphatically some
| thing about our future selves
AS the angels In heaven, or
equal unto the angels, we are told
in another place-that may mean
simply what it says. At least, if we
are to resemble them in the partlcu.
lar respect of which the words were
spoken-and that one of the most i'm.
portant which could well be selected
it is not unreasonable to infer that
we shall resemble them In others. In
the Resurrection, by the way, means
in that connection andin many others
simply future state of existence, with.
out any reference to the time at which
the great bodily change is to come.
- But this is a DEPRESSION, as the
uovelists say. was going to say
that it beWilders me to conjecture
where students of the Bible have dis.
covered the usual foggy nonsense
about the eOrporeity of Heaven.
IF there is anything laid down in
plain statement, devoid of metaphor
or parable, simple and unequivocal
it is the definite contradiction of al
that. Paul, in his preface to thai
sublime apostrophe to death, repeats
and reiterates it, lest we should make
a mistake in his meaning.
There are celestial bodies II
is raised a spiritual body There is
spiritual body 1t IS raised in in
corruption 1t as raised Ia glory.
1t IS raised in power Moses, too
when he came to the TRANSPORTED
mount in glory, had as real body al
when he went into the lonely mount
to die.
But they will be different from
these?'
The glory of the terrestrial is one
the glory of the celestial another
Take away sin and sickness and mis-
cry, and that of itself would make
difference enough"
GU do not suppose that we shall
look as we look noW?"
certainly do. At least [ thinl
it more than possible that the hu
man form divine. or something Xix
it, is to be retained. Not only from
the fact that risen Elijah bore it; an,
Moses, who, if he had not passes
through his resurrection, does no
seem to have looked different fror
the other,-I have to use those w
poor prophets on all occasions, but, a
we are told of them neither by para
BILE or picture, they are Important
and that angels never appeared in an
other, but because. in sinless Elder
} God chose chose itfor Adam aud Eve
! What come in unmarried beauty direc
from His hand cannot be unworthy c
{ His other Paradise beyond the stars
1t would chime in pleasantly, toe
with the idea of Redemption, that on
very bodies, free from all the distor
ton of guilt, shall return to some
thing akin to the pure ideal in whicl
He moulded them. Then there is an
other reason, and stronger"
" What is that?"
The human form has been born
and dignified forever by Christ And
further than that, He assembled to Hi
Father In it, aud lives there In it a
human God to-day" - From "Th
Gates Ajar," by E. Stuart Phelps.