Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-08
THE OUTLINE
9th Funeral Sermon Of Mira nay
Underwood, Aged 6 Years, De-
l1vered in the Avoca III. e. Church
February 25th, 1872,

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bring with him. "-Thess. ~, IA. /
This text contains some very comforting and prot |
liable truths It has lessons of consolation Paui
felt the need Of comfort his life of labor persecu
ton and trial He had the most powerful anu con
yincing evidences upon which his hopes for death
resurrection and immortality were based LII "aA
Old testament faith and ledge that taught him
the absolute certainty of these subjects Also was
it the DEATH resurrection and Immortality or Jesus
Christ. He expounded this preef to the churches %
whom he wrote and for whom he labored. ne ss'
forth death by means of metaphor LIZ Is s's0p'
Sleep is the implied comparison to which death Is
compared This comparison does not teach materi
alism. What is materialism? 1t is that man Is ali
matter-that mind and spirit are matter The fot-
lowing facts show the contrary In sleep we see the
sonl IL distinct power from the body. The soul in
sleeping body is there in an active state Look at
the somnambulist Here the mind uses the body
wnen it is asleep. The soul in q sleeping body Is
there in conscious and rational state. See how the
mind will the sleeping body and write and work
cut scientific problems. Plenty Of instances OF thls.
The comparison does not teach humiliation What
is humiliation? 1t is a nonentity,-a reduction to
nothing,-a going back into non-c creation.
If this is a truth a annihilates every time he
goes to Sleep Because the comparison and the th Tag
compared must bear positive analogy to each other
or there can be no such thing comparison Sleep
never dimnshes any one. Modern materialism is
the basis of modern annhIation. But where is the
force of this metaphor? 1t is in the following facts
l.. In -aaturaI sleep, use have quietnesS. We are
still SO far as bodily activity, the noise, hustle and
tumult of the day concerned. So when die
we are quiet in relation to all the din, connections
| and shocks of this world The body is motionless
| and inanimate.
| q When the body sleeps there is rest. The brain
and system with all the limbs rest. So when
the body dies there is rest OF the person that occu
pied it from the cares tolls and conflicts of
this life. There remain eth rest for the people of
God"
8. When the body sleeps taers Is retirement If we
sleep or hsurs We are, during that time, abstract
ed from The world. So when We lie down to die We
retire from this world We separate from all things
here below.
4. Bodily sleep {. rsfrsshmsnt. The body is
strengthened for new days Journey. So in the fu-
tue when awake in the morning OF the resurrec-
| ton will be refreshed for days journey
throughout eternity. These points present the anal
ogy. There is fact that honest and rational
human being can, with truth, possibly deny. That
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body And therefore i'll death we simply leave our
bodies The power that used the body has left it.
Another lesson the text gives is our relation to
| Christ. The phrase " in Jesus " contains it. It
means not merely common, careless or passing ap
prevail of Christianity. 1t teaches must follow
Christ 1t signifies that gain his favor that we
| receive what the people of God did on tho day of
Psntecost when they all filled with the Holy
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us eternal life.
Let notice the dead in Christ. Who are they !
| l. AdsH believers. Who are suchl Men and
women who enjoy saving faith in Christ. What
doss this mean 1t is all that portion Of mankind
| whose souls have experienced moral chapg &c
from guilt to pardon and from sin to holiness by
believing in Christ. When this what facts
follow Fist. Their souls morally and spiritually
resemble and manifest God. God originally created
| ran for this end in order to glorify Him. But the
depravity Of the soul prevents man from doing this.
| Hence change is absolutely necessary. Hence,
their souls changed into the image of God. Sec
ondiy. Their souls folsw thu of God. Deprayity
has destroyed their natural strength to pursue the
spiritual requirements of this law. Hence their souls
change for this end. Third. Their souls enjoy the
declaration and promises of God for their salvation.
| Fourth. Their souls believe in the shed blood Of
Christ our Saviour. There is change of the soul
without this FIfM. Their souls thirst for God.
They have rrepressible aspiration, and longing
for God. All such die in the Lord Jesus. No other
part kind Of the adult port,n ofths race live
| or die in Him. - .-.
But there is another class Of the human race ,uho
die in Jesus. Who they All who are the in
FAINT and irresponsible part of mankind. Infant sal
/ yati is duft
tiona In the latterwe must comply with the Cos
pei acquisitions of repentance and faith. All man
kind born into this world in state of salvation
But they do not naturally remain so. They grow
| up sinners This prove by Christ's teaching that
" such is the kingdom of hsavsn," Also that He
took little child to teach His Disciples salvation
There lisa grand for this. little child POI.
sessss of the properties of true Christianity. 1t
has Innocence, humility, dependence, simplicity, af
lection, faith, repentance and teachabeness. All
these elements do in great degree make up Christ
ian character Adults do not naturally and positive
~ have these. In them they Frustrated by the
| native power ofmoral corruption.
| THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD IN CHRIST
When will they arise We do not know We can
| not tell the day the hour. We generally say In
the morning of the resurrection This statement may
all be scriptura enough Yet there other language
| conceive is more significant than any other I
possibly select Christ says they "shall come forth
Here isl greater embodiment of trnth than most Of
readers are apt to credit.
How shall they come forthi
| /. With meo bodies We see new bodies in nature
| come forth. New bodies of plants, buds, flowers
trees, leaves and grain. New bodies of beasts birds
and fishes. The resurrection of the human body pro-
ceeds the principles and by the same 0mnip-
otont power. We will by and by feel the warm
breath of summer with all her sounds and sights
sicaly breaking forth upon 1t is the voice that
prcclaims summer is nigh. She is about to coma
forth. So in the coming spring time when the
ection Lotes about to peal forth similar harding
will tell that Eden is close by and the eternal
| summer is breaking forth upon us. There will be
new bodies. They will forth from millions
of graves of those who died few hours days
trump. They will forth from the living the
time Of the Second Advent and undergo a change
like Enoch and Elijah. New bodies for all wo know
made thousands of years ago and before Christ came
and with Christ in glory wearing them. I
not prove the righteous dead of the Old Tesla
made only few moments before the resurrection. |
The text says God will bring them with Him. This
implies that He will bring them from place.
that He has them some where already.
g. They uiU Nth beautiful bodies. Nature !
furnishes beautiful bodies in all her departments.
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