The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-06-21

VOL. XLIII.}
tisasA RELIGIOUS LOOKOUT.
Nh. nanMxR's LAST sxRlfoN-srAND-
ma ROOM N HEAVEN 1oR TIE vnzsT
. sum1a-rHE FUTURE STATE wHxaE
rHR WICKED MAI Be IMRnovxD.
} Last Sunday, in Brooklyn, Mr..
Beecher preached sermon which
viii make some commotion IN the
theological work.. The New York
Sun gives this report Of it The
text was iron revelations XXI 4,
'.For the former things have passed
away" This WAS the summation,
Mr.. Bescher sGd; the particulars
were given before. He would read
from the first verse to the text It
4ApsghAls ssiss had said,
SIN this worldImsn experience sor
row and trial Their hopes are
dissppointments; their aspirations
failures. But there comes q world
in the future IN which all this-the
former things-shall have passed
away forever" This beautiful day
was . good day to talk about Heav
en-. There was no stir in the air,
no storm on the water. All things
were beautiful and still The air
was full Of odors distilled from the
white alembles of the flowers. 1t
reminded one of the rest that re-
manned for the people Of God Let
them consider the transition by
which they should rise into that
other state OF existence. Did souls
pass immediately into blessedness
after they quilted this states Or
did they lie, as the Jews believed,
IN . vast receptacle awaiting the
last days The New Testament was
not clear on the subject, but by
implication its teaching was that
they rose ct once into the divine
presence. No allusion was made
by Paul to an interval or dormant
state, and yet he made constant
reference to the condition Of men
after death. He never intimated
that the soul took a sort of uncon-
scious vacation, awaiting general
ingsthering to the spiritual sphere.
Nor did such an idea address itself to
any human instinct which desired it
to be true. Paul's doctrine was, "Ab
sent from the body, present with
the Lord" Out Of this, into that.
There was . spring Of immediatism
in his doctrine. If there was a
great slumberous interval after
death why was there no hint Of it in
the word of God. Mr.. Beecher did
not affirm with arrogant positive
ness that this doctrine was true and
none other, but he thought that
scripture warranted the presump
ton that they had . right to be-
ieve 90.
This doctrine, Mr.. Beecher said
did not exclude the idea Of pro
gress They had the testimony O
Christ in Mathews gospel. Among
the Jews, in order that . woman'l
right Of property might not 60 ou'
of the tribe, it was possible for hel
70 marry all the men Of the house
hold. Christ was asked whose wifi
such one should be in the mex
world. Christ said, 'fYe do err
not moving the scriptures, nor il
the power of God. For in the res
direction they neither marry no
sre given IN marriage, but are q
the angels of God" Men in the mex
world were to be as the angels
There was progress. They wer
not to propagate, not to frame them
selves into little companies as O
earth. The family relation ther
was to be different. The passion
which continue the race, hunge
and thnrst which prompt to bodil
nourishment, the combative power
requisite for protection here, wer
not required in the future stat,
why, then, need men possess thes
powers or passions or longing
when they had left behind them th
conditions which required then
When we left the body, we shoul
leave behind us many burnt OF
passions. In the other life, to,
our minds would be disabused +,
many functions which it was nee,
full for them to have here. W
should not carry our earthly bodi.
into the other life, yet we shoul
have spiritual bodies which wou]
identify us one from the other. IT
4 l ao,,1a that nv,ornro1 &.cv,o I,oxl, So.