The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-06

for all men and women; 1t was for believers, Tor
the splfitual man. for those who were spiritual
themseHes--that Is, for those who were already
risen above the deathlness OF death. This was the
doctrine, and, consequently, the primary Thought
In Pauls mind and in the minds of all the early
Christians and In the minds OF the most spiritual
the resurrection OF the Son Of Man-that is, OF the
essential man. This Son OF Man Is not an inoivd-
nal as not ALL historic person. He AS y
OF Man Is the lnmosr OF you and me; He is our
Is an order Is class OF man. The Son OF Man Is
KIND OF man; rational man; man whose heart
w6oss @ IL bo 10 to hs
lower elements; who can put temptation under
HIS feet who y not the slave Of lust or greed or
wuiullesa. and who Is immortal as
POSSESSING IMMORTAL QUALITIES.
tns s s q tas this
Son Of Man. now that u must
BODY viii feel s'' tie power sP' the Dso' rising
mott Does IL not Think. How few people
live in their bodies fully, are possessors OF their
comes to its own. We are fragments OF people,
scraps Of people, nements OF people often. One il
Is mb y a5 Eye anS1eE a
together. live il every chamber. Many i've IL the
dressy paror; but how few i've IN the divine house
all over, as lift were divine housel Here is one
VIII Iuo bCOmhCu VI Ill OSLElCu anu L0e DTblu Vi u
sparrow; here Is another with the stomach OF
sparrow and the brain OF seraph The phlloso.
pher Is all head; the relormer is an conscience;
is all SOUL Where Is the person who is
at once brain, heart, conscience, SOUL the normal
the whole OF this superb machinery that the crea-
tive spirit has given to every one OF Us The
planet mas never seen suSn man AsWe c1nsiaer
graceful how few complete forms there are how
many perfectly beautiful faces and how little sin.
features, but blank as marble; there is beautiful
soul, but looking out OF mask that u almost
ndeo o IN its formation; here one nmps ssen Is
ured and c0ntorted and wasted and disabled by
disease is this body 81 mani Hereditary disease II
q single. day when life is to them an
when there
ness OF heaviness; and consider how many there
are who are weighed down by disease, whose lie
Is anticipated by disease, who are doomed TO
premature death by diseases how few live as long
as they ought to; how lew, while they live. really
lve
Then consider this thraldom OF habit; consider
how every person is thwarted and cramped by
some malignant habit which holds him bound 80
that his tether S only an arms length. 1t may be
an unconscious habit, habit that the person IS
unaware OF; and yet 1t has its fine string aoout his
limp, or about his heart. And then think OF those
whose habits are coarse, vulgar, brutal; who are
SLAVES TO SOME DEMoNIAC PowHR,
seated In their nerves possessed Of tneT muscles,
poisoning their blood, and absolutely compelling
this majestic world Think OF the WEAKNESS Of
that 50 H. See how the
fingers get thlckened, bow the eye gets dimmed,
weary days given over to the hardest LABOR ,5
Ing, .horribe sounds In the ears. hideous
forms before the eyes all the time deliverance.
dead while these thinUa Yet thew need
not be. Why, what are these bodies OF ours
Complete engines made BY the perfect artlhcer Tor
musicians ear, OF the pianiSt's delcacy or touch,
OF the senstiveness OF the blind mans finger.
were what we ought to be. These bodies Of ours
would be temples, not dungeons, palaces, not
caves wings not clogs; they would be powers
they would seem not to belong to the ground at
all they would seem capable Of foatng out into the
air; death would fairly have DOMINION over them;
II would be easy enough to believe IN immortality
II our bodies were what they ought to be- And
W reas9 W9d ca maze So
in the legend the voice Of Jesus called Lazarus
from the stony tomb and brought him out staggering
under his cerements. suppose, for instance III we
may allow ourselves the suppositiOnl that men
ate and drank just as they should; that they had
their Kitchens that they studied the art OF eating
and drinking and taking food; that they exercised
formad perfectly TO the conditions OF healthu aud
glad existence; why, IN moment you see the
revolution, the regeneration that would take
place. You see at once that there would be
A RESURRECTION OF THE BODY,
complete, entire; how little passion there would
be, and all these gigantic vices that curse us would
drop on There would be no more crime, Tor there
would be no temptation to crime; there would be
no hunger OF lustlul or incorporate desire in
spirit, for the perfect balancing OF the system
would take care OF Itself; and thus, through this
resurrection OF the body why the world would
know what resurrection meant. And now this time
Is coming. There never has been time when men
were thinking earnestly 50 intensely, on this
very matter OF the use they ought TO make OF their
bodies, OF the power OF the Will over the body OF the
power oil reason, OF sweetness and CLEANLINESS over
the body, and o! the tremendous issues tnat were
involved IN tire treatment OF the body Teachers
are abroad teaching the people how they ought to
Dress eat sleep. Nay, we get behind these super
fetal facts and consider now at least how people
ought TO be born, how children ought to be
brought into the word, that they shall distance
these horrible precedents that
DOOM THEN TO DEATH.
Let this teaching 60 on; let 1t be understood;
let 1t be disseminated broadcast let IL be acted
upon; let 1t be worked into the mind, and you
will that the Son oil Man is not dead that there
Is such thing as resurrection in reason, con-
science and goodness OF the Son Of Man In all OF
us; and the consequence OIL that resurrection who
But the resurrection Of the Son OF Man shows itself
IN other ways than In Transformation OF the body.
1t shows Itself III social Transformations, TOO 1t IS
Significant thing that the first anticipation OF the
early Christians was OF ne earth, new society,
a regenerated human existence-a millennium, In
other words And SO firm was their faith IN the
power OF the risen heart OF man TO make this that
they believed it might come any day. They thought
that 1t might be here by the day after tomorrow,
and they were on tiptoe to meet 1t as 1t came over
the hills. Their faith was too hasty, but was 1t not
sound2 Because, wherever this conception OF the
risen Son Vi Man-tnat Is, the normal heart and
cOnscence-h has entered into the world this trans
formation has appeared. Great men all through
the Christian times, good men and earnest men
have shown In their lives, their teachings, in all
their influence the power OF this regeneratng life.
rake any OF the heroes, any OIL the great retormers
teachers and phlanthropists Of ChristendOm, Of
any sect whatever, care not what from Augustine
to Charming, and the power OF this risen SON of
Man appears TRANSFERRING the earth about It,
TAKE THEODORE PARKER.
There was piece OF New England granite; per-
fectly Independent man; strong or will. testing
everything by his thought resentlul OF all au-
thorlty, walking with sturdy and large steps over
the planet, and yet that man, as II ne were little
child, held the son OF Man by the hand and looked
up into His face. and caught inspiration from His
eyes, and mad his heart SO softened by Him that
more than once Theodore Parker said TO me, ~
owe more to Jesus than to anybody else in the
world" Take John Brown; an old Testament
man, bit OF Mount Sinai; q man whose iather