New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-29

nature YOU cannot absolutely despair OF the rcsora,
ton Of what you SySs 80 well y 20 Gn laboratory
TO repeat themselves There region IN Whcn u.s b
INTO This Si,ce of tomps. where you with broken
hearth Cold comfort grant YOU MnU a the Gosnel
OF tho resurrection has thus much Tor you al,
2 We have reached through the Illustration ., b ,n
text auotner truth that there are regions ~ %
n higher and more glorious llfe comes only thronsn
death. That which thou sowest Is not lne denv
this truth 10 hem deatn the end OF fe Gu
that hall of the Vatican where tne ,t AMI none
dead confront those Of the dead IN Chris, @ no men
will impress you more than the hopsesSness "h ra
marks the former as oontrasteu Win rave and eternal
same wall through them ul.tne f peins or The
bomeaIl the beauty and glory OF NE 1917 pen az
door OF the tomb Human reason to .dt hat SOME
Thing may De rescued from death Dut ~
proclamation tnss DEAN an Is i he Diner side OF
and can be reached only through aeaen. aer nan
rooc5' his heat only through death and tue grave,
but 1t shows that II that be idc., IhJ ',. wheat
S Sa and n every flower garden That which thou
sowest IS not quckened except " oe' bu. VIC mn
ied in the following verses Let Us suppose AL that
we have claimed to be eranted-tnat man. Wheh nc us
ia nor destroyed, that he lives in greater glory an
bower, aud that he reaches this consunlaiion only
through death still the question Ssaa
will be raised In glory. WHAT then Will tnat new
glory satisfy the longing OF my ove' ana ma eve SaGS
Is the change gong to destroy tue per'onaS WHICH
so dear III llief M . ,
how that some where Gods universe there ma> De
death, dissolution, resurrection without the sacrifice OF
ideutty. Now follow the text closely: Thou sOWost
not that body which shall be- Tueie shall be another
body then. But God gyeth BODY as II nath pleased
Him." from which one would naturally infer that God as
signs the body arbitrarily at Ills Own pleasure Anu
here our version misleads U.s. Read IL thus: but Oou
gives body He willed once long ago when lie Gre
aed the forms OF life, and To every seed BODY
OF own In other words God preserves the original
type Impressed on the seed aud through the long sue
cessous of deaths and resurrection the wheat remains
wheat, aud the malzs maz1. Tue stalk which,
cones up Is new body-a far more beautiful form VI
life the latural Seed and yet the assas ali full 0
jlst seed sOwed. The type OF the wheat OF
life the body when God wed when lie made tue nrst
stalk or kernel OF wheat Is not 1851. 30 am % lose
my Identity through death aud resurrection. u my
friends aud kndred are 10 Do changed beyond the DOS
slbty OF recognition nature a eds docs NOT lodcn INC
fact. long hold by her teaching, may AT least
better there Will be that preserved under all tue
superior exceency OF the new body, which shall reveal
IL doth not yet appear what shall be- but we know
that when He shall appear, we shall be IKE Hlm--0r
sna see Him IA lie is ana so, repeat. the chlef
value vi argument from nature Is 10 lead Us up 10
The Gospel is richer than nature DO not lei us
mistake. IL Is not nature, not the anaiogies or nature
when make this chapter 80 suggestive. IL IS rather
The Christ OF the Gospels waking through the fields
cone oil wheat all Its spiritual significance
to Christs touch We do NOT SEQ the line
Christ hits 1t out OF the mold aud puts
it into our hands But Christ. by of the wheat
breaches TO JOYFUL truth tlis mOrning-that the
spirit sua aOOyc the nsts OF passion and escape
from the clogs OF less tnan the body shall leave
IL
have this body OF our humiliation changed but stli
more to inherit these with the Christlko nature. IhIs
alter ali, Thought which checks our tears ana
turns our sOrrUws into peaceful hope stand b.
the graves Of dead in Christ. Tnoy shall not only
live again. but live triumphant oyer SIN. Oar buds or
PROM 90 npped cary Oy deaths rost, shall bloom ia
the sphere OF holiness The fatnots aud mothers
who have fallen asleep In Jesus and the young ana
strong laid ASIDE tnor armOr early Ia thJ ray,
rest IN the hope OF change Into Cnrl5ts image aud aH
eternity Of sinles sness.
Win tLfs trLth in our hands become not only tran
QuIl, but triumphant IN the face Of death. TLs old
solved for with the sunshine Of tbs
sler morning hope of the resurrection. Iae pres
euce or absence OF this hope tbs difference between
triumph aud despair; between a charuehOuse and IA
ace lu of tao atmosphere OF rest, aud pcrydded Wh
heavenly irdbrduce.