The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-23
From the N. Y. Sun, Nov. 10.
DIR NISBETS ALLEGED HERESY
Observations Made by the Doctor Him-
ssaf--men who Agree with Him.

SELF Men who Agree with Him.
To THE EDIroR OF THE SUN-Sr: Ac-
cept my hearty thanks for your candid
and extended critique of my recent book,
The resurrection of the Body" The
EgGminer Ia Bptist paper of your city,
noticed the book. 1t has also published
| two articles on the resurrection opposing
my view. In an editorial. entitled What
this Journal Cannot d." are statements
misleading as tc facts. An article sent
by me to the Examiner, seeking to cor
rect these misleading statements, has not
appeared. / am thus compelled to ask of
the Sun the favor refused me by the
UNCONVENTIONAL paper-a statement OF the
case as it is.
| The editor Of the Examiner gave, as
reason for refusing, this: las we publish
an aYowedly Baptist paper, we cannot con-
ceive what this journal has to do with the
work of helping to undermine the belief
of our people in a doctrine so fundamental
as to be included 10 the articles of faith
of every regular Baptist church of which
we have heard" The editor confounds
bis view of the connection Of the resurrec-
ton bodies and the grave bodies with the
general doctrine of the resurrection. Fur
Their, be said: I'VE do not see how hatter
denial could be made of what is under
stood to be Baptist belief concerning the
: doctrine of the resurrection of the dead
than to deny that it has anything to do
with the body in which the soul once had
its tabernacle" This mGy be true of
what is understood" to be Baptist belief;
but Baptist belief. in fact, is very variant
: as to the connection of the resurrection
bodies and the grave bodies; many among
the Baptists deny any connection whatever.
DIR. Hovey, President of the Newton
Baptist Theological Seminary, says
Baptist Quarterly. October 1905
The resurrection bodies OF the saints may or may
not derive the substance of which they are com
\ posed from the animal >des which precede them
This appears to be matter of indifference. In the
of Enoch, Elijah, Christ, and those believers
who are still alive upon the earth at Christs second
coming, it is reasonable to suppose that the materi
al of the glorifed body is taken from The earthly
' body; but IN the case OF others, comprising vas
n majority Of mankind, such derivation seems Il
be improbable, not to be impossible.
! So DIR. Robinson, formerly president o.
. Rochester Baptist Theological Seminary
now president of Brown Baptist Uni
q versity. says:
Few if any intelligent persons who have reflected
all the doctrine of the resurrection can, thi
day, think, suppose any part of the BODY laid IL
No just conception of personal identity requires ii
even If the laws OF matter old not teach its simpl
ID inpossibillty
DIR. Samson, formerly president o
J Columbia University, now Baptist pastol
> 10 New York, after reading my book
which denies any connection between tn
resurrection body aud the body laid in tn,
:. grave-says: Il have read your bool
with interest. It aecords with my owl
view after many years of study. So far a
= the material nature of the resurrection
d body is concerned, the book accords will
+ the results of modern scholarship. AM
from other Baptist ministers l have re
ceived similar expressions of accord witt
my book. Sufficient has now been said t
=. indicate. that Baptist belief in fact as t
N' the mo1us of the resurrection, is-in man
Al cases-very different from the cross view
e OF the editor Of the E:c0nsiRer.
I'll Baptists thus in fact differing anon
themselves in theories of the modus of tn
resurrection, how much more consonan
e with the avowed liberal spirit of the Bap
e list denominations to throw its Journal
d open to full, free. friendly, thorough dis
cussion Of this matterl When men see
, to bluff off inquiry and discussion on thi
& matter of tie resurrection, it is no wonde
thab IL va AuG uOEtItUS l
N some minds. So we find recent cores
pondent 10 the Examiner saying: "Wh
is it that this suhject-most dear to tn
1t hearts of the apostles and early church
D is, in these later days handled both in pul
: nit and press with gioved fngers2
> preached at all, 1t is preceded with a
apology" My answer is: The commo
10 belief as to the connection Of the resurrec
to ton body and the grave body is IRA
al tionai, and So impossible to support, tia
: thinkers are afraid to treat it, and som
;" who have convictions that there is no cor
nection between the resurrection body an
1t the grave body. shrink from speaking thi
il out, for fear of the charge of heres!
Were it not for the spirit of bigotry an
persecution, it would not be half centur
" until the pagan belief of the resurrectio
he Of the body would be rooted out of intelli
al gent Christendom. T.. NIsBET.
II Rock ISLAND, Ill. Nov. 6.