The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-30
ST. MATTHEWS LAST NIGHT.
Bishop Bedeu on the Resurrection

bishop BedelI On the Resurrreiiop'
A fine audience greeted Bishop Bedeii,
of Northern Ohio, at st. Matthews Church
last night, and they listened to one OF the
best sermons ever delivered in this city.
The Bishops voice is low but clear,
and every word was perfectly audible
throughout the church, His delivery Is
superb, his reasoning good, and his IAN
gusse we'll chosen.
he spoke at length which prevents
lis from publishing his sermon IN 1uil'
but we give the substance OF 1t below:
AS we now approach the end OF tue
Easter holidays, l take as my text, Acts
&c: s. The subject is the resurrection OF
Christ from the dead Agripps, before
whom Paul was brought, was the grand
son of Herod the Infamous, but he dld
not inherit his skepticism. Pauls line
of argument was strong one and held
his hearers spell-bound until this
thought-sppsrently utterly unconnect-
ed with the story-wss dropped, "hipg
Agripps."
We are too apt to ask how the resur-
rection is to be accomplished. When we
do this we csll into question the power
of God.
He who can create can re.creste snd
He who can create can still more readily
revive and place lite anew in soul.
If the first created soul contained
everything perfect, then surely resurrec-
tion was there too. Our belief in the
power of God necessarily lies At the root
of our reasoning. Resurrection is the
rising of the dead body from the grave
and reconnecting with the soul. Scrip
ture does not teach that all the body-all
the parts he possesses when alive
should come forth, but merely
enough to revive personal identity. Ii
the soul live and the body is not entirely
DESTROYED, it is certainly comprehensive
that God should unite the two again.
Sound which is conveyed into your
ears by material agencies, Is suddenly
and wonderfully changed into thought,
and thus a material instantly becomes
immaterisl.
An effect is never greater than cause,
ard if thought is immortal man Is immor-
tai.
The soul lives Independently. 1 once
visited psrishoner who was para
lived, and was said TO be unable
to hear or comprehend. L knelt
at his bedside and prayed as
feryently as If he were well and con-
scious. He aiterward recovered and told
me that he heard every word that l ut
tered and Joined iervently with me In
the supplication to God. Such examples
are numerous and are constantly occur
ins,
Death takes the body ali TO pieces and
scstters it, but does it annlhilate itF I'm
less the atoms are anuihilated Gods eye
can follow each of them and bring them
together. Science teaches that matter Is
never lost and thus it Is easy TO under
stand how the body can be restored to
life.
The seed wheat dies before it quickens
into growth, but the seed which you OBJ
tain from It's stalk is the same Ms that
which WAS sown, and thus it is with the
resurrection of the body. Every soul
needs its accustomed body in which 1t
gained all of its early lessons and the
lows of earth. The happiness of the soul
is increased by the perfection given to the
body. The analogy of nature shows that
resurrection is to be reasonably expected.
Tie same msn who dies will rise again,
the same soul and body combined.
Personal identity Is the one tremend-
Gus fact OF the resurrection.
The workman will face bis work and
averv man will face the deeds that he has
done in this life, and this is one OF the
grand ideas OF this theory.
Editors will be there at the last day,
for theirs Is position Of trust, OF won
derful power. Those papers which
publish foul tales OF crime in order
to pamper to public tastes and
those who break the peace Of the Sabbath
will find that their work is there before
them-uot the impersoral Newspaper but
the personal works and there will answer
to this great personal identity. AS
memory RECEIVERS all the recoIlectons OF
the past each will come forward ard Soy
when his work is named, at is mine"
and then we learn the use OF Savior.