The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-11


an intermediate state IF conscious ex-
istence between death and the resur-
rection. That souls here are streng III
ened and prepared in harmony with
the great ''law OF Progressive devel-
iopment" for those heavenly height
heights so far above
Ha THESE MARSHY POOLS
we leave at death. And it is the most
respectable theory of the matter that
know of or have read about in my re-
searches for our worlds ideas on the
subject. Paul, the holy apostle and
inspired teacher of the race, referred
to a period in the life of man that he
called ''absence from the body and
presence with the Lord" Such state
of man is not in this life, for here he
it heaven, for in that final state men
will be clothed with body. Such
language implies an intermediate
state" where man is absent from his
earthly DO y, and, it being before the
general restoration, he is without the
future body. In the fieshy state man
has body, and after the general res
direction, at the coming of Christ, be
will receive his heavenly body. And
this state where he is without a body
must, therefore, be, between the fleshy
and heavenly states, and hence an F'in-
termediate state" At the
TRANSPORTATION OF CHRIST
Moses appeared and talked to Christ, we
are told in the New Testament. 1t was
not the body of Moses, because the
TRANSPORTATION occurred before the res
direction occurred, and he, you know,
slept 1t could not have been Moses
in his spiritual body, for the general
resurrection has not yet taken place !;
and it is associated with the coming of
Christ. He did not represent the
fieshy nor heavenly states. In both
states the soul has body. Moses,
therefore, was a spirit in human form
representing the intermediate state of
man between death and the resurrec-
tion. The Jews held this doctrine also
at the time Christ was in our world.
"Abraham's bosom' was one of the
terms expressive of such a faith, and
Christ in using these terms did so with
out any qualification. He used the
language, therefore, in the sense in
which the Jews die, or else
HE WAS DECEIvER.
We are compelled to say He was a
deceiver of the Jews, or else admit
that He taught the doctrine of an in
termediate state. A state into which
He entered while absent from His
body, and which He promised the pen
itent thief on the cross in the hour of
crucifxion. believe analogy teaches
that the spirit form is the human
form. In that spirit we will be much
what we were here while in the flesh.
The same great mental and moral en-
vironment will continue after death.
Death, in one sense, is the going down
Of the earthly sun of life, but it will
disclose all the starry depths of the
universe in heavens 10 follow. In that
world we shall meet and know our
friends. Socrates, just before drink
ing the fatal cup, said: Il soon will be
with Homer and Hesiod and Orpheus."
And H85
p hi@i4 CICERO THOUGHT
the same concerning his lovely de-
parted daughter; and Dante believed
in that spirit world he would find and
recognize his own beloved Beatrice.
And thus may we all believe that in
dying our friends gone before will
meet US and lead us forth into the hap
piness and harmony of that lite be-
yond.
stOver the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who've crossed to the
further side;
The CLEAN of their snowy robes see,
But their voices are lost in the DASH
ing tide. 4a
eI shall know the loved who have
gone before,
And joyfully sweet viii the meet
ing be,
When over the river, the peaceful river,
The angel of death shall carry me-"
OUTLA VS. OUTDONE.