The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-26

ubi cts as the representative VI 'Ho
Divinity.
ONE of the strongest arguments
brought against the truth OF tn resur-
rec; ion, is that it is in itself incredible.
P Professor Huxley puts it this way; II
q man, or any numoer OF men, snouiu
tell me that they saw centaur IL Hyoe
Park, I should not believe them. De-
G .use know there never was such an
animal or being as centaur. Inc
$ tatement would be incredible, ana
therefore not to be believed on the ties.
timony of any number of witnesses.
This is supposed to be an end or ali ar
gument. Yet mere is most lucfeoloie
thing (if the resurrection Is IN ltsell III.
C edibie)-thas for nearly 2,CUO years
There has been an increasing NUMBER ol
the most intelligent and best people IN
the world who do believe that CnrlsC
W IS raised from the dead: and not 0nly
believe it, bat have founded their h'es
upon it, drawing daily Inspiration an4
religious and moral motive from IL, al
base all their hopes OF the future upon
il. Now. if the resurrection is IN Itself
On Incredible. how is it that SO many
millions of intelligent people continue
to believe in it2 They do not believe
the story of the centaur, nor any OF the
mythical beings of ancient story, yet
thew do believe the story of the resur =
rection. This is the dilemma OF the
skeptic. not ours.-Rev. George r.
Pentecost, in Words and Weapons.
MAN has a spiritual as well as a
rational nature, and the Christian Is
born again-has become new creation
in Christ Jesus. For this higher life
upon which he is to enter fully at TIE
resurrection he will need a body. 1t
must be spiritual-adapted to the capa'
cities and wants of holy being, OF an
| heir of God. And will not this WONDER
| full life have the power which vegetable
and animal life now have TO take the
particles of matter that it needs anu
mould them to its uses? Just now l. Will
do this ard inst what will be the ar
rangem snt of the particles in that
spiritual body We know not, and pro-
baby we could not understand II GOD
should try to tell us. But with these
aualoeies before US we cannot doubt
the fact. "There is natural body and
a spiritual body" because there IS
! natural HE and there is spiritual Tile
he spiritual body then follows the Law
which we see in operation all arounC
US. 1t is only high illustration o.
that law. The new life must have 6
new BODY. and that body must b'
adapted to its grand and glorious des
tiny in the new creation. 1t must D.
free from the weaknesses and wants O
| hose mortal bodies. IL must BIZ
yshi lie in which the oul can go forth IL
the universe and travel as thought
travels. 1t mus. be form as perfect al
those in which angelic spirits are EN-
bodied. Nav, as we are expressly tolo
it will be fashioned like unto the glorious
body of our Lord. How it will be body
and vet spirit or spiritual we need NJ
enquire. We should rejoice rather tha
it is a mystery.-The Interior (Presoy-
terian.)
THE HERkDITY OF CHRIST.
Scientists, even from their stand
point, are bound to meet the grea
question of questions, VIVA
think ye of Christ? Whose sol
is He?" For, if it be true, es thel
affirm, that man has been evolved from
the lowest forms of m~tter, and is u
ascend. by continued evolution. TO h
highest perfection, how did it harper
that the most p ,rfgct specimen OF man
hood appeareI DIT the beginning OF TIT
Christian -assuredly not The mos
advanced era in history. According t
the accepted system of the philosopher
of this school, Christ should have ap-
peared at the eliminating point IN eTo
tuition, and not at the Inauguration o
His era, How came He to antedate
the final contamination He has ce1'
tainly done so. Every advancement
morals and social order at the preset
day is but an approXims tior-ss ye
faith indeed-to the style OF human lit
which He set forth in His teaching
and exemplified in person. All tn
beneScence of this, the most beRehcen
/ age of the world, in its care for tn
diseased, the destitute and the ontcas'
: finds its spirit and Improvisation Il
. Him who went about doing good.
; He is the luminous point in all history
His influence is the greatest known
His birth constituted new era l
time.
! All that man in times before Hi
!. knew of the rights and humanltles
= life was in Christ renewed, enlsrgeo
illuminated. with much added that the
, knew not of. All that man has trul
= taught since, and is now truly teaching
= of tbe relative duties of life, can
= found in His precepts and eIem olit e
in His sublime life. The observance b
all men of the Christian rule of III
e would bring about confessedly mil
h lennial age. Prophets converge ID Hin
apostles radiate from Him. At III
: hour the better part of the void, as
Is moves on and forward, looks back
i, Him for guidance. as oarsmen prope
/, ling the boat ever look back as the
p row, to their helmsman. When hums
5, nature shall nave reached its possIb
,r perfection it will be because it has BET
more and more imbued with the splI
- of Christ. Wars between capital 81
= labor, iea.ousies of caste, social antae
= onisms and all wrongs Will cease Whe
n men shall be like Christ, when the law
10 OF trade shall be superseded by the Ia
- of love, and every man shall love b
Y. neighbor as himself" Love worke
~ no III; therefore love is the fulfilling
'ss the law" !,
10 Now let men of science answer t
ID question concerni, E Christ, "Who
E. Son is He?" They cannot answer
al from their standpoint. Their doctri
- of heredity furnishes no clue to
20 nerentage. From what they knit