The morning call., 1890-04-07
WHERE GOD REIGNS.
All of the Risen Dead Will Not
Walk in White.
What Resurrection Means in Light of the
Latest and Best Interpretation Of
Nature and Revelation

At the Easter services in Trinity Church
yesterday morning, the rector, Rev. J. San
ders Reed. delivered sermon on the text,
who shall change our vile body that it
may be fashioned like unto his own glor-
ious body"-Philippian iii u.
In his Introductory remarks the reverend
gentleman explained how the body is not
vile; that it is the top and masterpiece of
cunning, and the most exquisite piece of
work we have any knowledge of. The
body is the living srhine Of the second per-
son of the Trinity, and is to-day on the
throne of the universe "St. Paul is not
responsible for defamation of the body
under this Dhraselogy," he said, but the
translators Of the English Bible. His term
is the body of our humiliation
Speaking of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, he asked.
SIS there such thing? Are our dead sheer
spirits?" Modern scholarship answers
mol" he replied. "The human being is
body, soul and spirit. When the body is
slOughed off. spirit and soul remain, the
spirit inside of the soul, the soul the
ethereal envelope of the spirit. Delitzch
and Mueller give us to understand that
now and here we have a natural body, ana
now ard here we have a spiritual body;
that the spiritual body is inside OF the nat
ural body and the outside of the spirit. and
the organic principle which here and now
clothes itself in physical tissues in the
shape Of a material body, and viii here
after assume glOrihed body.
SPIRITUAL INSIDE OF THE NATURAL BODY.
Moses, who appeared on the Mount of
TRANSPORTATION with Elijah, was not a
fUrmless ghost, a Whit of air. St. Paul de-
clared, while in midlife and under no ap-
prehensiOn of death, there is spiritual
body, and we have building of God eter-
nal in the heavens In every man there is
an inner body, and it is the inner body
that gives the outer body its form and
MEN,"
Referring to the fact that there is to be a
resurrection, the speaker said, what does
this mean in the light Of the latest and best
Interpretation Of nature and revelation?
VIII the flesh rise again We may empha-
size the answer, No! All matter is reSOlY-
able into force. The sixty-four elements of
which the universe is composed can be
traced back to hydrogen, and from hydro
gen to something more ethereal and subtle
still. In the sun iron and other metals
ascend as vapor, and condense and fall
again as RAIN having a circulation like
water in our own globe. The resurrection
BODY, therefore, VIII not contain any of the
elements with which we are acquainted,
for that body is to be an Interchangeable,
lrredueible, lndestructibe body.
THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE BODY.
He went on to define what is meant by
the identity of the present and the future
body. Every old man has had a dozen
bodies at least, and not a particle of the
original matter is in his composition. The
principle OF identity is the inner body,
which never alters. The man is born in
him and dies in him. The Bible does not
assert chemical identity between the two
bodies, but organic identity.
What of this resurrection body? The
universe contains model OF all glorited
bodies. This body cannot consist of flesh
and blood, for blood may be poisoned or
cOagulate. This body retains the human
form, for eleven times at least Christ APP
peared to his disciples after his resurrec-
ton. Later on he was seen three times by
his disciples, and every time after as be-
fore his ascension, he was in the form of a
man. His body was recognizable BY
friends. Christ was recognized by friends
to whom he showed himself alive after his
passion. Mental and emotional peculari-
ties are ingrained and iudelible: they are
the man, and they impress themselves on
the outward form. 1t is the mantle
spirit or the soul within-that gives the
body its expression. The die of the in
diyidual will be used again. The finer the
glove the more distinct the features of che
hand.
INDIVIDUAL DIE USED AGAIN.
''That new powers will come with the
new body was evidenced by Christ appear
ing and. disappearing at will after his re-
surrectiOn. He faded into the air, entered
through closed doors, and finally rose up
into the sky. The time is coming when we
shall be untrammeled by the limitations
imposed on us by our present state of ex-
iStence.
'srhe saints are to walk in white, not
necessarily in white garments, but in
bodies of light, and light at its utmost in-
tensity is white. The saints will be trans
figured from within. All the risen dead
will not walk in white, for that is scien-
tifcally impossible. The spirit will show
through. The man stamps himself on the
countenance You cannot conceive of the
corrupter of women and the volator of
marriage vows coming to the resurrection
in body shining as the light, for the scowl,
the leer will be repeated. These are not of
the body, but the creation of the spirit
Draw a transparent glove over a black
hand and the glove will look black. As is
the color of the spirit at death, so will be
the color Of the body after death-lurid,
! dark. livid, white, whatever we have dyed
it in this life"
During the evening service the rector an
nounced that in response to the appeal he
had made the previous Sunday for an
Easter Manufacturing of $1,000. total OF
S5I05 had been placed on the collection
plates at the morning service.