The Newtown bee., 1892-07-08
When, like Magdalen, the early dawn Went forth with Love's annointing sweet, To kiss again the Savior's feet.'

To kiss again the saviors feet"
 On the fact of his resurrection, we predicate the hope of our own, for he says, Because live, ye shall live also" There are some thoughts and suggestions that naturally come to us in considering this subject.
 We do not have two kinds of life, the physical and the eternal now, any more than we have two bodies at one and the unscriptural, a physical as well as spir- itual impossibility. The learned and scholarly St. Paul speaks very emphati- cally on this subject in the 18th chapter of Corinthians.
 | This chapter, as the reader will ob- church on this special subject of the res- urrection and eternal life in connection herewith. In the 44th verse, he says, s'There is a natural body and there is spiritual body" And he explains ill the 4Gth verse, ''That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural. And afterward that which is spiritual" Af- ter what? After the resurrection, of course, for that is the special subject un- der consideration.
 Now we have the natural body subject to natural laws and conditions. Mortal and perishing in it's nature and liable at any time to accident, disease and death. Shakespeare says, "We are such stuff as dreams are made of and our little lives are rounded by sleep"
 But, after the resurrection, we have the spiritual or immortal body which has been energized by that special gift of God which is eternal life. Here and now, we have the natural body acquired by natu- ral birth according to the law of genera tion. To generate means to create.
 To possess the other one, the eternal life body, we must obtain 1t by the law of regeneration. To regenerate means to re-create. Truly said Jesus, Except man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.''
 Here and now, man is victim of cir cumstances. The poet says that death turks in every flower. Even under the most favorable circumstances, man is going on toward dissolution. Even now, with very many of us, the silver threads among the gold give evidence of Lifes departing sunshine and the gathering of Evenings gray. Man is not victor in any sense whatever until he comes up at the resurrection, having a hope in Christ, the worlds life giver. Then 'when this l ;ty ha the language of the victor, ''Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christi 1st Corinthians, XIV, 57.
 To affirm that we have eternal life now, in any sense whatever, is an unwarrant- ed perversion of divine truth. What, then, is the change that takes place in man at conversion?
 Certainly. eternal life is not bestowed there If it was, he could not grow old, pass into mental decay and die. Nor could he, while living, experience any of the fIailties or calamities of this mortal life. The very idea of'eternal life is sug- gestive of infinite perfection in all that relates to life.
 In considering this subject, we must remember that man, by Nature, IS under condemnation as sinner without God and without hope in the world. Like a man who has committed a capital crime and has been sentenced by the judge to
 be put to death, he is living on from day to day awaiting the pleasure of the State to carry into execution that sentence.
 The wages of sin is death. Man as sinner has been convicted and is under sentence. The gospel comes and offers pardon and forgiveness. From the mo- ment the sinner accepts the gracious of- fer and, through repentance and faith in a divine Life giver, lays hold on offered mercy, he rises out of the dominion of condemnation into the glorious realm of justification by faith. And, from this time onward, "every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, ,even as He
 (Christ) is pure." Now we are ''pris- oners of hope;' before, we were hope less. Everywhere in Scripture, the Christian life is spoken of as one of hope, not of fruition, of expectation, of things to come and not of fulfillment here and . now.
 The Christian lives in hopes of eternal life and, with patience, waits for it and,
 while living this life of hope,he seeks by divine grace to bring his entire life into harmony with the principles which will f prevail in the life eternal. Thus the ? apostle says, ssWe are saved by hope, Romans VIII, 24. Christians are admon : ished to 'sbe not moved away from tht 3 hope. of the gospel"
 fl St. Paul writes to Brother Titus and l through him, to Christian believers 1T
 every age, Titus III, z, that, being justi , fled by His grace, we should be made f heirs according to the hope of eterna P life. Again he says to the Hebrew e brethren VT, II, "And we desire tha every one of you do show the same dili I gence to the full assurance of hope to thu
 end.''
 :. These words of divine exhortation ar, especially necessary in these days of ia 2 bles and false doctrines, while so man,
 professed Christians are moved ava, from the true hope of the gospels ant z have been led to substitute therefor tn,
 theories and traditions of men. ! To be born is suggestive of having . been begotten. St. Peter, in lst, 1, says of Christians ssThat they are begot o ten again unto lively hope by the res :. urrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. . So, in lively hope and with joyous antie - ipation, we expect to feel the pulsatio 5 of eternal life and be born again, Whe
 Jesus Christ, the Life Giver, comes