Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-09-20
What Christ Will Do For Us.
AY ADAM MILLER, NJ. D.

AY ADAM MILLER, NJ. D.
There is a remarkable expression in
tho First Epistle Of John, 32, which
says: 1--WE shall be like Him, for we
shall see Him as lie is" If this pass
age stood alone without any others to
support the same idea, our faith might
stagger at the transcendant exalta-
ton to which our fallen humanity IS
finally to be brought when the work
of redemption and salvation is COM
pleted. There are, however, numer-
GUS other passages Of the same i'm
port, both in the Old and New Testa-
ment Scriptures, which give the be-
lever an assurance that the union
commenced between Christ and the
believing soul will be continued thro'
the ages of eternity. The Psalmist
said: Il shall be satisfied when l
awake in thy likeness" Job contem-
plated visions Of living redeemer in
his future state;and Isaiah says to the
believing soul: Chime eyes shall see
the king in his beauty" The New
Testament, however, gives us the
clearest revelations and illustrations
of that union that shall exist between
the wine and the branches" II will
come again." said the Savior to His
disconsolate disciples, "and receive
YOU to myself, that where l am ye
may be ALSO"
Whatever may have been the phys
ical condition Of our race before the
introduction Of moral evil, we have
good reason to believe that has not
only superinduced physical changes
as well as sutferings, but also moral
deformity from which we may be
restored by the redeeming and say,
ing power Of Christ. Ii death has
entered into the world by sin, and a
mediator such as Christ was could
alone restore the morally dead to u
new spiritual life, it is very reasona-
bic to conclude that this restoring
process will embrace the physical as
we'll as the moral nature of our race.
There are numerous reasons to induce
the belief that in mans restored con-
dition he will have a form resembling
his human form in his glorified body
with the exceptions of the deformi-
ties that have resulted from accidents
and disease incident to our mortal
life. This restoration will bring us
up to the most complete standard of
our physical organization. The infant
will not remain an infant, but will, IN
all probability, advance to fully
formed spiritual body. The aged
will carry none Of the wrinkles and
determines Of age into the celestial
mansions. This restoration to a per-
feet spiritual nature was foreshad-
owed by the work of the Redeemer
on earth.' When he opened the eyes
of the blind and made the deaf to
hear aud the dumb to speak, and gave
vigor and strength to the withered
hand and the palsled arm, his acts
became prophetic Of that restoring
process that shall lift our fallen
humanity from the effects Of sin to
that new life that shall bloom in i'm
mortal youth on the shores of that
bright world that is to be the Christ
ldu luIuI0 uOLut' OuG Will lueTO D9
a resemblance between our restored
humanity and the glorlfed humanity
of the Divine Savior? This question
may be answered by John: I'VE
know that when He shall appear we
shall be like Him; for we shall see
him as He is" Again Paul says;
when Christ, who IS our life, shall
appear, then shall ye also appear
with Hin in glory" He took upon
himself our form that we might ap-
proach Him in His form. he came
to show us the Father who is dwell
ing III light which no man can ap-
proach unto; whom no man hath seen