Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-12
DUR IDENTITY AFTER DEATH Rev. Heber. Newton as Sure of Personal Recognition in HEAVEN AS OF IMMORTALITY Hints Found in Occult Phenomena of the Inner Self Which Will Survive the .
 Great Change

The Rev. R. Heber Newton preached on the resurrection again in All Saints church yesterday morning. The edifce was crowded The preacher took as his subject, "Our resurrection in the light of the resurrection of Jesus." His text was:
 .'It doth not appear what we shall be but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him.
 If we rightly read the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ we shall see in it a type of every other resurrection that is to follow" said Dr. Newton. "The life to come cannot be bodiless exist ence. Nature knows no bodiless exist ence. Everything that lives clothes It. self in some form. More or less fine the matter composing those forms, but mat ter of some sort or other there is clothing everything living We may be sure that the dead living still live not merely in some disembodied existence. They have bodies of their own, though our eyes may not ordinarily see them. This is clear in the story of the risen Jesus. The body that shall be will not be some wholly new body, else the continuity of life Will be broken.
 Tt is an absolute necessity to the be- lief in immortality that in the fife beyond identty shall continue. That means that in some way or other there shall be- continuance of that which is truly vital and essential in our present existence.
 "I have never tried to discuss the question as to whether we shall know each other in the heavenly life. That is necessity, in my mind, if there is to be continued personal identity. This again is seen in the stories of the risen Jesus.
 If this be true, then there must be something within these outer fieshly bodies which is, as it were, the germ and nucleus of that future body; something which holds these bodies which we see and touch in continued identity here, notwithstanding their constant change of material There is a constant change of material going on in the elements composng our bodies. Every seven years the material of our bodies is completely renewed, and yet there is something which holds this constant Aux of matter in perpetual identity of form.
 This finer form of our bodies, even now and here in the flesh, holds the se- eret of it's future marvellous powers, oc- casionally tranffguring the outer body from within and lifting it above the laws which ordinarily enslaye that outer body.
 Its powers burst forth under right conditions. and we have hints as to the nature of that body that shall be- These hints we find in the mystic experiences of men, the occult phenomena, the re- siduum of which are undoubtedly facts, so far as I can see, after all allowance is made for fraud and deception.
 'The mysteries of clairvoyanoe and telepathy or mind readlng-these and other well-authenticated powers of men are not powers of the outer body but are powers of some inner organization, trans formed by the mind. This again we see illumined in the stories of the risen Jesus. The powers of His resurrection body were wholly beyond the capacities of the body of the flesh We know it; but they were developments of the pow CTS of that inner organization, whose ac- ton in his earthly life we call miracles.
 Into that future life the emancipated spirit carries mentality. and, therefore. it's powers of mental action and, there fore, occupations for the mind. There must be truths to study, knowledge to gain, beauty to see, finer music such as shat which the deaf Beethoven heard spulsing within him.
 That new life beyond the grave will be no mere moral miracle Character will not be changed in twinkling of an eye, so that a man shall be at once holier there than when he was on the earth. No highest heaven will be reached by a bound-no endless hell will engulf the soul at once.
 '"The law of continuity insures the future of the life that is to be. It will be a projection of the character on earth. He that Is filthy let him be filthy still. We take up where we left off upon the earth.
 We are now capitalizing ourselves for that future life. What we make of our selves here we are making for ourselves hereafter."-New York World, May I.
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