The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-08
CHRlST'S SPIRITUAL BODY.
MORE OF MIR. MENTIONS sPECULA-
TION ABOUT THE REsURREC-
TION.

me MtfucitH 81 lhtoSuphg -fpBfA'tu
to for Evidence on the Question,
Glow Are the Dead Raised ana
with Whnt Bodyt"
From the New York Times, May 6.
Rev r. Heber Newton. at All Souls
church, was more explicit yesterday in
the explanation of his idea of the resur-
rection
1T seems to me, as an essential thought
of the life beyond" be said, that we
shall conceive of bodily existence'after
death. Nature knows no bodiless eXis-
tence. More or less fine the matter com
posing the forms, but matter of some sort
or other there is clothing every living
thing We may be sure that the dead, liv-
ing still, live not merely in some disem-
bodied existence. They have bodies of
their own. though our eyes may not or
dinarily see them. That is clear in the
story Of the risen Jesus.
This bodily existence cannot be
wholly unlike what we know ourselves, or
identity would be destroyed. and it is an
absolute necessity to the belief in immor-
tslity that in the life beyond personal iden-
tity shall continue. 1t is impossible for us
to think Of that spiritual body as some
thing wholly new. 1 cannot believe in
myself in the other world If / cannot be-
leve that my body. which ! inhabit as my
house, is substantially the same as that I
now inhabit. When Jesus appeared to
the disciples it was$with the same bodily
form they had known, the same spiritual
glance out of the eyes, the same voice
speaking out of "A finer organ than the
larynX through which, in the physical life,
he had spoken to them.
Are you the same that you were twenty
years ago? The form is the same. the
physical identity is the same; but there
is not an atom in your body that was
there twenty years ago, even seven years
ago. You are in a constant fuX of matter,
drawing from the earth and the air the
material to recompense your physical
body. And yet there is something which
holds this constant flux of matter 10 per-
petual identity of form. That something
which stamps this fluent matter with
form, aud so maintains its identity must
be the finer form, the vital and essential
substance of our bodies. l believe this flu
ent matter is stamped from within by the
very spirit of Jesus of Nazareth.
This is that, l believe, to which Paul
referred when he said: There is a natural
body and there is a spiritual body. He
does not say there is to be a spiritual body,
but there is, now and here, within US
each, a spiritual body. Then there must
be In us here the germinal powers of the
life to come. This inner finer form of
our bodies, even now and here In the flesh,
holds the secret Of its future marVelloues
powers; occasionally TRANSPORTING the
outer body from within and lifting ii
above the laws which ordinarily enslave
that outer body. Are there any hints of
this? Plenty of them. The residents of
the east have from time immemOrial, liv-
ing in the spirit, demonstrated in it what
we chose to call occultism Is this con
fined to the east? Mo- in the middle ages
il was called magic"
DIR. Newton quoted Franklin as saying
that back of every material force there
was a reSiduum of something that detied
analysis, and said that tho residuum Of
occult phenomena was, so far as he, the
speaker could see, fact, after all allow
ance was made for fraud and deception.
The scientists were demonstrating it now
under the name of hypnotism. Under
the name telepathy it was a fad of the day.
These mysteries and other well authenti-
Gated powers of men were not powers Of
the outer body, but powers of some inner
organization, transformed by the mind.
1t was no longer possible to disbelieve ut
terly the powers of clairvoyancy.
"God forbid that a dreary sleep of I'M
told ages be our first experience of heay-
en-. With tenderest reverence for the an
cient thought / think higher thought is
given to us. Without waiting for the lapse
of time for the restoration of fieshy ele-
ments we do not need. Gods hand draws
the spirit forth and there it clothes itself
III a new lbIiIi- <Al~I now DtdutlIQl THIS
belief isl When l have read over our
cOmmittal service, and unused on the an
Client beliefs, closing my eyes, | have al
most seen the spirit form risen from the
flesh and entered upon the new life At
the touch of death the outer feshy body
falls away and the inner spiritual body Is
freed for the new life 1t may draw
around itself from the body which it leaves
or from the spiritual elements in the en-
comprising ether the elements for a new
and finer material body; or in ways in
which we can not even dream of the mvs-
terry of being clothed upon may accom-
plish itself At the moment of death, so
it seems to me- the spirit passes out of
the earthly house into the house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens
Every death IS a resurrection. From
away
do we not see all this in the story of
the risen Jesus, passing without the slip
OF years into the new life. and then.
clothing Himself in a new body revealing
Himself to His people clothed not in NOR
tally, but in Immortality? And when We
are with Him we shall be like Him"
"A member of the London firm that
publishes Oscar Wildes books says thai
on the day following the extraordinary
in fH.n a..