Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-06
PROBLEM IN THEOLOGY
DIR. Newton Gives His Views on the
Resurrection of Man.
Life to Come Will Not Be a
.Bodiless Existence.


NEwYoRK May 6.--Our resurrection, In
the light Of the resurrection Of Jesus, was
the subject Of Rev. DIR. NewtOn's sermon
yesterday.
During the course Of" his sermon DIR.
Newton said: "If we rightly read the
story Of the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
we shall see In IL type Of every other res
direction that Is TO follow. We are con-
strained to think I'm some way about the
resurrection OF life II we are to believe In 1t
at all. Such thoughts as we can form
seem to me to be illumincd from stories OF
the risen Jesus.
1.-The life To come cannot be n bOdiless
existence. Nature knows no bodiless ex-
istence; everything that lives clothes itself
In some form or other, more or less line
matter composing these forms, but matter
Of some sort or other, there Is clothing for
everything living. We may be sure that
the dead, living STILL live not merely In
some dsembodied cxistcnce-they have
bodies OF their own, though our eyes may
not ordinarily see them. That 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. 1t is an absolute
necessity that i'm the life beyond personal
identity shall continue. That means in
some way or another there shall be IA con
tinuanco Of that which is truly vital and
essential i'm our present existence.
II have never cared to discuss the ques-
ton whether we shall know each other In
that heavenly life-that Is necessity in
my mind If there Is to be n continued per
sonal identity. If this be true, then there
must be something within these outer
1eshy bodies, which is, as 1t were, the
germ and nucleus of that after body;
something which holds these bodies which
we sec and which continues our identity
here, notwithstanding their constant
Changes OF Material.
EVERY seven years the material OF the
body is completely renewed" he con-
'tinued, "and yet there Is something which
holds this constant flux Of matter in a
perpetual identity of form. That some
thing which stamps this fluent matter with
form, and SO maintains It's identity, that
must be the finer form, vital and essential
substance of our bodies. This is that to
which 'Paul referred when he said:
There is a physical 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 ns each a spiritual body.
This inner, finer form of our bodies,
found new and here In the flesh, holds the
secret OF It's future marvellous powers, occa-
,ionally TRANSPORTING thneother form with
IN and lifting it above the laws which ordi-
narily enslave that outer body. It's powers
hurst forth under right conditions, and we
have hints as to the nature of that body
that shall he. These hints we find in the
mystic experiences OF mentality, the oc-
tbn Inn ~ xxybt tch
are undoubtedly facts, so far as 1 can see
after all allowance is made for fraud and
deception.
1.-THE mysteries of clairvoyance, tele-
pathy or mind reading-these and other
well authenticated powers of men are not
powers of the outer body, but are the pow
,ers of some inner organization trans
formed by the mind. This again we see
illumined in the
Stories Of ;the Kisen Jesus.
1.-THE powers of his resurrection body
were wholly beyond the capacities Of the
body,0f the flesh, and we know it, but
they were the Developments Of the powers
of that inner organization whose action in
his earthly life we call miracles
"At the touch of death, the outer fieshy
body falls away and the spiritual body is
freed for new life. it may draw around
itself from the body which it leaves, or
from the spiritual elements in the encpm-
passing ether elements OF new and finer
material body; or, i'm a way which we can
not even dream of, being clothed upon
may accomplish itself
"At the moment OF death, SO it seems to
me, the spirit passes out Of its earthly
house in the house not made with hands,
eternal IN the heavens Every death Is a
resurrection. From every supulchre the