The Newtown bee., 1896-04-24

rpcmiug abundant life. We bathe in i'm measurable oceans of life, and vet w
 know nothing of that life until God 1T
 some WAY gives it a body. Do you no
 remember the mountain at D0than fiIIrt
 with horses and chariots of fire rounC
 ,bout Elisha, all unseen by his servants
 until his eyes were opened?
 There is auniversal longing for body
 tor tangible form. Do you not see how
 we grow re-tlcss because God is spiri
 done? Do you not remember how Ghc L.
 raplites had the pillar Of cloud before
 them hY day ard the pillar of fire before
 -hrm by night? These 9YmbONL"d God
 presence with them; but when God wa.
 talking with Moses upon the mount, thu
 Israeltes made molten calf, for tho '
 uu-t have a god in tangible shape to gt
 before them Dn you not see how thu
 writers of the Bible grow restless be
 cause God i9 Spirit alone, and how they .ptak of His eye that never sleeps, Iii,
 4rm that IS ot shortened, His voice IlhC
 the thunde", Hi. pathWAV upon tur
 clouds, His ear that is eyer open to Iht
 pruit"uts cry, th" earth that is Ilj- foot.
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 WE CANNOT IIIINIl or HEAVEN unless W. think of gates of poarl and
 walls of jasper and streets of gold and d great white throne upliftCd. We must have things with bodies, or we know
 uo,hing about them at all.
 "tiod giveGh it a body as it hath pleas ed Him. Now very little is told ue b, the Word If revelation about tne reaur- rcclion body; but let u2 Chiuk K hat aor t Iuu t be in order tn please lInd. W;
 know, then, il must he a b"dy fitted C' it: surrOuGdlu gS. "AH fl 'su i- not lh
 -auIp flesh" The hare ha- body ulcou to iJ7 mauhcT rf life, Aud ID have the Wren. the eagle, the miuUuW and the io Vithian Uf the deep. We EL0'V it is A, wlrn our body now; it is suited to the life t tIas to lead and the work it has tu do. How well is this body adapted tt us work, Think what the hand can d.. | C.Iu brCkOu, rrpeI, invite, appeal, tx press sorrow or joy; it can act rc~p0n tive to every emotion of the mind Thnl what our thought can dc. How manl things it can hold How it annihilare~ time and space. At one moment it scar to the throne of God, the moment it iE ir- tent upon the turf at the feet. Think what memory can do. It seems tIeaCh erOus at times; but how quickly, thg Ough some unexpected circumstance, do long forgotten events troop into mind Think what the eyes cali do How they weep and smile and snap and twinkle and re veal the depths Of the soul Think what the eara can do. They can take in Ghr discoTdant cIam0rs of city street and report them at the brain, or they can b. charmed by the rhapsodies of Men delSsohu. Many abuse the body go tha r., instead of 3 help, 1t becomes a worthless drag; but it WAS ~uited to do we'll all that God requires. And get what poOl body this would be to take to the spirit ual world! We do not want it's aches jherc, its frailiies and iGs limited DOW. CTS. Heaven is 7sO va7f, how would its slow powers of IOcOmOtiOn do there When Eliah and EnOch were translated, , how long did it take them on the journey from earth to Heaven, How would the raptures of Heaven appeal to tkis b0d1 filled with it's desire for CaTnal thipge ! How even now little thinking wearies he brain and clogs the thought That would not do in that world where the things to think of are so vast and de3p. 50 we are glad to read that the body + changed to suit it's higher state lit is 'own natural body, it is raised a apir- itual body" It is sown body with aui nal appetites and passions that make it of the earth, earthly; if is raised a spir- itual body, freed from the letters Of sense and the clogs of temptation.
 The body that pleases God must be CNtb bNdGi NA CJt4 AG iS SCTu Ill GbIIupA- ion; it is raised in interruption. The prophecy respecting the Servant which was fulfilled in Jesus as the Messiah was that his visage was SO marred more than any man, and he hath sn0 form nor c0melin9ss; but when Jesus stood upon the Mount Transfguration and His glor- flied beauty for 8 moment broke through the earthly form,
 ''HIs FACE DID SHINE AS THE SUN, and his raiment was white as the light. That was the suggestion of what our glorifed body shall be. In creation God has made nothing unIovely; then do not think the resurrection body will be. God loves beauty. See it in the flower that peeps out of the crannied wall; see 1t in the star that wrinkles and blinks at you from out the depths above; see it in the landscape unroIling as a picture down the valley and marred only by the erectiOns of man. Let ua 5ure alone, and it is hard to improve upon it's work. Let it cover 8 fallen | tree with clamberiDg vine, let it weave ,he moss with delft fingers over the hard i! rock, let it plough it's way in river l through the deep canon and purIing 1 brook through the meadow. God is the 1 Standard of beauty, and what will be l he body be that He will make to dwell 1 oreYer with Him
 The body which pleases God must be glorious body. ''It is sown in dis lonor; it is raised in gIory.'' Paul alls this earthly body vile body, and ooked at from one point of view, that tatemenJ is true. This body is ever hoWing the effects of sin and suffering. course of sin, single sinful act. caves its trace upon the body as surelyI 8 the flame sweeping over the field 9aver swath of black. Old age comes n and the body is bent with inflrmitv, here Is nothing glorious about that ckness leaves the cheeks hollow and inehed, there is nothing glorious about lat and if the body has any glory i, ere, it is like that of the flower which . brings up in the morning and at even : Ig is cut down and Wi5hers away; and : the body has any glory here, how is : lat glory gone when the poor death- riken body is laid away in the dust of le earth But all this is to be changed. 2 UT vile body is to be fashioned like un- Christ's glorious body ,ss according to ? e working whereby he is able even to Ibdue all things unto HinseIf.n q From the southwest corner of the ! i, 'ntinent of Africa point of land sts out into the sea. It is called the pc of Good Hope, but 1t used not go ' hn "a Had FF Fnunn x7nn Fka 6Yag,r ,e3