The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-11
At EASTER TIDE
Knight TempIars Attend the
First NJ. {. Church.
FLOWERS IN PROPULSION
DR.. Bradt breaches an Able
Sermon at Night,

Every church in the city was crowded
TO its utmost yesterday. The Knight
Templars attended the Methodist church
in body in the morning. The entire au-
ditorium capacity of the building was
utilized to the last seat. DR.. Slutz preach
ed an able sermon on The Resurrec-
ton" The church was beautifully dec
GRATED and special program OF music
was arranged.
The Easter services at the Dodge Ave
nue. NJ. E church CWest Side was in
charge of the Sunday school and was very
entertaining. a program consisting oil
choruses of the various classes, solos, rec
itations by the scholars and teachers was
excellent. Rev. PrUen, the pastor, gave
a short talk on foreign missions, which
was exceedingly interesting owing to the
prese Mt conditions of heather nations.
The church was crowded and the mission
collection large.
Rev. Thayer preached at the Plymouth
Congregational church in the morning on
The Power of the Resurrection" and
in the evening on Handel and the Mes
siah." He thought the Messiah was the
climax of social music, that Hayden's
Creation and Mendelssohn's Elijah are
minor excellencies. The church was pro-
1usely decorated.
st. Johns Episcopal church was crowd
ed both morning and evening The mu-
sic in the evening was rendered by a
ROBBED choir. Rev Won Herrlich's text
was Our Father Who Art in Heaven"
The First Presbyterian church had
flower arch above the pulpit from which
an Easter bell was suspended. The dec
orationS were elaborate and the church
was crowded both morning and evening,
al were all the churches il the city. DR..
Bradt preached in the evening on the
subject:
A BUILDING OF GOD.
Text: Corinthians. 2-vi-"For we know
If our earthly house Of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building OF
God. a house not made with hands, etcr-
nal in the heavens"
The first question I want to ask and
seek to answer is, what is meant here
by this building of God-this house not
made with hands. eternal in the heavens.
1T is put in contrast in one sense with
our earthly house of this tabernacle. BY
means our body-the earthly house of the
soul. BY the building of God. the house
not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens. the apostle evidently means then
rhe body which the soul is to inhabit in
eternity. For we are told in another place
that there are also celestial bodies and
bodies terrestrial. There is kind of i'm
preston in the minds of some that when
we die and the soul passes out from
these earthly bodies, then the soul enters
upon an Independent existence forever. 1t
Is pure soul. possessed of no body from
that time forward. But the inspired apos-
tie doesn't agree with such view. He
says for in this body We grOan, earnestly
desiring to be clothed upon with our house
which is from heaven. If so be that be-
ms clothed we shall not he found naked
i. e. having a soul without a body. Not
that we would be unclothed. but clothed
upon. that mortality might be swallowed
up of life" And he continues, Now he
hath wrought US for the self same thing
is God: who also hath given us the ear
nest of the spirit That is. God has not
only constituted and designed us to have
bodies now and hereafter, but to assure
us of this fact. He has given US His
spirit as a guarantee and pledge. But the
question is not fully settled Yet. Is this
building of God a body which has no rela-
ton whatever to the present body? our
earthly house of this tabernacle. / once
heard this view advanced: That this
building of God referred to here was the
body which God had prepared for the
soul of the believer between the time of
soul was not to be without a body while
its own body was lying i'm the grave await
ing the resurrection day This hardly
seems possible else the soul after the res
direction would have two bodies. and
why also does the scripture speak of this
heavenly body as one that should he
eternal in the heavens If il is To be only
a temporary dwelling place for the soul?
Hence we see this earthly body is not
to ba cast off forever. neither IS it TO be
dissolved. 1t is to be raised up.
This. / think. IS a fair and plain exc
gesis of this expression. a building Of
Cod" Il means the resurrection body
which the soul shall inhabit eternal IN the
heavens. For the souls of believers are. at
their death. made perfect in holiness and
do Immediately pass into glory but their
bodies being stall united % Christ. do rest
in their graves till the resurrection. And
at the resurrection, believers being raised
IN in glory. shall he openly Acknowledged
and acquitted in the day of Judgment and
made perfectly blessed to the full enjoy
Ing Of God TO an eternity.
Now comes another question i g-efer-
ence to this building Of God Having de-
cided that 10y this building OF God is
meant the resurrection body which the
soul is "a dwell in throughout eternity.
our second question is: What is the
character Of this building Of God2 Is
This building Of God, this resurrection
body. TO be anything like mans present
nodv? Let us see. Being the resurrec-
ton body. II viii st}l be mans body The
identity of the man VIII not be destroyed.
The human form viii stiU he maintained
,.Orieen conceived thar because she cir
Gle was the most perfect figure. therefore
rbe future body would be Elooular. But
a creature IN that form would not be rec
ocnized either in earth or heaven As "a
man Christ. when ne appeared 10 tIe dis
cinles after his resurrection. appeared
every time with his old accustomed human
form and body. ana with THAI human
form and body he assembled ZAP into heaven
and is set down AZ the right hand of
God the Father. The bodies which We pos
ssss at the resurrection day Will be our
own bodies Identical with those Ne pos
sessed at death. Just as the bodies which
were laid in the grave are identical with
those which our mothers rocked in the