The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-23

think it important to emphasize Gods
thoughts about it as given to us in His
word In the following ways God has
highly honored this body of ours.
First, by giving us an account of it's
creation, If there is an immaterial, in
tangible man, God has not thought him
of sufficient Importance to give any ac-
count of his creation.
Second, by making it in His own i'm
age, This image was not Intellectual, for
Adam knew not the wles of Satan and
believed his lie rather than Gods state
ment That it was not moral is shown
by his yielding to sin and then trying
to lay the blame upon his wife.
Third, by calling it man 1t is this
dust-made organism that the Bible in
Varlably calls man. We read of dead
man being carried out; not the remains
OF man. HE knoweth our frame; He
remembereth that we are dust"
Fourth, by imparting to it intelli-
| genee. We read, Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust" To sing requires
mind, intelligence again MANY that
/ sleep in the dust of the earth shall
awake, some to shame" Here is capa-
city for thought again referred to.
| Fifth, by imputing to it moral ac-
countability. "a resurrection of the
dead, both of the just and the unjust"
Again we are told we are to be judged
for the deeds done in the body"
| Beecher once said that Agassiz since
| his death had made more scientific dis
coveries than when alive, and that
Herschel had explored more star worlds,
Sculptors, painters etc, are supposed
to have done more since death than
when alive. But according to the book
none of them have done thing out of
the body worth Gods notice. One might
as well then believe in the scripture doc
trine of the unconscious state of the
dead
Sixth, by purchasing redemption
through it. Christ "bore our sins in his
own body on the tree"
Seventh, by creating it for Himself
The body is not for fornication, but
for the Lord"
Eighth, in that He greatly desires to
make it His temple by the indwelling
spirit
Ninth by noting down in His book of
remembrance the constitution, the ply
steal makeup of each individual. Each
figure shown by kaleidoscope is diff
ferent and could only be reproduced by
knowing the combination and having
power thus to reform it. This is Gods
purpose and power in resurrection, and
guarantees identity.
Tenth, by revealing for the body a
glorious immortality. The Bible speaks
of no immortality for the spirit or soul.
Why do men talk so much of that upon
which God is silent? Immortality is
Gods purpose for the bodies of His
saints.
Eleventh, by preparing for it home
literal glorious, eternal-the .renovat-
ed earth I'VE look for new heavens and
new earth. wherein dwelleth right
eousness." What would an invisible, in
tangible, immaterial spirit-entity do
with such home as that, or such city
as the New Jerusalem? It will be real
earth, for real personalities, saved, re-
deemed, glorified bodies.
Twelfth, earth cannot cease her
growing until these bodies are re-
deemed. Till Christ comes, till the
saints bodies are made like his own,
this is a growing creation.
Let US then respect the body more. Do
not defile it. or corrupt it, or misuse;
but present it to God, and let Him
cleanse and fill and use it, and finally
immortalize and glorify it at the COM
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ.