West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-06-27

another way, the mortality of angels, by
declaring that Christ "only hath immor.
tality" l Tim. o;I6 the Father always
being excepted, Cor. IS;s7-and, as be,
fore shown, our Lord gcteiroi immortality
at his resurrection, aud the selection of the
age are TO be ''made like him" who is now
''the express image of the Fathers person
"worthy the Lamb that was SLAM To ycteff,
power, and riches and wisdom, and strength,
and honor, aud glory, and blessing" Rev.
$50, all superlative phe Father exeepted).
Man is able TO preserve his own words
and reproduce them--iu the phonograph
eylinder-"mueh more is our Creator able
TO reproduce for the entire race such brain
organisms as will perfectly reproduce every
sentiment, thought and experience" David
seems to refer to the power of God in a
manner that might be applicable prophet.
eally 20 the resurrection al will praise Thee +;
for am fearfully and wonderfully made,
my substance (organiSml was not hid from
Thee when was made in secret, curiously
wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance being vet
imperfect and in Thy book all my members
were written which in continuance trraduallyl
were fashioned when as yet there was none
OF them, Psalm IS0I4 10. This may equally
apply to the hrst-birth, II suggests un-
seareha'le greatness and ability To ful6u all
his good purposes, "why should il he
thought thing incredible with you. that
God should raise the dead" Acts s6,S.
Here the great Apostles to the Gentiles
Nations other than the Jews) defends the
Jewish hope of n resurrection of the dead
before the Gentle King (whose philosophy
taught the dogma of immortality of the soul,
and had no place in it for resurrection i'm
answer to the accusation against him that
the hope of the promise was through Jesus
whom the Jews had rejected and cruciGed,
see Acts 2S;iS-t9; 24;2I ago I7;32. The
heathen idea was logically consistent for
that which is immortal cdHHol die at all.
hence resurrection from the dead" or "of
the dead" are meaningless expressions
supers,itions, as Festus declared, Acts ssiIo.
The Jewish hope rested on the promise
and the power of God to RAISE THE DEAD,
that had ceased to be, Psalms oo;3, and
were destroyed.
The attempted admixture of the Jewish
aud heather hopes works confusion-
Babylon. "The soul that sinncth it shall
de' is the universal law. Eek. 1870. All
are under the bondage Of death now for
Adams SIN, and the infant dies as we'll as
those who reach responsibility but in the
new order--typi6ed only in the Law
Coyenant-him that dies, shall die for his
own sin. II is not the "body" that is said
TO ic,neiIher the spirit (of life) which ''goes
out" beyond all power except the Divine
bu, 1t is the SoHl, the sentient being that has
ceased to be, has become nothing, and is
not.
we once met the proposition that, "if
the being had been annihilatcd-or become
nothing, then there could be nothing 10
raise" Uhe heather philosophy exactly.
The great Apostles reply was "Why
should it be thought incredible ?" Why
cannot God reproduce the former identity
Is the limit of Ills power seen in the multi
Piled reproduction Of grains and manifold
exhibitions unseurchable to our present
capacities ?
Have faith in God, Ills way must he
For all His crcatures-so for thce--the best.