The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-04-11

: tnat Is but poorly adapted to the want
aud woes of this life and utterly made
!. quate for the larger, sweeter. fuller
! different, hypothetic life of the King
dom of Heaven. If true. it would
: seem absurd and not even to be desired
"a thing wholly homogeneous. And Sc
they stumbled at the doctrine of a
literal resurrection. "Yea, Paul, il
these poor frames of blood and bone.
and slow decay could arise from the
dust of the earth, they would not suit
us If they did. " Back to our grain
of wheat, says the apostle. Death
transforms as well as reforms So that
the body is sown in corruption. but is
raised in interruption is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is
sown in weakness, il is raised in
power; it is sown natural body, il
is raised spiritual body.
The logic of death transforms the
body in four fold way: ~ Ma
terially it becomes incorruptible, i'm
possibl of decay or waste. (2) In
appearance raised in glory all the
wrinkles and scars and features that
mar shall be smoothed out and it shall
be clothed in all the beauty and lovli-
ness that an infinite God can bestow.
! ~ In the range of its possibilities
and capacities: it is raised in power;
new capacities and functions will be
given IL. "a 1t is changed in nature
it is sown a natural body, it is raised
spiritual body; all the gross appetites
and mortal passions shall fall from it,
and it will be prepared for its spiritual
existence. As it was born into this
world with functions adapted to present
existence so will it be born into the
next with powers adjusted to its new
conditions.
Death is not only the transforming
chemist it marks stage in man S
progress 1t merely ends for the re-
deemed of God his first lesson AS we
have borne the image of the earthly,
SO shall we also bear the image of the
heavenly.
AS stood upon the highes. peak in1
the Appalachian chain of mountains, |
| saw an eagle flying before the face
of a summer storm. In the shadow of |
the cloud it looked as dingy and as
commonplace as any other bird of |
prey But when it gained the sun
light of the upper world, and its
golden beams smote full upon out
stretched wings, it was thing trans
formed and dazzling in its beauty and
strength
o. says Paul, when we have gained
the fatherland; when we shall have
left behind US all that makes life
poor and wretched; when we shall be
pathed in the eternal sunlight of the
upper world, we, too, shall be clothed
upon with new power and all excell-
ing glory.
Third objection Tben, Paul, the
new body is not the old; in word
Will it be our body that shall rise or
new body?' Yes, it Will be our body.
1t is sown; that which is sown is that
which shall be raised. Yes, the same
body, TRANSPORTED as on Hermon and
fashioned like unto his glorious body.
Now, are we the sons of God, and it I
we know we shall be like him for we ,
he same. Whether particle for par ,
t is the same body in all that makes
or identity and personality. Gold in
he mint is the same as the gold in ,
he ore; the GROSS is gone in the fur
lace heat of change, but that is all
he gold is the same.
The body of earth is the body of the b
with the dross all gone s
md fitted for its new sphere and en- t
10y. To this all scripture agrees. t
)ur souls and our bodies are his; they il
ave both been bought, ransomed by "
he precious blood of Christ. Hear the C
faster himself: ut is the will of T
ny Father which sent me that of them
which He has given he | shall lose e
othing, but shall raise it up at the il
asst day." Should lose nothing-no
ne and nothing of any one. p
In remarkable passage in the book
Jude we read that when the devil o.
rould have seized the body of Moses al
Iichael tie archangel stood guard. et
lie disputed the matter with him-held
is golden shield over the precious ia
ust of the hero 1t is only picture d.
| what is going on always, every q
here. The Savior's dead are all I'M W
er guard, wherever be- their last rest II
~ place. o, could we see as one day d
e shall, we should see the spear point at
I'D Offering shield of q celestial pick
t at every headstone and unmarked
ound; they are being kept for the
reat day that is coming, when, risen a
nd changed in the twinkling of an
Ye, they shall greet their Lord in
% air, and so shall they ever be with
e LLOYD. DE-
O, brethren, what is the length. and Al
@ breadth, and the depth, and the in
light of the Easter hopeY This is the Ca
vel of the chapter. 1t glows with JIM
9 great Easter fact. It paints a br
velier rainbow about the brow of our Wi
ing than ever spanned the heavens lar
set Of sun. 1t tells us of glory tiI
at excelleth awaiting every believer int
Christ. hi
In the midst of the thick discourage in
snts of our days, it brings hope phi
at clears our heavens. To old age dr.,
d lettering infrmity it brings staff hel
at cannot fail II is rich with a ov,
omise of youths renewal and i'm drt
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