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

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+. If il di 9 il beareth much fruit.
Man is no exception TO the law of Il
, universe. The chemical cOnstituen,
Of every mortal body remains-evel
atom. There is always the princip
of life in the dying seed, and there
, always the seed of life in the dyiI
believer; principle of life which Il
cold hand of death cannot chill. nc
destroy. 1t Can only set free-stril
off the swaddling husk of the ol
estate
Beyond the view of mortal beyon
the reach of science 10 analyZe, or dis
cover. or explain, is the seed of eterns
life which the great Sewer has i'm
planted. and which only puts forth tn
first tender blade when the last loo
is taken and the last long drawn sig
is breathed. II give unto them eterna
life. and they shall never perish. -
As with the grain of wheat whicl
you sow. so with the grain of i'm
mortal life which the Savior sows
There is no more occasion for wonde
in the one case than in the other; the
outer wrapping of mortal life must b,
dissolved as the outer wrapping Of
VIC gram VI NHcdt. H6 Ouc is as
as the other; the one is as incompre
hensible as the other; the one is al
absolutely certain as the other Ma
ture and reason. except when super.
ticially interpreted, are always on the
side of the gospel
All, but you say: I'm the case of
the grain OF wheat l can believe.
see the tender blade of the new life and
the harvest. But. alas the bodies of
believers have been sown for thous
ands of years, and we still are SOW
ing. thickly sowing the forms Of our
loved ones in the worlds sterile
mould; but alas. a sad, wintry silence
hangs about their tombs; there is no
sign of coming life; the rather more
hopeless dustward progress. Yes he
replies: Every man in his own order.
The first fruits of them that are his at
his coming.
The time of the harvest is not yet.
We have only seen the fir st sheaf in
the person of the risen Christ We
must wait His coming. When He
cometh we shall all be changed in the
twinkling of an eye.
So much for the first question. Now
for the second You want to know
with what body do they come? His
reply shows that he intends to remove
three objections in the questioner'
mind.
~ II deny that the dead will ever
have any bodies at all. 1t contravenes
both reason and nature, that the dead
will have or can have bodily form.
Nature has forever unclothed the
,,,;fu 81 dan1 o1
Paul makes the same reply that our
Lord made to the Sadducees: ''Ye
snow not the scriptures. neither the
power of God. In word, the whole
doctrine of the resurrection rests upon
he explicit and repeated promise of
rod and upon His power to accomplish
His promise. You mean, therefore, to
leny the power of God for that it is
hat lies at the bottom of all scep
icism as to this glorious hope of the
believer. God will give our dead a
,ody as it pleaseth Him. He can pre-
'are body for the spirit second time
S easily as He did the first time.
surely all nature teaches this 1t is
he believer S advocate and seignor
ouncil in the case.
Look about you, if you please He
iveth to every seed his own body. In
he vegetable world behold the infinite
of the Almighty. Limltless
n power. He was not forced to give
very seed the same body. But every
sed Its own and different body. O.
le infinite variety of shrubs. and
overs, and trees, and vines, and
losses: no two species alike; no two
the same species alike no two leaves
the same plant alike no two blades
c grass alike. Surely all nature
caches the ability of Almighty God to
i've anything and everything a body {
J it pleaseth him. ,
But come, O Corinthian doubter. go
18th me to the higher animal world.
ave we not here the same infinite I
,riety and diversity2 All flesh is ]
1T the same flesh; but tn are is one I
nd of flesh of men, another flesh of t
casts, another of fishes another of t
rds. God was not limited to one 1
,or style-to one pattern-from the t
ephant to the anamalcula that ex
lusts lifetime in the swim from r
ore to shore of it's great Atlantic-a a
ngle drop of water. From the eagle 2
the butterfly, that weighs itself upon {
leaf from leviathan of the deep b
the tiniest germ life in the old t
mestead brook-a myriad-a count n
rs variety of bodies and styles of n
dies fill the whole earth. No two "
ecies alike-no two of the same n
pcies alike no two features of the Ii
me body alike. Do they not show o
of the Divine?
Art not satisfied YETI Look to the o.
,rlds above you '"There are also "
estial bodies and bodies terrestrial, N
t the glory of'-that is to say the II
lie of-"the celestial is one and the b.
lie of the terrestrial is another. d.
ere is one style of the sun and OF
other style of the moon, and another W
lie of the stars, for one star differeth d.
m another star in style" Above us IL
st the same infinite variety Of bodily w
ms, different in size, il sphere and al
lit. ct
10 also is the resurrection of the m
ID. How can you deny the power Il
God to give them body as it may al
ase Hmm How dare you say that ey
ure and reason deny the possibility tn
the resurrection, when every living tn
nR, and sun, and moon, and stars
lare the power Of God to provide tn
les as it pleaseth Him. All nature he
,th up and gives the life to him who je