The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-13
CHRlST'S HABEAS CORPUS
DAVID AYRTON HERON'S VIEW OF
THE RESURRECTION.
Old and New Testaments Searched and
Ancient PHILOSOPHERS Scanned-A
Scholarly Sermon.

yesterday morning the Rev. DR.. David
Ayrton Huron preached an illuminative
sermon on the resurrection. He said:
THE habeas corpus act marks long adj
vance in the records of the liberties OF man.
1t had more provisions than / can now take
time to mention 1t protected prisoners
against delays of trial, compelled sheriffs
and other officers of the law TO bring their
prisoners TO trial within certain days. 1t
was a defense against unwarranted and
| Illegal encroachment upon the rights OF
accused persons. OffenSeS against habeaS
corpus were once fined in the sum Of $500.
and habeas corpus is only suspended in
times of great public danger. Habeas
corpus means this In English, You may
have the body
resurrection of the body as Christs writ
of habeas corpus. The legal act of habeas
| corpus has been great blessing among
subject of Him who spake as never man
| spake. 1t kindled the enthusiasm of Paul.
who became the chief exposition of the
resurrection. 1t changes the faith and
feeling of all believers about death and
makes the cemetery mounds the most
promising garden plots upon which the
THE doctrine of the resurrection of the
| body Is the revelation of God If there is
| such thing at all. The human mind
would never have conceived ii. Indeed, il
/ is quite beyond reason. and many have
! thought quite contrary to il. Yet men have
1 an instructive notion that in some way
1 a
Indians idea of the hereafter is hunting
ground on which he performs his feats
of hunting as he does here. The Moham-
/ medan's hereafter involves bodily condi-
| tons. The Greeks pictured their heroes
eating and drinking with their gods. This
| idea of continued bodily existence made the
| parted, expecting some sort of reunion of
| soul and body when the gods would ap-
point. DIR. H. Crosby declares that the per-
| petual duration of man, and that in some
4 a in
| the race as is the doctrine OF the existence
of God. Whether we can quite subscribe
to that or not Wv. when d the doctrine OF the
| il meets a need; Ii answers to the deepest
| feelings of our souls.
| OBJECTION TO THE DOCTRINE.
"Still. there has always been much OBJ
| lection TO the doctrine. There have al
ways been those who have disbeieved Ii.
The Bible. which is attested fulfilled by
| the doctrine of the resurrection, tells us
very candidly about those who did not
believe its most important truths. The
| Sadducees were a party among the Jews
who said that there is no resurrection,
neither angel nor spirit. II was the Sad
| that preposterous. hypothetical case of the
| seven brothers who In succession had the
same woman as wife. According to the
! superstition that there Is a resurrection of
| the body which Of the seven brothers will
! have her as wife there? The Sadducees
| thought their question crushing one.
| They were astonished when Christ said to
them that Moses himself believed in the
resurrection of the dead, for years and
years after they were all dead Moses knew
| God as the God of Abraham, Isaac and
| Jacob. God Is not the God Of the dead
| but of the living. When my father died
| our pastor came and prayed with US. be-
| Thee that none are dead with Thee 1t was
| simply another statement Of Gods own
revelation of himself as the God of Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob. though they had
| long since died. The Sadducees must there
| fore accept the resurrection or break with
Moses.
| the body Is asserted man begins to reason
! about the impossibility of the fact. 1t was
so in Pauls day. 1t is so in ours Some
body do they conner We know what is
| actual. We say. Dust TO dust, ashes to
ashes We know about the actual condi-
| tions. We quote the law of nature. We
| speak about the discovered limbs being in
tered in one place and the rest of the body
in another. We gravely quote the science
| OF surgery against the statement of God
We speak about the Incorporation of the
| particles of the body in trees and even in
other animals. We speak of cannibalism
rection of the body. A counter question
may be asked In the face of all these Ques-
tons. is God able?' Is God able to bring
about this resurrection of the body? We
may make 1t a test case. Jesus affirmed
the resurrection of the body, and He
enacted the resurrection of the body. He
said: Marvel not at this, for the hour is
coming in which all that are in the graves
shall hear His voice and shall come forth;
they that have done good. unto the resur-
rection Of life. and they that have done
evil unto the resurrection of damnation
Jesus declared that nothing is impossible
with God.
RESURRECTION OF BODY.
Paul affirms by the Holy Spirit that this
resurrection of the body will be according
TO the working whereby Jesus Christ is
able even TO subdue all things unto him
self Paul lodges in creation the power
OF the resurrection. The tender green
leaves bursting forth from the hard. dry.
brown or black seed. that is the resurrec-
ton acted out in the form OF a speechless
but eloquent drama. The butterfly, once
living a crawling, wormlike life having
risen upon wings of beauty. now cleaves
the upper air. "a flying sermon upon the
resurrection of the body
Inc prophecy of David Is a foreshadow-
ing or the resurrection or the body-many
OF them that sleep in the dust OF the earth
shall awake Passing over into the New
Testament. we may see a strong illustra-
ton OF the probability OF the resurrection
In the experience of Lazarus. Can God en-
act the habeas corpus? Has He not given
US many early Impressions or preliminary
drafts OF this great writ i'm the words and
works which l have mentioned? The doc
trine of the resurrection OF the body Is like
1t Is limited and foreshadowed and demon
strated. An increasing purpose of God
concerning this mighty truth runs through
all the Scriptures. Then came that remark