The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-06-14

Therefore in the Resurrectio
whose wife shall she be of the Seven
Matthew 22-28
-.. Moses taught the men to perpetual
the race and name through the eldes
son if possible. If not possible, the
get as close to it as possible. Til
Sadducees antagonized the idea of an
sort of a Resurrection and sought t.
entrap the Christ by putting up to hir
the proposition of seven brothers VIII
had followed the teaching of Nose
and each married the widow of tn
eldest son. They told Christ it woul'
look ridiculous and create no littl
amount of trouble in Heaven to Sc,
seven men tagging around after on
woman. The inquisitive Sadducee
had at last presented their case ant
breathlessly awaited surrender.
A man in Utah said he would prob
ably marry my wife for eternity ane
have her in Heaven. He said l only
married her for this life. He thought
man was entitled to as many wives
as he could love here on earth and
could marry others here and now and
have them after death. A good deal
of this progressive business is done
or was done, among the people OF
Utah, who are firmly convinced that
a man is taking desperate chances in
finding his earthly wife married to
another man when the trio take up
their Eternal Home
The Utah man argues that all the
rest OF us have as many wives as we
want, only having one at the time. He
says they go us one better in his re-
llgion and take them all at once and
death is divorce pure and simple and
binding except the marriage ceremony
has the eternal feature connected with
it. In that event they are married for
eternity too.
Christ said to the Saducees that they
were making mistake in their ideas
of Heaven and the Resurrection. He
stated that no sex is ever resurrected.
IN Heave no males and no females.
No marriages and no giving in mar
riage. The absolute pershing of sex,
as sex, has led exbewildered minds to
deny the Resurrection of the dead.
They cannot understand how there
can be life without sex.
To step-mothers and step-fathers
who have undertaken to occupy the
exalted position of some loved one
who has gone on before, there comes
over and over again the fitting thought
OF how it will turn out in Heaven.
Whose am l and whose will be mine
Will she leave me upon the threshold
OF Eternity and be forever related to
him to whose sephulcher have often
gone with her with whom he first had !
to do? In the one sweet reunion of |
all reunions in Heaven when they
meet again with their children around |
the banquet table, will be there or |
will it be my lot to wait upon that |
table and see the family once more
reunited and which one of the women
will we think the most of and which
the least and how will it be?
Another stratum of idle thoughts
arised in the mind of the second wife
or the second husband, like these:
What will be doing when see them
meet and embrace Would it not have
been better for me to have mar
iried an unmarried person or else to
have remained single and to have gone
through this life lonely and alone,
rather than to have taken the des-
perate chances of feeling the blush
OF desertion in Heaven? Or which
OF the twain shall l claim in Heaven
and how shall treat the other one
who comes unpleasantly near our
heavenly abode? So it was that the
Sadducees were only presenting to
the Christ their natural human side of
a question that has always been the
source of vexation and wonder.
The thought of the Resurrection
brings up other questions: Shall my
little girl, the tot of three, who slipt
away from us years since, remain the
little tot she was when the roses hid
her form from our weakened eyes and
when the hymns seemed to be far
away music for some friend? Will
she meet me upon the shores of Eden
with the outstretched arms of my for
mer darling child. or will she have
grown to be woman of Paradise
with angelic form and manners? Will
She remember me as remember herr
Am | to be her Mother or will it be
her Mamma?
Whose Wife is She?
At the TRANSPORTATION of the Christ I
:wo men appeared, one of whom had
been dead fifteen hundred years, the
other. half so long. This was Moses
accompanied by Elijah Moses was
buried by an undertaken who came I
Town from Heaven. Elijah carried I
lis earthly body with him as he as
:ended. They stood now at the trans +
lguration of Christ in full possession a
u their own Individuality and identity. ,
The rich man in torment remember
ID he had five brothers over on earth /
md he wanted them notified not to i
,ome where he was. He remembered n
he names of his brothers and could v
ave told OF their boyhood times at v
ne old. swimming hole, their rough t
nd tumble days when things were |,
,oing crosswise, of their later recon b
citations and unbroken days of warm a
st friendship He remembered his i,
wn name and birthplace and family S
ecord and experiences. Il
Yet every woman with second
usband and every man with a sec n
nd wife, remembers the time when |bt
he greatest desire of the heart was 70 a