The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
al. only more perfect, in the great here,

al. only more perfect, in the great here
after?
Secure, however, in her immortality
the question as to whether she shall b.
clothed with the same form hereafter
should be secondary one to the soul
she cannot really lose her own individu.
ality-onIy the body does that-and she
may be sure that she shall be given the
requisite form, and be clothed in suitable
apparel when the great Disposer sets up
his everlasting kingdom. But whether
the soul shall be given the same or
another form, is essentially one and the
same thing; in either case it would be a
resurrection, reconstruction, be-
ginning new. 1t is said that crazy
man once broke into Emerson s study
and exclaimed that the world was coming
to an end. And what of it?" quietly
responded Emerson, we can get along
very well without it" So does the man
feel that takes the long view, who is sure
of his own eternity, and does not doubt
his own vision, his own consciousness,
and the assuring voice of his own God.
If the task, however, of provoking,
from the silent dust, the same lost form,
giving it the same individuality, and
it with glory and Immortality,
seems at all impossible, it is because we
view it from the standpoint of human
nesclence and weakness, rather than
from that of divine omniscience and om-
Impotence. If we consider this bound
less and flaming universe, which the
Almighty has called into marvellous
being, with its millions oftlying moons,
worlds and fiery suns, whose places he
appointed in immensely, and whose
light he ordained through ages untold;
onsider that, through the divine order
ng, he is continually calling into dis
met being from the intangible, invisible
nd inanimate, thousands of animate,
rganic, human beings,--if we consider
II this, certainly the work of bringing
ack the lost form and departed spirit
nd linking them in one gloriied in
iyidual, and empowering it with life
ternal, will seem no other than !
easonable possibility, for God. All +
,rms of life, whether vegetable or ami q
lal, begin with an infnitesimal grain, ,
+ dot, of matter, visible only through 9
igh-power microscope. Yet, in that ,
rain exists the potential oak or man. ,
18th such a grain to start with, the ;
mighty, through natures agency, .
,velops a monster Jumbo or a sapient
ewton; nay, more, he must create the i
itiative dot. So, if God should res =
rect us from an invisible grain, and =
en- create that grain, it is plain that he a
ii then have done no more for us than 4
/, has already done. And if we con- >.
Ter that the body, even though in ele- ;,
entail state, and the soul shall already :,
in existence, the advantage of the >,
in point OF possible ease, 81
il be obvious. We cannot reasonably ;,
ppose, then, that the task of raising =,
d reconstructing the individual will 9,
an impossible one for the Deity. The n
ssibility, therefore, of the resurrection -
lst seem absolutely certain; the only :,
estion now being, is it in the provi- :,
nee of God that man shall live again? :,
The scientist, the poet and the prophet !,
alike, from their several standpoints, !,
* forward to a great renaissance and :,
of the universal existence, !,