The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-04-15


A-zzN4N W. day we discussed |
(lRASIOR RQSSEllJJ the fact of the res
direction and show
ed from st. Paul's words that without
Gods purpose of resurrection those
who have fallen asleep in death would
have perished as brutes. We followed
with the Apostle the assurances that
Christ did rise from the dead and be-
come the Flrst-fruits of all those who
have gone into the sleep of DEATH 9th
ers, indeed, were awakened tempornrl.
ily1ag, for instance. Jairus' daughter,
LAZARUS the friend OF Jesus, and the
son OF the widow of Main.
Yet none of those instances is count
ed as a resurrection, for 1t is said that
Christ is the First-fruits of those who
slept Their awakening was merely Of
a temporary nature. and they soon re-
lapsed into the sleep of death. They
did not have full resurrection-da-
Gstasis--a raising up to perfection of
life, such as the redemptlye work Of
Jesus guarantees TO Adam and to all
his race willing to accept the same un-
der the terms of the New Covenant.
Yon will recall that on last Lords
day we demonstrated from the Scrip
lures that II Is not The body, but the soul
that is promised Il resurrection-that 1t
= was our Lords sod that went 70 shcOl
20 hadcs. 10 the death state. and that
- God raised Him up from death ON the
third diy. We noted a difficulty into
which all Christendom was plunged by
the unscrptural theory Tint II Is the
body limit ~ 70 iir rpsilirected. sc COS
continue 10 srdrvli and note vrll fur'
i tber ,lifficu,;i into which Ills cfsc?
plunged rs as believers In i'ip SoN.f -
Christ. pnrtlcpawly IN connection V"'i
our Rcdcenor : resurrection. "t.
y ,s Wbnt Went to lie-Ysn7
The ordinary- thought ih Ch"!st !
minds in respect To .Iesns' de'th rpd
n resurrection " that when lie serlnel l''
die lie did not die; that lie, Iii, ml1g.
+" tie soul. could not Gle; that. hste1|.
lie went to Heaven. aud then, ON the
third day, scame buck to get the body
ri which had been crucitled. and that He
took It to heaven forty days later; that
81 He has had that body ever since; aud
that He viii have 1t TO all eternity
Inarred with the print of the nails IN
His hands aud feet, the thorns upon
His brow. aud the spear mark In His
side. What ghestly thought! How
strange that we should ever have been
misled into so unscriptural and unrea
sOnable theory! Some endeavor tc
gloss the matter by suggesting that oul
Lords flesh Is glorined-that 1t shines
the shining presumably making the
wounds all the more conspicuous.
Our Methodist friends have not ye
changed their statement Of the matter
namely, "He ascended up on high, tax
ing His fleshly body with Him, and al
that appertained thereto, and sat dowI
on the right hand of God" This me
dieval statement correctly admits tina
the feshly body was not the Lords
but that He, the soul, took 1t with Hin
as luggage. The statement. 'and al
that appertained thereto" presumabl,
wond refer to our Lords sandals
walking stick and such clothing as th'
soldiers did not divide amongst then
at the time of His crucihxionTif In
deed He had any othersl But our dea
Methodist friends want to be sure tina
nothing was left behind.
All this is of piece with the theory
thft the saints when they die 90 Z
heaven. and then, later. come back ant
get their bodies. "and all things apper
raining thereto'-the Inconvenience
that they have been rid Of for cen
turtles! How many trunkloads 0
"things appertaining thereto" may b.
taken by some, and how mixed an as
sortment by others Is not stated. Nol
ther are particulars given respecting
those whose clothing, etc, have NEAR
time worn out. But we have ha'
enough of this, II 1t has helped us t
see the nbsurdlty Of our theories re
; celyed rom the Dark Ages"-if i ha
avail ~ MS to thought and to Bib
inveg Ion on this important and lD
tereh.ng subject,
3 W';at Say the seriptqres2
The Rible presentation Of this sui
je.t Is every way reasonable. consist
ent and harmonious. st. Paul point
out that there is Il natural body an
there is a Spirit body" He does 10
mean and be does not say that th
spirit body is human body glorifct
Quite to. rhe contrary. lie declare
that "Flesh and blood cannot inher'
the Kingdom of God"-nO matter ho'
glorifed 1t might be. A human bein
IWonid be 20 totally different from
spirit being that, as st. Paul says, u
doth not yet appear what we shall be-
In our resurrection change; and III
Scriptures do not even attempt to Civ
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