The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-29

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Christ is composed of all sanity be-
levers in Jesus, seeking 10 walk in
His fo~otsteps-not after the flesh, but
after the Spirit. He called attention to
the fact that no denomination could
claim q monopoly Of this sanity class,
and that mona could claim to be free
from tare@.
In the Pastors opinion, apparently,
the vast majority of the 40O, 900
Of processing Christians are merely
tares or worse. He cited numerous
Scriptures to the effect that the heirs
of God, jotnt-hefrs with Jesus Christ,
are a little dock," a Royal Priest
hood" a holy nation" a peculiar
people," who ''show forth the praises
Of Him who hath called them out Of
darkness into His marvellous light"
The Pastor then declared that the
True Church Is to be found in all the
different denominations, and some of
them outside all UNCONVENTIONAL fences.
he showed that the denominational
fences are contrary to the Bible. After
making clear who constitute 1.-THE
Church of the First-borns whose
names are written in Heaven" the
Pastor declared that these are to have a
share with Jesus in His Resurrection.
He quoted st. Paurs words, THAT I
might know Him and the power Of His
resurrection, being made conformable
unto His death."-Philippians $40.
The Pastor seemed to give the
thought that in the Divine Purpose a
f~Oreordained number Of the Church
class must suffer with Christ before
the Millennium could begin. Their suf-
ferings would not be vicaKlous, as were
Jesus sufferings, nor necessary to the
redemption Of the world, as were bis;
but the suffer1ngs would be necessary
in order to demonstrate their loyalty to
God and to righteousness-to prove
them worthy Of the high honor of
joint-heirship with Jesus, and sharers
with Him in His Kingdom.
The Church's suffering with Jesus,
the Pastor said, Is their dying to earth
II conditions and ambitions, as He did.
All who thus die with Jesus, willingly
sacrificing earthly hopes, aims, ambi-
tons, are counted as sharing in "His
death" Such are assured in the Scrip
lures that they win also in Gods due
time share In His Resurrection"
ellis Resurrection" was not only the
First Resurrection, but also the chief,
the best, resurrection-to the very
highest plane Of spirit peFfection-the
Divine nature. Hence the promise to
the Church to share in His Resurrec-
ton means that His faithful followers
will experience a similarly glorious
resurrection to a higher nature, the Di.
vine-with it's glory, honor and immor-
tally. This Jesus also AYERS, saying,
Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in the First Resurrection. " " They
shall be priests Of God and of Christ
and shall reign with Him a thousand
yearS."-Revelation 20:6
Easter and the Passover.
The Pastor says that the word EAST
Err occurs once in our Common Yer
sion Bible and is a observation-disclosures
should be Passover. Easter was a fes-
tival honor1ng the heather goddess of
Spring. The name was transferred to
the Passover celebration Of the early
Church In hoDoraOf the Lords resur-
recton. Doubtless the attempt was to
divert the heather toward Christianity,
keeping the festival, but altering its
significance. Whatever the word meant
then, 1t stands now to the Christian as
the synonym for the glorious resurrec-
ton Of the worlds Redeemer from
death and the human nature to glory,
honor, immortality, the Divine nature.
So, said the Pastor, the resurrection
Of Jesus is the guarantee of the resur-
rection Of the Church, which is Ills
Body" 1t also assures US of the
worlds resurrection-that an opportu-
nifty through Messiah's Kingdom is to
come to all mankind, to be recovered
from the tomb and from all their i'm.
perfections-mental. moral and phys
icai. Only the willingly, intelligently
disobedient will ultimately die the Sec
ond Death. which st. Peter describes
as perishing like natural brute beasts.
Resurrection Of the Soul. g
Many Bible students have failed to
note that the Bible nowhere speaks Of
the resurrection Of the body. Their err
ror has given color to the Arguments of
~agnostics and others who point out the
unreasonableness Of such a PROPOSE.
ton. Thus the Resurrection doctrine
Is made to appear absurd, whereas the
Bible presentation is most logical.
According to Science, our bodies are
continually sIoughing or materials and
through food replacing these; so that a
complete change is effected every sew
en- years; and thus a person fifty years
old has had practically seven different
bodies. The argument is that the mole
eules Of matter constituting the body
are not the man; that any other atoms
would serve the purpose Just as well,
II his identity were preserved. "'
Many r familiar with the story of
the apple tree whose roots penetrated
a coffin and fed upon the corpse so
completely that the root, when dug up,
resembled the human shape. The ap-
Piles were shipped in various directions
and eaten by many people. Some ap-
pies were eatan by hogs which were
killed, shipped and eaten. Thus the
substance Of the corpse passed into
many bodies In many places. This
started the query, o couId Tnoss
atoms of matter be re-colected for the
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