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or God shown forth III the human Or
ganism will he added to by reason of
the permission of sin. How SO. Is it
asked? We reply that Gods great
Wisdom aud Power will be manifested
Cburch's resurrection from human ma
ture to the Divine nature. from weak
ness to power dishonor to glory. from
an animal body to a spiritual body.
will be stupendous expression Of Di-
vine Power And the fact that the
mental powers memory. character
will be carried over is beyond orr COM
prehension,
Then COMES the resurrection of the
world. We are not to think OF the
resurrection of the bodies that have
fallen into dust. as the Bible mentions
nothing of the kind. and resurrection
involves no such absurdities. But
what the Bible does propose for the
world az we'll as for the Church. is the
resurrection of the soul. of the being.
of the Intelligence. The Apostle ex
plains that God will give to each a
b
provided for the Church will be of the
spirit kind.
The bodies provided for the world
will be of the flesh kind Wonderful
~ this is, 1t Is not all: for the human
bodies that are to be restored thus by
Divine Power will be the exact coun
terpart of the present rHlies. repre-
senting the same memory. mind. will,
Thus each will know himself. and will
know the others with whom he was
acquainted In the present life. How
wonderful. how stupendous. how un-
believable. except as we are able by
faith to grasp the fact of our own lit
tleness and the Divine greatness!
True. as the Apostle tells us. not all
men have this faith-not all men are
able to believe what the Bible so clear
ly sets forth. They stagger at the
great proposition. But their stagger-
ing and unbelief will not change the
continue to operate. Notwithstanding
our imbecilities. Those who cannot
exercise faith cannot belong to the
Church class, called during the present
time: for With this class faith is par
amount requirement.
Foolish IncreduIity-Wise Faith.
How strange it seems that nearly
everybody can be credulous of non
sense. while only few comparatively.
can have faith in the true realities of
the Divine promises. For instance,
how few seem able to believe In the
Power of God as respects resurrec-
ton of the dead On the contrary, how
many can be credulous enough to be-
lieve that the dead are not dead-even
when they see them to be dead, and
their senses demonstrate that fact!
Under the delusion of Satan, man.
kind have come to imagine bells and
purgatories. and to believe in them.
although they do not have even a sus-
places are! What better proof could
we have that the world for 5000 years
has been under the malevolent infiu-
ence of "the Prince of the Power of the
Air, who worketh in the hearts of the
children of disobedience"? What bet
ter proof could we have that the world
has been under the influence of mis-
leading spirits and doctrines of dem
ons"?- thoroughly believing Satan's
false statement. "Ye shall not surely
die"-ye are immortal-and thoroughly
rejecting Gods statement. "Thou shalt
surely die" Immortality is gift of
God, and not an inherent quality.
'The soul that sinneth it shall die:
THE wages of sin is death"-not eter-
nal torment.
Patience and Sympathy Necessary.
If number of drunken men have
been in each others company. and a
few of them begin SOLDERING up, it
would behooye them to be very SYM
pathetic with their companions still in
a befuddled condition. This is our at
titude. Some of us are more or less
awake. Some of us have learned what
real Bible study means. Some of us
are getting the eyes of our understand
ing open and are seeing some of the
lengths and breadths and heights and
depths of the Love of God. which sur
passes all human understa nding. and
which we did not before see. (Ephe
slams 3:19.) The graces of sympathy
and patience are called for under such
conditions. Those that have the Truth.
that see the Truth. should not only be
models Of saintliness. holiness. but also
~ III no
thence In dealing with the brethren.
God is merely biding His time, let
ting His will and Word and character
be misunderstood by some and mis-
represented by others. letting men
have an experience with doing their
OWL Wills and trying their own plans
and theories. that thus the lesson of
sin and it's tendencies and results may
be clearly seen and appreciated both
by angels and by men. Then the Lord
will arise. and through His Amounted
Son will display His Power and make
known His will. He will lay righteous
ness to the line and justice to the plum
met, and will sweep away every refuge
of lies. His will shall then be done on
earth. even as it is done in Heaven.
Thus we see the fallacy of the cir
cle-reasoning of those who would judge
the Lord merely by their own weak
nesses. and not by His Word. How
grand is the view presented in the
Scriptures. How wonderful the Divine
Character. as presented in the Divine
Plan of human salvation!