The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-12
STRONG SERMON ON
SPIRITUAL BODY
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STREET n n CHURCH
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Anothsr ssrmoa In ssr1ss o. -pash AID
BEFORE LArrs
ConIrsGsdon-

TSsing for his text Cor. isss.
verse - God giyeth 70 everythlns a
said a part 50 the phy-ieai BODY
feSrfully and wonderfully made. houses
mother "a equally marvellous and
body is a S-esth-doOmed body, rbs par
ticles which COMPOSE a must be re
Earth. ashes % ashes. dust TO dust II
returns TO Him who Eave it, Yes. but
bow pisembodied. or suShrined again
realm
To answer that question. Paul wrote
me nftsenth chapter OF first Corin,h-
bodies IL Is evident he has IN mind
two bodies. two kinds OF bodies. There
- a natural body and there Is a spirit
al founding itself upon a single Alarm
alton. he Vol ~ In various terms.
lie calls our body a body OF corruption,
refers 20 one as q body OF dishonor. TO
the other as a body OF glory. lie speaks
or the natural body as A body OF weak
ness. and OF the spiritual body as a
body OF power. AS We OF the hevenly.'
Elsewhere he spesks OF death as being
a 20 be put OF when n Is we'll
worn. And he speaks OF the change that
takes place at the moment OF death "a
From which II Is obSious thai N.
Apostle believed that the spirit no soon
er leaves the physical body than II tax
IS up another. hence "a be not left in
clothed for a single moment OF time.
So that n Holy scripture is good auth
the Eternal Mind-and he says he did
the question. does the departed spirit
still have a body IS answered.
The Visible objects.
What we need 60 know next Is: what
kind OF a body II IL? What sort OF a
house are we going to move into7 FIRST,
u will he invisible to those who still in
nabit natural bodies. But. let not this
the new house. The world Is full OF
invisible forces. We do not see much.
compared with what the eye hath not
seen. Ice IL visible because II Is a solo
form OF water. Water 81 visible be-
cause u is q crude form OF matter. But
when water = transformed Into steam n
- visible but Tor a momen In the
form or vapor II il wholly invisible.
Is the vapor less real than the ice2 Both
may be so refined as 10 escape and derry
the vision. When matter is 50 highly
rehned as to be invisible. inaudibie. r.-
OF the spirit.
Second IL has been argued that the
celestial body-called for want OF q bet
ter name. the spiritual body-is but a re-
nned image OF the material body. II a. Is
DE true. II Is not an unreasonable theory.
which many hold. that We carry about
MIN u even now. though unconscious OF
- - NRAE AAtAF aAt many
thoughtful people outside OF the circle
OF theoSophy. VINO accept a. doctrine OF
the %astural BODY. though not under tina,
name. the doctrine that the spiritual
bod accompanies us through life. grow
Ing as We grow In spiritual things. de-
velOptng as we devotion the higher life.
strengthening as we advance In wisdom
and holiness. and destined to be our true
body after death. Some such doctrine IS
suggested rather than proved In such "a
saving as Pauls: Though the outward
man perish. the inward man is renewed
day By day"
Preparation
Third. We leave the realm OF specI-
lation and uncertainty when We continue
The enquiry and meet a verse such a.
this; Who shall change our d~eath-doom-
ed body and make 1t like unto His own
glorious body II greatly comforted the
Nlostle John 10 think that when lie
whom Like Christ. In the light OF
this the Psalmists dream is made plain.
! shall be satisfied when I awake in
Fourth. The infinite spirit once as
s1med a body It was the body OF
whose image he shall bear. n we can
learn What was the nature Of Je~u-'
body after hts resurrection We shall dis
have when We have passed through
death. The body OF Jesus. after HISS
resurrection. was so altered in arpear-
ance that II was not by those
who had known Him intimately. Tntit
their eyes were opened TO p~receive that
ne was the same Jesus they had known
and loved. II required "a special gif. or
spiritual vision to identify him.
clay ana light are both material. but
what "a distance" between them Light
leaps from sun TO star In the flash OF a
thought. Let Hight suggest to US the
possibility OF a spiritual body capable o.
ceaseless labor without wcariuess. capa-
bic Of endless ministries Of benevolence
al the Fathers command. endowed with
quenchlGss zeal and endless life. w'tn
such a body. We may explore the out
posts OF the universe. with such q
body. We may visit again the scenes Of
our earthly labor. with such a body.
We shall bv as angels are that trail their
radiant robes before the great white
throne. With such a body. we shall
smile on death. and serve Him day and
night who "giveth to everything a body
as 10 plcaseth Him"