The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-05


anna Pacific International Exposition in
San Francisco. beginning Monday. We
report the Pastors Easter discourse
from the text. With what body do they
Gomez Il Corinthians 1851 He said
in part:
IN our context ST. Paul shows that
without Gods purpose of resurrection
those who have fallen asleep in death
would have persisted as do brute beasts.
Then he assures US that Christ has
risen from the dead and become the
First-fruits of them that slept" Others
indeed. were awakened temporarily; as.
for instance. Jairus' daughter. the son
of the widow Of Main, and Lazarus. the
friend Of Jesus. Yet none of these in
stances is counted as resurrection: for
it is written that Christ is the First
fruits of them that slept. Their awak-
ening was merely of a temporary ma
ture, and they soon relapsed into the
death sleep. They did not have a full
acknowledgements rising up to
perfection of life. such as Jesus redemp-
tive work guarantees to Adam and TO
all his race who are willing to accept it
under the terms Of the New Covenant
jeremiah 81 :31-S4.
The Scriptures clearly teach that not
the body. but the soul. is promised a
that went to Sheol. Hades. the death
state; and that God raised Him out of
death on the third day. All Chrstendom
has been plunged into difficulties by the
unscriptural theory that the body is to
be resurrected. We shall now note a
few of the difficulties into which this
error has plunged us as believers in the
Scriptures. particularly in connection
with our Redeemer's resurrection.
what Say the Scriptures:
In Christian minds the ordinary
thought respecting our Lords death and
resurrection is that when Jesus seemed
to die He did not die: that He. the be-
ing. the soul. could not die; that. in
stead. He went to Heaven, and then
came back on the third day to get the
body which had been crucified: that
forty days later He took it to Heaven:
that He has had that body ever since:
and that to all eternity He will have it.
marred with the print OF the nails in
HIS hands and His feet, with the marks
of the thorns upon His brow, and with
the spear wound in His side.
What a CHASTITY thought. How strange
that We should ever have been misled
into so unreasonable and unscriptural
theory, Some endeavor to gloss the mat
ter by suggesting that our Lords flesh
is slorifed-that it Shines-the shining
presumably making VIC wounds all the
more conspicuous.
Our Methodist friends have thus stated
the matter: He assembled up on High.
taking His feshy body with Him. and
all that appertained thereto. and set
down on the right hand of Cod This
medieval statement correctly admits
glorified body. but declares that He. the
soul. tool; it with Him as luggage. The
clause land all that appertaincd there
to-" presumably would refer to our
Lords sandals. walking stick and such
clothing as the soldiers did not divide
amongst themselves at the time of tho
crucifxion-if indeed He had any others.
But our dear Methodist friends wish to
be sure that nothing was left behind.
All this is of piece with the theory
that when the saints die they go to
Heaven but come back later 10 get their
bodies land all that appertained there
been rid of for centuries. How many
trunkloads of things appertaininG there
to may be taken by some. and how
mixed an assortment by others. is not
speeding those whose clothing. etc. have
meantime worn out. But We have had
enough of this, If it has helped us to sec
the absurdity of theories received from
thought and to Bible investigation on
this interesting and important subject.
The Bible presentation is in every way
rea sonable. consistent and harmonious.
st. Paul points out that there is nat
ural body and there is spirit body" He
neither means nor says that the spirit
BODY is a human body glorified. Quite
to the contrary. he declares that flesh
and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of
matter how glorifed. 4 hu-
man being is so totally different from a
spirit being that. as st. John says. 1T
10th not Vet appear what We shall be
In our resurrection change: and the
Scriptures do not even attempt to give
US an explana toni John So
The Bible merely declares that as We
now bear the image of the earthy-Adam
so We shall by the resurrection change
be given a share in the nature and the
likeness of the Second Adam. our Elori
ous Lord We shall be like Him and see
Him as He is. But. he il noted We must
,e changed from flesh and blood condi-
ions to spirit conditions by resur-
'ection power. In order TO see Him
Is He is. Surely this fact proves
that our Lord Jesus is no longer flesh. as
once He was-'in the days of His flesh
Hebrews 81.
Heavenly Bodies VS.. Earthly Bodies.
st. Paul calls attention to the differ
prce between celestial bodies and ter
or earthly bodies. and declares
that they have different glories. He
tells us that the first Adam was made a
living soul. human being. but that our