Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-01
CORRESPONDENCE
Willard, Ca,
March LIST, 1918.

mfr lanes Larkln Pearson,
Boomer. N. C.
oT nv husband received his first copy
vo,,r aper, "Good News" a few
W Javs ago. 1 enjoyed very much read
% :"@ ali the interesting articles, but
~1ne eotice in your article entitled, "The
Kingdom," that you have the wrong
;doa about Christ's r~esurrected body
having "a great deal of literalness
ohont it" at His second advent. 1t is
.r,o that after His resurrection He
onneared to Doubling Thomas in the
,aatprialized form of His crucified
hodv for the purpose of fully conyinc-
mo Thomas that He was risen from
tho death-state-as Thomas had said
hp wouldn't believe it was Jesus un-
loss he saw His crucified body.
Jesus had the power after His re-
surrection to appear or materialize
in any kind of form or human body,
and instantly dematerialize or dis
solve such. The erroneous thought
that Jesus is still man, and that His
second coming will be as man in
glory and power, has done much to in
inre the church. It has turned the
attention of some to looking for and
>expecting Messiah's Empire to be
purely an earthly one. 1t has led
others to deny the second coming
and the Kingdom entirely. The pro-
npr view Of our Lords assertion to
the glory of the divine nature and
honor next to the Father, never more
20 return to earthly conditions, lifts
rs above the difficulties mentioned.
We now see that the One who will
come in power and great glory will be
a Spirit Being, wholly invisible to
mankind, but nevertheless the very
same Jesus, the same personality, the
sam Ego, who was once amongst
men; the same Ego Or personality
who previously was with the Father
IN the spirit plane John 17:5) and
who humbled Himself to mans estate
IN order that He might accomplish a
work of redemption for Adam and
his race.
The Redeemer says of Himself: q
am He who was dead. and behold
am alive for evermore." And He who
vas dead-was He not the same One
who previously was rich, and for our
sakes became poor? Can we not
therefore hold clearly to the distinc-
siOns of nature, and yet see through
he two changes (from spirit to hui.
nan, and then from human back tc
a higher divine spiritual nature) the
maintenance of the original person.
atty?
The angels who appeared to tht
apostles when the Master vanished
from their sight, declared that HI
would come in like manner as HI
went away. Did He go in a blaze o
glory witnessed by the whole worlt
If mankind? No! Neither will He 81
come, Did He go amid great convul
Mons and the blast of trumpets? No
Neither will He so come. Was Hi
departure seen and known through
out the world? No! Neither will
Ills arrival be seen and known; al
lie declared, He will come as a THE
n the night and will be present, un
hnown to the world. Only a fey
Knew of His departure and could tel
1t to others. In like manner, the sec
ond coming will be known only t
The few, who will declare it to sue
as a v the hearing ear-the "watch
ers," saints.
Concerning this secret arrival c
'he Lord "as a thief in the night,
Inc apostle declares: "Ye brethre
,all my footstep followers) are not j
aarkness las others will be-, tha
mat day should overtake you as
met" Il Thes. ga. The day of II
'ealment will come to all, but it wi
Ne after tho Pride C1acc tho oInt