Year: 1873

one only true and living God. Every passage. both
subject, rightly interpreter. confirms the = great
truth that God is one, and that the Lord Jesus
Christ Is that Goo. He declares that che that
my Father are one," &c. In Him there is divine
ssinisS Of love- wsaom and ser TeRTs
Tne divine dwelling Within the 0 Son was
the Father. The humanity taken IRON the Virgin
Mary was The Son; when that humanity was made
divine by Its gorifcation IL became one with the
Father, and from that union came the Holy Spirit,
the comforter Does He not say, "lt Is expedlent
ina. go away that the ns that
.'all power is given to Him in heaven and IN eartn."
Can there be two or three having all power Can
Son coexistent with Father2 Many Oh tne uoc-
trnes as taught by the socailed orthodox @


as aos 1hy IN e0nt n nav M sns 90 With Divine rev.
elation. 1t cannot be that lnnnite wisuom w, ue
mands belief in anything beyond the conprenen-
the difiicuty in understanding what He does
demand, aside from the Commandments, grows
pretatlon OF His Word. II the Bible has for its
author an infinitely wise being must 1t NOT possess
an infinitely wise and harmonious meaning in all
its partsa And can that be found in its merely
literal senseY think 1t win be conceded that II
cannot. 1t follows then, that there must be an an
inner or spiritual sense within the letter OF the
Word which will place 1t as far above human com
position as the worA OF the Creator are above
those OF man. Man cannot bulld house, sup
or nything else without first building It spirit
ualy. must see the work In all its particulars,
it IS with the works OF the Creator. they are
exponents or His thoughts and principles. II
this spiritual Interpretation was understood by
the wise men who have congregated here as evan
gelists they would not regard those only who sub
scribe to certain dogmas as worthy to participate
In their deliberations Wise as these divines may
be- learned as they may appear in spiritual things,
they still but the veriest infants In true Wis
dom. They yet stand upon the shores OF an ocean
OF knowledge whose depths are fatnOmless and
whose breadth reaches through eternity. II they
had clear understanding OF the teachings OF the
in the resurrection.i .iof lthe material body as
one of the requisites OF Fellowship IN their
great po undertaking. they would know .TSaas waas
is natural body and there is a spiritual
body"-is not is to be. They would remember that
Moses and Elias were at the TRANSPORTATION in
perfect human lOrms They would also remember
that the rich man wanted Lazarus 10 dip his nnger
In water to cool his the rich mansl tongue; Ihas
spirit, whom he took to be the Lord, II was said
TO him, '.see thou do it not; am one OF tiny
fellow servants, the prophet"


There are many other evidences to be found In
the sacred Scriptures which go to prove that man
substances and clothed with materiality, for the
purpose OF Keeping him in time and space ior a
brel season. and that when he has done with his
house of clay he abandons 1T forever and rises into
a world suited 10 his altered condition.


We know from ocular demonstration that after
certain time the material BODY entirely disappears
and returns to the elements from which 1t was
taken. Can IL be reasonably supposed that the
same particles which composed the body Of Adam
are, alter myriads OF transformations for thousands
OF years, TO be re-coected and formed into another
material body Ii that is so and we are 20 recog-
nlze our friends In the great hereafter then IL
follows that all must reappear in the precise
physical condition in which they left the world OF
nature. The old, the decrepit, the halt, the blind,
the youth and the infant OF day must all be re-
created into the very form and condition IN which
they were placed In their earthly graves u this doc
trne OF the resurrection OF the natural body be true,
where Is the soul, or spirit And In what
form is it, during the long lapse OF ages past and
gomez II 1t be ether, or vapor as these orthodox
dvmes would lead to believe, 1t clearly follows
that It is entirely unconscious OF existence for to
be requires the exercise OF heart and brain and
every other function of the human form.


Neither happiness nor misery could result from
such condition OF the soul, and both good and
known ages In every light in which this theory
OF resurrection OF the natural body is regarded 1t
Pse er not ha es and Sood
cannot inherit the Kingdom OF heaven. II
st. Paufs declaration Is true, that we
there would seem to be no necessity Tor such
departure from the true order which belongs to
the known operations OF the Deity. He mas
adapted the natural body to the natural world
and the spiritual body TO the spiritual world. We
are told that the Church teaches this doctrine,
and therefore we are bound to believe it. But
why are we TO adhere to doctrines promulgated
centuries agoS Were the great reiormers lnali-
BILE Were they not human, and as liable to err
as were those who believed that the earsh stood
still and that the sun revolved round its Is 1t to
be supposed that these reformers-Luther, Me-
lancthon and others-have reached the cli-
max of religious knowledge. and that the minds
OF men were forever after to be circumscribed
by their teachingsS Is 1t not possible that as the
world grows wiser and becomes capable Of recev-
ing and prohtng by higher and more interior
truths they will be givenf What right has
man to say that divine revelation has forever
ceased ( Does the Bible anywhere teach such a
doctrine Is Almighty power to be thus limited
When ministers OF the Gospel OF all denominations
will numby and charitably admit to their fellow
ship all who are earnestly seeking after spiritual
truth there will be less danger OF failure OF
Professionalism. +. T.


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