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RESURRECTION IDENTITY
and sorrows which they endured, make it inconceivable that the fairest build ing that had ever been reared in the world, and which is cemented by men’s blood, should be built upon the mud and slime of a conscious deceit! And all this we are asked to put aside at the bidding of a glaring beg ging of the whole question, and an out rageous assertion which no man that believes in a God at all can logically maintain, namely: that no testimony can reach to the miraculous, or that miracles are impossible.—Alexander MacLaren. SUPERHUMAN FIRES CRACKLING We are living in a time of growing intensity. The undertakings of the world today are not only immense, but also intense. Great undertakings, great accomplishments done in a feverish heat of pursuit and progress. The spirit of the age is aglow with super-human fires—the crackling of faggots set on fire from the pit. This will be more and more evident as we near the time when the super-man, the Antichrist, assumes control of the affairs of this worldly world. It is said that prairie fires are stopped by starting opposing fires to meet the on-rushing flames. Agonizing prayer alone will counteract the devil-destroy ing sin-scourging world wickedness of these last days.—Frederick H. Senft. THE EASTER DISPLAY “John,” announced Mrs. Stylover, “I’m going to town tomorrow to see the new hats.” “You forget,” her husband reminded her, “that tomorrow is Sunday. The shops will be closed.” “Who said anything about shops? I’m going to church.”
E do really int very truth believe that the very body which is put into the grave will rise again, and we mean this literally, and as we utter it. We are not using the lan
guage of metaphor, or talking of a myth: we believe that, in actual fact, the bodies of the dead will rise again from the tomb. We admit, and rejoice in the fact, that there will be a change in the body of the righteous man; that its materialism will have lost all the grossness and tendency to corruption which now surrounds it; that it will be adapted for higher purposes; for, whereas, it is now only a tenement fit for the soul or the lower intellectual faculties, it will then be adapted for the spirit or the higher part of our nature. We rejoice that though sown in weak ness, it will be raised in power; though sown in dishonor, it will be raised in glory; but we nevertheless know that it will be the same body. The self-same body which is put into the grave shall rise again: there shall be an absolute identity between the body in which we die, and the body in which we shall rise again from the dust. But let it be remembered that ident ity is not the same thing as absolute sameness of substance and continuance of atoms. We do not mention this quali fication at all by way of taking off the edge from our statement, but simply because it is true. We are conscious, as a matter of fact, that we are living in the same bodies which we possessed twenty years ago; yet we are told, and we have no reason to doubt it, that per haps not one single particle of the mat ter which constitutes our body now was in it twenty years ago. The changes our physical forms have undergone from infancy to manhood are very great, yet have we the same bodies. Admit the like identity in the resurrection, and
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