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could never regard time, with, its sor rowful vicissitudes, as a substitute for resurrection and its immortal joys. The poor worldling may, perhaps, find in passing circumstances, something to fill up the void which death makes but not so the Christian; to him, resurrec tion is the grand object, to that he looks, as the only instrumentality by which all his losses can be retrieved, and all his evils remedied.—C. H. Mc Intosh.
stituted portion of body given it than that part of the body which a cannibal had eaten and digested. But the objectors say again that a man’s body entirely changes every seven or ten years, so that a man at seventy years of age has had seven distinct bodies! At the last day, this idea would imply that the man should have seven heads, and fourteen feet, and other parts of the body corresponding! But we answer that the Bible distinctly states that it is the body that goes down into the grave that will come up again, and not those portions that for many years were being sloughed off.—T. De- Witt Talmage. SPLENDOR OF THE RISEN SAINTS ND they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.” (Daniel 12:3). The angel employs two words no where else found in the Old Testament, (1) Hayi 01am, life everlasting, i. e.: to die no more, and (2) Hizhir, shall shine, from Zohar, splendor. This last one is beautifully rendered by the Ger man word Himmelglanz, the gleam of feet of the God of Israel, “the body Heaven. Moses describes the firmament as a “sapphire pavement” beneath the feet of the God of Israel, “as it were the body of heaven in its clearness,” (Exodus 24:10) and Elihu compares it to a “molden mir ror,” shining with undimmed re splendency, (Job 37:18). Ezekiel des cribes it as “an appearance of bright ness as the look of the brightness of burnished gold,” (Ezekiel 8:2). To the golden sheen the angel adds the incandescent glory of the “stars,” liter ally of the “glitterers.” Our Lord and Paul allude to these expressions in their brilliant language when speaking
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HE objectors say that the body is scattered to such great distance it can never be gathered. For instance, a man went into the Mexican war and lost a foot. He came to New York, and by
accident lost a finger. He afterward went as a missionary to China, and died. Will the. foot come from Mexico, and the finger from New York, and join the body in China? I answer, it is no harder for God to do that than to do the things that He has already done. Your body is already made up from all the zones of the earth—made up of raisins from Italy, of bananas from Florida, of birds from the prairie, and of sugar from the far South; made up from Russia, Brazil and Oregon; fruits and plants from all these local ities have become a part of your body. The objector says, “Suppose a man be eaten by cannibals, how can his body be brought back?” I answer that there is no proof that the earthly part of a human body can ever be absorbed in another body. I suppose God has power to keep these bodies everlast ingly distinct. But suppose that a part of the body was absorbed in another body—could not God made a substitute for;the-part that had been absorbed in another body? The resurrected part of a good man would rather have a sub
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