Show VERITAS our oar correspondent maintains that the very identical material particles of which the body is now composed must be raised again or the identity of inen will be lost at the resurrection well lie he must just maintain it but it is a very foolish and untenable theory sandwith and with a 1 very gross grosa materialism we weon on the contrary believe that a man may inay have millions of new bodies like so many new suits of clothes and still preserve his identity in clothing and un clothing himelr of each and i all of them what part ofa of a mans body is indispensable to his identity hi his lugs legs some men have buried theirs his hib tu arms armb S many living men s arms are in the grave his nose A man may lose his nose and preset preserve ve all his liis consciousness and reminiscences ilis his eyes ears tongue teeth his leugs ile he may lose one pr or more of them his brains parts of the brain may be removed without death elishea Ili his shea hear bear rt irmay it may be damn dim n dished in bulk by disease his nis blood chemay he may lose niah of it from any part of his body his liver it may maybe be worn aitay aw ay by disease still the map is the old man in all his reminiscences convictions affections and passions what kviat means then this identity of particles of matter vve jve ve wash off rub off comb off these particles daily they are not necessary for our out identity all that is necessary is an org anisa tion lion 0 ot some particles as a houe how te to dwell in for as the man is the same man in a new house as in an old old one so is he the same man in a new body as in anol angl an old oid done one we should be very sorry tope to bee see tile the bead lead raised in their old bodies s ve e hopel they will have something better it is an ugly doctrine that system of materialism which places identity in matter which is evanescent ind and not in spirit which is permanent moreover there is no scripture ground fur for it whatsoever we know nothing ot of the body of Christ Christi what became ot of it it is not parallel case for it never saw corruption but on our r present bodies are compos ed of oxygen hydrogen nitrogen and carbon how does our correspondent know that either of these substances will be emp employed loyed loved in the creation I 1 of more perfect bodies family herald |