Show THE FUTURE LIFE lire tim THE christian union of the stil ath hist a sermon by henry heury ward berber r on the future lae lav the abe only point demonstrated in this thib discourse is the popular preachers total ignorance I 1 hat ilat life that forms the subject of 01 t fie lie address which was delivered at the hie twi twin ii hio aio house N M H lehere bore hore bere the great orator has beg been rusticating and find drawing I 1 immense congregations he attern attempts p ta to show that thai tiie tile the Llie Old Olif Testament il is dumb and utters llota ilota not A word on a future life ilfe and that the new testament teaches the final loss lass of the body at death that it is not I 1 to go beyond the grave he states his bis object to be not to enlarge intellectual ideas by clearing away intellectual doubts but to put the question of a future ilfe life so that it can be used for the comfort of this life arid for its inspiration and he be then goes on ashow that neither he be nor iny any other mortal knows anything about bo ut tho the future lifes ilfe life and to try to destroy the bible doctrine of the resurrection of the body in support of the statement that we old testament says about a future life and that its saints or writers were in profound darkness on the subject he partially quotes the words of job if he had fully quoted the afflicted mana sayings be no would have refuted his own argument mr beecher gives a few fw words worda from the first part of the chapter of job and concludes eludes with the lith and aud lath verses acas As the waters fail fall from the sea and the flood deca yeth and tip up eo po man lieth down and diseth not till the heavener heavens be DO no more they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep 1 tobe to be honest wit with illis lills hib his he hearers apers he should have read the succeeding verses but they would not have supported his big theory the to lath verses are aa as follows 00 0 that thou U last hide bide me in the grave that thou would set fet keep me secret till thy wrath be past that thou appoint me a set time and remember mel mei moe roe if a acan dle die shall ho lie jive iva ivo again all the days of my appointed time will I 1 wait till my change come thou call and 1 will yint anaver thee thou wilt havea haven desire to the work of thine thino hands handa it is clear from these passages that job ex expected when the heavens should be no more or as a new testament writer has haa the heavens beavens are rolled up as a scroll th he should awake and be raised out of his sleep sleepy and that when his Makers hould bould call he would le la l e able abib to gra fra answer I 1 and to dispel all doubts as to jobs faith in and understanding of the doctrine of a future life and rec ree tion which th the plymouth church devoe denies 9 the following occurs 2326 23 26 oh that my roy wo ads wr naw written oh that they were i printed in a book I 1 P Tha Th iahey we were r e graven graven with an iron pen pen peu aud and nd lead ead in the rock for ever for por I 1 know that my rhy redeemer ileth liveth and that h he shall shail hai hal stand standal at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my my flesh shall I 1 see eee god this man job who lived in the old time times which the modern preacher would call the theL dark ages k new a great deal more than mr beeb beecher her does about the future life vie the psalms teem with references to the life beyond the grave and ezekiel and isaiah both speak of the resurrection of the body jnive in the plainest and most unmistakable e language the reason why thu tha lawas law as propounded by moses refers little to the great future of manis man is because the tho Israe israelites lits had rejected the higher law revealed to 1 them in hareb horeb and the code of carnal commandments given in mount sinai sinni and relating only t to 0 mortal existence was added because it was adapted to a people who had bad shown themselves unworthy of the ordinances and teachings and prie priesthood 8 chood that pertain to eternal ife afe ufe lie and exaltation but the gospel with faith falth in ln the redeemer and the rest of the righteous was preached to the israelites ra before the law wasi pro amid the thunders and on the mount they were baptized unto moses in the cloud and in the sea and partook of lethe the spiritual rock that followed them thew which was christil christ and abraham their great progenitor understood d i ruder rider stood the gospel and like Job saw the day of his redeemer and was glad all this is ann announced bunc in the new testament with W which il 1 ich ieh sueh such an eminent preacher as mr beecher ought to be well acquainted quain tiled ted i t its it is a matter of surprise rioe that a man professing to believe belleve in in the new now testament can have baie the to stand up in the presence of thousands of intelligent men and andr women and endeavor to disprove the doctrine of the resurrection of the body this lies iles at the very foundation of df the christian falth faith it was christs body that was raised frum from the dead his spirit was deathless it was a body of flesh and bones which it was rah rab raised ged and which he in invited his doubting disciples to handle it is a body like the glorious body of the son of god that the now testament writers speak of as the future heritage of the righteous it is t his this 91 mortal that is to 16 put plit on immortality and this eg corruptible thit that ito iho is to put u t on incorruption Incorrupt iou iob the sea bea is fo to give up the dead which are in it it is the grave over which alli h he the saint is to obtain the victor vietor victory y and isaiah when he declares that the earth shall cast out her dead and shall no more cover her slain 1 and says thy dead men r shall shail a live k 3 together with my dead body shall they arise ia Is in with paul when he exclaims if there beno be no resurrection resurrect ion iou of the dead then is not christ disen risen but the trumpet t shall sound ani ana and the dead shall be raised Incorrupt incorruptible lp and we shall all be changed and thus both theOl the old dand daud and new testaments proclaim the doctrine of the future life to the confounding of false teachers like the pastor of plymouth church and other ministers of modera modern s spurious purlous i mr air christianity bee beech ober eber er la ha the right to advance sp spiritualistic theories and propound arguments against any of the cardinal doctrines of chere the religion ligion oCh ichrist of christ rist if he oho obo chooses oses but hl he has no right to lay the responsibility of ol his vain philosophy upon the sacred scriptures nor to per the sayings of the old or X new a w testament writers to bolster up the infidel notions which he seeks to palm upon the public under the guise of religion he certainly has not enlarged enlarged any intellectual idea in this discourse nor cleared away any intellectual doubt but wherein gehsa be haa baa liput put the question of a future life BO iso a aa to give i a single crumb of comfort or to evoke the smallest spark of ration ionis rat lonis Is something that would be very difficult to discover even with a microscopic power of vi vision is |