Show resurrection OF THE BODY there Is ii another case of heresy hereby dr heber newton ewton ff the rector of all souls 1 episcopal church now new york in a recent sermon on the resurrection frankly declared that it wall waa impossible for him to believe that our lord rose from the tomb in the physical body in which he suffered death on calvary he declined to discuss the question what became of this body out but maintained that what appeared so lo the disciples afterwards was waa only the spirit of jebus beaus in a spiritual pi ritual body which Is the house bonne of the living after death in other words the clergyman takes tabes the spiritualist api view of life after death denying the possibility of a reconstruction of the physical body after its component parti part have bays been subjected to dis die solution tiow his argument ie it to is clear from the manifest impossibility according to all known laws that hat bi the p physical steal body shall be recon str future acted as tho the bouise house of the spirit in the future life nature in discarding outworn bodies does not go back an and pick them up again the constituent elements in our bodies as they crumble into dust go to form the materials for other organizations it is needless to enlarge on this point most thoughtful people are atone at one here it will be noted th that 9 t the d doctrine octra ne as expounded by dr newton really amounts to U dental denial of the resurrection for although it admits of the continuation of exi existence existent e beyond the grave without the rising of the body no resurrection resurrect iOD in the meaning in ill which that term is employed in the scripture to is possible but this part of the christian faith is its corner stol e eilf if the dead are not loot raised neither hath bath christ been raised and it christ bath not been raised your faith is in vain ye are yet in your sins then they also which have fallen asleep in christ have per perished labod so bo that according to the high authority just quoted with the doctrine of the resurrection stands or falls the truth of the christian religion sc adae me of the disciples after t the he death of christ when he appeared to theil were terrified their first impression was that which dr newton announces as his conviction that they behold beheld a spirit J but the risen savior immedi immediately atey allayed their fears and declared bee my hands and my feet that it to is myself handle me and see tor for a spirit hath bath not flesh and blaes as ye behold me having he further partook with them of food what a sorry spectacle cle to see a professional minister in 11 a modern church boldly deny the positive statements of christ himself and his first apostolec Apost lec in order to establish a theory that has ban no basis except in that doubt which is in natural only to coarse rationalism mystery there will always be attached to the belief in a resurrection of the body unsolvable perhaps until a higher state of knowledge shall boball have been reached but mysteries surround us ua on every hand we perceive that the human body never low loses its it identity from the cradle to the graveland grave and yet iti Ite component parts fluctuate constantly like a stream that hastens from the springs where it is born steadily rush ruh log ing forward until it reaches the ocean never the same flame during all alliati IN course for hour and yet the same stream from age to age so BO the human bunion body pr preserves serves its identity notwithstanding n g th the never ceasing dissolution and r renewal e to w which b ich it la in ou there Is IB really no reason for supposing that that identity Is ie lost look at death after having revived all through life in tact fact the mystery of resurrection to ie constantly before our eyes in all nature who can deny that there are in the natural body the life forces necessary for its renews renewal whatever these forces may be but if their existence exia tence to is admitted the conclusion that a resurrection must follow seems seema inevitable in the language of paul the resurrected body to Is the very consummation of tte the wondrous process of develop ment of the physical body it Is a magnificent transformation whereby all that is corruptible in this tabernacle Is in thrown away and exchanged for it is sown in corruption it ie 18 raised in it is sown in dishonor it is raised in elory dory 21 still it is in always alway the same body never loo joe ing its identity the doctrine Is in as scientifically sound as it Is comforting in contemplation of death the grave and eternity |