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l'AGIE EIGHT. DAILY CAPI TAL JOCRSAL, SALEM. OKECOIf, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1912. MM MM tt' 1 Pastor Russell's Sermon Children Cry for Fletcher's Pianos and Organs Edison, Victor and : JESUS A SPIRIT UO LONGER FLESH Pastor Russell Explains an Un scriptural Error, THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST Bibla Cltar and Harmonious on Thla Subjact, Paitor Ruatall Pointa Out. Thaory of Body Raaurraction Unraa aonabla and Suggaita Ghaatlinaaa. "Flaih and Blood Cannot Inharit tha Kingdom of God" Natural Man Can not Appraciata Spiritual Things. .v; !i'AMORRl)SSFlL) Iliiltlinoro, Md., April 14. Tastor Russell addressed largo -audience here loilny. We re port one or bis dis courses from the text, "Wllb what body do tbey come?" I Cor. xv, 815. On Inst Lord's day wo discussed the fact of tbe rc. urreetion and show ed from St. Puul'8 words that without God's purpose of a resurrection those who have fallen asleep lu death would have perished as brutes. We followed with the Apostle the assurances that Christ did rise from the dead and be come the I'lrst-fnilts of all those who have Roue Into the sleep of death. Oth ers, Indeed, wcro awakened temnorarl- lyas, for Instance, Jiiirus' daughter, Lazarus the friend of Jesus, and the son of the widow of Naln. Yet none of those Instances Is count 'd as a resurrection, for It la said that Christ Is the I'lrst-frnlls of those who slept Their awakening was merely of a temporary nature, and they soon re lapsed Into the sleep of death. They did not buve a full resurrection an- astonit-a raising up to perfection of , life, such us the redemptive work of Jesus guarantees to Adam and to all his race willing to accept the same un der the terms of the New Covenant. lou will recall that ou last Lord's day we demonstrated from the Scrip tures tlial II Is not Vic body, buttlicoI, that Is promised a rcMiirrertlon-thnt It was our Lord's onl that went to nheut, to AauY. to tho death state, nud that Clod raised Film up from death on tho third day. We noted dllllciilty Into wiilcu all Christendom was plunged by tho unscrlptural theory (bat It la th& body that Is to be resurrected. Wo now continue to search and noto well fur ther dlllkultles Into which this error plunged us ns believers lu tho words of Christ, particularly In connection with our Redeemer's resurrection. What Want to Hoavanf Tho ordinary thought lu Christian mlud In respect to Jesus' dentil and resurrection Ih that when Ho seemed to ill i) lie did not die; that lie, the being, tho soul, could not die; ibat, Instead. IIo went to Heaven, and then, ou the third day, came back to get the body which had been crucified; and Hint He tool; It to heaven forty day later; that He has had that body ever since; and that lie will have It to nil eternity, marred with the print or the nails lu His hands and feet, the thorns upon Ills brow, and the Kpeur mark In Ills hide. What a ghastly thoughtl How Ntrangc Hint wo should ever have been uilsled Into so unscrlptural and unrea sonable a theory! Some endeavor to gloss the matter by suggesting that our Lord tlcsh Is glorlllod-lhnt It shlnes thu shining presumably malting the wounds all the more conspicuous. Our Methodist friends have not yet changed their stntement of the matter, namely, "lie ascended up ou high, tak ing Ills fleshly body with Him, and all Unit appertained thereto, and sat down on the right hand of (led," This me dieval statement correctly admits that tho lleshly body was not the Lord's, but that He, the soul, took It wllb Illm ns luggage. Tho, statement, "nnd all that appertained thereto," presumably would refer to our Lord's sandals, walking stick nnd such clothing us the soldiers did not dlvldo amongst them at tint time- of Ills crucltlxlon-lf In deed He had any others! ltut our dear Methodist friends want to bo sure that nothing was left behind. All tills Is of a piece with the theory that tho taint) when they die go to heaven, uud then, later, come back and get their bodies, "and all things apper taining thereto" the Inconvenience') that they have been rid of for ecu turlesl How ninny tninklonds of "things appertaining thereto" may bo tuken by some, and bow mixed an as sortment by others Is not stated. Nei ther are particulars given respecting those whoso clothing, etc., have mean time worn out. Hut we havo had enough of this, If It bus helped us to see tho absurdity of our theories re ceived from the "Pnrk Ages"-lf It has awakened us to thought and to tlllile Investigation on this Important and In teresting subject What Say tha 8crlpturaaf Tho Whle presentation of this sab Jwt is every way rousmiahk consist ent and harmonious. 8t, Paul points cut that "there Is a untural body ami tbcro Is a spirit body." IIo does tint mean and he docs not say that the aplrlt body Is a human body glorlfled. Quite to the contrary. IIo doclarei thut "Flesh end blood ciiuuot Inherit the Kingdom of Cod" no nmttor how glorluVd It might be. A human being would be so totally different from aplrlt being that, as St. Paul aaya, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be, In our resurrection change; and the Scriptures do not even attempt to give us an explanation. The Blblo merely declares that as we now hear the Image of the earthy, Adam, we shall, by the glorious resur rection change, be given a share in the nature and likeness of the Second Adam, our glorious Lord. We shall be like Him and see Illm as He la; and. he It noted, we must chango from flesh nnd blood conditions to spirit condi tions by resurrection power, In order that we mny see Him as He Is. Surely this proves that our Lord Jeaus la no longer flesh, as He once was "In the days of His flesh." Hebrews t, 7. Difference Between Heavenly and Earthly Bodiaa. Our text calls attention to the differ ence between celestial bodies and ter restrlnl, or earthly bodies, and declares tbnt they have different glories. It tells us that the first Adam was made a living soul, a human being, but that our Redeemer, who humbled Himself and took the earthly nature, "for the suffering of death," thereby became the Second Adam the Heavenly Lord. Tho wldo distinction between the Sec pnd Adam and tho first Adam Is clear ly set forth. One was corthy and the other heavenly. As we now bear the Imago of the earthy, we shall, If faith ful, bear the heavenly Image of our Lord, tho second Adam, after our res urrection change. St. Paul Illustrates by saying that wo know of many kinds of organisms on tho earthy or fleshly plane one flesh of man, another of beasts, an other of birds and another of fish. But however different the organisms they ,re all earthy. So, on the heavenly plane, the spirit plane, there ore vari eties of organisms, but all are spirit Our heavenly Father Is tho Ilead or Chlcf-"Ciod Is a Spirit." Cherubim, seraphim, and tho still lower order of angels are all spirit beings; and Christ Jesus, our Redeemer, aftor finishing tbo work of socrlflclng appointed to Illm, was resurrected to tho spirit plane far above angels, principalities and powers-next to tho Father; and thus wo rend, "Now tho Lord Is thnt Spirit." Ana again that "Ho was put to death In tho flesh, but quickened (or made alive) In the spirit" I Pet. Ill, 18. Tbo moro wo eramlno the subject tho more foolish and unscrlptural the views banded to us from the Dark Ages appear. For Instance, the Scrip tures clenrly set forth tbnt our Re deemer, prior to becoming a Man, was a aplrlt being "the Only Begotten of tho Father, full of grace and truth." Hb) leaving the spirit plane to become a Mnn Is Scrlpturully described as a grout stoop or humiliation. Is it rea sonable to suppose that the heavenly Father would perpetuate to all eterni ty that humiliation, after It had serv ed Its Intended purpose? Surely not Tho Bible tells us why Jesus bum bled Himself to the human nature "a little lower than the angels." It was because a mnn bad sinned, and the Re deemer must, under the Law, be on tho same plane of being as the one whom Ho would redeem. Thus Jeho vah particularly specified, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a llfo for a life." Hence the dcuth of an angol, or of our Lord in Ills pre-human condi tion, could not have affected tho pay ment of man's penalty nnd tho conse quent release of tho condemned race. Thus again wo rend, "A body hast Thou prepared Mo," "for the suffering of death."-Hebrews x, 5; II, 0. No ono questions that this applies exclusively to our Lord's experiences durlug the years lu which "IIo who was rich for our wakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich." Surely It Is unsupposable that the Father would arrange a Tlnn by which our Redeemer's faithfulness lu accomplishing man's redemption would cost Illm an eternity of poverty, liuiulllutu.il. degradntluu to a plane "a llttlo lower than the angels," while tbe Church would bo made rich, and would attain a spirit state "far above angels" -bo made "partakers of the divine na ture." II Peter I, 4. God Highly Exaltsd Him, Ou tho coulrary, the very suine Apos- tlo who tells us of our Lord's humilia tion curries tho mutter to tha clluiui, telling us of Ills faithfulness, as tho Muu Christ Jesus, unto death, even tho death of the cross; and then be adds an assurauco of tho henvenlv Father's faithfulness In not leaving Uls Son on a lower plane; "Where fore," says the Apostle, "God also high ly exalted Him, and bath glvcu Him a name abovo every name." This, too, Is in harmony with our Lord's words lu His prayer to the Father. A Joy had been set before Illm by tho Fa-ther-n Joy of pleasing the Father, of bringing a blessing to uiunklml, and tho Joy also of exaltation, as a special reward for obedience. But tbe Redeemer, Ignoring all the promises of a higher glory as a reward for His faithfulness, merely prayed to tho Father In these words, "Father, glorify Thou Me with the glory which I hud with Thee before the world was." In humility Ho asked no re wnrd. Ho did not pray. Remember tbnt you promised a still greater exal tation In glory 1 No, He would be quite content to hnve served the Father's purposo and plans nnd then to return to the glorious stnte lu which He was before He left the glory, and for our snkes liocauio poor and took upon Him self tho human nature. And what said the heavenly Father lu response to that prayer? Oh, we remember the words of Jehovnh were, "I have glorlfled Thee, and i will glorify Thee again." or furthertho Implication Is that of a Httll higher glory than the one which lie enjoyed before lie was made flesh. He Appeared and Diaapptarad. selves, one of which can be answered and tbe other cannot Tbe unanswer able difficulty is where a natural-mind ed man undertakes to reason tbe sub ject out He finds It Impossible of comprehension as he finds other items of Divine revelation. St. Paul explains this, saying, "Tho natural man receiv ed not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can be know them, because they are splrltuully discerned." The Apostle proceeds to tell us thut all men are natural men, except such as have been begotteu by the Holy Spirit. All natural men will, In their resurrection, receive earthly, or human bodies, while all spiritual ones, New Creatures In Christ, will receive spirit bodies, as St. Paul explains In our context, verses 3tt-."0. Those of my hearers, therefore, who hnve never accepted Christ, and made a full consecration of their all to be His disciples, following in Ills footsteps, mny know that thev have not been be gotten of the Holy !';lrlt (because only upon these terms nu any begotten of the Spirit). These, therefore, I will ask to consider what I say, and bold it, if they please, tentatively, until such time as, In God's providence, they may be begotten of the Holy Spirit, and thus be enabled to understand spiritual matters Kuch as this. Another class who have difficulty on this subject are the spirit-begotten ones who have becu entangled in their ren Honing by the declaration of the creeds respecting tho resurrection of the body. It Is difficult to unlearn error. When visiting various lands nnd learning of tbe hold of superstition upon the hea thens, I said to myself, I believe that wo Christians experience Just as much dlUlculty in unlearning our errors as these heathens do lu getting free from theirs. The Unconsecrated Cannot (Jndarstand Spiritual Problem!. Coming to tbe point of what Is to be' resurrected, we noto the fact that our Lord appeared In a body of flesh, and showed the disciples the print of the nails and the hole ninde by the spear. But we, perhups. failed to note that ouly twlco did He thus appear, nud but for a few moments each time. His other six or seven appearances during that forty days were nlso very brief, and lu various bodies once ns n gar dener, another tlmo as a traveler-ills third time as a stranger ou the shore, and to Saul of Tarsus, as a spirit be ing, of more tbnn angelic brightness, "shining above the brightness of the sun at noonday." We overlooked the fact thnt these appearances, if all put together, would probably not have ex ceeded four hours out of the entire for ty days In which our Lord tarried with Ells disciples after His resurrection and before His ascension. We were not critical students when wo over looked thoso things, aud forgot to ask ourselves why these things were so. Now we nco more distinctly why our Lord did as He did. Ills disciples were natural men and tharefore could not appreciate spiritual things. Further more, they could not receive the guid ing of the Holy Spirit until the Lord's ascension and appearance In the pres ence of tho Father on behalf of Ills Church, to make satisfaction for their sins, and to make them acceptable Jolnt-sacrlflcers with Hlin. Meantime, had Jesus not tarried those forty days had Ho ascended Immediately after His resurrection the disciples, stunned and bewildered, would have had uo assurance of Ills resurrection. They would have found it Impossible to go out and tell the people that He had risen from tbe dead when they bad no proof to this effect Aud even If Jesus hud appeared to them as Ho did to Saul of Tarsus, above tho bright shining of the ruu, this would not have been convincing and satisfactory. They might have said, Here Is a phenomenon, but how can wo positively associate it with the life aud death of Jesus? Malters were different with Saul of Tarsus. Ho needed something to thoroughly arouse him uud to teach hi m ror all time, and others through him. that the Lord Is not a Mnn, but "that Spirit." Re sides, sonic of tho disciples who nl reudy believed were ubie to give Saul of Tarsus assurances of what they knew respecting the resurrection of Jesus and Ills ascension. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been iu use for over SO years, has borne the signature of - and has been made under his per- r-fj7-f ' sonal supervision since its infancy. 4-cucu4i(. 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Iways an invigorating, pure and delightful drink, ends strength to the weak and wearied physique, fleets a soothing cure for the nervous ills of life, -akes life more pleasant and cheers the heavy heart. (VI rings good fellowship to all who partake in moderation. nlivens the spirit of the down cast and disheartened, ndows existence with hones and aspirations estores man to fulness ol strength and activiiy, E E No Fooliah Suggestion, In Bibla About tha Raaurraction. ' The Lord adopted tlu only reason liblo way of helping Flls disciple to understand tlmt He wns no longer dead thut IIo hud risen from the dead iid thut IIo wiib no longer human, but hud been glorllled. nnd had become a spirit being. The two things wore necessary and they were done nt the a me time. Even on the occasion when our Lord appeared In a body like lo the ono cm. cltled. lie took care that the manifes tation should bo under suck conditions as would pnsitivoly prove that Ho had Doconio a spirit being. He camo iuto tho room where they were while the door wus shut, and after a few words with them Ho vanished from their sight, as uo human bolus could have donn and as Ho never did during Ills earthly career. That the Apostles cauk-tit tho thought Is well evidenced by St. I'ttul's argument ou the sub ject In our ten. There Is no foolish suggestion In the Bible about .!..n. fcavlng a fleshly body In ticavou-tbat Is all In our creeds and hymn books, prepared for us by our well nieiiulng but mlatak mi forefathers, who used to burn one another nt the tuk if hn. fulled to promptly agree together on such propositions. Wa mourn Ilia dead, but they ahull wak; Tha Inat, hut ih.v hull h. , . . our m"n hi-nria mlaM braa. nnnout that .orJ word! Dim )eii K,ok ! ,U1, hMr ,!,, ov.inu u a now or nroiiilM thrii,h ! 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