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DHL! CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912. 1'ACIE EIGHT. Pastor WHY CHRIST ROSE FROHTHE DEAD V.'fiaJ II Proved and What It Guarantees. THE CORE OF THE GOSPEL Pastor Ruisall, In Hit Eaater 8armon, Shows How tin Errora of Paeudo 8oience Hv Divided the Faith of God'i People Into Many Dtnomina tiona Explain tha Doctrin of Rae urraction as Praianted by tht Bibla. Tht Soul, Not tht Body, Comtt Forth, Hrooklyn, N. T., Apr. 7. 1'astor It n s e 1 1 of the Brooklyn 'J'aber uncle preached lu (ho Academy of Music today to nearly tweutyfive hundred hearera. I IlH topic tl, "Why C'hrlHt Arose from tho Dend;" Ms text, "If Christ be not risen, thou Is our preaching vnlii, rind your fnllb also vain; yen, mill we lire found false wltnessce of Ood. Then they also which are fitlli'ii asleep la Christ are porlsn d." (1 Corliithliins xv, 14, 15, 18.) Ho Hiild: The fill III once delivered to thesalntg by Ji'Him and the Apostles In respect to the resurrection of the dead has been very K'tiernlly lost. Christian people profess a belief In the resurrection, be cause they dud It stated In the Illble, yet they are continually lu dllllculty lu their endeavor to make the Scrip tural teaching on the subject square Willi souio of the unscrlpturul theories received Into the Church, and Incor porated Into many of the creeds during the "Iiarlt Akcs." St. I 'mil warned tho Church against these huniun philosophies, and called them "science, falsely to called," which uiakea void the Word of Ood. Those errors have been Instrumental In divid ing the fnllb of (iod'a pcoplo Into nix hundred denominations, will) six hun dred different professions. If Uod'e people could all come back to the aim pllclly of the llllile's teaching In re spect to the resurrection of tho dead, all of these difference, would speedily disappear. Cod's Word would be aeon to be beautiful anil hiirmonloui, satis factory to the consecrated Intellect, aa none of our sectarian creeds are. lteally the doctrine of tlio resurrec tion of the dead has been repudiated by all denominations, not wlllliiuly, not Intentionally, but perforce, ns It were. An opposite theory received and In trenched In the minds gives no place for the doctrine of the resurrection, aa tho lllhlu presents It. Consequently we have twisted the doctrine of the resurrection and reclle, "I believe In the resurrection of the body." Yet even this perverted view of the resurrection Is not satisfactory to those who hold It They wish many a time that the doctrine of the resurrection were not In the Illble, si) much dif ference does It cause. I'or Instance, how Inconsistent It seems that they should say, "I bellevo In the resurrec tion of the body," nml then say, as tunny do. I lying Is but going home, get ting rid of the mortal llesli, and being freed from Its limitations. If It Is a blessing to die and get free from tho limitations of the body, how could It be a blessing to be reincarcerated In the body, ami be obliged to keep It through till eternity? 8ucli Is tho In consistency of the resurrection, how ever, from the general view. Tha Bibla Raturraction Raaionabla. There Is nothing Inconsistent In the Illble presentation of the resurrection. Not from the Illble. but from men, conies the suggestion of the resurrec tion of the '( Tho Illble Invariably refers to the resurrection of the tout. It Is the Jo ii I that .dies; as we read, "The soul that slniieth, it shall die." Ailiitu was created a living soul, but his living soul came under tho death sentence because he disobeyed Ood. It uas his nml that was redeemed from death, not his body. "I will re deem thy Itc (look up the word life to see If It Is from the Hebrew word meaning mill, and If so, mid the word after the word life. In piirentheslsl from destruction "-I'salm clll. 4. To accomplish this redemption we read that Christ Jesus "poured out His soul unto death;" "He iiniile Ills soul nn offering for sin." Moreover, we are particularly (old that It was the aoul of Jesus that was raised from the (lend: "Thou wilt not leave My soul hi nrl." Kt. Peter quotes this statement as prophetical of the resurrection of Jesus, that Ills soul Was not left In .- 1 1 oil raised Jesus flMm tho dead on the third day. With what body do they come? Is a totally different mira tion Some of the dead souls. In the rcsurnvtlon, will come forth with spir it bodies, and oilier with humnn bod ies, according to the Illble. Hut the linKirtiiut point Is. (hat It la the (out, the Mnf. tlut comes forth, that la rra lirrtK ted - not the body. If Hie toxl dies, ns the Illble declares, then mani festly thf soul should be resurrected. The dllllculty with us has been that we "leive made void the Word of dod" by our "traditions" We receiv ed from tht (iiiH-laii philosophers a tra dition which Socrates and I'lato both advocated, namely, that when a hu man being dies be d'tcs not really die. i'. A " M I i i. j, ll'ASIOK KUSSIIL) V Russell's Tbe aoul, It Is claimed, cannot die, but, whenever the soul gets out of the body, the body dies. How Btrango It seema that we all. as Intelligent, thoughtful beings, have accepted this heathen philosophy, without a word of Scrip ture for its support, and with hundreds of Scriptures to condemn Itt We can see how the heathen philoso phers might be led to conjure up such a theory, because of their desire to be lieve in a future life, and because they bad no revelation from God respecting a future life. They therefore tried their beat to convince themselves that man really does not die that no man can die. The Bible theory is the very reverse of this, namely, that a man la not merely a body, that be Is a aoul, a thinking, sentient being. Neither Is be a bodiless being, and Indeed he cannot be a being at all without a body. Ills body may change, as science declares It docs graduully, hour by hour, until a complete change Is effected in seven years. Thus a man, a aoul, a sentient being, may in a life of fifty years have slough ed off gradually sufficient matter to have composed seven bodies. But the moment the sloughing off of this dy ing matter and the substitution of liv ing matter ccr.acs, we have death; and as soon as the body dies the soul dies that is, the Intelligent being ceases. There can be no thinking without a brain, no breathing without lungs, no maintenance of life In any sense of the word without a body. This would have been a total de struction of the soul had not Cod spe cially provided, as the Prophet de clares, that He would redeem man's life, (soul) from destruction, through the redemptive work accomplished by Jesus lu giving His soul an offering for man's sin, and thus making possible man':! resurrection from the dead. It Is In consequence of this Divine provision through Christ for a resur rection of humanity that the Scrip tures speak of death as merely a fall ing asleep for a time, to wait for the new body In the resurrection, rather than to speak of us as dying as the brute beasts. The word ilecp Implies that In tho Divine purpose a future life I Intended, and will eventually be given. "But Now Is Christ Rittn." St. Tnul does not leave the matter of Christ's resurrection undecided. lie positively alllrins that. "Christ Is risen from tho dead," and that, thus risen, "He Is the First-fruits of those that slept," which implies that when lie wag raised the others still slept Jesus slept a part of those threo days, from the time He died until the Father raised tllm from the dead, from hadtt, from ihcol, from the tomb, on the third day. He, ns the First-fruits of the sleeping ones, Is nn example and a guarantee of the fulfillment of tho Divine prom ise, that "there, shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the Just aud of the unjust" It behooves us to take a decided stand, either with the Grecian philoso phers and their theories, or with the llllilo. The two are In conflict aud whoever attempts to hold both Is In confusion. If tho dead are not dead, then no human being la dend. And If no one Is dead, how could thore be a resurrection of the dend? The Inconsistency of (he theory held respecting the resurrection of the My has invited a very reasonablo and Just criticism. The skoptlc asks. "How could the body lie resurrected, after It has gone to dust and after the dust has been scattered to tho four winds?" They tell us of a grave Hint was open ed near an apple tree, and It was found Hint a root from the tree had entered tho coffin and practically absorbed the corpse, from which It had produced thousands of apples, which In turn had been shipped to various parts of tho world, some of tbo poorer grades being fed to bogs, whose hams wero cured and sent abroad and thus passed Into other human beings, to become parts of still other human bodies. The question Is a proper one, but It Is an unanswerable one from the standpoint of our former misbelief and our poor attempt to combine human philoso phy and Idvlno Itnvelntlon. Hut such a question brings no con sternation to the Blblo student who follows the Scrlptnres alone. The Scriptures never speak of the resurrec tion of our bodies. They do tell of (he resurrection of the soul, and that In the resurrection Clod glvcth It (the soul) a body as It pleascth Him. How reasonable It will be for the world to be awakened In practically tho condition lu which they went down Into death I And theso will experience, If willing and obedient, a gradual res urrection or raising up to the Imuge and likeness of Father Adam In his perfection, nut some In tho resurroc tlou will receive spirit bodies like unto the angels, and some like unto the body of Christ In Ills resurrection, which Snul of Tarsus beheld "shining alwve the brightness of the sun 'at noonday." The class that la promised a resur rection In spirit bodies la tho Church the milutly few who walk In the foot steps of Jesus. The begetting of the Holy Spirit which comes to these changes their nature from earthly to spiritual. If they are faithful to their covenant their resurrection will be to glory, honor aud Immortality, aa explained by St Paul In the context, any lug, "It la town to weakness, It la raised In tower; It la sown In dUhon or, It ka ruined In glory; It Is town an animal body. It la raised a spirit body." This Is a description of the resurrec tion which God has promised to all the memtiom of the Body of Christ, which la the Church. St. Paul de clares that the members of this Body fall asleep, to awaken In the glortoua morning of the New Dispensation. But he adds. "We shall not all sleep Sermon some will be nllve and remain till the second coming of Jesus. These, however, will not take precedence over the sleeping ones, for. "The dead In Christ shall rise Drat; then we which are alive and remain "shall be changed In a moment, In the twinkling of an eye," because "flesh and blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God." As the death of Jesus was absolutely necessary as the atoning price for hu man sin, bo the resurrection of Jesus was absolutely necessary, that He might not remain dead through all eternity, but be glorified, and In due time, come again to effect the resur rection of Ills Church and, subse quently, the awakening and uplifting of all the families of the earth. Hearken to the special promise made to the Church: "Blessed and holy Is he that hath part In the First Resurrec tion; on such the Second Death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God, and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years." (Reve lation xx, 0.) Also note the promise of the world's resurrection: "There shall be a resurrection, both of tho Just and the unjust." (Acts xxlv, 15.) Again, "They that have done evil" shall come forth, that they moy enjoy resurrection effected by "Judgments." disciplines, chastisements, which wilt develop In them character; and the glory which will be attained will be perfection a rnlslug up to all at first possessed by Father Adam, lost through disobedience, and redeemed by the precious blood of Christ-John v, 28, 20, R. V. "A Kind of Fint-Fruits." Every Sunday is n aieniorlnl of the resurrection of our Lord from the dead, aud If a proper conception of the Master's resurrection were kept In mind we would not think of quarreling with the expression "Kaster Sunday." But alas, this name Easter Is asso ciated with heathen philosophies and Idolatries, which did bo much to make the Word of God of none effect; and the fact should be noted that It is the name of a Greek goddess. The com promising spirit Indueed some of the early Church to odmlt tho heathen philosophies aud to commingle with theso tho Inspired teachings of tho Bl blo; but now there is the loud call to true Christians to rid themselves of science and philosophy "falsely so called," and to return to the Biblical simplicity of the Divine Revelation. Of this Revelation alone St. Peter declares, "It Is able to make you wise unto salvation," and to "give you nn inheritance umong all them which ore sanctified." Aud again, "The Word of God is sufficient, that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work." Let us today, then, rejoice lu Him who died for our sins and who rose on the third day for our Justification. Let us rid our minds of the foolish thought that He did not really die, that He only leemrtl to die that when the Roman soldiers crucified Him, He sim ply got out of Ills body, laughed at them, and said, "1 have not died at all; I could not die: you could uot kill Ale." Let us remember rather the Divine Word on the subject: "Christ died for our sins"; "Ho poured out Ills soul unto death"; "He made His bou. an of fering for sin." Let us remember tho assurnnco of the Bible that eventual ly "He shall see tho fruits of the tra vail of Ills soul aud shall be satisfied." Let us rejoice also In the assurunco of the Apostle that Ills soul was not left In Kadct, i7ip.iI, death, but that God raised Him from tho deud on the third day.' Nott an Additional Proof. If Christ did not die, then the death penalty upon Adam and his race has not been met Those who claim that Ho did not die, that merely Ills body died, are llloglcnl. They protean to be lieve that Jesus accomplished for us a redemptive work, that He died, "The Just for the unjust." If Christ, the Redeemer, "poured out Ills soul unto death, and if His resurrection meant tho recovery of His soul or being out of death, wherein Is the logic lu the declaration of some that It Is not thus with the Church nor with the world? If Jesus did not go to Heaven vlj;i He died If lie went Into air, Into the grave. Into incol, Into death, who has the temerity to say that others go direct to Heaven or Hull or Purgatory? Let us be consistent Tho wages of sin la not rurgatory. nor a Hell of tor turo, lu some fur off place. Ou the contrary, "The wages of sin Is death." The Redeemer died and roso; and this la the assurance, that lie who raised up Jesus from the dead will raise us up also, by Jesus, through Ills spirit and power; and not only so. but also tbe world of mankind, all who were Involved lu the death sentence upon the first man. Therefore, the entire world Is In cluded In the death payment made by the tiroat Redeemer, that "As by man came death, by a man also shall come the resurrwctlon of tho dead; for as all In Adum die, even so all In Christ shall be made alive." But. says the Apos tle, while every man who will come Into Christ shall be made alive, each will come forth "In his own order." The Christ company shall coiue forth Brat "the Church of the First born, whose names are written lu heaven." Afterwards will come those who will become His at, or during, Ills pres enceduring the thousand years of HI Kingdom glory. The opiKirtunlty of that thousand years will mean to every man the privilege of coining into fellowship with the Redeemer and King, Kmmanuel. Whoever will ac cept the opportunity will receive the blessing of an admission to Messlah'a family. Aa tbe irviUe say, (hey will become Hla. 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