place

Poets sometimes speak of the resurrection of the body,

but it is unscriptural and unphilosopical- Not a particle of mat-

ter, that composed bodies which were laid in their graves thou-

sands of years since, can be found there now What propriety

is there in saying that they will come out of their graves at the

resurrection? - Not expected that all the body will be raised—

enough of its dust will be found in the grave for a nucleus of

the reconstructed fabric The vegetable world analogically

considered So also the animal kingdom - There are a great

variety of shades of belief on the subject The general im-

pression is that the last body, or the body which is consigned to

the grave, is the one that will be raised- This supposition is

beset with insuperable difficulties.

CHAPTER VI.

THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

p. 64

Some deny the immortality of the soul but believe that all

men will be raised to immortality after they have slept ages in

unconsciousness The records of antiquity bear plainly upon

their face the doctrine of the soul's immortality - No nation,

ancient or modern, civilized or savage, has ever existed without

some faith in the future life-Whence was it derived ?- Some

say from impostors This not the fact-The Bible takes

some things for granted - The writings of Moses do not assert

in so many words that there is a God- The fact is assumed as

though all would admit it — The existence of angels is assum-

ed in the same way - Moses and the prophets hold out the idea

that there is something in man that does live beyond the death

of the body—It is inculcated in all those passages which speak

of the dead as sleeping with their fathers- The Jewish views

of Sheol, and the Scriptural references to that subject, afford

farther evidence that the sacred writers recognized the exist-

ence of the soul after leaving the body- Another evidence of

the same truth in the Old Testament, is derived from the use

of the words which are rendered life, breath, soul, and spirit-

We must go to the Christian records to obtain a full and clear

view of the future life.

p. 95

CHAPTER VII.

AN EXAMINATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.

Job 19: 25, 26, 27-Isaiah 26: 19 - Daniel 12: 2.

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CHAPTER VIII.

THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST.

p. 137

Nothing is plainer taught in the New Testament than this

event The time of its taking place was plainly pointed out —

The coming of Christ a progressive event - It is called by the

inspired writers the last day-The Old Covenant was to be

destroyed near or at the commencement of the last day - This

event was called the end of the world— The last day is spoken

of by the New Testament writers as a resurrection day — The

last day in the Scriptures to he a judgment day.

CHAPTER IX.

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EXAMINATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.

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II. Timothy 4: 5 8- Matthew 10: 28- -Matthew 5: 29,

30-Matthew 27: 50, 53-John 11: 23, 24-Acts 2: 34.

CHAPTER X.

THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.

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p. 184

The denial of the resurrection of Christ's body unreasonable
and unscriptural Christ's material body not the pattern of
the resurrection bodies of other men, admitting it was raised
from the dead - Not necessary to suppose it went into immor-
tality It could be dispersed into primary elements at his
ascension-The resurrection of Christ's body not designed to
prove the resurrection of any other bodies-The object of
Christ's resurrection was to prove the divinity of his mission,

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and consequently of all the truth he taught - The New Testa-

ment writers testify to this fact-It has had a powerful influ-

ence in the moral elevation of the world.

CHAPTER XI.

AN EXAMINATION OF I. CORINTHIANS XV:

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p. 221

Some of the Corinthian Church denied the resurrection of

the dead - Paul's object in this chapter was, to correct this

error-He adduces the resurrection of Christ as evidence of

the resurrection of all men - Christ stood before the world as

a pre-eminent proof of this- During his mediatorial reign, his

disciples who had proved faithful unto death should stand ext

in rank, as evidence of the same fact —The reign of Christ and

the result―The question, how are the dead raised up, answer-

ed — The phrase, "we shall not all sleep" examined - The

word resurrection means future life — Objections considered

I. Thessalonians 4: 13-18, explained in connection with

this chapter.

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CHAPTER XII.

CONCLUSION.

Men die sinners - Death works no moral change - Why

then, believe in the salvation of all men? - The promises of

God which embrace the mission of Christ, the foundation of

our faith - All men desire happiness - It is promised them

Moral and intellectual excellence constitutes all true happiness —

Though death cannot confer these, yet the change of circum-

stances and condition, which is effected by death, will induce

the individual to choose them The body does not go into the

immortal state The principles of the Gospel of Christ do go

there - And they can never cease to operate as long as there is

a sinner in existence - Consequently all men must finally be

brought to the knowledge of the truth and be saved.

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THE FUTURE LIFE:

OR, IMMORTALITY AS REVEALED IN THE BIBLE.

CHAPTER I.

DEATH THE KING OF TERRORS.

As the habits, sentiments, circumstances, and education of men are various, their feelings must vary in intenseness on any given subject; and, hence, the thoughts of death must excite very different feelings in different individuals. The patriarch Jacob, when his days were nearly numbered, and he felt the icy fingers of death upon his vitals, and realized that he must speedily go from all the scenes of mortal conflict, said to his most beloved son, "Behold I die,” What his feelings were, at that period of thrilling interest, none can know but himself and that Great Being, who seeth and knoweth all. What are the emotions and thoughts, which gather around the last point of human existence, none can fully know till they arrive there.

Nevertheless, we are all somewhat acquainted with the sad circumstances which usually attend the last hours of the dying; and we have all felt the fearful sensations, roused by the grim shadows that linger