Looks down and watches all my dust, O, how the resurrection's light And wipe the dust from off their eyes! TUPPER'S SKY BLACK WITH BODIES. Dust to dust, it mingleth well with the sacred soil; It is scattered by winds, wafted by waves, it mixeth with herbs and cattle, Each waiting soul must claim his own when the archangel soundeth, Bodies numberless, crowding on the land, and covering the trampled sea, The Maelstrom disengulf its spoil, and the iceberg manumit its captive; -M. F. Tupper. UEBERWEG PREFERS EMBODIMENT. We may suppose that the departed spirit shapes for itself a body, by virtue of the power of God dwelling in it. At any rate, the departed spirit by no means remains devoid of a bodily organization in which it can live and work. ULRICI'S NON-ATOMIC ETHER. The soul is the occupant of a non-atomic ether that fills the whole form. . . . The soul or God-spirit made or makes our bodies, the one that we drop and the one that we keep. WARREN MR. BOSTON'S PERSPIRATION. A somewhat less revolting theory is that which supposes that the spiritual body will be made out of certain elements of the present body, which will survive dissolution and be recollected and re-organized into a more refined structure. .. Much ingenuity has been expended to determine those elements. . . . Thomas Boston in his Fourfold State held that a single particle of insensible perspiration which has escaped from the present body during life will be sufficient for the purpose.-I. P. Warren, Parousia, 283. WARREN THE RABBINS'S LITTLE BONE. It has been said that the Rabbins believed that the little bone at the extremity of the os coccygis, which they called "luz," is indestructible and immortal, and that it is the germ. of the resurrection body and the bond of identity between it and the present body. "Pound it," they said, "furiously on anvils with heavy hammers of steel, burn it for ages in the fiercest furnaces, soak it for centuries in the strongest solvents, all in vain; its magic structure will remain.”—Ibid., 283. (See article on Tertullian.) WHATELEY'S NEWLY-PARTICLED BODY. Why should it be supposed that the same identical particles of matter which belonged to anyone's body at death. must be brought together at his resurrection in order to make the same body, when even during his lifetime the same particles did not remain, but were changed many times over? YOUNG MAN VERSUS GRAIN. Shall man alone, for whom all else revives, Less privileged than the grain on which he feeds? YOUNG'S SKY BLACK WITH LIMBS. Now charnels rattle; scattered limbs and all The severed head and trunk shall join once more, PART IX. HEAVEN. AGASSIZ-A GEOLOGIST'S HEAVEN. May I not add that a future life in which man should be deprived of that source of enjoyment and intellectual and moral improvement which results from the contemplation of the harmonies of an organic world, would involve a lamentable loss? ALEXANDER (A.)—EDUCATION IN HEAVEN. The field of knowledge being boundless, and our minds being capable of attaining only one thing at a time, our knowledge of celestial things will be gradually acquired and not perfected at once. Indeed, there can be no limit set to the progress in knowledge.-Archibald Alexander, Religious Experience, Chap. XXII. ALGER'S HEAVEN NOT YET LOCATED. It is beyond our present powers to establish any detailed conclusions in regard to its locality. . . . When the fleshly prison-walls of the mind fall, its first inheritance is a stupendous freedom. The narrow limits that caged it here are gone, and it lives in an ethereal sphere and with no impeding bounds. Leaving its natal threshold of earth and the lazarhouse of time, its home is immensity, and its lease is eternity. "The ages sweep around him with their wings, The soul may have the freedom of the universe. More wonders, and sublimer than mortal fancies have ever sus pected, are waiting to be revealed when we die. We are here living unconsciously engirt by another universe than the senses can comprehend, thinly veiled, but real, and waiting for us with hospitable invitation. . . . Perchance the range of the abode and destiny of the soul after death is all immensity. The inter-stellar spaces, which we usually fancy are barren deserts where nonentity reigns, may really be the immortal kingdom colonized by the spirits who since the creation have sailed from the mortal shores of all planets. They may be the crowded aisles of the universal temple trod by bright throngs of worshiping angels. The soul's home, the heaven of God, may be suffused throughout the material universe, ignoring the existence of physical globes and galaxies. So do light and electricity pervade some solid bodies, as if for them there were no solidity. So, doubtless, there are millions of realities around us utterly eluding our finest senses. Spirits are the only solids, matter being endlessly penetrable and transmutable. "For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are unseen are eternal."-W. R. Alger, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, p. 605 ff. ARNOLD (E.) THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE BEYOND. Birth gave to each of us much; death may give very much more, in the way of subtler senses to behold colors that we cannot here see, to catch sounds that we do not now hear, and to be aware of bodies and objects impalpable at present to us, perfectly real, intelligibly constructed, and constituting an organized society, and a governed, multiform state. Where does Nature show signs of breaking off her magic, that she should stop at the five organs and the sixty or seventy elements? Are we free to spread over the face of this little earth, and never freed to spread through the solar system and beyond it? . . . As the babe's eyes are opened from the darkness of maternal safeguard to strange sunlight on this globe, so may the eyes of the dead lift glad and surprised lids to a "light that never was on sea or land" (Wordsworth); and so may his delighted ears hear speech and |