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And if this be so the general resurrection may be no miracle, but the result of the properties originally inherent in our bodies and of the working of the laws of those properties. And as the general resurrection so our Lord's Resurrection may in this way turn out to be no breach of the uniformity of nature.
He is his own worst enemy: his selfishness torments him with discontent, disgust, pride, fear, and all evil passions and lusts; and in him is fulfilled our Lord's saying, that he that will save his life shall lose it.
And, more wonderful still, the same coming of the same Lord will be to one man the destruction, and to another the manifestation and reception of His perfect grace. As it was in the Lord's first coming, 'He is set for the rise and the fall of many in Israel. The same heat softens some substances and bakes others into hardness.
I remembered the First Sea Lord's reputation for taciturnity and shortness of temper. 'The one thing that puzzles me, said the General, 'is what good his visit here would do that spy fellow? He could not carry away several pages of figures and strange names in his head. 'That is not difficult, the Frenchman replied. 'A good spy is trained to have a photographic memory. Like your own Macaulay.
Our Lord's own parables set forth a more excellent way the way of uninterrupted increase, whereof the type is the springing corn, which puts forth 'first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear, and passes through all the stages from the tender green spikelets that gleam over the fields in the spring-tide to the yellow abundance of autumn, in one unbroken season of genial months.
I only say, suppose; for I know that more learned men than I explain the difficulty otherwise. Only I ask you to hear my explanation. The steward is accused of wasting his lord's goods. He will be put out of his stewardship. He goes to his lord's debtors, and bids them write themselves down in debt to him at far less sums than they had thought that they owed.
It was a fine day, and through curiosity a great crowd assembled. I had never been in the pulpit before, nor made any remarks in the church except to pray. The brethren had a Bible-class every Lord's day when there was no preaching, and no public speaking was indulged in except a few remarks at the Lord's table, by one of the elders.
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so. Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Jaap worked hard in the performance of these rites, and Guert Ten Eyck actually repeated the Lord's Prayer and the Creed over the grave, when the body was placed in it, with a fervour and earnestness that a little surprised me.
That the Divine Life and Energy actually lives in us is inseparable from Religion." How thoroughly this is in keeping with the thought of the highly illumined seer, Swedenborg, is indicated when he says: "The Lord's Kingdom is a Kingdom of ends and uses."
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