This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...pain; but after the transforming hours of the rest in the tomb, the simplicity had not changed, but the dignity and majesty were manifested more, so that His Presence inspired perpetual awe. And most of all, while there was a perfect identity (the same dear shattered form, marked by the sanction of the five sacred ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...pain; but after the transforming hours of the rest in the tomb, the simplicity had not changed, but the dignity and majesty were manifested more, so that His Presence inspired perpetual awe. And most of all, while there was a perfect identity (the same dear shattered form, marked by the sanction of the five sacred wounds as still the same), yet how changed in texture and condition! What freedom from the possibility of suffering; what a strange lightness and beauty, like the glory of the dawning morning after a night of storm; what swiftness of life and movement, as if of an immaterial world; what subtilty of texture, such as to pass unheeded the closed doors and the sealing stone, belonged to that spiritual substance of the body of Jesus after it had passed through the sleep of the tomb! The meaning of the great separation surely is that the soul and body of the child of God, like the soul and body of the Redeemer, passing through the mystery of death, shall be changed and yet the same. Brethren, in view of those who are dear to us, we shrink from the thought of change. But the change of the grave will be like the transfigured reality of Jesus in the tomb; what is weak or saddening gone, what has moved the love of our hearts, even in this world, abundantly there. Awful in Jesus, awful in ourselves, is this great separation, but blessed that it means a power of enlarging life and increasing beauty. It is this truth, this in our Master, in ourselves, that gives an awfulness and yet a comfort to the mystery of the grave. 2. And there is a hint in the entombment of Jesus of the limits of that separation. It cannot last. It is sometimes objected that there is wanting one essential condition in the perfection of the human experiences of Jesus, since it was with H...
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