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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. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...Lord's own body a temple of the Holy Ghost, which came upon him at the Jordan and abode with him on all that wonderful ministry, than are our bodies temples of the Holy Ghost. The true shekinah is a holy man. We will come unto him, and make our abode with him. It is for this reason we regard the world's great seers as inspired men, whose consecrated genius itself is called a spark of the divine fire. There is no divinity in nature without men. Constituted as man is, the union of spirit and body is necessary to a perfect life. The alliance is a natural one between body and spirit. For this reason we are repelled by a corpse; we are frightened by a spirit. The very spirits of the departed await the resurrection because, without us, they shall not be made perfect. Death is a disturbance of the relation between spirit and body so necessary to constitute man in his completeness. Christianity shows that relation reestablished through the resurrection of the body. Its defiant cry, O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? is only another form of the Saviour's utterance, Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up. We who have the first fruits of the Spirit groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to-wit, the redemption of our body. The soul first knows itself through the body, and even the light of the knowledge of the glory of God shines only in the face of Jesus Christ. Perfect humanity becomes the vehicle of divinity to man. The adoration of the beautiful is not worship; we must reverence the good, the union of the divine and human in Christ. God reveals himself, not in physical nature, but in human nature. The Scriptures take peculiar pains to assure...

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