Evidently, reasoning upon the method of the
resurrection of this physical body is an up hill
business. Science does not cast any light upon
it ; and the unsophisticated one who believes that
God looks down* and watches all his dust til! he
shall bid it rise, falling back upon the strong-
hold, of " the mystery of godliness " for explana-
tion of the mode, is quite as correct as the pro-
found doctors of medicine or divinity who pro-
pose to simplify the operation by dispensing with
nineteen-twentieths of the body. The old He-
brew notion of an indestructible bone or muscle,
which they called Luz, is certainly easier than ail
this, and the germ-theory is not any more absurd.
The arguments which assume the necessity of
such a physical resurrection in order to vindicate

* This theory of tliese Iwo doctors was ludicrously though unin-
tentionally demolished, a few months ago, in New Albany, Indi-
ana, in a set sermon intended to prove tiie resurrection of ihe
body. The preacher, more remarkable for his talent and piety
than the beanty of his person, having become wrought up by
the inspiration of his theme, clindied his ailment (?) by straighten-
ing himself up and saying : " Yes, I want to come up, just six feet three

in my stockings, gangling, long-armed, sqnint-^ed J W ,

just as you see me now." Brave man to thus accept the least de-
sirable absuniity of the theory of a bodily resurrection ! Almost any
other man would have submitted at least to the straightening of the
eyes. We introduce the incident to show that this doctrine of a
litefal resurrection is yet preatied sometimes in respectable pulpits,
before intelligent congregations, in its most absurd aspects.
