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Life, Present and Future

Life, Present and Future

Tuttle, James Harvey

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ISBN10: 1151532789
ISBN13: 9781151532787
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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. 1858. Excerpt: ... LIFE IN ETERNITY For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.--2nd Cor. v: 4. Life is positive. I mean by this, that it is the inherent, essential law of things. It is the substratum on which all things are built, and without which no organised form can exist. Death, therefore, which is the opposite of life, is an accident, a negation. It is not a substance, nor is it a fundamental law. It is one of the changes through which substance passes, one of the phases which law puts on. A similar relation exists between light and darkness, good and evil. Light existed before darkness, and good before evil. You may carry a light into a room and banish the darkness, but you cannot reverse the process and banish the light with darkness. So life may put an end to death, but death can never destroy life. Tennyson, somewhere calls death the shadow of life. I like the suggestion; and as the sun cannot cast a shadow unless an object stands before it, so there must be some such condition between life and death. The object which stands before life is time, or our present earthly existence. As the shadow disappears when the opaque substance between it and the sun is removed, 30 will death pass away when our present sxistence is merged into the future. In the light of this theory, we see the sigaificancy and beauty of the Apostle's reasoning, that mortality shall be swallowed up of life! Like all human beings, he often felt that his physical body was a burden. It caused him pain, sickness, disquietude, and thus he longed for the moment to arrive when he should throw it off--not because he would be unclothed because he would strip the spirit naked and have ...

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