Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . ow that there are difficultieswhich lie in the way of truth. Letit, however, be remembered that ifany doctrine can be proved to betrue by positive evidence, a thous-and objections that may be raisedagainst it cannot prove it remains true, even if we shouldnot be able to answer the objec-tions ; our failing to answer themproves nothing but our own limitedknowledge. We must learn, firstof all, in our search of truth, thatour own ignorance is not its meas-ure. In regard to the
Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . ow that there are difficultieswhich lie in the way of truth. Letit, however, be remembered that ifany doctrine can be proved to betrue by positive evidence, a thous-and objections that may be raisedagainst it cannot prove it remains true, even if we shouldnot be able to answer the objec-tions ; our failing to answer themproves nothing but our own limitedknowledge. We must learn, firstof all, in our search of truth, thatour own ignorance is not its meas-ure. In regard to the doctrine be- (121) for us, however, we discover noobjections which may not be fullyanswered. I. THE GREAT CHANGE WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN DEATH. We shall all be changed. Thechange which, according to theScriptures, is to take place, espe-cially in our bodies at the transitionof death, will in many respects begreat. A great change may take place,both in the body and spirit, with-out destroying those marks ofidentity and those peculiarities ofcharacter by which recognitiontakes place. The change which (122). LAZARUSRESTORED-TCTHIS SISTERS. comes with death will consist, notin adding any thing entirely or es-sentially new, but only in an un-folding and perfecting of what isalready at hand in us. There is agreat difference between a smallsapling and a full grown tree ; andyet great as the apparent changeis, the marks of its identity con-tinue through all the stages of itsevolution. In the different stagesof human life, through infancy,childhood, youth, manhood, andage, the same being continues, car-rying with him his peculiarities, andpreserves from one stage to theother those marks by which he isrecognized as the same person.(125) RECOGNITION OF OUR There are features which run withmarked prominence through allthese transitions. That the change which awaits usis one, not of transformation, butof evolution, is evident from Scrip-ture representations of it. Theapostle Paul represent
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