Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 THE PHYSICAL ORGANISM AND ITS WONDERS 397
of man alone is a fit abode for the Highest. There is
life in the organism of the mineral and vegetable kingdoms
but no consciousness. There is life in the organism
of the animal, and consciousness to a certain degree, but
it is the consciousness of self only. Il man there is consciousness
of self also, but when man's consciousness has
developed to a consciousness of God, in the process of
spiritual evolution, the body then becomes the abode of
spirit; and is glorified beyond all expression, and surrounded,
as it were, by a halo of Divine purity. "I beseech
you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable eervice.'
Truly the great task before us is the redemption of our
bodies from sin and corruption.
How long is it possible for the life of the body to endure?
That is a question asked by many; and as all
persons have died thus far, they say it is justifiable to
expect a continuance of the same order of things. Not
considering the question of physical immortality, it is our
opinion that the body should endure much longer than it
does. Thoughtless persons tell us it is impossible to
prolong life beyond the ordinary period, yet history records
the fact that many have attained the age of one~
hundred and sixty-five years.
extreme age of
the earlier Patriarchs from three hundred
to nine hundred years.
The Bible records the
Disbelievers and believers
have tried to account for the Bible statement on various
foolish hypotheses, that "a year means less than 365
days." Why so? If those men did not live for hundreds
of years, then the Hebrew language is wrong; the Bible
translation is wrong, and it is wrong to leave such statements
in the Bible.
did then.
Man lives now one fifth as long as he
The earlier races probably possest an instinctive
knowledge of the conservation of the life force since