DEATH AND RESURRECTION
Mrs. Harris Roberts lectured at the Masonic Hall on Sunday upon "The Death and Resurrection of Christ," contending that the early Christians had laid too much stress upon the raising of the body to life after death, againsAhe Pantheistic idea that all life ceased with the death of the body. The Jews and ■Egyptians believed that the bodv would be raised to life again aft«r death, embalming their dead to ensure resurrection of the bedy. It was held by the Greeks that the personality of man would persist after death. The early Christians placed their trust in the survival of the spirit of man upon the return of Christ to them after His crucifixion, as He hvA declared to them that He would do so. The continuance of Me_ was inherent throughout the whole Universe of God. Was it conceivable that the material body of man should be more potent than its possessor? There was no death; life was everlasting: the spirit of man survived the incidence of death, marching ever onward to a new environment.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 148, 24 June 1924, Page 3
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