14
RESURRECTION
OF
THE
BODY.
soil
enriched
by
the
decomposition
of
a
hu-
man
body,
1s
used
for
the
nourishment
of
human
beings.
Here,
at
the
outset,
we
are
met
by
the
fact
that
a
very
small
part
of
the
earth
enters
into
the
composition
of
vegetable
existence.
This
13
easy
of
demonstration.
It
has
again
and
again
been
shown,
from
actual
experiment,
that
if
plants
or
trees
be
set
in
pots
or
urns,
and
the
dirt
to
which
their
roots
have
access
weighed,
the
tree
may
increase
many
pounds,
while
the
dirt,
if
carefully
shaken
from
the
roots
and
weighed,
will
be
found
to
be
diminished
only
a
few
ounces.
Based
upon
this
fact
we
have
a
calculation
fur-
nished
to
our
hand.
*
Suppose'a
human
being
to
have
eaten
grain—in
quantity,
say
one
hundred
pounds—that
had
grown
upon
soil
enriched
by
a
human
body.
Now,
not
more
than
one
twenty-
fifth
part
of
this
grain—that
is,
four
pounds—
dom
and
power
enough
to
bring
these
parts
of
the
silver
to
be
visible
again,
and
to
reduce
them
to
a
cup
as
before,
so
God,
the
maker
of
heaven
and
earth,
must
have
wisdom
and
power
enough
to
bring
the
parts
of
a
dissolved
human
body
together,
and
to
form
them
into
a
human
body
again!
What
though
David
could
not
restore
his
own
cup?
Was
that
a
reason
that
no
man
could
do
it?
And
when
his
master
had
prom-
ised
to
restore
it,
what
though
David
could
not
possibly
con-
jecture
by
what
method
his
master
would
doit?
This
was
no
proof
that
his
master
was
at
a
loss
for
a
method.
So,
though
men
cannot
raise
the
dead,
yet
God,
who
is
infinitely
wiser
and
stronger,
can.
And
though
we
cannot
find
out
the
method
by
which
he
will
do
this,
yet
wg
are
sure
that
he
who
at
first
took
the
dust
of
the
ground,
and
formed
it
into
the
body
of
man,
can,
with
the
same
ease,
take
the
dust
into
which
my
body
shall
be
dissolved,
and
form
it
into
a
human
body
again.
Nay,
even
if
a
body
be
burnt,
and
consumed
by
fire,
the
parts
of
that
body
are
no
more
really
lost,
than
the
invisible
parts
of
the
dissolved
cup.
As
David,
then,
was
wrong
in
thinking
that
it
was
impossible
for
his
master
to
restore
his
cup,
it
must
be
at
least
equally
wrong
for
us
to
think
it
impossible
that
God
should
raise
the
dead.”
OBJECTIONS
CONSIDERED.
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ever
becomes
actually
a
part
of
the
human
body.
But
not
more
than
one
twentieth
part
of
the
grain
at
first
was
converted
earth;
and
thus
not
more
than
one-fifth
of
one
pound
in
the
hundred
is
in.
covporated
into
the
body
of
the
person
who
has
eaten
it.
And,
again,
probably
not
more
than
one
thousandth
part
of
the
earth
absorbed
by
the
roots
of
the
grain
could
ever
have
been
human
dust.
This
must
be
a
large
estimate.
The
result
then,
would
be
that
of
the
one
hundred
pounds
eaten,
not
more
than
one
five-thousandth,
or
one
three-hundred-and-twelfth
part
of
an
ounce
of
matter,
could
thus
be
transferred
from
one
body
to
another.
And
strong
probabilities
exist
against
the
transfer
of
even
this
small
amount.
Bug
sup-
pose
1t
to
have
been
actually
transferred,
a
large
portion
of
this
small
fraction
of
an
ounce,
would
certainly
go
to
the
grosser
parts
of
the
system,
not
at
all
necessary
to
the
resurrection
body;
and
might
not
the
whole
be
directed
in
the
same
way?”
Or,
again,
why
may
not
this
small
part
of
human
dust,
absorbed
by
the
growing
grain,
be
lodged
in
the
roots,
the
stalk,
or
the
calyxes,
without
ever
becoming
a
part
of
the
kernel?
Thus
the
objec-
tion,
when
subjected
to
severe
scrutiny,
becomes
absolutely
void.
But
let
us
take
the
case
which
our
objector
re-
gards
as
his
stronghold—that
of
cannibalism.
With
reference
to
the
cannibal
himself,
this
kind
of
food
with
him
was
exceedingly
rare,
and
formed
but
a
very
small
fraction
of
his
food:
and
then,
-
again,
but
a
small
fraction
of
this
fraction
can
become
a
part
of
his
body.
This
small
fraction
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not
at
all
inconsistent
to
suppose,
may
be
di-
rected
to
the
coarser
parts
of
the
body—those
parts
that
shall
not
enter
into
the
composition
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