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miracles of mastery over his body, and over nature, 

 with which the Gospels abound. We emphasize sim- 

 ply the identity of the risen with the buried body. 

 The essence of his body remained the same : simply 

 the mode of its existence was changed. A fleshly 

 body has become a spiritual body, in which not only 

 the free harmony of the soul with the inborn spirit 

 stamps its harmony on the outer features, but, also, 

 in which the material elements themselves are thor- 

 oughly permeated and exalted by the spirituality of 

 the person." 



Allow me to say that I was not aware that Scho- 

 berlein had taught these doctrines, when, in recent 

 lectures here, I defended similar propositions. It 

 was, I confess, not known to me, until I made close 

 research in the track of purely theological discussion, 

 that an accredited teacher like Schoberlein had made 

 this use of Ulrici's and Lotze's biological positions. 

 But we continue to look into the faces of our Ger- 

 man symposium, and find no important dissonances 

 there. 



Schoberlein goes on, and illustrates, from all 

 the facts of the life of our Lord, the power of the 

 spiritual body over the physical. You are familiar 

 with the line of thought. In Schoberlein's words, we 

 are listening to suggestions precisely parallel to those 

 presented here a few weeks ago (see Boston Monday 

 Lectures on Conscience, pp. 43-84) : " The peculiar 

 traits of spiritual beauty which occasionally beam 

 out from the persons of ripened believers are actual 

 reflexes of the transfigured corporeity which lies 



