120 HEREDITY. 



But, instead of denying the position of Delitzsch, 

 Schoberlein replies, with the Scriptures open before 

 him, " The souls of the departed will be clothed 

 with glorified bodies. There will be brought to the 

 soul, out of the transfigured world, materials analo- 

 gous to the substance of its previous body, and upon 

 these materials the soul will then impress the traits 

 of its germinate body, so as thus to attain to full ob- 

 jective expression. In the case of those still living at 

 the second coming of Christ, the process will be that 

 of a simple transformation. Thus, even as Christ arose 

 with the buried body, so such persons will then ap- 

 pear in the ' same ' body which was laid in the grave. 

 And this identity holds of the whole essence of the 

 body, both its primary features and form, and also its 

 substance. As to whether this identity of materials im- 

 plies that of the chemical elements, or even the identity 

 of the ultimate atoms, is a question which loses all sig- 

 nificance, so soon as we reflect that these elements 

 and atoms themselves are in turn composed of invisi- 

 ble forces, and that, in order to become integral parts 

 of an organism, they must be dissolved back into 

 these forces, and then arise out of them under a new 

 form." (See Professor LA CROIX, translation of Scho- 

 berlein, Meth. Quar. Rev., October, 1877, p. 698.) 



Why, to these Germans matter is only visible 

 force ! The body itself, and all other substance that 

 we call matter, are a revelation of Almighty God. 

 All matter as surely as all finite mind originated in 

 him. As the azure sky, in which we see nothing, 

 throws out from itself both the cloud and the light- 



