SENTIMENT AND SEPULTURE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIE,—In the article in the Spectator of January 12th, entitled as above, occurs the following :—" But why should a Christian care, and especially a Christian of the cultivated sort ? As a rule, he believes, like the Hindoo, that only his spirit will live again," &c. As no cleric has asked the courtesy of your columns, I am sure you will allow a layman to say that Christians, whether of the "cultivated sort" or not, do believe that not only the spirit, but also the body, made in "the image of God," and styled "the temple of the Holy Ghost," will live again. " The Resurrection of the Body " is an article of the Creed of the Catholic Church, whether Anglican, Roman, or Greek, and universally accepted. It was surely an inadvertence to state, as above, that Christians as a rule believe that only the spirit will live again. The explanation of this doctrine, and the warrant for it, are not difficult to understand.—I am, Sir, &c., F. W.
[Of course we understood the spirit as including what St. Paul calls "the spiritual body." Why is not the Apostle's deliberate statement that the body " which shall be" is not at all the "bare grain" which is sown in the earth at death, but a new body which God giveth as it pleaseth him, a sufficient answer to such objections as this ?—En. Spectator.]
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