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OF THE BODY.
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you sowed, "for God giveth it a body, and to every seed its own body." Now, to explain this more fully, and as Scripture does, let us take a flower; a tu- lip, if you please. It is a round, brown, dry, withered, dirty-looking thing. You plant it in the garden; it begins to de- cay in the ground; then it sprouts, sends up a shoot, and blooms beautifully. Now that beautiful flower is just as much the tulip as the old bulb you put in the ground; it is, in fact, the thing itself; and all that remains in the ground is what is worthless. So is it with our bodies; we lay them in the ground; they