When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great ConspiracyThorne, Guy
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When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy
Thorne, Guy
Christian fiction; Conspiracies -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
The priest took up _The Tower_, a weekly paper, the official organ, not
of the pious Evangelical party within the Church, but of the
ultra-Protestant.
His hand shook with anger and disgust as he read, for the third time,
the leading article printed in large type, with wider spaces than usual
between the lines:
"We have hitherto refrained from any comment on the marvellous
discovery in Jerusalem, being content simply to record the progress
of the investigations, which have at last satisfied us that a
genuine discovery has been made.
"In the daily special issues of the organs of the sacerdotal party
we find much more freedom of expression. They have run the whole
gamut--Disbelief, Doubt, Desolation, Detraction, Demoralisation,
and Dismay. Rome and Ritualism have received a shock which
demolishes and destroys the very foundation of their sinful
system.
"Carnal in its conception it cannot survive.
"'The worship of the corporeal presence of Christ's natural flesh
and blood' (_vide_ the so-called _Black_ rubric at the end of the
order of the administration of the Lord's Supper) was always
prohibited in the Protestant Reformed Communion, but this
idolatrous practice has been the glory and boast of Babylon, and
the aim and object of the Traitors, within the Established Church
of England, whom we have habitually denounced.'
"'The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all
men everywhere to repent.'
"Hidden by the Divine Providence till the fulness of time, a simple
inscription has taught us the full meaning of Paul's mysterious
words, 'Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
henceforth know we Him no more.'--2 Cor. v. 16.
"Paul and Protestantism are vindicated at last. 'There is a natural
body and there is a spiritual body.' The spiritual body that
manifested the resurrection of Jesus to His disciples has too long
been identified with the natural body that was piously laid to rest
by Joseph and Nicodemus. Much that has been obscure in the Gospel
narratives is now explained.
"Men have always wondered that the Apostles, in preaching their
risen Lord, attempted no explanation of His manifestations of
Himself.
"We can understand now why it was that they were divinely protected
from imagining that the spiritual Body is a dead body revived.
"How often have perplexed believers been troubled by the questions
of our modern scientists as to the physical possibilities of a
future resurrection of the body! The material substance of humanity
is resolved into its elements, and again and again through the
centuries is employed in other organisms.
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