-known feelings of fatigue and
prostration. All our energies shall ever remain fresh and unimpaired,
and their continual exercise shall be the never-failing source of the
most exquisite enjoyment.

* 1 Cor. xv. 43.

2. In the second place, rising a spiritual body implies vastly more
than the mere emancipation from the necessities of nature. It means,
besides, that the body will then be totally subject to the spirit,
and consequently that concupiscence and other inordinate passions,
which now war against the spirit, shall no longer exist. This is one
of the most consoling of promises to persons who are endeavoring to
lead a holy life. Their present corruptible body, in which "the law
of sin" resides, is an enemy that is ever warring against the spirit.
Often have they cried out with St. Paul: "Unhappy man that I am! who
will deliver me from the body of this death? The grace of God, by
Jesus Christ our Lord."*

* Rom. vii. 24.

Yes, the fulness of grace has come at last, and the body of sin and
death is no more. It is now changed into a spiritual body, which is
not only totally subject to the spirit, but even aids and perfects
it, in all its intellectual operations, as well as in its moral
affections. The spiritual body is, therefore, no lounger a burden and
a temptation; it is become like a spirit, which cannot be enslaved to
inordinate animal passions or instincts.

What a blessedness is here promised to us! No more involuntary
cravings after forbidden pleasures; no more of those involuntary
thoughts and inclinations which are so humiliating to pure souls; no
more danger of being turned away from God by the beauty of creatures;
no more wandering of the mind from His presence. In a word, the
spiritual body is totally subject to the spirit, and "the law of
sin," which received its birth at the fall of our first parents, is
totally destroyed.

3. Rising a spiritual body means, in the third place, that the matter
of which the body is now composed will become so refined and
delicately organized, as, in some sense, to approach the nature of a
spirit, while retaining its essential material nature. Our body will
therefore lose its material grossness, roughness of texture, and
weight, and will be clothed with the attributes of agility and
subtlety.

Agility implies the power of transporting ourselves from place to
place with the rapidity of thought. In this world we can, in the
twinkling of an eye, send our thoughts o