Excerpt from The Just Made Perfect: The Funeral Sermon of Mrs. Emilie T. Fowler Brown, Wife of Mr. Thomas H. Brown, Preached at the Spring St. Congregational Church, Milwaukee, August 23, 1868He'went to Paradise, returning again at the raising of His body, as the Spirits of all men will return to their bodies when they are raised. The first christian martyr, Stephen, when about to die, followed the example of his Master in commending his spirit, and prayed, Lord Jesus receive my spirit, as though expecting that it would be received to the bosom of his Lord, while his enemies would triumph over his slain body. Paul, in speaking of the man he knew, (doubt less himself, whom God caught up to the third heaven, Says of him while in the state or transition, Whether in the body I can not tell or whether out of the body I can not tell God knoweth. Now Paul implies that man has a thinking knowing part that may be out of the body, and that thinks, and knows, and hears, while out of the body. He says of that one, that he was caught up into paradise and that was where Jesus and the penitent thief went on the very day of their execution. And the man heard there unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter, words and thoughts that have never been revealed to us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.