The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-03-27
Iermou BY sAe Chaplain OF the eosl
MrIIKAN's BkuD. LOUISIANA,
HEADsuARrxKs 69sh IND Vcas-
March 18th, 1868.

~ March 18th. 1863.
Ep.r,ss PALLAD1uM-DtAR SrRs: Last
evening our working Chaplain. Elder A. l.
Hobbs, called the regiment together in ref
erence to those who had given their lives to
their counfry's cause. the special object be J;
ing to properly notice the death of Horatio'
Burgoyne. Co. K, and as the messenger Of.
death seems to have passed over our regi
ment for the present. to properly notice the
many Of our brave comrades who have been,
his snbjests. He introduced his services BY
singing, death cannot make our souls
afraid. If God be with us there" After
the usual exercises Of such an occasion, he
continued his subject to the edifcation and
prof. of his hearers. We propose TO give
the general outlines of the discourse, for the
benefit Of our friends at home. so that they
may know that here in the midst OF war we
have and enjoy the blessings of the gospel.
II would not be proper. nor could We give
the discourse in full. but trust that enough
may be given to enable those who read to
feel that we have the blessings of the sane
tuary in our midst. s.
A short time before his death, Horatio
Burgoyne. OF Co. K, requested me to de-
liver funeral discourse in reference to his
departure from this life. From the fact.
that his company has been absent on detach-
ed duty until now, it has not been proper
to fulfil that request previous to this time; ;
and while speaking in reference to him, i
would not forget the many brave boys who
have fallen in our midst, and who at their
country's call did not refuse to give their
lives that it might be preserved. Who.
though they did not fall before the face Of
their enemies, did not fall in less honora-
bic way than il they had fallen on the field
of battle. Yet if must die in the army,
prefer the field of ba,tle--no that / desire
the scene of carnage and blood, but as Wash.
ington did. would go there in prayer, and
feel that in the discharge Of my duty there.
my fall nigh. do more in behalf Of the cause
for which we contend.
l have never had doubt of this cause
being OF God. feel that this is Gods work,
and most men are now willing to acknowl-
edge His divine hand in it; although too
many do not work as though they believed
it. l trust that you remember what l have
heretofore said in my previous discourses
upon this subject. and that you are now sat
isfied that christian may be q soldier.
The text chosen is an interrogatory found
in the first clause of the l4lh.ver of the
xiv chapter of Job: {" Ii a man die. shall he
live again ?" When Job took the bodies
of the dead to their resting place in the
tomb, and saw the forms that were once so
lovely and beautiful, now the subjects oil
decay, the question then pressed itself upon
him" If a man die, shall be live again ?".
l do not propose to enter into the many
questions that theologians and private chris
tians have thrown around this subject, nei-
Their do intend to call your attention to the
sciences of anatomy and physiology, nor to
the nature of the soul, but the question is
will there ever be time when that man as
he now lives shall live again.
l shall take it for granted that man is q
compound being of spirit and material mat
ter; and probably 1 shall not presume too
much upon your faith if | say that the spirit
that body is the habitation for is an enema
ton from the Deity.
We contemplate death as the separation
Of the body and spirit When we look upon
the efforts which are made to prevent the
death of those we love, and see how we
fail, we come to the conclusion that we cam
not resuscitate ourselves, and there must be
an extraneous cause or power to bring them
to life again. And when we come to the
God OF love. welcome to the conclusion that
that God may be interested in our condition,
and may cause US to live again. care not
whether man lives in heathenish darkness
or lives in the light of the gospel, man ev-
erywhere feels that be must have a longer
life than that we have here. for we find in
every age all men inquiring "if man die, |
shall he live again" The wise men Of
Greece made these inquiries; they had to |
make them by reason, and without the Cos
pei They made forced reconnoisances into |
the future, but the darkness of the tomb |
drove them back still unsatis6ed. Yet as
the world passed on, God. when the world |
felt they could not reach the result, sent |
His beloved Son to live, die. and be buried |
in the grave. and raised from the dead, gave |
proof Of how it could be done.
AS there must be an extraneous power, |
we can go to no other power than that of
God; and first, has God the power ?-t
Secondly, if He has the power. has He the
will Thirdly. in what condition shall a |
man be when that life is restored +?
First, has God the power. So far as the
power of God is concerned, l presume the
facts Of our being created as we are would
be proof of what He can do; but we are not
confined to this, though this is the greatest
of al creations. Could we go to other
worlds, and see all the glorious works of
God, and all that is now beyond our knowl- |
edge, we would have abundant evidence of
HIS infinite power TO raise dead But some
men question this. Because they say that !
when man dies his body returns to the !
natural elements. joining in the productions |
of the earth and becoming parts of the veg /
ctsble kingdom. 1t goes on until, they say, /
il is impossible to bring up the body again.
l speak of this scientifically and say that
think it is the most silly and simple objec-
ton ever urged against the resurrection of
the body. -
All scientific men now agree that the body
is constantly undergoing change-that the !
materials of which it is composed are con-
s'an.ly being removed and replaced by new
matter. Some eminent men have said that
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