Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-02

Heaven and He'll, which the Scriptures mention
and describe, all human souls III dying, in the
s.giving up the ghost" do Immediately pass. But
how shall it he as regards the material Dody "hen
once it dies? Shall it ever be reanimated? And
to this inquiry nothing but the revealed truth OF
God can give positive and Ineligible response.
Nature isdumb and philosophy is dumb. Reason,
indeed, may insist that, as through the numer-
GUS vicissitudes in form and material elements,
through which between birth and death bodies
pass they yet remain the same identitiabe frames,
none may philosophicay deny what the Scrip
lures distinctly teach, that in spite of all the ruin
of the grave the body Of the resurrection shall be
in the same sense and to the same degree one with
the body of death, as the body of death is one with
the body of birth. But He who is the Truth, has
pronounced the explicit statement that "the hour
Is coming when all that are in the graves shall
hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come
forth.' 1t is the declaration of Him who created
u.s. and by whose authority the life of the body is
summoned away along with the departing spirit.
To die then is not to terminate forever our exist
ence as creatures Of the living God. And unto
whom therefore, does it become dwellers in the
region of the shadow ofdeath, denizens of a globe
all honey; y;combed with graves, to be habitually
ed One, who has abolished death, and brought life
and immortality to light in His gospel. Where
death makes desolation, He can make life and
victory. He is the absolute master Of the "King
of terrors" BY taking away believers sin, He
extracts the sting of death ; and whether the mon
ster come suddenly or slow, he is harmless to
horrify or hurt the dying disciple. He makes
happy heaven sure, and to 90 and dwell with
Jesus is, by his triumphant grace, esteemed to be
"r better than to abide in this world Of toll and
tribulation and tears And to the sensitive hearts
that deaths hard doom sorely lacerates it is the
almighty, gracious voice of "Jesus only" which
can bring substantial comfort. To the weeping,
desolate widow, the consoler of mans lonely
sufferer says, weep not. You believe in the
God of the widow; believe also in me,"-the
brother born for human adversity. Tothe unpro-
tected orphan he speaks, "In my Fathers house
are many mansions 60 to prepare place for
YOU" Saith my Father, "I will be Father to
the fatherless, and ye shall be my sons and daugh-
ters.'' 81 will give my angels charge concerning
bear you upward in their strong hands, and camp
carefully about your midnight slumbers. Unto
| Him who is the "Resurrection and the life, the
| comforter Of Bethany, the Saviour of the world,'
entreat you all, fellow mortals, fellow sinners,
fellow sufferers, direct the eye of faith and hope
Though imam dieth and wasteth away" and the
| removal from our immediate converse and COM
mnnion ofthe gifted, loving spirits, with whom our
affections in life were so closely bound up, makes
dreadful irreparable ruin of our earthly Joys; yet
Jes,ls lives. His gospel sets night lamp amid
the shadows of the valley Of death, and sows in
is trusted and adored. "Them that sleep in Him"
faithful God "will bring with Him." to the coro-
nation of the Kings Son. While to the surviving
| mourner, He gives ''the oil of joy" and to the
heavy heart the garment Of praise;' so that with
faltering speech we are still ENABLED to sing
80 happy dead, in Thee that sleep!
While DER their moulderng dust we weep
o, Faithful Saviour who shall come
That dust to ransom from the tomb!
While Thy unerring Word imparts
So rich cordial to our hearts,
Through tears our triumphs shall be shown
Though round their graves and near onr o'on."