The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-24

The lesson was the story OF the resur'
reCtion, from the Evangelists, and com.
mented upon by Rev, DR.. Talmage in his
usual instructive manner, Following is
a full report of the sermon;
sUBJEcT-E Easter Morning Our Own Res
direction.
TExT-"Now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the first fruits of them
that slept" l Corinthians, xv., 20.
The most helpful and cheering thought
of Easter morning is that Christ broke
the grave, not only for himself but for
all his disciples, and was the first sheaf
Of the resurrection harvest. If were to
call on you to give the names of the
worlds great cor querors, you would say;
Caesar, Alexander, Philip and the First
Napoleon. You have missed the great
est. The men whose names have just
been mentioned were not worthy of the
name of corporal when compared with
him. He rode on the black horse that
crossed the fields of Waterloo and Allan
ta, and his bloody hoofs have been set on
the crushed hearts of the race. He has
conquered every land and has besieged
every city; and to-day Paris, London, st,
Petersburg. New York and Brooklyn are
going down under his fierce and long con.
tinued assault.
That conqueror is Death. He carries a
black flag, and takes no prisoners. He
digs trench across the hemispheres, and
fills it with Carcasses. Had not God kept
creating men, the world, fifty times over
would have swung lifeless through the
air; not foot stirring in the cities, not
heart beating-a depopulated world-a
ship without hemsman at the wheel,
or a captain on deck, or crew in the rig.
ging. Herod Of old slew only those of
two years old and under; but this mon
ster strikes all ages. Genghis Khan sent
five millions into the dust; but this, hun
dreds of thousands of millions Other
Kings sometimesfal back, and surrender
territory once gained; but this King has
kept all he won save Lazarus and Christ. !
The last one escaped by omnipotent pow
er, while Lazarus was again captured and |
went into the dust What a cruel con-
querorl What bloody King His pal. |
ace is huge sepulcher; his flowers the |
faded garlands that lie on coffin lids; his
music the cry of desolated households;
the chaliGe of his banquet a skull
his pleasure fountains the falling tears OF
q world.
But that throne shall come down; that
scepter shall break; that pa ace shall fall
under bombardment. For the hour is
coming in which all that are in their
graves shall hear his voice, and shall
come forth; they that have done good un-
to the resurrection of life, and they that
have done evil unto the resurrection of
damnation."
Heather philosophers guessed at the
Immortality of the soul, but never dream.
ed that the bsdy would get up and Join
it. This idea is exclusively Scriptural and
beyond reasoning. Indeed, ali analogies
fail. You say, as the wheat is put in the
ground and comes up, so will our bodies.
l reply, if the wheat entirely dies, as in
the case of long prOtracted wet weather,
there is no resurrection of it, So the ana.
logy fails. You say that the caterpillar
becomes the butterfly, and so our dead
bodies may at last take on splendid ex- /
altation. reply that there is no inter.
betweenthe caterpillar and {
butterfly, and, therefore, the analogy fails |
You say that there is perfect type of the
resurrection in the trees in the spring. {
time. / reply that the tree does not die 6
in winter. 1t is simply dormant and, /
therefore, the analogy fails. The bodv,
though cut up by disseCting-knives and /
burned in furnace, shall come together, =
There must forever be mysteries about G
this, and the mystery increases as science
progresses. We find that comparatively
asmall part ofthe body is reduced to dust d
There is very little earthly substance e
IN it. 1t is largely composed oftluids and a
yasses, which evaporate or separate them. O
Ielves, leaving but very little for the dust, t,
10 that the body becomes widely scatter "
I'd through earth and air; and how it can ii
le reorganized is question before which II
he chemist stands Confounded. But fC
Thlle there are in this theory of the res. e,
Irrect:on many things above reasoning b
here is nothing contrary to reason, The al
bjectors say that the body is scattered fe
D such great distance it can never be oil
al
A man went into the Mexican war and W
Yet foot. He came to New York, and ell
accident loses finger. He afterward II
pes as missionary to China, and there or
les Will the foot come from Mexico. Y
nd the finger from New York, and Join tn
le body in China2 l answer that il ia RI
o harder for God to do that than to do We
lings he has already done. Your BODY th
already made up from all the zones of tn
le earth-made up from the raisins of Gel
taly, from the bananas of Florida. from tn
le BIRDS OF the prairie, and from the su- ga
II OF the far South; made up from Rus lik
a, Brazil and Oregon. Fruit and plants boz
om all these localities have become a
Irt Ofyour body. nh
The objeCtor says: Suppose man be aW
ten up by cannibals, how can his bodv tin
brought back | answer that there go
no proof that the earthly part of the car
lman body ever can be absorbed in an ent
ner oody. suppose God has power 10 Sic
'ep Ihese bodies everlastingly distinct. the
lt suppose that part of the body was me
sorbed in another body-could not the
% make substitute for the part that rig
ID been absorbed inanother body2 The boo
surrected !, part of good man would YO
ther have a substituted portion ofbodv vii
ven 1t than than part of the BODY TIT
men a cannibsl had eaten and digest. TO
4 crol
,t;, nut the ,objeetors say that mans body voy
lst = y,c cnanges every seven years, 30 the
,J GT sa : nlSn 81 seventy years Of age has an
- Sese1 distinct bodies At the last last
y S,,iI ms La luea would imply that the man hos
1uiu :, nave seven heads and fourteen clint
~, isa;.l anu o'Per parts of the body cores no
ndlDg But we answer that ibe Bjbls for
suDctly states that it is the bodv tbot kee