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

In WnlCn young elnpUo lnlBht oiSSP'
So there hangs over all the grave anC
sepulchers and mausoleums of the ages
darkness that no earthly lamp can lift
but from above the Sun Of Righteousness
shines, and the dense iogs Of skepticisn
having lifted, the valleys of the deaC
stand in the full gush of the morning o
the resurrection.
Various Scriptural accounts say that the
work of grave. breaking will begin VIII
the blasts of trumpets and shoutings
whence take it that the first intimatior
of the day will be sound from heaVeI
such as has never before been heard, II
may not be so very loud, but II will bt
penetrating. There are mausoIeums &c
deep that uudisturbed silence has SLEPT
there ever ,Dcs the day when the sleep
ers were lei ~ them. Among the CoraIs
of the sea ule5 deep, where the ship
wrecked r, he sound will strike. No
one will n axe it for thunder, or bhe
blast of ee MY minstrelsy. There will
be heard tt' oice of the unCounted mil
lions of the orad who come rushing out
of the gates o. eternity, flying toward the
tomb crying make wayl o grave, give
us back our bodyl We gave it to you in
corruption surrender itnow in incorrup'
ton"
Thousands Of spirits arising from the
field of Waterloo and from the rocks of
Gettysburg and from among the passes
of South Mountain. A thousand are
crowding Greenwood. On this grave
three spirits meet, for there were three
bodies in that tomb; over that family
vault twenty spirits hover, for there
were twenty bodies. From New York
to Liverpool at every few miles on the
sea route, a group of hundreds of spirits
coming down to the water to meet their
bodies. See that multitude that is
where the Central American sank. And
wonder multitude-that is where the
Pacific went down. Found at last:
that is where the City of Boston sank
And onder, the President went down.
A solitary spirit alights on yonder prai
r e-that is here a traveller perished in
the snow. The whole air ia full of spir-
lts-spirits flying north, spirits flying
south spirits flying east, spirits flying
west. Crash goes Westminster Abbey,
as all its dead Kings and orators and
poets get up, Strange Commingling of
spirits searching among the rooms
William Wilberforce the Good, and
Queen Elizabeth the Bad. Crash 60
the Pyramids, and the monarchs OF
Egypt rise out of the heart of the desert,
Snap go the iron gates of the modern
Yauts.
The country graveyard will'look like
rough. h.plowed field as the mounds break
open. All the Kings of the earth; all
The Senators; all the great men; all the
Deggars; all the armies, victors and van
pushed all the ages, barbariC ard CIV
lized all those who were chopped by |
or simmered in the fire, or
'otted in dungeons all the infants Of a
lay all the octogenarians-a all, all Not
me stragger left behind. All, all And
low the air is darkened with the frag.
nents of bodies that are coming together
rom the opposite corners of the earth.
lost limbs finding their mate-bOne to
to sinew--until every
oint is reconstructed, and every arm
inds its socket, aud the amputated limb
# the table shall be set again at the
,oint from which it was severed. A sur
con told me that after the battle of Bull
sun he amputated mbs, throwing them
ut of the window until the pile reached
p to the window sill. All those lrag.
lents will have to take their places.
hose who were born blind shall have
yes divinely kindled those who were
lme shall have limb substituted. In
Il the hosts of the resurreCted not one
ye missing; not one foot clogged not
ne arm palsied not one tongue dumb
OF one ear deaf
But how will these bodies look The
odies of the righteous will be glorious
he most perfecty-fOrmed body, indeed,
a mere skeleton 50 what it would have
cen had not sin come. Gods model Uf
face, of hand, of foot, of a body, we
now not. If, after an exquisite statue
as been finished, you should take
lisel and clip it, and clip it, and set the
atue in an out.of.door exposure, its
,auty would nearly all be gone, yet the {
imam body has been clipped, and t
asted, and battered for thousands of :
,ars Physical defects have been hand :
down from generation to generation
r six thousand years, and we have in '
,rited all the bodily infelicities of all a
e past. But when God takes the right. II
us out of their graves,h he will refashion =,
d improve, and adorn according to the
iginal model, until the difference be. d
cen a gymnast and the emaciated p
etCh in the lazaretto is not 80 great as d
at between our present bodily strHc. !,
res and our gloriously resurrected =,
ms. There you will see the perfected g.
g, out of which, by the waters of death a
8 been washed the last trace of tears v
d study. Then you will see the per. E.
ted hand, the knots ON the knuckles II
toll united; no more stoop of the d
)ulders from burden bearing and the d
light of years, Jut all of us erect and q,
stic-the life of God in all the frame. ..
Q most striking and impressive thing I"
all the earth now is a human face. n
t it is veiled in the black veil of a "
usand griefs; but when God on the v,
morn shall put aside the =,
ruppose that the face of the sun in %
sky is dull and stupid compared with IL
oulaaming glories of the Countenan- to
Of the saved. l suppose that when oil
80 faces shall turn to look toward the =,
B or up toward the throne it will be -. ~
} the dawn of a new morning on the Il
ON of everlasting sky. th
be body will be immortal The ca
sical system is perpetually wasting tb
y. 1t is only because we keep put. oy
in the fuel that the furnace does not %
ntirely out. BloOd-Vsssels are only IN
lls to carry breadstuffs to the differ. st
parts, Ifthese supplies fail, we die. sh
ness and death lurk around to see if m
: cannot get a pry under the tene. -.
It, and at slight push we tumble off Isl
Of the grave. But the
teous arisen shall have an immortal
7. 1t will be incapable of disease hs
will hear no sough orgrosn There he
be no miasms or fever in the air. is
re will be no rough step down which Al,