Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-06
: : WHEELING. W. VA. MONDAY MORNING, APRIL g. 1885.


our bodies restored to US Just as they are
now. We want TO get rid of all their weak
nesses and their susceptibility to fatigue
and their slowness of locomotion. There
will be put through chemistry of the soil
and heat and cold and changing season
out of which God will reconstruct them as
much better than they are now as the body
of the rosiest and healthiest child bounding
on the lawn in Prospect Park is better than
the body of the sickest patient In Bellevue
Hospital. But
AS to Our Soul,
we will cross right over, not waiting for OBJ
seuuies, independent of obituary into a
state every way better with wider room and
velocities beyond computation, the dullest
of US into companionship with the very
best spirits in the best mood in the very
parior of the universe, the four walls burn
sshed, panel pictured and glori6sd with all
| the splendors that the infinite God during
all the ages has been able to inyent-Yc-
tory!
This view, of course, makes it of but little
importance whether We are
Cremated or Sepultured.
If the latter is dust to dust the former is
ashes to ashes. If any prefer incineration,
let them have it without caricature. The
world may become so crowded that crema-
ton may be universally adopted by law as
we'll as by general consent.
Many Of the best of men and women have
been ciemated. P. P. Bliss and wife, the
singing evangelist, cremated by accident at
Ashtabula. John Rogers, cremated by
persecution. Latimer and Ridley crema-
ted at Oxford. Pothinus and Blandlna,
slave, and Alexander, 2 physician, and their
comrades cremated at the order of Marcus
Aurelius.
If the world lasts as much longer as it
has already been built, there might be no
room for the large acreage set apart for
resting places. But that time has not
come. Plenty of room yet The race need
not pass that bridge OF fire till it comes to it.
Most of us prefer the old way. But whether
out of cremation or natural disintegratlon,
we shall get that luminous, buoyant ire
descent, gladstone, tranScendant, magnif-
cent, inexplicable structure called
The Resurrection Body.
Why should it be thought thing incred-
i5le with YOU that God should raise the
deadY
That far up cloud, higher than the hawk
flies, higher than the eagle flies, what Is 1T
Drops Of water from the Hudson and other
drops from the East river and other drops
from stagnant pool out on Newark flats.
Up Wonder they are embodied in a cloud
and the sun kindles it. If God can make
such lustrous cloud out of water drops
and some of them riled and impure and
fetched up from miles away, can he not
transport fragments Of bodies from the earth
and out of them build in the sky radiant
body2 Can the God who owns all the ma
terial out of which bones and muscles and
flesh are made not set them up again after
they have fallen? If manufacturer of
telescopes drop an instrument on the floor
and break it can he not mend it again so 1t
can be looked through? And if God drop
the eye, which he originally fashioned, into
dust can He not restore it? Aye, if the
manufacturer of the telescopes by a change
of the glass and the focus may improve
the telescope, could not the fasbiouer of the
eye improve its sight? Multiply the natural
eve By the thousand.fold additional facilities
Of the resurrection? "Why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the deadY'
Things all around US suggest it. The
radiant butterfly, where did it come from?
The lcathsome caterpillar That albatross,
securing the tempest with its pla5hed wing,
where did it come from? A senseless shell,
near Bsrgeiac, France, in "a celtic tomb
under block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years. The
seed planted, they put forth the bloom of
bluedell and heliotrope. ~ Wilkinson, the
traveller, found in a mummy pit in Egypt
some garden peas that had been buried
there some three thousand years. On the
4th of June, 1874, he planted them and in
thirty days they sprang up. Where did all
this silk come from-the silk that adorns
your persons and your homes2 /. In the hol
low Of staff Greek missionary brought
from China to Europe the progenitors OF
those worms that now supply the silk of
many nations. The pageantry Of hammered
host and the luxurious articles of CONNER
cial emporium blossoming out from the silk
worms, and who shall be surprised if, out of
this insignificant earthly life our bodies
spread into nothing worthy Of the coming
eternities? Put silver in diluted nitre and
it dissolves. Is the silver gone forever? No.
Put in some pieces Of copper and the silver
| reappears.
| IL One Force Dissolyes Another Force Re-
organizes.
The insects few and the worms crawled
last autumn {, ebler and feebler, and then
stopped. They have taken no food. They
ha,, lo Nd
able. But socn the South wind will blow
he resurrection trumpet, and the air and
The earth will be full OF them. Do you not
thiuk that God can do as much for our
bodies as de does for the wasps and spiders
and snai!s. Within month there will be a
resurrection in our gardens. Why not
some day q resurrection in all the grave
yards2 This morning at o'clock there
was resurrection out Of the night to day.
| Ever and anon there are instances of men
and women in trance. A trance is death
| followed by resurrection after few days.
Total suspension of mental power and vol
untary action. Rev. Mr. Jennett, the great
Evangelist ofthe past; DR.. Archibald Al
exander, the most unsensational man in
his eulogies, lay in trance for many days,
but the departed soul that had seen won
ders in its absence came back again and
recited what it had seen. 1t will be found
some time that what is called
suspended animation, or comatose
state. is brief death. giving the
soul time for al excursion into the next
world, from which it comes bsch-s fur
Tough of few hours granted from the con-
lict nf life IN which n retnrns IhOes not
this waking up of men from trance, and this
waking up of insects from winter life, and this
waking up Of grains buried three thousand
years age, make it easier for US to believe
that our body and mind after the vacation
of the grave shall rise and rally, though
there be three Thousand years between our
lost breath and the sounding OF the arch.
angelic reVeille
Psychologists tell us that while the most
Of our bodies are built with such wonderful