The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06

are now as the body of the rosiest and healthiest
child bounding the lawn on 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 obseques, indie
pendent of obituary, into state every way
better, with wider room and velocities beyond
computation; the dullest of US into companion
ship with the very best spirits in the best mood,
in the very parIor of the universe the four walls
FURNISHED, panel-pictured and glorified with all
the splendors that the infinite God during all the
ages has been able to invent. Victory!
This view, Of course, makes it of but little i'm
portance whether we are cremated or sepultured
Ii the latter is dust to dust the former is ashes
to ashes. If any prefer incarceration, let them
have it without caricature. The world may be-
come so crowded that cremation may be univer-
sally adopted, by law as well as by general con-
sent Many of the best of men and women have
been cremated. p. P. Bliss and wife, the sing
ing evangelists. cremated by accident at Ashta-
bula. John Rogers cremated by persecution.
Latimer and Ridley cremated 40 Oxford. Po-
thinus and Blandina, slave ant Alexander.
physician, and their comrades csemated at the
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 disintegration, we shall
get that luminous, buoyant iridescent, glad
some. transcendent, magnificent, inexplicahle
structure called the resurrection body. ''Why
should it be thought thing incredible that God
should raise the deadp
THINGS THAT SUGGEST RESURRECTION
That far-up cloud, higher than the hawk flies,
higher than the eagle flies, what is it made of
Drops of water from the Hudson, and other
drops from the East river, and other drops from
a stagnant pool out Newark flats Up yon-
der they are embodied in 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 body? Can the God who owns all the
material out of which bones, and muscles, and
flesh are made not set them up again after they
have falleng 1t manufacturer OF telescopes
drop an instrument on the floor and break it, can
he not mend it again so it can be looked thr0ughs
And if God drop the eye, which he originally
fashioned, into dust, can He not restore it again!
Aye. if the manufacturer of the telescope, by
change of the glass and the focus may improve
the telescope, could not the fashioner of the eye
improve its sight and multiply the natural eye by
the thousand fold additional facilities of the res
urrectionl ''Why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should raise the
Ceadw
Things all around us suggest it. The radiant
butterfly, where did it come from2 The loathsome
caterpillar. That albatross, uniting the tempest
with the FLASHED wing, where did it come from!
A senseess she'll Near Bergerac, France, in
Celtic tomb under a block were found flower seed
that had been buried two thousand years. The
seed planted they put forth the bloom of blue
bell and helotrope Wilkinson, the traveller,
found in mummy pit in Egypt some garden
peas that had been buried there'some three thou
sand 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 homes? In the hollow of
a 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 luxuriant articles of
commercial emporium poisoning out from the
silk worms. And who shall be surprised it, out
of this insignificant earthly life bodies spread
into something worthy Of the coming eternities!
Put silver in diluted nitre and it dissolves. Is
the silver gone forever9 No; put in some pieces
of copper and the silver reappears If one forces
dissolves, another force reorganizes.
The insects flew and the worms crawled last
autumn feebler, and feebler and then stopped.
They have taken food. They want none.
They lay dormant and insensible But soon
the south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet and the air and the earth will be full of
them Do you not think that God can do as
much for our bodies as He does for the wasps,
and spiders, and snails Within month there
will be resurrection in all our gardens. Why
not some day resurrection in all the grave
yards? This morning at five o'clock there was
resurrection. Out of the night, day. Ever
and anon there are instances of men and women
in a trance A trance is death followed by
resurrection after few days. Total suspension
of mental power and voluntary action Rev.
Mr.. Tennett, the great evangelist of the past,
DIR. Archibald Alexander. the most un-
sentimental of men, his eulogist, lay in
a trance for many days; but the departed
soul that had seen wonders 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 conatose state is brief
death, giving the soul time for an excursion into
the next world, from which it comes back-a
furlough of few hours granted from the con-
fict of life, to which it returns. Does not this
waking up Of man from trance. and this waking
up of insects from winter lfelessness, and this
waking up of grains buried three thousand
years ago, 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 last breath and the
sounding of the archangelic revelle?
FOUNDATION OF THE RESURRECTION BODY.
Psychologists tell us that while the most of
our bodies are built with such wonderful econo
my that we can spare nothing and the loss of
little finger is a Underwent, and the injury of
toe joint makes US lame, still that we have two
or three useless apparata, and no anatomist or
psychologist has ever been able to tell us what
they are good for. They are, no doubt,
the foundation of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to US in this state to be of indispensable
value in the next state. The Jewish rabbins had
only hint of this suggestion when they said
that in the human frame there was small
bone which they called the 'luz,r and r. Joshua
Ben. Hananigh said that that was to be the basis
of the resurrection body, and though there NAV
have be en- nothing in that idea the Christian
scientists of our day have found in two or three
superfuities of body something eloriously
suggestive of another construction.
called at my friends house one summer. /
found his front yard piled up with rubbish of
masons' and carpenters work. The door off, The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof was
being lifted and cupolaed. The walls had lost
their pictures, and the paper-hangers were
getting ready, and all the modern improvements
were to be introduced. There was not room
fit to live in. although few weeks before when