The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-15

thelr susceptibility to fatigue and their
slowness Of locomotion. They will be put
through q 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
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 obsequies, inde-
pendent Of obituary into state every way
better, with wider room and velocities be-
yond computation. the dullest OF US into
companionship with the very best spirits
In the best mood in the very parlor Of the
universe, the four walls FURNISHED panel
pictured and glorlHed with all the splen-
dors that the infinite God during all the
ages has been able to invent victory.
This view. Of course, makes it OF but lit
tie Importance whether we are cremated
or sepultured. II the latter is dust to dust
the former is ashes to ashes. II any prefer
inclneration let them have II without cai-
cature. The world may become so crowded
that cremation may beuniversalIy adopted
by law as well as general consent. Many
Of the best Of men aud women have been
cremated. ?. p. Bliss and wife, the sing
Ing eyangelists, cremated by accident at
Ashtabula; John Rogers, cremated by per-
secuton; Latiner and Ridley, cremated
at Oxford; Pothinus and Blandina, slave,
and Alexander, a physician, and their
comrades, cremated at the order OF Marcus
Aurelus. II the world lasts as much
longer asit 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 1t
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, gladsome, transcen-
dent, magnificent, inexplicable structure
called the resurrection body. "Why should
1t be thought a thing incredible with you
that God should raise the deadi" 81. d..
That far up cloud, higher than the hawk
flies, higher than the eagle flies, what is IL
made OFF Drops of water from the Hud-
son, and other drops from the East River.
and other drops from q stagnaut pool out
on Newark fats. Up yonder they are en-
bodied In cloud aud the sun kindles 1t.
II God can make such lustrous cloud out
Of water drops, aud 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 a. radiant bodyi Can the God who
owns all the material out OF which bones
and muscles aud flesh are made not set
them up again after they have fallenl II
q manufacturer OF telescopes drop an in
strurnent on the floor and break IL, can he
not mend II again, SO 1t eau be lookel
through And II God drop the eye, which
he originally fashioned, into dust, can He
not restore ity Aye, IL the manufacturer
Of the telescope by the change OF the glass
and the focus may improve the telescope,
could not the fashioner OF the eye improve
the sight and multiply the natural eye by
the thousand-fold additional facilities OF
the resurrection Why should II be thought
q thing incredible with you that God should
raise the deadl
Things all around US suggest IL. The
radiant butterfly, where did 10 come froml
The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross
shifting the tempest with its plnshed wing,
where did 10 come froml A senseless shell.
Near Dergerac, France, In Celtic tomb
under block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years. The
Qaah VNlanta1 thasy .ttl forth gla iIaa... 80
bluebell 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 June
4, 1874, he planted them, and Ia thirty days
they sprang up. Where did oil this silk
come from-the silk that adorns your per-
sons and your homes! In the hollow OF
staR Greek missionary brought from
China to Europe the progenitors OF those
worms that now supply the silk OF many
nations. The paSenntry Of hammered host
and the luxuriant articles OF commercial
emporium blossoming out from the silk
worms. Aud we shall be surprised II, out
Of this Insignificant earthly life, our bodies
spread into something worthy OF the COM
ing eternlties' Put silver in diluted inter
and IL dlssolves. Is the silver gone for
eyeri No; put in some pieces OF copper
and the silver reappears. Ifone force dis
solves, another force reorganizes.
The insects few and ths worms crawled
last autumn feeller and feebler, and then
stopped. They have taken no food. They
want none. They lay dormant and insen-
sible. But soon the south winds 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 docs for the wasps and spiders
and snailsy Within month there will be
aresurreclion in all our gardens. Why not
some day a resurrection In all the grave
yardsl This morning at FIVE o'clock there
was resurrection. Out OF the night a
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.. Tennets,
the great evangelist Of the past, DR.. Archi-
bald Alexander, the most unsentimental OF
men, his eulogist, lay In atrance for many
days, but the departed soul, that had seen
wonders in It's absence. came back again
and recited whatit had seen. II will be
found some time that what Is called sus-
pended animation OF comatose state is
brief death, giving the soul tine for an ex-
curslon into the next world from which IL
comes back-a furlough OF few hours
ot.a nied f,ofn th a coua of lifa IN which N