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through chemistry or the SOIL, ana heAh
and cold and changing season, out OF
which God will reconstruct them as much
better than they are now as the body oA
the roslest and healthiest child bounding
the lawn ON Prospect Park IL 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, indo-
pendent Of obituary into state every way
better, with wider room and velocities ba-
yond computation, the dulloat Of us into
companionship with the very best spirits
In the best mood In the very parlor Of the
universe, the four walls Furnished, pAnei-
pictured and glorI6ed with all the splen.
doris that the infinite God during all the
ages has been able TO invent Victory.
This view, Of course, makes II OF but llt-
tie Importance whether we are oremated
or sepultured. II the latter Ia dust TO dust
the former Ia ashes 10 ashes II any prefer
inolnoratlon lot them have II without carl.
cature. The world may become 80 crowded
that cremation may be universally adopted
by law as well as general consent. Many
OF the best OF men and women have been
cremated. p. r, Bliss and wife, tho sing
Ing evangolists, crematod by accident al
Ashtabula; John Rogers, cromatod by per-
secution; Latimer and Ridley, cremated
at Oxford; Pothlnus and Blandina, n slave,
and Alexander, n physician, and their
comrades, crematod at the order OF Marcus
Aurellus. II the world lasts az much
longer as II has already boon built there
might bo 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 arO till II
comes To II. Most Of US prefer the old way.
But whether outof cremation or natural
disintograton we shall get that luminous,
buoyant, iridescent, gladstone, transcen-
don't, magnificent, inexpllcable structure
called the resurrection body, "Why should
II be thought thing incredible with you
that God should raise the deadW
That far up cloud, higher than the hawk
ihos, higher than tho eagle flies, what 10 u
made of Drops OF water from tho Hud-
son, and other drops from tho East River,
and other drops from stagnant pool out
on Newark fats. Up yonder they are om-
bodied In cloud and the sun kindles ID.
II God can make such a lustrous cloud OUT
OF water drops, and some Of them rllod and
impure and fetched up from miles away,
can Ho not transport fragments Of bodies
from tho earth and out Of them build In
the sky a radiant bodyS Can the God whs
owns all tho material out OF which bones
and muscles aud flesh are made not set
thom up again after thoy have fallonf n
a manufacturer OF telescopes drop an In.
strumont on the floor and break II, can he
not mend " again, 80 II can be looked
through And II God drop the eye, which
ho originally fashioned, into dust, can He
not restore itS Aye, II the manufacturer
Of the telescope by the change OF the glass
and tho focus may improve tho telescope,
could not the fashionOr OF the eye improve
the sight and multiply the natural cyo by
tho thousand-fold additional facilities Of
tho resurroctionS Why should II bo though
q thing Incredible with you that God should
raise tho doadY
Things all around US suggest H. The
radiant butterfly, where did II como fromS
Tho loathsomc caterpillar That Olbatross
smiling tho tempest with lts plashod wing,
whore did II come fromS A scnscloss shell.
Near Borgcrac, France, In Celtic tomb
under block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand yoars. The
sood planted, thoy put forth tho bloom Of
buoboll and helIotrope, Wilkinson, tho
traveller, found In n mummy.pit In Egypt
some garden peas that had been buried
thoro some three thousand years, On Juno
A iNll IA. ,.lanNuI a L.. a..
they sprang up, Where did all this silk
como from-thc silk that ndorns your pcr-
sons and your homesY In tho hollow OF
stan q Greek missionary brought from
China TO Europe tho progcnitors OF those
worms that now supply the silk Of many
nations The p0goantry Of bannerod host
and the luxurlnnt articles OF commercial
emporium blossoming out from tho silk
worms, And wo shall bo surprised II, out
OF this Insignificant earthly life, our bodies
spread into something worthy Of the com.
ing eternitioSY Put silver In diluted nitor
and II dissolvca Is tho silvor gono for-
ovorI No; put In some pieces OF copper
and the silver roapponrs, II one force dia-
solves, another force reorgNnzcs.
Tho insects few and the worms crawled
last autumn fcobler and fooblor, and then
stopped. They have taken no food. They
want none. They lay dormant aud inson-
sblo. But soon the south winds viii blow
tho resurrection trumpet aud tho air and
tho earth will bo full of thom. Do you moo
think that God can do az much for our
bottles as llo docs for tho wasps and spiders
and snuilsY Within month thero wlllsbo
arosurroctlon IN all our gardens, Why not
some day resurrection In all tho gr0vo-
yOrdsH This morning Ot Eve o'clock th0ro
was resurrection. Out Of the night a
day. Eycr aud anon there are instances Of
mon and women In trance. A trance is
dath followed by resurrection after fow
days. Total suspension Of mental power
and voluntary action, Rov. Mr., TonncA,
tho great evangelist Of the past Dr. Archi-
bald Alexander, tho most unsCutimentnl or
mon, his eulogist lay In trance FOR many
days, but the departed soul, that had seen
wonders in its absence, came back again
aud recited what u had seen, IL will bo
found some time that what Is called sus-
pended animation or comatoso state h
brief death, giving the soul time for an ox-
curson into tho next world from which 10
comes back--a furlcugh of a few houiv
granted from the conflict Of life 10 which 10
returns Does not this waking up OF man
from trance, aud this waking up Of insects
from winter irclessnoss, and this wakisg
up of grains buried three thousand years
ago, mako II easier for US TO bolioyo that
our body and mind aftor tho vacation OF
tho grave shall rise aud rally, though thers
DO three thousand years between our last
breath and the sounding Of the archangelis
roveille.
Psychologists toll us that while tho most
Of our bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing, and
the loss of little finger 10 q hindermone
nnh lhn Ia hmm nf n Lon inlnl mnhna mn