The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-12

rld OF all their WEAKNESSES and their suscep-
tibility TO fatigue and their slownsss of 10.
connection. They will be put through
chemistry Of the soil, aud hea. and cold aud
changing season out of which God will re-
construct them as much better than they
are Bow as the body Of the rosiest and health
lest child bounding he lawn on Prospect
Park is better than thu body of the sickest
patient In Bellevue Hospital. But as to cur
toul We will Gross right over, not waiting for
obsequies. independent of obituary into O
state every way better with wider room and
velocities beyond computation, the dulles
OF us into companionship with the very best
spirits in the very best mood in the very
parlor OF the universe, the four walls bur
nished, panel pictured and glorified with all
the splendors that the infinite God during
all the sges has been able to invent victory!
This view, of course, makes il 1T but little
Importance whether We are cremated or sep
injured. Ii the latter j. dust to dust the for.
msr is ashes to ashes. II auv prefer in ciners-
ton let them have 1t without caricature.
TIA world may become so crowded that ere.
nation may be universally adopted by law
"a we'll as general consent. Many OF the best
Of men and women have been cremstei. z.
Z. Bliss and wife, the singing evapgelists
cIemsted by accident at AshtAbula, John
Rogers, cremated by persecution; Latimer
and Ridley, crematsd st Oxford; Pothinus
and Blandina. slave, and Alexander, q
physician, snd their comrades, cremated at
toe OIuer Oh mdrCue AuIeilO5. III the WOriQ
lasts as much longer as it has already bsen
built, there might be no room for the large
acreage set apart for resting. places. Bat
that time has not come. Plenty of room
yet. The race need not pass that bridge Of
till 1t comes to it. Most OF Us prefer the old
wy. But whether out Of cremation or nat
ural disintegration we shall get that lumi
Gus, buoyant, iridescent. gladstone, tran
scendent, magnificent, inexpiicable structure
| called the resurrection body. "Why should
| il be thought thing incredible with you
that God should raise the dead?'
That far up Cloud higher than the hawk
| flies, higher than the eagle flies, what is 1t
mace OF? Drops of water from the Hudsoa,
and other drops from the East River, aud
other drops from stsg1aut pool cut on New
ark flats. Up yOndsr thsy are eabJ ID e ! 10
cloud and the sun kindl - ic. II G1d csn
make such lustrous cloud ont ot wafer
| drops, and some of them riled aud 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
eody2 Can the God who owns all the mate
rial out of which bones and muscles and flesh
are made not set them up again after they
have fallen2 Ii a manufacturer OF telescopes
| drop an instrument on the floor and break
| it. can he not mend il again, so il can be
looked through? And il God droe the ys
which be originally fashioned, into dust, can
he not restore 1t? Aye il the manufacturer
Of the telescope by change OF the glass and
the focus may improve the telesc )pe could
not the fashioner Of the eye improve the
leht and multiply the natural eye by The
thou anc fold additional facilities of the res.
direction? Why should il be thought a thing
incredible with you that God should raise
the dead?
Things all around Us suggest it TIE radi-
ant butterfly, where did il come fron2 The
loathsome caterpillar. That albatross smit.
ing the tempest with it's piashed wing where
did ii come from? A senseless shell Near
Bergersc, France IN Celtic tomb under q
block were found flower seed that had b en-
buried 600 years. The seed planted, they
put forth the bloom OF bIuebell and hello
uore. Wilkinson, the traveller, found ia q
mummy pit In Egypt some garden peas ID at
had been buried there some 3. 600 years. On
June 4, 1914, he planted them, and in thirty
daye they sprang up. Where did all this SILK
&C me from-the silk that adorns your per,
sons and your homes? In the hollow of a
staff Greek missionary brought from China
10 Europe the progenitors OF those worms
that now supply the silk OF many nations.
The page aDtry of hammered host and the lux
uriant articles of commercial emporium
s'ossomiDg out from the silk-worms. Asd
who shall be surprised If, out of this insg-
nihcant earthly life, our bodies spread into
something worthy of the coming eterniGies?
! Put silver in diluted nitre and it dissolves.
Is the silver gone forever? No; put in some
III enc force diseolyes, another force re Jrssn-
ice.
Tt insects few and the worms crawled
last autumn feebler and feebler and then
stopped. They have taken no food. They
want none. They lay dormant and insens
| BILE. But soon the south winds wi blow
] the resuD ectlon trumpet and the air and the
| that God can do Is much for our bodies as he
| does for the wssps and spiders and snails?
| Within q month there will be a resurrection
| in all our gardens. Why not some day
resurrection in all the grave yards2 This
morning at 3 o'clock there was resurrection.
Out OF the night 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 o. mental
| power and voluntary action. Rev. Mr.. Ten
netts the great evangelist of the pat. Dc
| Archibald Alexander the most unseen timentsl
! OF men, his eulogist lay in q trance IT many
| days, but the departed soul that hal sseo
| wonders In its absence came back again and
recited what il had seen. 1t will bs found
! sometime that what is called suspended All.
nation or comatoEe state is brief death, CIV
ing the soul time for an excursion into The
next world from which il comes back
4, furouah of 3 few hours granted from the
( c0Lf ct of life to which it returns. ID )es not
( this waking up OF man from trance, and this
| wokiDg up Of insects from winter lifelsss-
| ness, and this waking up OF grains buried
3 coo years ago. make it easier for Us to be
litye hat our body and mind after the va
cation Of the grave shall rise and rally,
though there be 600 years between our lat
breath aud the sounding of the archan selic
| reveille.
Psychologists tell Us that while the most OF
| our bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing. and tn
| loss OF little finger is a htpderment and
the in j1ry of a tos joint makes Us lame,
still that We have two or three useless phys
| zeal apperats. aud no aDatomist or physinlo-
| gist has ever been able tn tell us what they
are good for. They are, 10 doubt the folo-
dation of the resurrection body. worth moth
ing to Us in this state, TO be OF indispensable
value in the next state. The Je~ich aS0in.