St. Landry democrat., 1886-05-15

mention the name of a greater conqueror
than all these-a cruel, CHASTITY conquer
or. He rode on black horse across Wa
terloo, Atlanta and Chalons, the bloody
hoofs crushing the hearts of nations. 1t is
the conqueror death. He carries a black
flag, and he takes no prisoners. He digs a
trench across the hemispheres and fills it
with the carcasses of nations. Fifty times
would the world have been depopulated
had not God kept making new genera
tions. Fifty times the world would have
swung lifeless through the air-no man on
the mountain, no man on the sea, an
abandoned ship blowing through immens.
ity.
Again and again has he done this work
with all generations. He is monarch as
well as conqueror; his palace sepul-
cher, his fountains the falling tears of a
world. Blessed be God, in the light of this
Easter morning see the prophecy that
his scepter shall be broken and his palace
shall be demolished! The hour is coming
when all who are in their graves shall
come forth. Christ risen, we shall rise.
Jesus
The first fruits of them that slept.
Now, around this doctrine of the resur-
rection there are great many mysteries.
You come to me this morning and say:
"If the bodies of the deu are to be
raised, how is this and how is that"
And you ask me thousand questions I
am incompetent to answer; but there are
a great many things you believe that you
are not able to explain. You would be a
very foolish man to say: ~ won't beIeve
any thing I can't understand" Why,
putting down one kind of flower seed,
comes there up this flower of this color?
Why, putting down another flower
seed, comes there up flower of this color?
one flower white, another flower yellow,
another flower crimson. Why the differ
ence when the seeds look to be very much
alike-are very much alike? Explain
these things. Explain that wart on the
finger. Explain the difference-why the
oak leaf is different from the leaf of the
hickory. Tell me how the Lord Almighty
can turn the chariot of his omnipotence on
q rose leaf. You ask. me questions about
the resurrection I can not answer. l will
ask you thousand questions about every
Gay llIe you can not answer.
l find my strength in this passage:
All who are in their graves shall come
forth
l do not pretend to make the explana-
tion. You go on and say:
"Suppose returned missionary dies in
Brooklyn; when he was in China his foot
was amputated; he lived years after in
England; he is buried to-day in Green
wood; in the resurrection will the foot
come from England and will the different
parts of the body be reconstructed in the
resurrection. How is that possible?"
You say that the human body changes
every seven years, and by seventy years
of age man has had ten bodies: in the
resurrection which will come ups You
say:
"a man will die and his body crumble
into the dust, and that dust be taken up
into the life of the vegetable; an ami
NAL may eat the vegetable, men eat
the animal; in the resurrection that body,
distributed in so many directions, how
shall it be gathered up?''
Have you any more questions of this
style to ask? Come in and ask them. l
J.
back upon the announcement of Gods
word:
All who are in their graves shall come
forth.
You have noticed, suppose, in read
ing the story of the resurrection, that
almost every account of the Bible gives
the idea that the characteristic of that
day will be great sound. I do not
know that it will be very loud, but I
know that it will be very penetrating. In
she mausoleum where silence has regned
4 thousand years that voice must pene-
rate. In the coral cave Of the dead that
voice must penetrate. Millions of spirits
will come through the gates of eternity,
'arth and they will cry:
"Give us back our bodies; we gave |
hem to you in corruption, surrender them |
low in interruption"
Hundreds of spirits lowering about the |
rags of Gettysburg, for there the bodies |
re buried. A hundred thousand spirits
oming to Greenwood, for there the |
'odies are buried, waiting for the reunion |
4 body and soul.
All along the sea route from New York
o Liverpool, at every few miles, where
teamer went down. departed spirits COM
ng back, lowering over the wave. There
> where the City of Boston perished.
'ound at last. There is where the Presi-
ent perished. Steamer found at last.
here is where the Central America went
own. Spirits lowering, hundreds of
pirits lowering, waiting for the reunion
+ body and soul. Out on the prairie
pirit alights. There is where a traveller
led in the snow. Crash goes Westminster
Abbey, and the poets and orators come
orth. Wonderful mingling of good and
ad. Wilberforce, the good; Queen Eliz-
beth, the bad. Crash go the pyramids of