The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-13

in Interruption Hundreds of spirits hover
ing about the crags of Getty ysburg, for there
the toiies are buried A hundred thousand
spirits coming to Greenwood, for there the
bodies are buried, waiting for the reunion Of
body and soul.
All along the sea route from New York te
Liverpool, at every few miles whore
steamer went down, departed spirits coming
back, lowering over tie wave, There is where
the City of Boston perished Found at last
There is where the President perisEel
St ner found at last There is where the
Central America went down. ST. irits hover.
ing, hundreds of spirits lowering waiting fol
the reunion of body and soul. Out on ths
prairie a spirit alights. There is where
traveller died in the snow, Crash gees West
minister Abbey, and the poets AMI orator.
come forth. Wonderful mingliug of good
and bad. Wilberforce the COOL, Queen Eliza
beth tho bad Crash 60 the pyramids Of
Egypt, and the monarchs come forth.
Who can s;etch the sce1e' | suppose thai
one moment before that general rising ther
will be universal silence, save a YOU hear tn
hoOtS of procession passing into the ceme,
terry. Silence in all the caves of the earth
silence on the side of the mountain, silence
down in the valleys and far out into tn,
sea. Silencel But in a moment, in thi
twinkling of an eye, as the archangel',
trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing
across tho mountain and sea, thu
earth will give one terrific shudder and thu
graves of the deal will heave like the waves
of the sea, and Ostend and Sebastopol and
Chalons viii stalk forth in the lurid air, and
the drowned will come up and wiring out
their wet locks above the billow; and all
the land and all the sea become one moving
mass Of lifC--all faces all ages, all conditions
gazing in one direction and u OF one throne,
the throne of resurrection. "All who are i'll
their graves shall come forth
But" you say, ''if this doctrine of the
resurrection is true rs rrefigured by this
Faster morning, Christ, the first fruits of
them that slept Christ rising, a promise and
prophecy of the rising of His people, can
you tell lis something about the resurrected
boayE' | can. There are mysteries about
that, but shall tell you three or four things
in regard to the resurretted body that are
beyond que sing and beyond mistake.
In the first place, | remark in regard to
your resurrected body; it will be glorious
body. The body We have now is a mere
ske.eton or what it woIld have been if sin
had not marred and defaced it. Take the
most exquisite statue that was ever made by
an artist and chip it here and there with a
chiSel, ard batter and bruise it here and there
and then stand it out in the storms of q hun
drei years and the beauty would be gore.
Wei, the human body has been Clipped and
battered and bruised and damaged with the
storms of a thousand years-the physit al de-
fects Of other generations coming down from
generation to generation, we inner ting the
infelicities of past generations; but in the
morning of the re direction the body will be
adorned and belutiiied, according to the
original model And there is no such differ
ente between a gymraSt and an emac!ated
wretch in q lazaretto as there will be diff
ference between our bodies as they are now
and our resurrc cted forms.
There you will see the perfect eye after the
waters of death have washed out the stains
of tears and study There YOU will see the
united from the knuckles. There you will
see the form erect and elastic after the bur-
dens have gone off the shoulder-the very life
of God in the body.
In this world the most impressive thing,
the mos expressive thing, is the human face;
but that face is yelled with the griefs Of
thousand years; but in the resurrection morn
that veil will be taken away from the face,
and the nconday sun is dull and dim and
stupid compared with tie outlaming gloc.es
of the countenanCes of tire saved. When tho.e
faces of the righteous, those resuTected faces
turn toward the gate, or look up toward the
throne, it will lie like the dawn ing Of new
morning on the bosom of everlasting dayl
o glorious resurrected body!
But | remark also in regard to that boly
which you are to get in the resurrection, it
will be an immortal body. These bodies are
wasting away. Somebody has said as soon
as we begin to live we begin to die. Unless
We keep putting the fuel into the furnane the
fire dies out The blood-vessels are ca
nals taking the breads5utfs to all parts of TIE
system We must be reconstructed holr by
hour, day by day. Sickness and death are
all the time trying to get their pry under
the tenement to push us off the embank-
ment of the grave; but, bless 5ed be Col, in
the resurrection we viii get bo1y
immortal. No malaria in the ar. no
cough, no ncuralgic twinge, no rheu-
matte pang, no huttering of The heart,
no hortness of breath, n , ambu 'auce, no Dis
renslry, no hos .)ital, no inva!id's char no
spectacle5 to improve the dim vision; bat
health immortal health ye who have
aches and pains indies ;ribable this morning!
Oye wlD are never well, . We who are
la Grated with physiC al distres es let Inc tell
you of the resurrecte1 body, FREQ from all
dij,ase. Inmor5al Immortal!
! go farther, and say in regard to that
body which you are to get in the resurrec-
ton, it will be u powerful body We walk
now eight or ten miles and we are fatigue l.;
we lift a few hundred pounds and we are
exhausted; un1rmed, we me It wild beast
and we must run or fly or climb or dodge,
because we are inCo upe eat to meet it; We
we are weary; but in the resurrection we
are to have body that never gets tired. Is
it not q glorious thought!
Plenty of occupation in heaven. ] suppose
Broadway, New York, n III, busiest season
of the year at MONDAY is not so busy as heav-
en- is all the time. Grand process of merry
Tor other worlds. Victories to he celebrated.
The downfall of despotisms on earth to be an.
nounced Great songs to be learned aud sung.
Great expeditions on whi God shall send
forth His children. Plenty to do, but no
fatigue If you are seated under the trees of
life it will not be to rest, but to talk over
with some old comrade of old times the battles
where you fought shoulder to shoulder.
Jacob and the angel wre tiled toy ather. Jacob
was not thrown becau9e the angel favored
him. But once get your resurrected body
and the angel could not wreStle you down.
1t is impossible to wrestle down the giants OF
God on higa. Strong. supple, unexhausted,
mighty, immortal. Oh, is it not glorious
thought!
Sometimes in this world we feel we shoul
like to have such body as that. There Is 50
much work to be done Tor Christ, there al
many tears to be wiped away, there are 81
many burdens to lift, there is so much to bi
achieved for Christ, we sometimes wish that
from the first Of January to the last o. De-
cembsr we could toll on W thout stopping I'd
sleep, or to take any recreation, or to rest, or
even to take feod-that weScould toll right on
without stopping moment in our work Of
commencing Christ aud heaven to all the
PEOPLE But we all get tired.
1t is characteristic of the human bo1y in
this condition. We must get tired. Is it not
q glorious thought that after while in the
service of God we are going to have body
that will never get wearyi o glorious resur-
rection day! Gladly Will fling aside this
poor body of sin and fling it into the tomb, il
at thy bidding shall have a body that mes er
wearies. That was splendid resurrection
hymn that was sung at my fathers burial:
$50 Jesus ,lept, Gods dying son
Passed through the grave and blessed the
he'd
Rest here, blest saint, till from His throne
The morning breaks to pierco the shade"
Oh, blessed resurrection! Speak out, sweet
flowers, beautiful flowers, While you tell OF
risen Christ tell of the righteous who shall
rise. May God ell you this morning with
anticipation
heard of father and son who, among
others, were shipwrecked at sea. The fathe.
and the son climbed into the rigging. The
father held on, but the son after while lost
his hold in the rigging and was dashed down.
The father suppo ed he had gone hopelessly
under the wave The next dav the father
was brought ashore from the rigging in an