Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-14

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body and soul.
/ All along the sea route from New York tc
| Liverpool, at every few miles where
steamer went down, departed spirits coming
back, lowering over the wave. THERE'S where
the City of Boston persisted. Found at last.
| There is where the President persisted
/ STEAMER found at last There is where the
! Central America went down. SPIRITS hover
| ing, hundreds of spirits towering, waiting for
the reunion of body and soul Out ON the
| prairie a spirit alights. There is where q
] traveller died in the snow. Crash goes West
minister Abbey, and the poets and orators
come forth. Wonderful mingling Of good
and bad. WilberfOlce the good, Queen Eliza
beth the bad. Crash go tho pyramids Of
| Egypt, and the morarchs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene! l suppose thai
| one moment before that general rising theu
will be universal silence, save a YOU hear the
grinding of the wheel or the clatter of the
| hoofs of a 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 the
sea. Silencel But in a moment in tn,
| twinkling of an eye, as the 6rclangelI
trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing
| across the mountain and sea, tht
: earth will give one terrific shudder and tn,
graves Of the dead will heave like the waves
of the sea, and Ostend and Sebastopol and
| ChalonS will 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 life-all faces, all ages, all conditions
! gazing in one direction and W OF one throne,
| the throne of resurrection "Al who are in
their graves shall come forth"
But you say, 'if this doctrine of the
resurrection is true as prefgured by thi!
| Fa ter morning, Christ the first fruits of
! fhpO that slant Christ risOCg a rNrOmicn and
prophecy of the rising of His people, can
you tell us something about the resurrected
| bodyf' | can. There are mysteries about
that, but shall tell you three or four things
in regard to the resurrecte1 body that are
! beyond guessing 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 mere
sie'eton OF what it void have been if sin
had not married and deface1 it. Take the
| most exquisite statue that was ever made by
an artist, and chip it here and there with
! Chisel, aud batter and bruise it here and there
and then stand it out in the storms of hum
drel years AMI the beauty would be gore.
! Well, the human body has been Clipped and
! battered and bruised and damaged with the
storms of thousand year6-the physical de-
fe@ts of other generations coming down from
| generation to generation, we inherting the
! infelicihe5 of past generations; but in the
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adorned and Eelutiied, according to the
| original model. And there is no such differ
EN- between a gymr asst and an emaciated
wretch in q laZarettO, as there will be Il diff
t renee between our bodiej as they are now
and our reSurr, c5el forms.
There you W Ii see the perfect eye after the
waters of death have washed out the stains
Of airs and stuly There you will see the
| perfect hand 4 ter the knots of toll have been
Il ted from the knuckles. There you will
see TIE form ere and elastic after the bur-
dCn5 lave gone off the shoulder-the very life
! Of 60 in the body.
In III ; world the most impressive thing,
the IN, S expressly thing, is the human face;
but that face is We led with the grie.s of
! THOUSAND years; lu5 in the reSurre ton morn
! that veil will be taken away from the face,
| and the monday sun is dull and dim and
stund compared with TIE outllaming glorieS
Of the cOunGenanCeS of tHesaved. When tho-e
ia es Of the righteous, those reSulT5cte1 faces
| turn toward the gate, or look up toward the
throne, it will lie like the dawn ng Ct new
| morning on the be som of everlasting day!
! Q glorious resurrected body
But | remark also in regard to that body
which you are to get in the resurrection, it
will be an immortal body. Thee bodies are
wasting away Somebody has said as soon
We keep putting The fuel into the furnace the
fire dies out. Tn blood vessels are ca
mas taiir3 the breads Ifs to all parts of the
system. We must be re2onStructed hour by
hour day by day. Sickness and death are
all the time trying to get their pry unCer
| the tenement to push us Oft the em6ank-
ment of the grave; but lies sed be God, in
the resurrection we VIII get a body
immortal. No malaria in the air. no
cough, no neuIalgic twnge, no rheu-
matte pang, no fluttering Of the heart,
no shortnesS OF breath, no ambulance, no dis
TenSlry, no hospital, no invalid's chair, no
| spectaclcs to improve the dim vision; but
health Immortal health. 0 We who have
aches and pains indies ,ribable this molning
! . We wh) are never well q We who are
la"erated with physical disIres se5! let me tell
you OF the resurrected body, FREQ from all
disease. Immortal! Immortal
go farther and say i'll regard to that
body which you are to get III the reSurTec-
ton il Will be Il powerful body. We walk
now eight or ten miles and we are fatigue l.:
we lift few hundred pound and we are
exhausted; unarmed, we meet a wild beast
and we must run or fly or climb or dodge
because we are inCO nreelt to meet it, we
t il eight or ten hours vigorously and then
We are weary: but in the resurrection we
are to have body that never gets tired. Is
it not a glorious thought?
Plenty of occupation in heaven. ] suppose
Broadway, New York, n tn busiest season
of the year at MONDAY, is not so busy as heav-
Gu is all the tine Grand projects of merry
Tor other worlds. Victories to be celebrated.
The downfall of despotisms on earth to be an
nounced. Great son IS to be learned and sung.
Great exps ditions on whi,h God shall send
forth His children. Plenty to do, but 10
fatigue. II you are seated under the treas 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 WIRE tiled together. Jacob
was not thrown becau,e the angel favored
him. But once get your reSurrected body
and the angel could not wrestle you down.
it Is impossible to wreSte down the giants Of
God on high. Strong, supple unexhausted,
mighty, immortal. Oh is it not glorious
thought!
Sometime in this world we feel we shout
like to have such body as That. There Is 81
much work to be done for Christ, there al 9
many tears to be wiped away, there ale 81
many burdens to lift, there is SO much to bl
achieved for Christ, we sometimes wish that
from the first OF January to the last o, De-
cember we could toll Oh without stopping I'd
seep, OF to take any recreation or to rest or
even to take fOCd-that weScOud toll right on
without stopping moment in our work 81
commencing Christ aud heaven to al the
people But we all get tired.
Ii Is a characteristic of the human body in
this condition. We must get tired. Is it not
q glorious thought that after a while in the
fervice of God we are going to have body
that will never get weary o glorious Te5ul.
r,ction day! Gladly VIII fling aside this
poor body Of sin and fling it into the tomb, il
at thy bidding shall have a body that never
weares. 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
bed
Rest he Q, best saint, till from His throne
Toe morning breaks to pierce the shade"
Oh blessed resurrection! Speak out sweet
flowers. beautiful flowers. While you tell of
a r.sen Christ tell of the righteous who shall
lise. May God I'll you this morning with