The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-05-12

world. Blessed be God, in the light Of this
Easter morning see the prophecy that
lis scepter shall be broken and his palace
hall 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 dead are to b
raised, how is this and how is that"
And you ask me thousand questions /
am incompetent to answer; but there are
a great many things you believe that you
are not able to explain. You would be .
very foolish man to say: ~ won't believe
any thing 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 alikes 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
a rose leaf You ask me questions about
the resurrection can not answer. Twill
ask you thousand questions about every :
day life you can not answer.
" find my strength in this passage:
All who are in their graves shall come
forth. sg s1
do not pretend to make the explana.
ton. You 60 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 win come up? 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. I
do not pretend to answer them. I fall
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 givei
the idea that the characteristic Of that
day will be a great sound. I do moi
know that It will be very loud, but
know that it will be very penetrating. II
the m ausoleum where silence has reignet
a thousand years that voice must pene
trate. In the coral cave of the dead tina
voice must penetrate. Millions Of spirit
will come through the gates of eternity
and they will come to the tombs Of tn
earth and they will cry:
"Give US back our bodies; we CAV
them to you in corruption, surrender then
now in interruption"
Hundreds Of spirits lowering about tn,
crags of Gettysburg, for there the bodie
are buried. A hundred thousand spirits
coming to Greenwood. for there tn
bodies are buried, waiting for the reunion
Of body and soul. a.l
All along the sea route from New Yorl
to Liverpool, at every few miles, where
steamer went down, departed spirits com
ing back, lowering over the wave. Their
is where the City of Boston persisted
Found at last. There Is where the Presi
dent persisted. Steamer found at last
There is where the Central America wen
down. Spirits lowering, hundreds o
spirits lowering, waiting for the reunion
Of body and soul. Out on the prairie
spirit alights. There Is where travele
died In the snow. Crash goes Westminste
Abbey, and the poets and orators com
forth. Wonderful mingling of good ant
bad. Wherefore, the good; Queen Eliz
abeth, the bad. Crash go the pyramids 0
Egypt, and the inonarchs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene! I suppos
that one moment before that general risin
there will be an eternal silence, save as 20
hear the grinding Of the wheel, or the clat
ter Of the hoofs Of procession passin
into the cemetery. Silence in all the cave
Of the earth. Silence ON the side Of tn
mountain. Silence down in the valley
and far out into the sea. Silence. But /
. moment, in the twinkling Of an eye, q
the archangel's trumpet comes peal
ing. rolling, crashing across tn
mountain. and sea, the earth Wi
give one terrific shudder and the graves q
the dead will heave like the waves Of tn
sea, and Ostend and Sebastopol an
Chalons will stalk forth in the lurid all
and the drowned will come up and wrin
out their wet locks above the billow, an
all the land and all the sea become on
moving mass of life-all races, all ages an
conditions gazing in one direction an
upon one throne, the throne of resureC
ton. S.. ..& ."f
All who are in their graves shall come fortl
"But," you say, "if this doctrine of th
resurrection is true as prefgured by th
Easter morning, Christ, the first fruits {
them that slept Christ rising, a promis
and q prophecy Of the rising of all His pee
resurrected bodyW
lean. There are mysteries about tina
but shall tell you three or four things
regard to the resurrected body that al
beyond guessing and beyond mistake.
In the first place remark in regard
your resurrected body, it will be q glorio,