Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
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between our bodies as they are now and
our resurrected forms.
There you will see the perfect eye after
the waters of death lave washed out the
stains of tears and study. There you will
see the perfect hand after the knots of toll
have been united from the knuckles. There
you will see the form erect and elastic
after the burdens have gone off the shout
der-the very life of God in the body.
In this world the most impressive thing,
the most expressive thing, is the human
face; but that face is yelled with the griefs
of a thousand years. In the resurrection
morn that veil will be taken away from
the face, and the monday sun is dull and
dim and stupid compared with the out
flaming glories of the c~ountenances of the
saved. When those faces of the righteous,
those resurrected faces, turn toward the
gate, or look up toward the throne on the
bosom of everlasting day! o, glorious
resurrected body.
But l remark, also, in regard to that
body which you are to get in the resurrec-
ton, 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 begin putting the fuel into the furnace
the furnace dies out. The b~lood-vessels
are canals taking the b~readstuffs to all
parts of the system. We must be recon.
structed hour by hour, day by day. Sick
ness and death are all the time irving to
get their prey under the tenement or to
push us off the embankment of the grave:
but, blessed be God! in the resurrection
we will get a body immortal. No malaria
In the air, no cough, no neuralgia twinge,
no rheumatic pang, no f1uttering of the
heart, no shortness of breath, no ambu-
lance, no dispensary, no hospital, no inva-
lids chair, no spectacles to improve the
dim vision; but health. immortal health.
o, we who have aches and pains indescrib.
able this morning: o, We who are never
we'll; o, we who are lacerated with ply.
steal distresses, let me tell you of the resur.
rected body, free from all disease! I'm.
mortal! Immortal!
go farther, and say in regard to that
body which you are to get in the resurrec-
tion, it will be a powerful body. We walk
now eight or ten miles and we are IA
tigued. We lift a few hundred pounds
and we are exhausted; unarmed we meet
a wild beast, and we must run, or fly, or
climb, or dodge, because we are incompe-
tent to meet it; we toll eight or ten hours
vigorously and then we are weary; but in
the resurrection we are to have a body
that never gets tired. Is it not a glorious
thought?
Plenty Of occupation in Heaven, I sup
pose, and Broadway, New York, in the
busiest season of the year at MONDAY is
not so busy as Heaven is at all time.
Grand projects of mercy for other
worlds. Victories to be celebrated.
The downfall of despotism on earth
to be announced. Great songs to be
learned and sung. Great expeditions on
which God shall send forth his chill
dren. Plenty to do but no fatigue. If
you are seated under the tree of life it will
not be to rest but to talk over with some
old comrade, old times - battles where
you fought shoulder to shoulder. Jacob
and the angel wrestled together. Jacob
was not thrown because the angel fav-
ored him. But once get your ressur.
rected body and the angel could not
wrestle you down. 1t is impossible to down
the giants of God on high-strong, supple,
u~nexhausted, mighty, immortal. Oh, is it
not a glorious thought?
Sometimes in this world we feel we
would like to have such a body as that
There is so much work to be done fol-
Christ; there are so ANY tears to be
wiped away: there are so many burdens
to lift: there is so much to be achieved for
Christ, we sometimes wish that from the
first of January to the last of December
we could toll on without stopping to sleep
or take any recreation or to rest, or even
to take food, that we could toll right on
without stopping a moment at our work OF
commencing Christ and Heaven to all the
people. But we all get tired.
1t is a characteristic of the human body
in this condition. We must get tired.
Is it not a glorious thought that
after awhile, in the service of God.
we are going to have a body that
will never get weary? o, glorious resur-
%rection day! Gladly will I fling aside this
poor body of sin and fling it into the tomb
if at thy bidding l shall have a body that
never wearies. That was a splendid res.
direction hymn that was sung at my faith.
er's burial:
So Jesus slept; Gods dying son
Passed through the grave and blessed
the bed;
Rest here, blest saint, till from his throne
The morning breaks to pierce the sha de.
o blessed resurrection! speak out, sweet
flowers, beautiful flowers! While you tell
of a risen Christ, tell of the righteous who
shall rise. May God fill you this morning
with anticipation!
heard of a father and son who, among
others, were shipwrecked at sea. The
father and the son climbed into the
rigging. The father held on, but the
son after awhile lost his hold in the
rigging and was dashed down. The
father supposed he had gone hopelessly
under the wave. The next day the father
was brought ashore from the rigging in an
exhausted state and laid on a bed in a
fisherman's hut, and after many hours had
passed he came to consciousness and saw
lying beside him on the same bed his boy.
o, my friends, what a glorious thing it
will be to wake up at last to find our loved
ones beside us! Coming up from the same
plot in the same graveyard, coming up in
the same morning light-the father and
son alive forever, nevermore to weep, nev-
ermore to part, nevermore to die.
May the God of peace that brought