Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

WIN al generations. He ia n mop.r,,, ~.
.eii as a ~conqueror; his palace a senul.
cher' MS fountains the falling tears Of a
worio. Blessed be God, in the light Of this
Easter morning see the prophecy that
nis scepter shall be broken and his nalace
shail De demolished! The hour is coming
"nen all who are in their graves SHAH
come forth. Christ risen, we shall rico
Jesus 1890
The first fruits of them that slept.
Now, around this doctrine of the resur.
recelon there are a great many mysteries,
Z gu come to me this morning and saw:
"lf the bodies of the dead are to h.
raised, how is this and how is thatpn
ana you ask me q thousand questions I
am incompetent to answers; but there are
a great many things you believe that YOU
are not able to explain. You would be n
very foolish man to say: II won't believe
any thing 1 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 a flower of this colorp
One flower white, another flower yellow,
another flower crimson. Why the differ
ence when the seeds look to be very much
allke-are very much alike? Explain
these things. Explain that war; 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. 1 will
ask you a thousand questions about every.
day life you can not answer.
l find my strength in this PASSAGE:
All who are in their graves shall come
forth.
lido not pretend to make the explana-
ton. You go on and say:
"Suppose a 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 a man has had ten bodies; in the
resurrection which will come up? You
say:
AAoh A oio LII lax OOuy Y uIlO1o
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. 1
do not pretend to answer them. 1 fall
back upon the announcement of Gods
word:
All who are in their graves shall come
forth.
You have noticed, I 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 a great sound. I do not
know that it will be very loud, but 1
know that it will be very penetrating. In
the mausoleum where silence has reigned
a thousand years that voice must pene-
trate. In the coral cave of the dead that
voice must penetrate. Millions OF spirits
will come Though the gates of eternity,
and they will come to the tombs of the
earth and they will cry:
"Give us back our bodies; we gave
them to you in corruption, surrender them
now in interruption"
Hundreds of spirits lowering about the
crags of Gettysburg, for there the bodies
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
to Liverpool, at every few miles, where a
steamer went down. departed spirits COM
ing back, lowering over the wave. There
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 Contra America went
down. Spirits lowering, hundreds of
spirits lowering, waiting for the reunion
of body and soul. Out on the prairie a
spirit alights. There is where a traveller
died in the snow Crash goes Westminster
Abbey, and the poets and orators come
forth. Wonderful mingling of good and
bad. WHEREFORE, the good; Queen Eliz-
abeth, the bad. Crash go the pyramids Of
Egypt, and the monarchs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? suppose
that one moment before that general rising
there will be an eternal silence, save as you
hear the grinding of the wheel, or the clat-
ter of the hoofs of q procession passing
into the cemetery. 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. Silence. But in
a moment, in the %twinkling of an eye: as
the ~archangel's trumpet comes peal
ing, rolling, crashing across the
mountain and sea, the earth will
give one terrific shudder and the 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 races, all ages and
conditions gazing in one direction and
upon one throne, the throne of resurrec-
ton.
All who are in their graves shall come forth.
"But," you say, eff this doctrine of the
resurrection is true as prefigured by the
Easter morning, Christ, 'the first fruits of
them tina slept Christ rising, a promise
and a prophecy of the rising of all His peo-
pie. can you tell US something about the
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