Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-26

this Easter morning see the prophecy
that hls sceptre shall be broker and his
palace shall 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 a great many mysteries.
You come to me this morning aud say
III the bodies OF the dead are 10 be raised
now ls this and how is thatY' and you
ask me thousand questions ! am In
competent to answer; but there are a
great many things YOU believe that you
are not able to explain. You would be a
very foolish man TO say: 81 won't believe
anything | can't understand" Why,
putting down one kind of flower seed
comes there up this flower OF this colory
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 % be very much
allEe-are very much alike? Explain
these things. ENpaiu that wart on the
unGer Explain the diiierence-why the
oak leaf is different from the leaf of the
hickory. Tell me how the Lord Almighty
can turn the chariot OF His OmnIpOteuce
on rose Leaf. You ask me questions
0'Dtt taAN ANNul stNllNtt 4 tdtiilUA AuoNtl .
Will ask you a thousand questions about
everyday lite yOulcarnot answer.
mud my strength in this passage: "All
who are in their graves snal, come FORTH"
do not pretend to make lbe explanation.
You 20 on and say: suppose "A ret turned
missionary dies in Brooklyn; when ne
was in China his foot was amputated; he
lived years after in ENGLAND; he is buried
to-day in Greenwood; in the resurrec-
tlon will the foot come from China and
will the different parts of the body be re-
constructed in the resurrection. How is
that pOssibleY
You say that the human body changes
every seven years aud by seventy years of
age man has had tea bodies; in the res
direction which will come up2 You say
"a man VIII die and his body crumDle
into the dust and mat dust be taken up
INTO the life OF the vegetable; an animal
may eat the vegetable, men eat the ami
NAL; IN the resurrection that body dis
tributed In SO many directions, how shall
it be gathered upP' Have you any more
questions OF this style to ask? Come in
and ask them. | do not pretend to answer
them. fall back upon the announcement
OfGOd's word: "All who are in their
graves snail come FORTH"
You have noticed, l suppose, in read
ing the story OF the resurrection, that al
most every account of the Bible gives the
idea that the Characteristic OF that day
Will be great sound. l do not know
that 1T will be very loud, but ! know ii
Will be very penetrating, In the mauso-
leum where silence has reigned a thous.
and years that voice must penetrate.
In the coral cave of the deep
that voice must penetrate. Mil
lions of spirits will come through the
gates OF eternity, and they will come to
the COmbs OF the earth and they will cry
"GlVe us back our bodies; we gave them m
to you in corruption" surrender
them now In cOrrcpti0n. Hundreds OF
spirits hOverlng about the crags OF Gettys-
burg, 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
coming back, lowering over the wave.
There is where the City OF Boston per-
ished. Found at last. There is where the
President perished. Steamer found at
last. There is where the Central America
went down. Spirits lowering, hundreds
of spirits lowering, waiting for the re-
union OF body and soul. Out on the
prairie spirit alights. There is where
a traveller died in the snow. Crash
goes Westminster Abbey, and the poets
and orators come forth. Wonderful min
Cling OF good aud bad. Wilberlorce, the
good; Queen Elizabeth, the bad. Crash
go the Pyramids OF Egypt, and the mon
archs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? | suppose
that one moment before that general ris-
ing there will be an eternal silence save
as you hear the grinding of a wheel, or
the catter 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 noun
tain. Silence down in the valleys and
far out into the sea. Silence. But I'm a
moment, in the twnkling OF an eye, as
the archangeps trumpet comes pealing,
rolling, crashing across the mountain
ana sea, the earth Will give one terrific
shudder and the graves of the dead will
heave like the waves of the sea. and Os-
tend and SebastOpOl and Chalons will
stalk forth in the lurld air, and the
drowned will come up and wiring out
their wet locks above lhe billOw. and all
the land and all the sea become one moy-
ing mass of life-all faces, a.. ages ana
conditions gazing in one direction. and
upon one throne, the Tn rome Of resurrec-
ton. "All who are Ia their graves shall
come forth"
"But," you say, ''if this doctrine Of the
resurrection Is true as predgurad by this
Easter morning. Christ the first fruits Of
them that slept Christ rising, promise
and "A prophecy OF the rising of all His
people. can you tell us something about
the resurrected bOdyY can. There are
mysteries about that but | shall tell you
three or four tOiugs in regard to the res
directed body that are beyond guessing
and beyond mistake.
In the first place / remark IN regard TO
your resurrected body, 10 viii be a glO-
rious body. The body we have now Is a
mere skeleton OF what 10 would have been
II sin had not marred and deiaced il. Take
the most equisite statue that was ever
made by an artist and chip 10 here aud
chip II there with a chlsel, and batter and
bruise II here and there and then stand IL
out in the storms OF a hundred years and
the beauty would be gone. Well, the hu-
man body has been Clipped aud battered
aud bruised aud damaxe1 with the
storms Of thousand years-the physical
detects OF other generations coming down
from generation 20 OReneratiOn, we Inherit
ing the infellcities OF past generations;
but in The morning OF The resurrection the
body Will be- adorned and beautihed ac-
cOrdng 30 the original model, and there
is no such difference between 4 gymnast
and an enaciated wretch Ia ailazaretto as
there will be "A difference between our
bodies as they are now and our resurrect-
cd forms.
There you will see the perfect eye after
the waters of death have washed out the
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