Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-08
is where q traveller died in the snow
Crash goes Westminster Abbey, and

Is WuoIo q lEdNoAoI uAou al tuO ShON
Crash goes Westminster Abbey, and
the
POETS AND ORATORS
come forth. Wonderful mingling of
good and bad. Wilberforce, the good;
Queen Elizabeth. the bad. Crash 60
the pyramids of Egypt, and the mon
archs come forth. Who can sketch
the sceneP ] suppose that n moment
before that general rising there will be
an intense silence save as you hear the
grinding of a wheel or the clatter 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 81
lence. But for q moment, in the
~twinkling Of On eye. as the archangel's
trumpet comes pealing. rolling, crash
ing 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 faces, all ages
and conditions gazing in n direction
and upon mi throne, the throne Of
resurrection. "All who are in their
graves shall como forth" But" you
say. Iii this doctrine of the resurrec-
ton is true as prefigured by this Easter
morning, Christ, tho first fruits Of
them that slept Christ rising, a prom
Use and a prophecy Of the rising of all
His people, a you tell us something
about the resurrected bodyp" / can.
There are mysteries about that, but l
shall tell you three or four things in
regard to
III RESURRECTED BODY
that are beyond guessing and beyond
mistake. In the first place l remark
in regard to your resurrected body, it
will be a glorious body. The body we
have now is q mere skeleton OF what Il
would have beer if sin had not msrred
and defaced it. Take the most exqui-
site statue that was ever made by an
artist and chip it here and chip it there
with a chisci, and batter and bruise it
here and there and then stand it out in
the storms of a hundred years, and the
beauty would be gone. Well, the hu-
man body has been Clipped and bat
tered and bruised and damaged with
the storms Of a thousand yearS-the
physical defects of other generations
coming down from generation to gen.
GRAFTON, we inheriting the infelicities Of
past generations, but in the morning Of
the resurrection the body will be
adorned and beauti6ed according to
the original model, and there is no
such difference between "a gymnast and
an emaciated wretch in a lazaretto as
there will be a difference between
our bodies as they are now and our
resurrected forms. There you will see
the perfect eye after the waters of
death have 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 after
the burdens have gone off the shoulder
the very life Of God in the body. In
this world the most impressive thing,
the most expressive thing. il the hui
man face; but that face is yelled with
the
CRIES OF A THOUSAND YEARS.
In the resurrection morn that veil
will be taken away from the face, and
the noondav sun is dull and dim and
stupid compared with the outiaming
glories of the countenances Of the
saved. When those faces of the right
eous, those cited faces turn to-
ward the gate or look up toward the
throne, it will be like the dawning Of a
new morning on the bosom of ever
lasting day! o glorious resurrected
body! But | remark also in regard to
that body which you are to get in the
resurrection, it will be IN immortal
body. These bodies are wasting away.
Somebody has said as soon a. we be-
gin to live we begin to die. Unless we
begin putting tho fuel into the furnace
the furnace dies out The blood yes
sells are canals taking breadstuffs to all
parts of the system. We must be re-
construci cd hour by hour, day by day.
Sickness and death are all tho time
try ing to get their pry under the
tenement TO push us eff tho embank-
ment Of the grave; but, blessed be- God!
in the resurrection he will get n body
immortal. No malaria in the air. no
cough, no neuralgia twinge, no rheu-
matte pang, no h%uttering of the heart,
no shortnesS of breath, 10 ambulance,
no ~dispensary. no hospital, no in
valid's chair, no spectacles to- improve
the din vision; but health. INN rial
health. q 70 who have aches and
pains indescribable this morning. o
We who are never we'll, Oye who are
lacerated with
PHYSICAL DIsTRESsEs.
let me tell you Of the resurrected body,
free from all disease! immortal! | 90
farther and say in regard to that body
which you are to get in the resurrec-
ton, it will be q powerful body. We
walk now eight or ten miles and we
are fatigued. We lift a hundred pounds
and we are exhausted; uDarmed We
meet a wild beast and we must run or
hy or climb OF dodge because we are
incompetent to meet ii; we toll eight
or ten hours vigorously and then we
ora vraorv hut IN tho instrumentation yra