Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-26

mountain. no man on the sea, an aosi
doned ship ploughing through lmmensn!
Again and again has he done LIE "oi
with all generations. he
A MONARCH AS WELL AS ooSoUESoK;
his palace a sepulchre, his fountains tn
falling tears of q world. Blessed De Go'
in the light of this Easter morning sc
the prophecy that his sceptre shall ?
broken and his palace shall be demolished
The hour is coming when all who are
their graves shall come forth. Cnrii
risen, we shall rise. Jesus "the hrst irui'
Of them that slept"
Now, around this doctrine OF the resul
rection there are great many mysteries
You come to me this morning ana say
"If the bodies OF the dead are TO be raise
how is this and how is thstY and you asI
me q thousand questions l am incomPeten
to answer; but there are great man
things you believe that you are not soie !,
explain. You would be a very toolisl
man to say: Il won't believe anything
can't understand" Why. putting dowI
one kind of flower seed comes there III
this flower of this color2 Why, puttipl
down another flower seed comes there up'
flower of this color zone flower white
another flower yellow, another flower Grim
son. Why the difference when the seed
look 10 be very much slike-are very mnct
alike2 Explain these things. Exp!aiL
that wart ou the fiuger Explsin the diff
ference-why the oak leaf is different from
the leaf Of the hickory. Tell me how the
Lord Almighty can turn the chariot OF Hi;
omuipotence on rose Leaf. You ask me
questions about
THE RESURRECTION
cannot answer. / will ask you thous
and questions about everyday life you can
not answer.
fud my strength in this passage; "All
who are in their graves shsll come forth. -
do not pretend TO make the explanation.
You 90 on and say: Suppose q returned
missionary die in Brooklyn, when he was
in China his foot was amputated; he lived
years after in England; he is buried to day
10 Greenwood; in the resurrection will the
loot come fro Eoglsnd and will the diff,
ferent parts OF the body be reconstructed
in the resurrection? How is that posi-.
ble3"
You cay that the human body changes
every seven years and by seventy years OF
age q man has had ten bodies; in the
which will come up? You say:
"A man will die and bis body crumble into
he dust and that dust be taken up
INTO the life of the vegetable; an animal
may eat the vegetable. men eat the ani
nal; in the resurrection that body distrlb'
ltsd in SO many directions, how shall it be
gathered up2" Have you any more queS.
ions of this style to ask2 Come in and
,sk them. | do not pretend to answer
hem. fall back upon the announcement
# Gods word: "All who are in their
raves shall come forth"
You have noticed, | suppose, in reading
he story of the resurrection, thst almost
'very account Of the Bible gives the idea
hat the characteristic of that day will be
GREAT SOUND.
do not know that it will be very loud, but
know it will be very penetrating. In the
nausoleum where silence has reigned
houssnd years that voice must penetrate,
n the coral cave OF the deep that voice
must penetrate. Millions Of spirits will
,ome through the gates of eternity,
md they will come TO the tombs OF the
arth and they will cry: Give us back
'ur bodies; We gave them to you in cor.
upton, surrender them now in iucorruF-
ION" Hundreds of spirits lowering about
be crags OF Gettysburg, for there the bod
es are buried. A hundred thousand spir-
"a coming to Greenwood, for there the
,odies are buried, waiting for the reunion
# body and soul.
All along the sea route from New York
o Liverpool, Gt every few miles, where o
tesmer went down, departed spirits com
ng back, lowering over the wave. There
8 where the city of Boston pershed
'ound at last. There ia where the Pfesi-
lent persisted. Steamer found at last
There is where tho Central America went
lown. Spirits lowering, hundreds Of spir-
ts lowering; waiting for the reunion OF
,ody and sopl. Out on the prairie spirit
flights. There is where a traveller died in
be snow. Crash goes Westminster
Abbey, and the poets and
,ratoTs cone forth. Wonderful
Of good and bad. Wilberforce,
he good; Queen Elizabeth the bad
1.aah 90 the pyramids of Egypt, and the
ronsrchs come forth.
Whs can sketch tie snane2 | suppose
hat one moment before that general rising
here will be an eternal silence save SIS you
hear the grinding Of wheel. or the clatter
If the hoofs OF a procession passing into
he cemetery. Silence in all the caves Of
he earth. Silence on the side of the
mountain. Silence down in the valley aud
Iar out into the sea. Silence. But in a
moment, in tie tWinkling Of &c eve, as the
archsngeIs trumpet comes pealiug, rolling,
across the mountain and sea, the
earth will give one terrific shudder and the
graves of the dead will hesve like
waves Of the ses, aud 0stend and
Sebastopol and Chslons will stalk
forth in the lurid DIR, and the
drowned will come up and wiring out their
vet locks above the billow, and all the land
and all the sea become one moving mass
Of life-sll faces, all ages and conditions
gazing in one direction and upon one
throne, the throne Of resurrection.
"All who are in their graves shall come
forth" "But," you say, "if thi, doctrine
Of the resurrection is true as prefgured By
this Easter morning. Christ the first fruits
Of them that slept, Christ rising, a promise
and prophecy of the rising of all His peo
pie, can you tell us something abou. the
resurrected bodyY l can. There are
mysteries sbout that, but shall tell you
three or four things in regard to the resur
rected body that are beyond guessing and
beyond mistaEe.
In the fret place / remark in regard to
your resurreeted body, it will be
GLORIOUS BODY.
The body we have now is mere skeleton
OF what it would have been if sin had no,
marred and defaced it Take the most
equisite statute that was ever
made by an artist and chip it here and
chip it there with chisel, aud batter and
bruise il here and there and then stand 1t
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