Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-26

qucror He rode on black horse acros
Waterloo, Atlanta and Chalone, ~
bloody hoofs crushing the heart
Of nations. II n the conqnerOr Death
He carries black flag and b.
takes no prisoners. He digs trench
across the hemispheres and Ills Il viii
the carcaEses Of nations. Fifty times
would the world have been depOpuIaiet
had not God kept making new genera
lions. Fifty times The world would havi
swung lifeiess through the eir--D0 mar
on the mountain, no man on the sea, 81
abandoned ship rlosghing through I'm
NECESSITY.
| Again and again has be done this work
with all generations. He Is monarch
as well as conqueror; his palace q
sepulcher, hi fountains the falling tears
Of world. Blessed be God, In the
light Of this Easter morning ! see the
prophecy that his scepter shall be broken
and his palace shall b. demolished. The
hour "a coming when ali 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 rcsur-
rcctlon there are great many mysteries.
/ You come 70 me this morning and say
'1f the bodies Of the dead are 10 be
raised, how Is this and how Is that2" and
you ask me 4 thousand questions am In
competent 70 answer; but there are a
great many things you believe that You
are not able 70 explain. You would be q
very foolish man 70 say; ~ won't believe
anything / can't understand Why, put
ting down one kind Of flower seed comes
there up this flower Of this colorf Why,
putting down another flower seed comes
there up q flower Of this colorg--one
flower white, another flower yellow, an
other flower crimson. Why the difference
when the seeds look 20 be very much
alike--are very much alike7 Explain
these things. Explain that wart on the
nngcr. Explain the dlfference-wby the
OAK leaf "a different from the leaf Of the
hickory Tell me how the Lord Almighty can
turn The chariot OF His omnipOttnce on a
rose leaf. You ask me questions about
the resurrection / cannot answer. Will
ask you thousand questions shout every.
day life you cannot answer.
lind my strength in this passage "Ail
who arc In their graves shall come FORTH
/ do not pretend 70 make the explanation. |
You 20 on and say. "Suppose a returned 4
dies in Brooklyn; when he |
was In China his foot was anputated; be |
lived years after in England; ne is buried |
to-day IN Greenwood; In the resurrection |
viii the foot come from England and will 1
the different parts Of the body be recon /
structed In the resurrectionf How IS that I
possible2"
You say tina, the human body changes
every seven years and by seventy years Of /
age man has had ten bodies; 10 the |
resurrection which will come upf You
say: "a man Will die ard his
body crumble into The dust /
and that 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
II be gathered upl" Have you any more
questions Of this style to ask2 Come 10
and ask them. / do not pretend 10 an
swer them. ! fall back upon the announce
menl OF Gods word, can who are in
their graves shall come forth"
You have noticed. / suppose, in read
Ing the story Of the resurrection, that al
most every account Of the bible gives the
dea that the Characteristic OF that day
Hill be great sound. | 90 not know
nat i viii be very loud, but DO know
: VIII be very penetrating Ia the maui
'olenm where silence has reigned thou.
sand years that voice must penetrate. la
ne coral cave OF the deep that voice must
Millions oi spirits will come
through the gates Of eternity, and they
sill come % the tombs Of the
.arth and they win cry, aGlye
rs back our bodies we gave
hem 10 you IN corruption, surrender
hem now in interruption" Hundreds
u spirits lowering about the crags Of
gettysburg, for there the bodies are
'uried 4 hundred thousand spirits com
ng 10 Greenwood, for there the bodies ,
re buried waiting for the reunion Of l
'ody and soul
All along the sea route from New York /
o Liverpool, at every few miles, whore I
steamer went down, departed spirits
oming back, lowering over the wave. 4
here Is where the city of Boston per- 4
ihed' round az last. There is where v
be president persisted. Steamer found {
last. There 10 where the Central {
meriea went down. Spirits lowering, /
undreds OF spirits lowering, waiting for 4
he reunion Of body and soul out on !
he prairie a spirit alights There Is 7
'here traveller died in the snow. Crash [
oes Westminster Abbey and the poets !.
nd orators come forth. Wonderful
ningling Of good aud bad. wnberforce, i
ne good; Queen Elizabeth, the bad.
rash go the pyramids Of Egypt, and the
nonarchs come forth. =
Who can sketch the sceuC2 suppose / Y
hat one moment before that general ris. q
lg there viii be an eternal silence, save {
: you hear the grinding OF wheel OF
ne olatter OF the hoots OF procession a
assing into the cemetery silence In all I
no caves OF the earth Silence on the Z
Idle OF the mountain. Silence down In =
No valleys and far out into the sea. ST. +
'nco, But IN a moment, III the twink. Il
ny OF an eye, as the archangel's trumpet u
ONES pealmg, rolling, crashing across "
nc mountain and sea, the earth will give =
ne terrific shudder, aud the graves of the Il
cad VIII heavv like the waves OF the sea. d
nj ustend and Sebastopol and Chalons Il
III stalk forth Ia the lurid air, and the b
rowned win come up aud wiring out Il
leir wet locks above the bill o
NV, and all the land and ali Il
le sea become one moving mass of life v
Il faces, all ages and conditions gazing Ii
one direction and upon Que throne. the a
irone OF resurrection Gan who are IN n
leir graves shall come iorthn n
But yon say, ''if this doctrine OF the
lsufrcction be true, as preagured hy this q,
aster morning, Christ the firsl fruits OF z