Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-30

fact that you caunot keep the deaC
down. The seal of the Sanhedrim,
regiment Of soldiers from the tower o
Antonio 10 stand guard, floor OF rock
roof of rock, wall OF rock, niche of rock
cannot keep Christ in the crypt. Come
out and come up He must. Came ou'
and came up he did. Prehguration
The first fruits of them that sleep
Just as certainly as you and go dowT
into the grave, just so certainly we will
come up again. Though you pile up OF
top of us all the boulders of the noun
aims, you cannot keep us down
Though we be buried under the cora
OF the deepest cavern of the Atlantic
ocean, we will rise TO the surface. All
my friends, death and the grave are not
what they used to be to us, for now,
walking around the spot where the
Lord lay, we find vines and flowers COW
ering up the tomb, and that which we
called place Of skulls has become a
beautiful garden. Yea, now there are
four gardens instead of one-Garden OF
Eden, Garden OF the Worlds Sepul-
chre, Garden Of Earth's Regeneration,
Garden of Heaven.
THE RESURRECTION.
Various scriptural accounts say that
the work of grave-breaking will begin
with the blasts OF the trumpets and
shoutings; whence | take it that the
first intimation of the day will be a
sound from heaven such as has never
before been heard. 1t may not be so very
loud, but it will be penetrating. There
are mausoleums so deep that undisturb-
ed silence has slept there ever since the
day when The sleepers were left IN
them. Among the coralS OF the sea,
miles deep, where the shipwrecked rest,
the sound will strike. No one will mis-
take it for thunder, or the blast Of
earthly minstrelsy. There will be heard
the voice OF the uncounted millions OF
the dead, who come rushing out OF the
gates OF eternity, flying toward the
tomb, crying, make away! Oh, grave,
give us back our body We gave IL to
you in cerruption; surrender it now in
interruption" Thousands of spirits
arising from the Geld OF Sedan, and
from among the passes OF South Noun
tain. A hundred thousand are crowd
ing Greenwood. On this grave three
spirits meet, for there were three
bodies in that tomb, over that family
vault twenty spirits hover, for there
were twenty bodies. From New York
TO Liverpool, at every few miles on the
route, a group Of hundreds of spirits
coming down to the water to meet
their bodies. See that multitude.-that
is where the Central America sank.
And yonder multitude!-that is where
the Pacific went down. Found at
last! That is where the City
Of Boston sank. And yonder the Presi-
dent went down. A solitary spirit
alights on yonder prairie-that is where
a traveller persisted in the snow. The
whole air is full of spirits-spirits flying
north, spirits flying south, spirits flying
east, spirits flying west. Crash goes
Abbey, as all its dead
kings, and orators and poets get up.
Strange commingling Of spirits search
ing among the ruins. William Wilber-
force. the good; and Queen Elizabeth,
the bad. Crash! go the Pyramids, and
the monarchS OF Egypt rise out OF the
heart OF the desert. Snap. go the iron
rates OF the modern vaults. The country
will look like Il rough |
ploughed field as the mounds break
open. All the kings OF the earth; all
the senators; all the great men; all the
beggars; all the ambassadors and
all the ages-barbaric and
civilized: all those who were chopped
by guillotlne, or simmered in the mr.,
Or rotted in dungeons; all the infants
)f a day; all the octogenarianS-all all!
Not one straggler left behind. All. all.
And now the air is darkened with the
fragments OF bodies that are coming to-
yether from the opposite corners OF the
earth. Lost limbs finding their mate
bone to bone, sinew to sinew-until
every Joint is reconstructed, and every |
arm finds its socket, and the amputated |
limb OF the surgeons table shall
be set again at the point from
which It was severed. A surgeon told |
me that after the battle OF Bull Run he
amputated limbs, throwing them out OF |
the window until the pile reached up to
the window sill All those fragments
will have TO take their places. Those |
who were born blind shall have eyes d.
vinely klndled; those who were lame
shall have a limb substituted. In all
the hosts of the resurrected not one eye
missing, not one foot clogged, not one |
arm palsied, not one tongue dumb, not
one ear deaf.