Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-04-22

hindranceS? We cannot 90 far up g. lar
down. If we go far up we get dizzy, and ii
we 60 far down we get suffocate1. IL men
would 60 high up they ascend the Matterhorn
or Mount Blanc or Himalaya, but what dis
asters have been reported as they came
tumbling down. Or il they went down too
far bark to the explosion of the firedamps,
and see the dist cured bodies OF the poor
miners at the bottom Of the coal shaft.
Then there ara the elm ltolo yical hin
frances. We rua against unorJpitious
weather of all sorts. Winter bizzlrI AMI
summer scorch, and each season seems to
hatch broo OF Its own disorders. The
summer spreads its wings AMI matches out
Fever and sulstrokes AMI spring AMI
autumn spread their wings an1 hatch out
nalarias, AMI winter spreads its wings ami
matches out pneumonia and Russian grippes
md the climate OF this world is a hindrancs
which every man and woman and child has
elt. Death is to the cool transference to
superior weather-weathe never fcSle. ana
never too cold, and never too hot, and never
200 light and never too dark. Have you any
loubt that God can make better weather
han is characteristic Of this planet? Blessed
sdeathi for it prepares thu way for change
sfzone, yea, it clears the path to a semiom-
1ipresence.
How often we want TO be in different places
1t the same tims How perplexed we get
being compelled to chooss between invitl-
ions between weddings, betwsen friendly
groups, between three or four places wa
| would like to be in the SANE morning or tho
sams noon or the sane evening. While death
nay not open opportunity TO bo in many
places at the same time, so easy and 50 quick
AMI so instantaneous will be the trdnsferencl
that it will amount to about the sa ne thing
Quicker than | can speak this sentence you
will be among your glorious kindred, anon,
the martyrs among the apostles, in the gate
on the battlemsnts, at the UsmDle, AMI nov
from world to world as s)o1 as a robin hops
from one tree branch to another tree branch.
Distances no hindrance. Immensely easily
comprised. SemiomnipreSsncel
But says some one, 81 cannot see how
God is going to reconstruct my body in the
resurrection" Oh that will be very easy as
compared with what he has already done
with your body four or six or ten times. All
scientists tell us that the human body
changes entirely once in seven years, 50 that
II you are twenty-eight years OF age you
have now your fourth body. II you are
forty-two years of age you have had six
bodies. Ii you are seventy years Of age you
have had ten bodies. Do you not, my IN
believing friend think il God could BULL
for YCu four or five or ten bodies He could
really bald for YOU one more TO lie calle1
the resurrection body. Aye to make that
resurrection body will not require half as
much ingenuity an1 power as those other
bodies You have had. Is it not easier for
sculptor to make statue out of silent clay
than it would be to make a statue out OF
some material that is alive and moving, and
running hither and thither;
viii it not be easier for God TO make the
resurrection body out Of the silent dust OF
the crumbled body than it was TO make your
body over five or six or eight times while it
was in motion, walking, climbing falling or
rising? God has already on your four or five
So1iss bestowed ten times more omnipotence
than He will put the resurrection body.
Yea, we have the foundation for the
resurrection body in us now. Surgeons aud
Psychologists say there are parts of the
human body the uses OF which they cannot
understand. They are searching what these
parts are made for, but have not found out.
/ can tell them They are the preiminar,es
of the resurrection body. God does not make
anything for nothing. The uses of those now
surplus parts OF the body will be demon
strated when the glorifed form is conssruc'
ted.
Now, if Death Gears the way for all this,
why paint him as a hobgobling Why call
him the king of terrUrs? Why think o. him
as a great spook? Why sketch him with
skeleton and arrows ani standing on bank
of dark waters! Why have children 50
frightened at his name that they dare not
90 70 bel alone, and old men have their
teeth chatter lest some shortaess Of breath
hand them over to the monster? All the ages
have been busy in maigning Death. hurting
repulsive metaphors at Death, slandering
Death Oh, for the sweet breath OF Elster
to come down on the earth. Right after
the vernal equinox. aud when the howerS
are beginning u bloom, we'll may all nations
with song and with c0nyratuatlon and gar
lands celebrate the resurrection OK Christ
and our own resurrection when the time is
gone by, AMI the trumpets pour through the
nying clou1s tue uarmOnies JnaJ shall wake
the d sad.
By the empty niche of Jossph's maus)-
leum, by the rocks that parted to let the
Lord come through, let our ideas Of chang-
ing worlds be forever revolutiOniZ91. Ii
what / have been saying is true, how diff
ferently we ought TO think Of our friends
departed. The body they have put off is
only a, when entering a hall lighted and
'resounding with musical bands you leave
your hat and cloak in the cloakroom. What
would a banqueter do If he hal to carry
those membranes of apparel with him iu-
to the brilliant reception, What would your
departed do with their bodies it they bad to
bs encountered with them in the kings
drawing room? Gone into the light Gone
into the music Gone into the festivity
Gone among kings and queens ard con
auerors. Gone TO meet Elijah and hear him
tell of the chariot of tire drawn by horses OF
fire and the sensation of mounting the sap.
phire sleeps, Gone to meet with Moses and
hear him describe the pile OF black basalt
that shook when the law was given! Gone
to meet Paul and bear him tell how Felix
trembled, and how the ship went TO pieces
in the breakers. and how thick was the
darkness in the Mlmertine dungeOnl Gone
10 meet John Knox aud John Wesley and
Hannah More and Francis Havergal. Gone
to meet the kindred who preceded them
Why should not wonder if they had a
larger family group there than they ever
had here. Oh how many Of them have got
together again! Your father and mother
went years apart but they have got to
gether. and their children that went
years ago got together again. Gone
where they have more jubilant So
cety Gone where they have mightier
capacity 10 love you than when they were
here Gone ont OF hindrances into I'M
bounded liberty Gone out of January into
Junel Gone where they talk about you as
we always talk about absent friends and
say: II wonder when they will come up hero
10 Join us. Hark tne OUTSIDE uOOr OF heaven
swings open. Harkl there are feet on the
golden stairs Perha1s they are coming"
/ was told at Johnstown after the flood
that many people who had been for months
and years bereft for the first time got COM
fort when the awful food came to think that
their departed ones were not present 20 see
the catastrophe As the people were toat-
ing Down on the housetOps they said; "Oh,
how glad am that father aud mother are
not here" or How glad am that the chill
dren are not alive TO see this horrorW Aud
ought not we who are down here amid the
upturnings of this life be glad that none OF
the troubles which suomerge us can ever
alright our friends assembled?
Before this | warrant our departed ones
have been introduced to all the celebrities o.
heaven. Some one has said to them; Let
me INTRODUCES you to joshua the man who
by prayer stopped two worlds for several
hours Let me make you acquainted with
this group of three heroes-John Huss,
Philip Melancthon and Martin Luther.
Aha here is Fenelonl Here is Archbishop
Leightonl Here are Latimer and Ridley
Here is Matthew Simpson Here IS poets
row--James Montgomery and Anna bar
bauld and Horatius Bonar and Pheoe
Palmer and Lowell Mason"
Were your departed ones roma OF music:
Whet oratoris led on by Handel and hay
den. Were they fond OF picturesy What
Raphaels pointing out skies with all colors
wrought out into chariot wheels, wings OF
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