The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-05-27


wings and hatch out malarias, and win
ter spreads out It's wings and matches
ont pneumonia and Russian grips, and
the climate OF this world Is hindrancC
which every man and woman and child
has felt Death Is 10 the good trans
ference TO superior weather; weather
never tickle and never too cold and
never too hot and never too light and
never too dark Have you any doubt
that God can make better weather
than is characteristic of this
planet? Blessed DEATH for IL pre-
pares the way for change OF
zones. Yea, il clears the path TO u semi.
omnipreScncc How often we want 10
be in different places at the same time.
How perpleXcd we get being compelled
To choose invitations, between we'd
dings, between friendly groups, between
three of four places we would like To be
in the same morning or the same noon
or the same evening. While death may
not open opportunity To be in many
places ut the same time, so easy and
so quick and SO instantaneous will be
the transference that it win amount to
hbOuN NhO Htiiit SulChtl bbah a
can speak this sentence you will be
among your glorified kindred, among the
martyrs, among the Apostles, in the gate,
on the battlements, at the temple, and
now from world to world, as soon as n
robin hops from one tree branch to
another tree branch. Distance no hind
rance. immensely easily compasscd
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. But" says some
one, ~ can not see how God is going TO
reconstruct my body in the resurrcc-
! ton" Oh, that will be very easy rs
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, so that IL you arc 9S years
of age you have now your fourth body.
| If you are ~ years Of age you have had
six bodies. If You are 20 years of age
you have had ten bodies. DO you not,
my unbclieving friend, think IL God
could build for You four or five or ten
bodies He could really build for You one
more to be called the resurrection body?
Aye! to make that resurrection body
will not require half rs much ingenuity
and power rs those other bodies you
have had. Is it not easier for u sculp-
tor to make statue out of silent clay
than il would be to make n statue ont
of some material that is alive and NOV
ing and running hithcr and thithcr?
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
or eight times while it was
in motion, walking, climbing,
falling or rising? God has already
on your four or five bodies bestowed
ten times more omnipotence than he
will put upon the resurrection body.
Yea, we have the foundation for the
resurrection body in us now. Surgeons
and psychologists say there are parts of
the human body the uses of which they
can not understand. They are search
ing what these parts were made for,
but have not found out. | can tell
them. They are the prcllminarics of
the resurrection body. God does not
make any thing for nothing, The uses
of those now surplus parts of the body
will be demonstrated when the glorficd
form is constructed.
Now, If death clears the way for all
this, why paint him rs n hobgoblin?
Why call him the King of Tcrrors?
Why think of him as n great spook?
Why sketch him with skeleton and ar
rows, and standing on bank of dark
waters? Why have children so fright
cned at his name that they dare not go
to bed alone, and old men have their
teeth chatter lest some shortness of
breath hand them over to the monster?
All the ages have been busy in malign-
ing death, hurting rcpulSivc metaphors
at death, slandering death. Oh, for the
sweet breath of Easter To come down
on the earth, Right after the vcrnal
equinox, and when the flowers are be-
ginning to bloom. we'll may all
nations with song and congratulation
and garlands celebrate the resur-
ton of Christ and our own resurrection
when the time has gone by, and the !
trumpets pour through the clouds the |
harmonics that shall wake the dead. |
BY the empty niche of Joscph's mauso-
leum, by the rocks that parted to let |
the Lord come through, let our ideas |
for changing worlds be forever revolu-
tionized. II what | have been saying Is |
true, how differently we ought IN think |
of our friends departed The body they |
have put off is only as when entering
hall lighted and resounding with mu-
steal bands. You leave your hat and |
cloak in the cloak-roOm. What would |
a banqueter do il he had To carry these
membranes of apparel with him
into the brilliant reception? What
would Your departed do with your |