The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-04-20

Quicker than can speak this sentence
you will be among your gloritied KIN
dred, among the martyrs, among the apos-
ties, in the gate, on the battlements, at
the temple, and now from world to
world as soon as robin hops from one
tree branch to another tree branch.
Distance no hindrance. Immensely
easily compassed. Semi-omnipresence!
"But," says some one, 81 cannot see
how God is going TO reconstruct my
body in the Resurrection" 0, that viii
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 entire
ly once in seven years, so that II you
are twenty-eight years of age you have
now your fourth body. If you are for
ty-two years of age you have had SIX
bodies. If you are seventy years OF age
you have had ten bodies. Do you not,
my unbelieving friend, think If God
could bSild for you four or five or ten
bodies he could really build for you one
body. Aye! to make that resurrec-
tion body will not require half
as much ingenuity and power as those
other bodies you have had lit not easier
for sculptor to make statue out OF
silent clay than il would be to make
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 1T
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 tive
bodies bestowed ten timesmore omnip-
otence than He will put upon the res
direction 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 cannot under
stand. They are searching what these
parts were made for, but have not found
out. | can tell them. They are the
preliminaries of the resurrection body.
God does not make anything for moth
ing. The uses of those now surplus parts
of the body will be demonstrated
when the glorifed form is constructed.
Now, If death clears the way for all
this, why paint him as hobgoblin?
Why call him the king of terrors? Why
think of him as great spook? Why
sketch him with skeleton and arrows,
and standing on bank Of dark waters?
Why are children so frightened 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 master? All the
, ages have been busy in maligning death,
hurting repulsive metaphors at death,
slandering death. o, for the sweet
breath of Easter to come down on the
earth. Right after the yernal equinox,
and when the flowers are beginning to
bloom, well may all nations with song,
and congratulation, and garlands cele-
, brate the resurrection OF Christ and our
, own resurrection when the time Is gone
} by. and the trumpets pour through the
: flying clouds the harmonies that shall
I wake the dead BY the empty niche of yo-
seph's mausoleum, by therocks that part
/ cd to let the Lord come through. let our
; ideas of changing worlds be forever rev
5 olutionized. II what have been saying
, is true, how differently we ought to
think of our friends departed. The body
| they have put off is only as when enter
ing a hall lighted and resounding with
! musical bands, you leave your hat and
cloak in the cloak room. What would a
: banqueter do II he had TO carry those
! encumbrances of apparel with him into
the brilliant reception? What would
your departed do with their bodies II
| they had 10 be N numbered with them
: ia the Kings sdrawing-room? Gone into
the light! Gone into the snusic! Gone
t into the festivityi Gone among kings
, and queens and conquirorsl Gone
to meet Elijah and hear him
, tell of the chariot of fire drawn
/ by horses of fire and the sensa-
r tion of mounting the sapphire sleeps!
, Gone to meet with Moses and hear him
describe the pile of black basalt that
) shook when the law was givenl Gone
= TO meet Paul and hear him tell how
: Felix trembled, and how the ship went
|
? was the darkness in the Mamertine dun
I geon! Gone to meet John Knox and
! John Wesley and Hannah More and
; Frances Havergal. Gone 10 meet the
} kindred who preceded them! Why,
: should not wonder II they had u larger
! family group there than they erer had
here. o, how many Of them have got
together again! Your father and
D mother went years apart, but they haze
, got together, and their children that
: went years ago got together again.
Gone where they have more rooml
| Gone where they have more jubiiant
( society! Gone where they have a
2 mightier capacity TO love you than
: when you were here! Gone out of him
ORANGES into unbounded liberty! Gone
out Of January into Juhel Gone where
| they talk about you as we always talk
; about absent friends, and say: ~ won
r der when they will come up here TO join
l us. Hark! the outside door of heaven
S swings open. Harkl there are feet on
5 the golden stairs. Perhaps they are
l comingw
/ was told, at Johnstown, after the
: food, that many people who had been
for months and years bereft, for the
l first time got comfort when the awful
flood came to think that their departed
ones were not present to see the catas-
, trophe. As the people were floating
=; down on the housetops, they said; 20,