Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-21

powers combined. You see God ha
only just begun to build you. Tn,
palace of your nature has only TIL,
foundation laid, and part of the lower
story, and only part of one window, but
the great architect has made his draft
! OF what you will be when the Alham
| bra is completed. John was right wher
he said; ut doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" Blessed be Death! for il
removes all the hindrances. And whc
has not all his life run against hin,
ORANGES? We cannot go far up or fai
down. If we go far up we get dizzy
and if we go far down, we get suffo,
Gated. If men would go high up they
ascend the Matterhorn or Mont Blame
or Himalaya, but what disasters have
been reported as they came tumbling
down. Or, if they went down too far,
bark to the explosion of the fire damps,
and see the disfgured bodies of the
poor miners AT the bottom of the coal
shaft.
All scientists tell us that the human
body changes entirely once in seven
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you have now your fourth body. II
you are AZ years of age you have had
six bodies. II you are 70 years of ag
You have had ten bodies. Doyou not, my
unbelieving friend, think if 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 as much ingenuity
and power as those other bodies you
have had. Is it not easier for a sculp-
tor to make a statue out of silent clay
of some matcria, that is alive and NOV
ing and running hither and thithcr?
VIII it not be easier for God to make
the resurrection body out of the silent
dust of the crumGled 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 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 that there are parts o. the human
body the uses of which they cannot
understand. They are searching what
these parts were made for, but have not
found out. | can tell them. They are
the prcliminarirs of the resurrection
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nothing. The uses of those now sur.
plus parts of the bodies will be dem
onatratcd when the giorified form is
What have been saying is true, how
we ought to think of our
friends departed. The body they have
put off is only as when entering hall
lighted and resounding with musical
bands, you leave your hat and cloak in
the cloall-room. What would ban
queter do if he had to carry those en-
of apparel with him into the
brilliant reception What would Your
departed do with their bodies if they had
to be encumbercd with them in the
Kings drawing room? Gone into the
light! Gone into the music. Gone into
the festivity! Gone among kings and
queens and conquercrs. Gone to meet
Elijah and hear him tell of the chariot
Of tire drawn by horses of fire and the
of mounting the sapphire
sleeps. Gone TO meet with Moses and
hear him describe the pile of black ba-
salt that shook when the law was
given Gone to meet Paul and heal
him tell how Felix trembled and how
the ship went to pieces in the breakers
and how thick was the darkness in tho
dungeon! Gone to meet
John Knox and John Wesley and
Hannah More and Frances Haver.
gal 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. o, how many of them have got
together again! Your father and mother
went years apart, but they got to-
rether, and their children that went
years ago got together again. Gone
where they have more room!
zone where they nave more Jub-
liant society! Gone where they
have mightier capacity to love
YOU than when they were here! Gone
out of hiudrances into unbounded
liberty! Gone out of January into
June! Gone where they talk about
you, as we always talk about absent
friends, and say: II wonder when
they will come up here to join us.
Hank! the outside door of heaven
swings open. Hank! there are feet on
The golden stairs. Perhaps they are
soming!'
Oh weep 40 more your comforts slain,
The Lore is risen he lives again
And now may the God of peace,
who brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus that great Sheep through
he blood of the everlasting covenant
make you perfect in every good word
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