The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-04-22

OulnlpfeSence.
How often we want to be in differerl
places at the same time. How perplexet
we get being compelled to choose be-
tween inyllallons, between weddings
between friendly groups, between three
or four places we would like to be II
the same morning, or the same noon. q,
the same evening While death nay
not open opportunity to be in man
places at the same time, so easv and u
quick and SO instantaneous Will be the
transference that it Will amount tc
about the same thing. Quicker than |
can speak this sentence YOU will he
among your glo1ifed 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 robin hops from one tree branch 10
another tree branch. Distance no hin.
drance. immensely easily composed.
Seniomnipresence! But" SAYS some
one, Il cannot see how God is going to
reconstruct my body in the resurrec-
| ton
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 i'll seven years, so
that if you are twenty-eight years of age
you have now your fourth body. If you
are forty-two years Of age you have had
six bodies. If you are seventy years of
aged you have had ten bodies. Do YOU
not, my unbelieving friend, think if God
could build for you four OF 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 sculptor to make
statue out Of silent clay than it would
be to make statue out of some mate
rial that is alive and moving, and run
ming hither and thither? Will it not be
easier for God to make the resurrection
body out of the silent dust of the crum-
bled body than it was to make your body
over five or six or eight times while it
was in walking, climbing, fall
ing 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 of the resurrection body
i'll us now. Surgeons and psychologists
say there are parts of 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 prelim-
inaries of the resurrection body. God |
does not make anything for nothing
The uses of those now surplus parts of |
the body will be demonstrated when the |
glorified form is constructed.
DEATH IS NO HoBGoBLIN.
Now, if Death clears the way for ali |
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, an0
% a bank of dark waters?
Why have children so frightened at4lis
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 maligning Death, hurting repul-
sive metaphors at Death, slandering
Death. Oh, for the sweet breath of
Easter to come down on the earth
Right after the vernal equinox, and
when the flowers are beginning to
bloom, well may all nations with song
md congratulation and garlands cele-
Drate the resurrection of Christ and our
)wn resurrection when the time is gOnt
oy, and the tru1npets pour through tn
lying clouds the harmonies that shall
wake the dead. By the empty niche OF
Ioseph's mausoleum, by the rocks that
parted to let the Lord come through, let
Dur ideas of changing worlds be forever
evOlutionized.
If what | have been saying is true
low differently we ought to think ii
'ur friends departed. The body they
lave put off is only as when entering Il
lall lighted and resounding with must
al bands, you leave your hat and cloak
n the cloakroom. What would ban
Iueter do if he had to carry those in
of apparel with him into
he brilliant reception? What would
our departed do with their bodies if
hey had to be incumbered with them
n the Kings drawing room? Gone into
he light! Gone into the musicl Gone
nto the festivity! Gone among kings
nd queens and conquerors
Gone to meet Elijah and hear him tell
f the chariot of fire drawn by horses of
re and the sensation of mounting the
apphire sleeps! Gone TO meet with
doses and hear him describe the pile of =,
lack basalt that shook when the law
vas given! Gone to meet Paul and hear
i'm tell how Felix trembled, and how
he ship went to pieces in the breakers,
nd how thick was the darkness in the
iamertine dungeon! Gone to meet ,
ohm Knox and John Wesley and Han
ah More and Frances Havergal. Gone .
D meet the kindred who preceded them. :
Why, | should not wonder if they had a =,
lrger family group there than they
yer had here.
oh. how many of them have got to-
ether again. Your father and mother I
'ent years apart, but they have got to- a
ether and their childran that xvant | ,