Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-23

( hat1ues out pleu4ilOlta anu RUSSIAN tsftDDes,
and the climate OF this world IS hin franc
which every man an woman and cnild has
/ felt Death Is to tns good transSersnca TO
superior weather-w .atile never tickle, aud
never too COLI, and nayer too hot, and nevel.
too light. and never too dark. Have you any
doubt that God can make better weather
than is characteristic OF this plsnats Blessed
/ is death! for it prepares the way for change
of zone, yea, it clears ths path to a semioni-
nipresence.
How often We want TO be in different places
at the same timsl How parplexsd wa get
being compelled to cao1ss betwasn invita-
tions, between weddings, between friendly
groups, between three or four places wa
would like to be in the sane morning or tina
sams noon or the same evening. While death
may not open opportunity to bs in many
places at the same time, 50 easy aud so uz.ick
AMI SO instantaneous will be the transference
that it will amount TO about the same 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 temple ana now
from world to world as soon as a robin hops
from one tree branch to another tree branch.
Distance no hindranca. Immensity easily
comprised. Semiomnipressncei
But" says some one, Il cannot see how
God is going to reconstruct my body in the
resurrection Oh, that will be very easy as
comp4rei with what He has already don,
with your body foar or six or ten times All
scientists tell us that the human body
changes entirely once in seven years, SO that
if you are twentyeight years of age You
have now your fourth body. II YOU are
for6y-two years of age you have had six
bodies. 1t you are seventy years of age you
have had ten bodies. Do you not, my un-
believing friend, think it Tod could build
for you four or five or ten bodies He could
really build for You one more to he called
the resurrection body Aye! to make that
resurrection boly will not require half as
much ingenuity aal power as those other
bodies you have had. Is it not easier for a
sculptor to make a statue ont of silent clay
than it would be TO make statue out OF
some material that is alive AMI moving, and
running hither AMI 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
bodies bestowed ten times more omnipotencs
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 cannot
understand. They are searching what these
parts are made for, but have not found out.
l can tell them. They are the preliminarles
of the resurrection body. God does not make
anything for nothing. The uses of those now
surplus parts o. the body will be demon
strated when the glorified form is construc.
ted
Now, if Death Gears the way for all this,
why paint him as a hobgobln? Why call
him the king of terrors? Way think OF him
as a great spo0k? Why sketch him with
skeleton aud arrows, and standing on bank
of dark watsrsl Why have children so
frightened at his name that they dare not
go to be alone, and old men have their
teeth chatter lest soma s1ortness OF breath
hand them over to the monster? All the ages
have been busy in maliguing Death, hurliug
repulsive metaphors at Death, slanderiGg
Death. On, for the sweet brelta OF Elster
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 ami with congratulatioa and gar
lands celebrate the resurrection of Christ,
and our own resurrection waen the time is
gone by, AMI the trumpets pour through the
flying cI1u is the harmolas that sail wake
the d sad.
By the empty niche of Josapa's maus3-
leum, by the rocks that parted to let the
Lord come through, let our ideas of chang
ing worlds be forever revolutionizel. Ii
ferently we ought to think of our friends
departed. The body they have put Off is
only as, when entering a hall lighted and
resounding with musical bands you leave
your hat ana cloak in the cloakroom. What
would a banqueter do if he hal to carry
those membranes of apparel with him ill.,
to the brilliant reception? What would your
departed do with their boiies il they bad TO
be encountered with them in the kings
61.qy win "A fba iirnt
into the musci Gone into the festivity
Gone among kings and queens ard con-
querorsl Gone TO meet Elijah and hear him
tell of the chariot of rire drawn by horses of
fire and the sensation OF mounting the sap
phire steepS Gone to meet with Moses and
hear him describe the pile of black basalt
that shook when the law was giveni Gone
to meet Paul and hear him tell how Felix
trembled, and how the ship went to pieces
in the breakers, and how thick was the
darkness in the Mamertine dungeon Gone
to meet John Knox ana John Wesley and
Hannah More and Francis Havergal Gone
to meet the kindred wno preceded them
Why | should not w0aier il they hal n
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, aud their children that went
years ago got together again. Gone
where they have more ROOM Gone
where they have more jubilant So
ciety Gone where they have mighter
capacity to love you than when they were
here! Gone ou5 OF hindranca5 into I'M
hounfed 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 Harl! the outside door OF heaven
swings open. Hark! there ara feet on the
golden stairs. Perha they are coming
was told at Johnstown after tae foo
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 dephrto ones were not present to see
the catastrophe. As the people were float
lug down on the housstops they said; ''Oa,
how glad 1 am that father and mother are
not here OF dow glad am that the chill
dren are not alive to sea this horForr And
ought not We VINO are down here amid the
upturnngs OF this life be @iad that none of
the troubles which submerye lis can ever
alright our friends assembled?
Before this | warrant orr depsrte1 ones
have been introduced to all the celebrities o.
heaven. Some one has said to them Let
me introduce you to Joshua. the man who
by prayer stopped two worlds for several
hours. Let me make you acquainted VITA
this group of three heroes-Johu Huss,
Philip Melauethon and Martin Luther.
Ahal here is Fenelon! Here is Archbishop
Leightonl Here ara Lstimer and Ridley
Here is Matthew Simpson! Here is poets
row--JameS Montgomery AMI Anna Bar
BAUD and Horatius Bonar and Ph95e
Palmer aud Lowell Mason"
Were your departed ones fond of music
What oratoris led on by Han1el and Hay
den. Were they fond OF pictures? What
Raphaels pointing out skies with all color'
wrought cut into chariot wheels, wings Of
seraphim and coronations. Were they fond
Of poetry? What eternal rhythms led on by
John Milton. Shall we pity our glorified
kindred? No, they had better pity us. We,
the shipwrecSed and on a raft in the hurri-
cane, looking up at them sailing on over
calm sees, under skies that never trowned
with tempests we hoppled with chains; they
lifted by wings. surely the bitterness OF
death is past"
Further. if what have been saying is
trua, we shoad trust the lord and be
thrilled wiSa the fact tdat our own day of
escape cometh. If our lives were going to
end when our hearts ceased TO pulsate an
our lungs to breathe would want to take
ten million ye1rs of life here for the first
lnstatlment. Bat. my Christian friends. we
cannot afford always to stay down in the
cellar of our Fathers house. We cannot
always be postponing the best things We
cannot always be tuning our yiOllus Tor the
celestial orchestra. We must get our wings
out We must mount. We cannot afford
always to stand out here in the vestibule Of
the house OF many mansions, while the
windows are Illuminated with the leyea
angelic, and we can hear the laugh
ter OF those forever free, and the
ground quakes with the bounding
feet of those who have entered upon eternal
play. Ushers Of he2ven Open the gates
Swing them clear back on their pearly
hinges! Let the celestial music rain on Us