Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-04-18
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| tween invitations, between weddings.
between friendly groups, between three
or four places we would like to be in
the same morning, or the same noon. or
the same evening. While death NAV
| rot open opportunity to be in many
places at the came time, SO easy and so
a.aIcl1 and SO instantaneous will be the
.fssnafereacc that it will amount to
about tho Same thing. Quicker than [
cs.l slsc1.a this sentence you will be
among, yor- glorified kindred, among
the martyrs, among the apostles, in the
| sac. =. -.e battlementS, at the temple
and lses .c-l world to world as soon
rs (. Iu.eil I-ops from one tree branch to
another tz.eo branch. Distance no him
| dl,a-2ce. Immensely easily comprised.
Sc1nio1nnipresence! 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 in seven years, so
that if you are twenty-eight years of age
you have now your fourth body IF you
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 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 sculptor to make
a 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 cruin-
bled body than it was to make your body
over five or six or eight times while it
was in motion-Wallzing 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.
l 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 HOBGOBII
Now, if Death clears the way for ali
inf l,i-
Why call him the King of Ierrors? Why
think Of him as d great spook? Why
sketch him with skeleton and arrows, and
standing on o bank of dark waters?
Why have 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 monster? All the ages have been
busy in maligning Death, hurting repul-
siye 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
and congratulation and garlands cele-
brate the resurrection of Christ and our
own resurrection when the time is gon.
by, AID the trumpets pour through IL"
flying clouds the harmonies that shall
wake the dead. BY the empty niche O;
Joseph's ma1soleum, by the rocks that
parted TO let the Lord come through, let
our ideas Of changing worlds be forever
revolutionized.
If what I have been saying is true
how differently we ought to think ii
our friends departed. The body they
have put off is only as when entering Il
hall lighted and resounding with must
cal bands, you leave your hat and cloak
in the cloakroom. What would ban
queter do if he had to carry those in
cuInhrances of apparel with him into
the brilliant reception? What would
your departed do with their bodies if
they had to be incumbered 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 conquerors!
Gone to meet Elijah and hear him tell
of the chariot of fire drawn by horses of
fire and the sensation 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 given! 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 and John Wesley and Han
nah More and Frances Hayergal 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.
Oh. how many of them have got to-
gether again! Your father and mother
went years apart, but they have got to-
gether, and their children that went