The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-04

uuo'EcN tIcS pTdHcn. distance no nlnd-
rance. Immensely easily comprised.
Semi-omnipresence. But" says some
one, 81 IAN not 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 youi 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 2S years
of age you have now your fourth body.
If you are AZ years of age you have had
six bodies. If you are 10 years OF age
you have had ten bodies. Do you not,
my unbelicving 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 n statue ont of silent clay
than it would be to make n statue out
of some material that is alive and nov
ing 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 it was
to make your body over five or six or
or eight times while it waa
in motion, walking, climbing,
falling or rising? God has already
on your four or five bodies bestowed
ten times more omnipotcnce 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
can not understand They are search
ing what these parts were made for,
but have not found out. l can tell
them. They are the prellminaries of
the resurrection body. God does not
make any thing for nothing, The uses
of those now surplus parts of the body
will be demonstrated when the glorified
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 ar
rows, and standing on bank of dark
waters? Why have children so fright
ened 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 malign.
ing death, hurting repulsive 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 be-
ginning to bloom, well may all
nations with song and congratulation
and garlands celebrate the resur-
ton of Christ and our own resurrection
when the time has gone by, and the
trumpets pour through the clouds the
harmonies that shall wake the dead.
BY the empty niche of Joseph's mauso.
leum, by the rocks that parted to let
the Lord come through, let our ideas
! for changing worlds be forever revolu-
tionized If 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 entering u
hall lighted and resounding with mu-
steal bands You leave your hat and
cloak in the cloall-room. What would
banquetcr do if he had to carry these
membranes of apparel with him
into the brilliant reception? What
would your departed do with your
bodies If they had to be encountered
with them in the kings drawing-room?
Gone into the light! Gone into the mu-
sic Gone into the festivity! Gone
among kings and queens and conquerorsl
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 steeds! Gone to meet with
Moses and hear him describe the pile
of black basalt that shook when tho
law was given! Gone to meet Paul and
hear him tell how Felix trembled, and
how the ship went to pieces IL the
breakers, and how thick was the
darkness in the Mamertine dun
geon Gone to meet John Knox
and John Wesley and Hannah More
and Frances Iavergal Gone to meet
the kindred who preceded! Why, l
should not wonder if they had a 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, and their children that went
years ago got together again. Gone
where they have more room! Gone
where they have more jubilant society
Gone were they have mightier capacity
to love you than when you were here!
Gone out of hinderance into unbounded
liberty. Gone out of January into June!
Gone where they can talk about you, as
we always talk about absent friends
and say: 81 wonder when they will
come up here to join us. Hark. the out.
side door of Heaven swings open. Hank
there are feet on the golden stairs
Perhaps they are coming"
] was told at Johnstown, after tho
flood, that many people who had been
for months and years bereft, for the
first time got comfort when the awful
flood came, to think that their departed
ones were not present to see the catas-
trophe. IA the people were floating
down on the housc-tops they said;
"Oh. how glad | am that father and
mother are not here" or How glad
am that the children are not alive to
see this HORROR And ought not we
who are down here amid the upturning.
of this life be glad that none of the trou-
l,lns w hick si1 h,nnrfrn Us can eNer NJ