Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-04-23


changes entirely once in seven years, SO
that if you IRE twenty-eight years of age
you have now your fourth body. you
are forty-two years of age you have had
six bodies. II you are seventy years Of
aged you have had ten bodies. Do you
not, my unbclieving friend, think if Gr,l
could build for you four or five or ten
bodies he could really build foi you oue
more to he called the resurrection bodyi
Aye! to make that resurrection body
will not require half as much ingenuity
and power as those other bottles you
have had.
Is it not easier for sculptor to make
statue oct of silent cl@y thnn it would
be to make statue out OF some lnato-
rial that is alive and moving, and run
ming hitler and thither? Win it not lie
easier for God to make the resurrection
body out Of the silent Gust OF the crun-
blcd body than it WAS to make your body
over five or six or eight times while it
was in matchmaking, climbing, fall
ing or rising? God has already on your
four or five bodies bestowed ton times
more omnipotencc than he viii put upon
the. resurrection body. Yea, we have
the foulrdatiQH of tho resurrection body
:inens,nowA Surg cons and phys qgists
Say There are arts of til huntAn bod the
uses of::which they cannot understand.
They are searching what these parts
were made for, but have not found out.
I can tell them. They are the preli1n-
inaries of the resurrection body. God
does not mako anything for nothing.
Tho uses Of those now surplus parts OF
the body will be demonstrated when the
glori1ed form is constructed.
DEATH IS 40 EoBGoBLIN.
Now, if Death clears the way for all
THU shy paint him ns hobgoblin:
Why call him the King of Tcrrors? Why
think of him as u great spook? Why
sketch him with skeleton end arrows, and
standing on d bank Of dark waters?
Why have children SO frightened at his
name that they dare not 60 to bed alone,
and old Isen have tbcir teoth chatter lest
some sbortness of breath hand them over
to tho monster? All tho ages have boon
busy in malisninS Death, hurting repul-
sive metaphors ut Death, slandering
Death. Oh, for the sweet breath of
Easter to come down on the earth.
Right after The vernal equinox, aud
when the flowers are beginning to
bloom, well may all nations with song
and congratulation ana garlands cele-
brato the resurrection Of Christ and our
OWE resurrection: wllca the time is gont
by, and the trrlnPcts pour through III.
flying clouds tie hsrinonieg tlat shall
wake the dead. By the empty niche Of
Joserh's mausoleuln, by the rocks that
parted to let the Lord come through, lot
our IDEAS Of changing worlds lie forever
revolutioIn.ed.
If what 1 have been saying is tue
how differently we ought to think ii
our friends departed. The body they
have put off is only as when entering a
hall lighted and resounding with nusi-
cal bands, you lcavc your hat and cloak
in the cloakroom. What would ban
Quetcr do if lie bad to Gerry those in
cuInbrances Of apparel with linn into
tho brilliant reception? What would
your departed do with their bodies if
they had to 10 incunbered with them
in the Kings drawing room? Gone into
the light Conc into the music! Gone
into tho festivityl Conc among kings
and queens and conquerors!
Core to meet Elijah and hear him tell
of the chariot Of fire drawn by horses of
fire end the sensation Of mounting the
sapphire steepsl Gone to meet with
Moses and hear him describe tho pile of
black basalt that shook when the law
was givcnl Como to meet Pa!1 and hear
lin tell how Felix tremblcd, and how
the ship went to pieces in the breakers,
and how thick was the darkness in the
Mamcrtine dungeonl Como to meet
John Knox and John Wesley and Han
nah More and Frances Havergal. Gone
to meet the kindred who preceded theml
why, l should not wonder if they had
larger family group there than thoy
ever had hero.
Oh. how many of them have got to
gcthcr againl Your father and mother
went years apart, but thoy have got to-
gother, and their children that went
years ago got together again. Gone
where they have moro rooml Gone
where they have moro jubilant socictyl
Gone where they have mightier capacity
to love you than when they were here!
Gone out of hindrances into unbounded
liberty Gone out of January into June.
Gone whcro 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. Harlz! there
are feet Oh the golden stairs. Perhaps
they are conliagl'
TIE End OF ALL TROUBLES.
was tull at Jollnstown after the
food that many people who had been
for months and years bereft, for the
first time got comfort when the awful
food cano, to think that their departed
ones were not present to eco the catt,s-
trophe. AS the people were floating
down on the housetops they said, "Oh,
iu.y glad am that father and mother
arc not here or chow glad I am that
Tho children are not alive to see this
lorror!' And ought not we who arc
down here amid the upturnings of this
life 10 glad that mono of the troubles
which submerge Us cail ever alright our
friends assembled? Before this warrant
our departed ones have been introduced
70 all the celebrities of heaven.
Some one hes said to them: .'Let me
introduce you to Joshua, the nan who
by prayer stopped two worlds for sew
eral hours Let me make you acquainted
with this group Of three herocs-John
uuss, Philip Mclancthon and Martin
Luther. Aha! here is Fenclcn! Hero is
Archbishop Leighton! Here arc Lati-
mcr and Ridley! Here is Matthew 6imp-
sonl Here is poets' row-Jcnes Mont