Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-04-18

Of zones, yo1 IL clears the path y n semi
omnipresence.
How often we want TO be ia different
places at the same time. How perpiexed
we get being compelled to choose be-
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 may
not open opportunity to be in many
places at the same time, so easy and so
Quick and so instantaneous will be the
transference that it will amount to
lbout the same thing. Quicker than !
can speak this sentence you will be
among your gloriGed 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 a robin hops from one tree branch to
another tree branch. Distance no him
drance. Immensity easily compassed.
Semiomnipresencei But" says some
one, II 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 boiy four or six or ten times. All
scientists tell us that the human body
changes entirely once in seven years, so
that ii you are twenty years of age
you have now your fourth body. If you
are forty-two years of age you have had
six bodies. IL 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 crum-
bled body than it was to make your body
over five or six or eight times while it
was in motion-wallSing 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
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
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 demonstr Ted when the
glorifed form is constructed.
DEATH is no HoBGoBLIN.
Now, if Death clears the way for all
this, why paint him as a hobgoblin?
Why call him the King of Terrors? Why
think of him as a great spook9 Why
sketch him with skeleton and arrows, and
standing on 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, hurling 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 gone
by, and the trumpets pour through the
flying clouds the harmonies that shall
wake the dead. By the empty niche Of
Joseph's mausoleum, by the rocks that
parted to let the Lord come through, let
our ideas Of changing worlds be forever
revolutionized.
If what | have been saying is true
how differently we ought to think uf
our friends departed. The body they
have put off is only as when entering
hall lighted and resounding with musi-
cal bands, you leave your hat and cloak
in the cloakroom. What would ban
queter do if he had to carry those in
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 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 steepsl 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 treinbled, aud how
the ship went to pieces in the breakers,
and how thick was the darkness in the
Mamertine dungeonl Gone to meet
John Knox and John Wesley and Han
nah More and Frances Havergal. Gone
to meet the kindred hopreceded theml
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 againl 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 rooml Gone
where they have more jubilant societyl
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