The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-06-20

explain the resurrection. You esplaln one
~ha,r OF the common mysteries otevefy cay
life and | vii! explain ali the mysteries OF
the resurrection. You cannot answer me
very plain questions III regard te ordinary
affairs | am nor ashamed to sly that
cannot explain God, and the judgment, ana
the resurrection | Simply occepl theih ~
facts, tremendous and infinite.
Before the resurrection takes place ev-
crything will b, silent. The mausoleuniS
and the labyrinths silaat. The gravcyards
silent, the cemetery silent, save from the
cl:siiug Of hoofS aud the grinding OF Wheels
as the last funeral procession comes Ill. NO
j.. breath of air disturbing the dust where
PevsepoliS stood, and Thebas, and babylon.
No winiiing If the eyelids long closed IN
darkness. 70 stirring Of the feet that once
hand that once pluckeI The flower out OF
the edge of the wild wood. No cutciins
of swords by the men who went down When
Persia battled and Rome fell. Silence from
! river to river. The sea singing the same
old tune. The lakes hushel to sleep III the
bosom of the same great hills. no hand
disturbing the gate of the. long barred sep
ulchre al the nations of the dead motion
less iii their winding sheets. Up the sac
of the hills down through the trough OF The
valleys, far out in the cayc-ns. across the
! fields. deep down into the coral palaces or
| the ocean depths where lcviathin sports
with his fellows Layer above
|
| depth-dead. dead! dead. But i'll the twink
ling of an eye. as quick as that. as the
| archangcls trumpet comes pcaiing, rolllhg
! rcyerbcrating. crashing across onlihcntS
and seas, the earth will give one fearful
! shudder and the door of the family vault,
without being unlocked. will burst open. and
| all The graves of the dead will begin to throb
! and heave like the waves of the sea; ana
the mausolcum of princes will fall into the
/ dust. and OstenI ana Sebastopol' and Aus
it.rL.i. g tall IN
| urd air, and the shpwrecked rise from me
/ deep, their wet locks looming above the bill
low; and all the land and all the sea become
one moving mass of llte-all generations,
all ages with upturned countcnahceS- Z
! kindled with rapture and others blancncu
/ with despair, but gazing III one dlrectioh'
upon one object, and that the throne OF res
| direction!
On that day you will get back your Chris.
| comes in They will come up with the
same hand. the same foot. and the same
entire body. but with Il perfect hand, ana
a perfect foot, and II perfect body: corrup'
| ton having become interruption mortaiitS
having become immortality; ANA on u, Luz
reunion: OH the embrace alter so long at
| absence Comfort one another with THESE
words.
While present these thoughts this morn
| ing does it not seem that heaven comes
very near to us. as though our friends, whom
|
distance, but close by? You have some
times come down to a river at night iall ant
YOU have been surprised how easily yo'
could hear voices across that river, 1ol
shouted over to the other side of the RIVER
and they shouted back 1t is said that wheI
George Whitfield preached in Third street
Philadelphia. one evening time his Voic
was heard clear across to the New jrrse,
shore. When | was little while cnapiali
in the army remember how at cyen'idc W.
. could easily hear tho voices OF the picket
across the Potomac just when they wcr
) using ordinary tones. And as we com
today and stand by the river OF Jordan ina
, divides us from our friends who are goh
il seems to me we stand on oae bank an
. ! they stand on the other, and 1t IS only
narrow stream, and our voices go and thci
, voices come. Hank! Hush. l hear dlS
; tinctly what they say: These are the
: who came OFT of great tribulation. ana ma
their robes washed and made white IN III
blood of the Lamb" Still the voice come
S across the water. and / hear: We hung'
1 no more. we thirst no more; neither sap
r the sun light on VA. nor any heat Tor IN
il Lamb which ia in the midst of the thror
+ | leads ~ to living fountains Of water, an
!; God wipcth away all tears from our eyes