Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-19
CONSOLE You STILL

know there are great many people
who do not accept this because they
cannot understand il; but, my friends,
there are two stout passages-l couIu
bring a hundred, but two swarthy pas
sages are enOugh-and one David VIII
strike down the largest Goliath. mar
vel not at this, for the hour is coming
when ali who are in their graves snail
come forth" The other swarthy pas
sage is this: "The Lord shall descend
from heaven with a shout, and the
voice OF the archangel, and the trump
OF God, aud the dead in Christ shall rise
first" Oh, there will be such q thing
as a resurrection.
You ask me a great many questions
cannot answer about this resurrectlon'
You say, for instance: IF a mans body
IS constantly changing, and every
seventh year he has an entirely new
body, and be lives on TO seventy years
OF age, aud so has had ten different
bodies, and at the hour OF his death
there is not particle OF flesh on him
that was there In the days OF his child
hood-in the resurrection, which OF the
bodies will come up, or will they al!
rise?" You say: suppose a man dies ana
his body Is scattered in the dust, and
out OF that dust vegetables grow, and
men eat the vegetables, and cannibals
slay these men and eat them, and can
nibals fight with cannibals until at last
there shall be q hundred men who'shall
have within them some particles that
started from the dead body first named.
coming up through the vegetable,
through the first man that ate 1t, and
through the cannibals who afterward
ate him, and there be more than hun
dred men who have rights ia the partl-
cles Of that body-in the resurrection
how can they be assorted when these
particles belong to them all? You say:
There IS a missionary buried In Green
wood, aud when be was in China he
HAD HIS ARM AMPUTATED
in the resurrection, will that frag-
ment Of the body fly sixteen thousand
miles to join the rest Of the body? You
say: will it not be q very difficult
thing for a spirit coming back In that
day to find the myriad particles OF its
own body, when they may have been
scattered by the winds or overlaid by
whole generations Of the dead-looking
for the myriad particles Of its own body,
while there are a thousand million 9TH
er spirits doing the same thing, and all
the assortment TO be made in one day?"
You say: If hundred and htty men
go into a place OF evening entertain
ment, and leave their hats and overcoats
In the nall, when they come back II Is
sg.n -. = 70 p no
right ones, or to get them with
out great deal OF perplexity.
And yet you tell me that myr-
lads Of SPIRITS in the last day will
come and find myriadS Of bodies Have
you any more questions TO ask? any
more difficulties TO suggest? any more
mysteries? Bring them on! Against
whole regiment OF scepticism. l will
match these two champions: "Marvel
not az this, for the hour is coming when
all who are In their graves shall come
forth" "The Lord shall descend from
heaven with a shout, and theNoice OF
the archangel, and the trump Of God,
and the dead 10 Christ shall rise first"
You see l stick to these two passages.
Who art thou, oh, fool. that thou re-
pliest against God? Hath he promised,
and shall be not do It? Hath he COM
manded, and shall he not bring it to
pass? Have yon not confidence In his
omnipotence? III he could. Ia the first
place, build my body, after it is torn
down, can he not build it again?
oh" you say; II would believe that
II you would explain it. | am not dis
posed to be sceptical, but explain how
it can be done"
YOU CANNOT EXPLAIN.
You believe your mind acts on your
body. Explain the process. This seed
planted comes up blue flower. An
other seed planted comes up yellow
flower.
Before the resurrection takes place
everything will be silent. The mauso-
leums and the labyrinths silent. The
graveyardS silent, the cemetery silent,
save from the clashing Of hoois and the
grinding Of wheels as the last funeral
procession comes In. No breath OF air
disturbing the dust where PersepoIis
stood, aud Thebes and Babylon. No
wipking OF the eyelds long closed in
darkness. No stirring Of the feet that
once bounded the hillside. No opening
OF the hand that once plucked the flow
er out Of the edge of the wild wood. No
clutching OF swords by the men who
went down when Persia battled and
Rome fell. Silence from ocean beach to
mountain cliff, and from river TO river.
The sea singing the same old tune.
The lakes hushed TO sleep in the bosom
or the same great hills. No hand
disturbing the gate Of the long-barred
sepulchre. All the nations OF the dead
motionleSs In their winding sheets. Up
the side OF the hills, down through the
trough OF the valleys, far out In the cav
erus, across the fields, deep down into
the coral palaces Of the ocean depths
where leviathan sports with his fellows
everywhere, layer above layer, height
above height, depth below depth-oeadl
dead dead! But in the twinkling Of an
eye, as quick as that, as the archangePs
trumpet comes pealing, rolling rever-
berating, crashing across continents
and seas, the earth will give one fearful
snudder and the door OF the family
vault, without being unlocked, will
burst open; and al the graves Of the
dead will begin TO thrOb and heave like
the waves Of the sea- and
THE MAUSOLEUM OF PRINCES
will fall into the dust; and OStend and
SebaStopol, aud Austerlitz and GettyS-
burg, stalk forth in the lurid air; and
and :h9 shipwrecked rise from the deep,
their Vet locks looming above the bill
low; and all the land and all the sea be-
The irTong sCcy,
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