Connecticut western news., 1893-04-06

sand questions about everyday life you cannot answer.
 find my strength in this passage, "An who are in their graves shall come forth" do not pretend to make the ex- Suppose returned missionary dies in Brooklyn. When he was in China, his foot was amputated. He lived years after in England, and there he had an arm amputated. He is buried today in Greenwood. In the resurrection will the foot come from China, will the arm come from England, and will the different parts of the body be reconstructed in the resurrection? How is that possible2"
 You say that "the human body changes every seven years, and by 70 years of age aman has had 10 bodies. In the resurrec- tion which will come up?" You say, "A man will die and his body crumble into dust and that dust be taken up into the life of the vegetable. An animal may eat the vegetable; men eat the animal. In the resurrection that body, distributed in so many directions, how shall it be gathered up~ Have you any more ques- tions of this style to ask? Come on and ask them. I do not pretend to answer them. I fall back upon the announce ment of Gods word, "All who are in their graves shall come forth"
 WHEN THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND.
 You have noticed, I suppose, in read ing the story of the resurrection that almost every account of the Bible gives the idea that the characteristic of that day will be great sound. do not know that it will be very loud, but know it will be very penetrating. In the mausoleum, where silence has reigned a thousand years, that voice must pene- trate. In the coral cave of the deep that voice must penetrate.
 Millions of spirits will come through the gates of eternity, and they will come to the tombs of the earth, and they will cry: "Give us back our bodies. We gave them to you in corruption; surrender them now in interruption" Hundreds of spirits lowering about the crags of Gettysburg, for there the bodies are buried. A hundred thousand spirits com ing to Greenwood, for there the bodies are buried, waiting for the reunion of body and soul
 All along the sea route from New York to Liverpool at every few miles where a steamer went down departed spirits coming back lowering over the wave. There is where the City of Bos- ton perished. Found at last. There is where the President perished. Steamer found at last. There is where the Cen tral America went down. Spirits hover ing-hundreds of spirits lowering, wait ing for the reunion of body and soul Out on the prairie spirit alights. There is where 8 traveller died in the snow. Crashl goes Westminster Abbey, and the poets and orators come forth; won derful mingling of good and bad. Crash! go the pyramids of Egypt, and the mon archs come forth.
 Who can sketch the scene? I suppose that one moment before that general ris- ing there will be an entire silence save as you hear the grinding of wheel or a chatter of the hoefs of 8 procession pass ing into the cemetery. Silence in all the caves of the earth. Silence on the side of the mountain. Silence down in the valleys and far out into the sea. Silence.
 But in moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as the archangers trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing across noun tain and ocean, the earth will give one terrific shudder, and the graves of the dead will heave like the waves of the sea, and Ostend and Sehastopol and Cha Ions will stalk forth in the lurid air, and the drowned will come up and wiring fla and all the land and all the sea become one moving mass of ife-all faces, all ages, all conditions, gazing in one direo- ion and upon one throne-the throne of resurrection. -"All who are in their graves shall come forth"
 THE GLORIOUS BODY.
 "But," you say, If this doctrine of the resurrection is true as prefgured by this Easter morning, Christ, the first fruits of them that slept Christ rising a promise and propecy of the rising of all his people, can you tell us something about the resurrected body" l can. There are mysteries about that, but l shall tell you three or four things in re- gard to the resurrected body that are be- yond guessing and beyond mistake.
 In the first place, remark, in regard to your resurrected body, it will be a glorious body. The body we have now is mere skeleton of what 1t would have been if sin had not marred and defaced it. Take the most exquisite statue that was ever made by an artist and chip ii here and chip it there with chisel and batter and bruise it here and there and then stand it out in the storms of hun dred years, and the beauty would be gone.
 Well, the human body has beer clipped and battered and bruised and damaged with the storms of thousands of years-the physical dsfects of other generations coming down from genera tion to generation, we inheriting the in- felicities of past generations, but in the morning of the resurrection the body will be adorned and beautifed according to the original model. And there is no such difference between 8 gymnast and an emaciated wretch in lazaretto as there will be a difference between our bodies as they are now and our resur- rected forms.
 There you will see the perfect eye after the waters of death have washed out the stains of tears and study. There you will see the perfect hand after the knots of toll have been united from the knuckles. There you will see the form erect and elastic after the burdens have gone off the shoulder-the very life of God in the body.
 In this world the most impressive thing, the most expressive thing, is the human face, but that face is yelled with the griefs of thousand years, but in the resurrection morn that veil will be taken away from the face, and the noon day sun is dull and dim and stupid com pared with the outfaming glories of the countenances of the saved When those faces of the righteous, those resurrected faces, turn toward the gate or look up toward the throne, it will be like the dawning of 6 new morning on the bosom of everlasting day! Oh, glorious resur- rected body!