The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-23

leries upon the combatants in the center, "a
saws Paul, there is a great host oiyour
'riGahs In all the galleries OF the sky looking
own upon our earthly Struggles. 1t Is r
sweet, q consoling. ascrlpturaI idea. with
wing OF angel. e3rtu and heaven ure In con.
5tant communication.
Does not the Bible say, care they not sent
'orth 50 minlsterlng spirits to those who
shat ba heirs OF salvatioH?" And when
.in;stering spirits come down md see us. do
hey not take some message bnck2 1t is i'm
possible to realize, / know, the idea that
here is such rapid and perpetual. intercom-
munication of earth and heaven. but It ia n
glorious reality. You take n railtrain, and
the train Is in full motion, and another train
rom the opposite direction flashes past YOU
20 swiftly that you are startled. Aflthe way
,etween here and heaven is filled with the
up trains and the down ~trafns-spiEits COM
ihg-spirits going-coming-going- looming
going.
That friend OF yours who died.lnst month
do you not suppose he told oil the family
news about you in the gools land to 10
friends who are gone? Do you mot suppose
that when there are hundreds fs oppdrtuni-
lies every day for them in heaven to hear
from you that they ask abouttydu-that they
know your tears, your terspt .tions. your
struggles, your Victories? Aye, they do.
Perhaps during the last warJyou had a boy
In the army, and you got aypass, and you
went through tie htes, anu IyOu round hin.
and the regiment coming from your neigbor-
hood and you knew most OF the boys there,
One day you started for ZONE. You said.
"Well, nov, have you any letters to snqI
ANY messages TO send2" And they nllei
yot. pockets with Ierrers. and you started for
home. Arriving home fine %neighhor4 came
in, and one said, '!Didgyou see nv John?'
and others, 'Didi YOU see Gsoree?' "Do
you know anything about my Frank2' And
| than vou brOuOhti aNt thu latta-u anJ -.
them the. messagesiof which you had been
the,bearer. Do;youbsuppose that angels of
God, coming down ito this awful battlefield
OF sin and sorrowiand;death md meeting US
and seeing us 'andiandiDg out all about US.
carry back noamesssge to the skies?
Oh, there is.colSofation Unfit You are IN
present Communication IwlthtthGt land. They
Are in sympathy with you now more than
they everwere, n they are;waEing for the
moment when thehSnmerstrbke shall shqtter
the last chain of your earthly bondage, and
your soul shallsprfng upward. and they will
stand on the heights OF heaven, and see you
comeAand when you are within hatling dis
tanceyour other friends win be called out,
and as you fash through the Pearl hung gate
their shout will makes the hills tremble,
Halls ransomed spirit. to the city of the
blesssdi'
/ console you still further with tile idea OF
\ resurrection. l knCtw there ara q great
n:lny people who do Dpt accept this because
they cannot understand 1t but, my friends,
there are two stout ptssages-I could bring a
hundfed, but two .s@arthy passages ara
snough-and one Il sid will strike down the
largest Golfah. "lsaread not ut this, for the
hour Is coming wSfen all who are in their
graves shall comefforth." The other sSarthy
passage is tiis: ''The Kord shall descend
from heaven wIth<t shout, and the voice of
the arehange. and the trump of God, and
The dead in 0nrfs1shalirise first" oh, there
will be such a thing!ssa resurrection.
You ask meia great many questions lean
not answer about this resurrection, You
say, for i~lstsnce, 'If n mans body Is, con
SANITY chahyinc, n every seventh year he
has an entirely newiboHy, and heYyas on to
seventy'years of age and so has Dad ten diff
terentibodies,. and at the hour fof his death
therelfs not ajparticfs of flesh on him that
wasthere infhe days OF his CHILDHOOD, in the |
tesurrestion which of the ZEN bodies will
come up or will they all.risS'?"
You say. "SuksIose a'maz dies, and his body |
is scattered in 'thadust, AID out of that dust
vegetables grow. and Nm eat tho vsSota-
bles, and cannabnfs stay these men and eat
them, and cannisals Vsht with cannibals IN
I'll at last there 'jhalifoe q hundred men who
shall have within ~ sm some particles that
started from the dead body first named,
the first man fxhos ate it and t~hroughtheesn-
nlsais who'aSterS ard.ate him, and there be
more than sfhunired.men who have rights
m the pafffclts Ut that hody-in the resur- !
reetion hefg Gan they be assorted when these
particles belong to them ALP
fousEy. "liars is a missionary hlried in
GreenWooi, md when he was in China he
had hissarraf cTuputated-in the resurrection
will thst fragment, OF the body fly l6, 900 mfles
to loSnithe rest Of the body?"
You. say, "Wfl it not be q very difficult
Tor spirit coming back in that day to
md the myriad particles Of its wi body,
when they have been scattered by the winds
or oyerlsid by whole generations of,the dead, |
LOOKING forthe myriad PARTICLES OF It's
body, whiie there are a thousand million
other spirhs doing the same thing and all
the assortment toibe made within QUE dey?"
You say, '1f 150 men go into q place OF
evening entertainment andileave' their hats
and overcoatS in the hall, when, they come
back itistslmusttinpossible for them to get
the Eight ones Sor to get thGm without a
Ereaodeal on P~erplexlty, and yet YOU tell me
that myriads Of spirits in theslast day will
come and ind myriads OF boijls.'
Havelyouf oy more questiotlsito ,asi? Any
more dihbcu !tiasEo suggest! !tny more nys-
teriesf Bring them on! A9lnst a whole
fesitnent,d shepticism / will march these
two chang ons "Marvel! not'at this for the
hoAr is coming when MI who are fn,theii
gpaees'sh,hl come forth" 9TH Iofiishal |
Fssceni, 2 ON heaven with n shout, AMI the
Tolce'ot' the archangei, n tho trnpp o,
tod and the dead in Christi shall rise FIRST.
1eu(see ! stick to these two passages. Who
artfho9I o fool, that thou repliest aGainst
9odI flth Heipromised. anu shall He MOI
40 itE y ath He commanded, and shall He
not orni 1T to pass? Haveyou not conlden1t 1
IN HIS o. nnipotence2 II He could in the frs
place by Id my body, after It is torn dow. |
can HeInot buad it again?
ohs You sly, 81 would balieye thattitiyor
vrIhlki 4 ANntuIn II NM Yak IfaYr1a1 ~ l., 4
sSeptr al, but explain how it can be dtne.'
MY brother, you believe a great many Wings |
yeu'cs mot explain. You believe your mind
acts On yorrr body. Explainthe process Thi:
seediplanted comes up blue Hover Another
seeH planted comes up a yellow dover. An
U1hv seed planted comes up q white isJwcr
VIM! why that wart on your AnY'r? Tel
me why some COWS have hofus ald othCt
eo,'s haSe no horns. Why, waen hwo'on sta,
eles strike e~GalNother in tine air, 10 yCu hear
ne pes,rssion2 What is thu sustl' eners!
hat'dEsdsyes' solid in Il crucialE? Whal
observation-disclosures on an OAK leaf different
from ANY Uher kind of leaf? What maze:
the'o1mg blossom different from tkat,ottht
roS,E How cansthe almightiness WhlcIrides
otthescirce of Nha heaven find rOOm,to tam
us ch''riot on a heliotropc? Explain these
Gan Sodinot dotit2 Then 1 will not expiniT
inc resurrection You explain our-hnif 0
thetedpnmon mysteries of everyday life, an !
iS nls9tfl " Va . - EtSut' |
reetion. You'ctnnot answer no -ssy plalr
questions In regard TO o~rdinaryaaflirs. / ar
MOI ashamed 10 say that | oaGnospE ataEr~iod
andthe judgmoaT, and the FcylrrpcA0u. J
simply accept tAeu as facts, tT3mcudtuIs an
BEFORE the resurrection Klkgs place ever.
tnlhS VIII be silent. TH, mausoleul Is an.
me iabyrinths silent. Yne grayeyArIs silent,
oi h cemetery silent, we from tho ella shin;
oI moons the go nding OF whaals u tb
iast funeral proceS :on comes In. No breath
.stoo Al .o aiss,9IroinSJ thefdust where Psn hpolis
tSs ano lhebY land Bakylon. No+w1hsins
eyenas igtngelesed in darkness Sstir-
Ui.ne ieet that on~celbounded thehilN Vide.
The oPeen,ns/ ofkhe hand that lpluc VVsd
Eoad "mt2 ont of he edge OF ~ wHa
rySe 20 ehntching of swords by the m "
Rno zen down when Persia! bnttled al ID
snspsS ieiL Silence from oeesn beach x
sea ~singingtho anne old 4 n The lak y
fsvsned to sleeE, in the bosom OF the sang
eaea ~. NUS. No hand disturbing tEe
H. 7 Oh thef long-barred tsepuloher. An
,n9y nations OF the detpi imotioI ness