The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-04-07
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rise Jesus ''the first fruits OF them
that slept" Now, around this doctrine
of the resurrection there are great
many mysteries
You come to me this morning and
say: If the bodies of the dead are to
be raised, how is this. and how is that?
and you ask me thousand questions
| / am incompetent to answer; but there
are a great many things you believe
that you are not able to explain. You
would be a very foolish man to say:
II won't believe anything l can't I'M
derstand'
Why, putting down one kind Of
flower seed, comes there mp this flower
of this color? Why, putting down an
other flower seed. comes there up a
flower of this color? One flower white.
another flower yellow, another flower
crimson Why the difference when the
seeds look to be very much alike-are
very much alike? Explain these things
Explain that wart on the finger. Ex-
plain why the oak-leaf is different
from the leaf of the hickory. Tell me
how the Lord Almighty can turn the
chariot of His omnipotence on rose
leaf You ask me questions about the
resurrection l cannot answer. l will
ask you thousand questions about
everyday life you cannot answer
| I find my strength in this passage:
"All who are in their graves shall come
forth" do not pretend to make ex-
PLANTATION You can go on and say:
Suppose a returned missionary dies in
Brooklyn: when he was in China
his foot was amputated: he lived
years after in England, and there he
had his arm ampu ia ted he is buried to-
day 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 recon
structed in the resurrection? How is
that possible?
You saw that 1.-The human body
changes every seven years, and by 20
years of age man has had ten bodies;
in the resurrection 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 vege-
ia BILE: an animal may eat the vegetable,
| men eat Tic lhC
that body distributed in so many direc-
tions, how shall it be gathered up?'
Have you any more questions of this
style to ask? Come on, and ask them
DO not pretend to answer them. fall
back upon the announcement of God S
word: "All who are in their graves
shall come forth
You have noticed, suppose. in read.
ing the story of the resurrection that
almost every account of the Bible gives
the idea that the characteristic of tina,
day will be a great sound. l do not
know that it will be very loud, but dc
know that it will be very penetrating.
In the mausoleum where silence has
reigned d thousand years that voice
must penetrate 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 bod
les; we gave them to you in corruption,
surrender them now in interruption
. Hundreds of spirits lowering about the
| crags of Gettysburg, for there the bod
; les are buried. A hundred thousand
, spirits coming 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
To-
r where the President persisted. Steamer
: found at last There is where the Cen
: | trail America went down Spirits how
e eriug-hundreds of spirits lowering
I | waiting for the reunion of body ant
e soul Out on the prairie spirit alights
l There is where a traveller died in thu
. snow. Crash, goes Westminster abbey
i | and the poets and orators come forth
e wonderful mingling of good and bad
2 Crash! go the pyramids of Egypt AND
e the n:onarchs come forth.
r Who can sketch the scene? l suppos'
r that one moment before that genera
a rising there will be an entire silence
! save as you hear the grinding of
t wheel, or the clatter of the hoofs of I
Y procession passing into the cemetery
S Silence in all the caves of the earth
Silence on the side of the mountain
q Silence down in the valleys and far GU
q into the sea Silence. But in a me
5 meut, in the twinkling of an eye, a
e archangers trumpet comes pealing
e rolling. crashing across mountain an
ocean. the earth will give one terrif
f shudder, and the graves of the dea
{ will heave like the waves of the sea
a and Ostend and Sebastopol and Chalon
s will stalk forth in the lurid all
s and the drowned will come up an
s wiring out their wet locks above tn
e billow; and all the land and all the Sc
e become one moving mass of life-al
f faces. all ages. all conditions gazing i
# one direction and upon one throne-th
throne of resurrection "All who ar
O. in their graves shall come forth.
It But" you say, IF this doctrine {
Y the resurrection is true, as prefgure
/. BY this Easter morning. Christ til
% first fruits of them that slept Chris
a. rising promise and prophecy of th
t. rising of all his people. can you tell I
&c something about the resurrected body: