Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-22

when they como back it is almost impossi-
bic for them to get the right ones, or to get
them without great deal of perpleXity,
and yet you tell me that myriads 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 ont Against a
whole regiment Of skepticism will march
these two champions: Marvel not at this,
for the hour is coming when all who are In
their graves shall come forth" 1.-THE Lord
shall descend from heaven with shout,
and the voice of the archangel and the
trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall
rise first" You see | stick to these two
passages. Who art thou, o fool, that
thou rcpliest against God? Hath he prom
ised, and shall he not do it2 Huth he com
manded, and shall he not bring it to pass'
Have you not confidence in his Omnpo-
tence' II he could in the first place build
my body, after it is torn down can he not
build it AGAIN.
oh" you say, IL would believe that il
you would explain 1t. l am not disposed
to be skeptical, but explain how it can be
done" My brother, you believe n great
many things you cannot explain You be-
lieve your mind acts on your body. EX-
plain the process This seed planted comes
up a blue flower. Another Heed planted
comes up n yellow flower. Another seed
planted comes up white flower. Why?
Why that wart on your finger? Tell me why
some cows have horns and other cows have
no horns. Why, when two obstacles strike
each other in the air, do you hear the per-
cussion2 What is the subtle energy
iii IN %
What makes the notches on an oak leaf diff
ferent from any other kind of leaf? What
makes the orange blossom different from
that of the roseS How con the almighti-
ness which rides on the circle of the heaven
find room to turn its chariot on Il hello
tropeY Explain these. Can you not do it?
Then will not explain the resurrection.
You explain one-half of the common mys-
terics Of everyday life, and | will explain
all the mysteries of the resurrection. You
cannot answer me very plain questions in
regard to ordinary affairs. | am not
ashamed to say that | cannot explain God
and the Judgment and the resurrection.
simply accept them as facts, tremendous
and infinite.
SILENCE OF THE TOMB.
Before the resurrection takes place, ev-
erything will be silent. The mausoleums
and the labyrinths silent. The graveyards
silent. the cemetery silent, save from the
clushing of hoofs and the grinding Of
wheels as the last funeral procession comes
ia. No breath of air disturbing the dust
where Pcrsepolfs stood, and Thebes, and
Babylon. No winking of the eyelids long
closed in darkness. No stirring of the feet
thut once bounded the hillside. No OPEN
ing of the IHud chat once plucked the flow
er ont Of the edge of the wildwood.
40 ClutCLiny of swords by the men
who went down when Persia bat
tad 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 of
the same great hills. No hand disturbing
the gate OF the long barred sepulcher. All
the nations Of the dead motionless in their
winding sheets Up the side of the hills,
clown through the trough OF the valleys, far
out in the Governs, across the fields, deep
down into the coral palaces of the ocean
depth, where leviathun sports with his fell
lows-eVeryvy here. layer above layer, height
above height, depth below depth-dead!
dead, dead But in the twin ling of an eve