Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-07-08

cabin Of the lost steamer. he f0und the
mother and child in each others arms. /.
was sal. nut il was beautiful. and il was Az
propriatn. Together they went down. To-
gether they will rise. One On earth One
Ii heaven. Is t~re not something cheering
in all this thought and something to impress
upon Us the idea that the departed are ours
vet-our forever
But / console you again With the Tart ot
your pr-4en' srqlainfanceship and coz
muni~ati0n with Your departed friends. !
haze u syagpathy. / need not say. with the
ideas ii rnciern syirisuali.u1. but what ]
mean is the theory sei forth ty the apostle
wen he A.v-. We are surrounded ~ a
..rea. cloud IL witnesses. Just a. IN the
ancient aupn.th"atre there were $1,000
or 80 .0nl people Looking down from the gal
leres upon the cogbataats IN the center. -,
SAYS Paul. there l. a great host II your
friends Ia ali the galleries 18th" sky looking
down upon our earthly struggles. II is a
swtet a cou~,lns. a ~rriptUrai idea with
wing II angel. Earth ana heaven are in con-
statt Communication.
i,a-s not the BitIe say, Are they no; sent
f6rth - Fnln!siefiny. spirits 70 thos" who
shall lie heirs Of salvationy' And when
minl-tcr!Ig spirits r1r" down and s:e u. d.
they not take some message back? Il is in
possible to realize. | know. the idea that
there is such rapid and perpetual intercorn-
munication of earth and heaven. but it Is a
glorious reality. You take a rail train. AMI
the train il IN full motion. AMI another train
from the opposite direction flashes past you
30 swiftly thai, YOU are startled. Ailthe way
between here and heaven IS filed with the
up trains and the down spirits com
ing spirits going -corninT-going-cOming
going.
That frbn,I OF yours who died last month
= rnl not suppo-c he told ali the family
h"Es about you III IL" @o1i land to III"
fTends who ar" gone? 10 you not suppos"
TINT when there are hundred, Of opportuni-
tics every day for them in heaven TO hear
frvn You that they asa about You that they
kno" your tears. your temptations. your
.tr1i;si"s your Victories? Aye. they d..
Perhaps during the last war YOU hal n boy
IN the army, and you got a pass. and yol
vent through the lines. and you found him.
AMI IL" eEl-ncn coming from your neicbOr-
tooi and you knew most OF the boys there.
on" DAY yon started for home. You said
Vel, low. have YOU any letters to send?
Any messages to ~cni<' And they filed
y2ar k"ts with letters. and You started for
hpo.4- Arriving houfc. the ~ncighbors came
u. and one said. Did you see my john
sni others, Did you see George?" "Do
you know anything about my Frank And
:hen YOU brought out the letters and gave
!heu tho messages Of which you had been
he ttearer. Do you suppose that angels of
Col, coming down to this awful battlefield
II SIN and sorrow and death and meeting Us
AMI e""Ing vs. and finding out all about Us.
AIRY back no message to the skies?
on. there is consolation in il. You are in
present communication with that land. They
ar" III sympathy with YOU now more than
hey ever We're. and they are waiting for the
rlftfent when the hammerstroke shall shatter
;he last chain Of your earthly bondage. and
your soul shall spring upward. and they will
stand on the heights Of heaven and see YOU
'onie, and when YOU are within hailing dis
zane. your other friends Will be called out,
and rs YOU fash through the pearl hung gate
,hrir shout will make the hills tremtle.
Hail ransomed spirit, to the city of the
blessed =
console you still further with the idea of
4 resurrection, | know there are a great
many people who do not accept this because
they cAnnot understand it but. my friends.
here are two stout passages-I could bring a
hundred, but two swarthy passages are
enough and one David will strike down the
largest Goliah. Marvel not at this, for the
hour is coming when all who are in their
graves shall come fortlt.' The other swarthy
passage is this The Lord shall descend
rom heaven with II shout, and the voice of
HE archangel. and the trump of God, and
the dead in Christ shall rise first oh, there
Will be such a thing as a resurrection.
You ask me n great many questions | can
DOT answer about this resurrection. You
say, for instance. If a mans body is con-
stantly changing, and every seventh year he
has an entirely new body, and he lives on to
seventy years of age and so has had ten diff
ferent bodies. and mt the hour of his death
there is not n particle Of flesh on him that
WAS there in the days of his childhood, in the
r"Surrestion which Of the ten bodies will
.)me up or Will they all rise?"
You say, suppose a man dies, and his body
Is scattered in the dust. ID out of that dust
vegetables grow, and men eat the vegeta-
bles, and cannihals slay these men and ca,
Them, and cannibals fight with cannibals un-
til II last there shall be n hundred men who
shall have within them some particles that
started from the dead body first named
coming up through tho vegetable. through
the~ilrst man who ate it and through the can
nlbals who afterward ate him, and there h.
moro than n hundred men who have rights
in the particles Of that hody-in the resur
~rection how can they be assorted when thes,
particles belong tn them all?
You say, There is a missionary buried il
Greenwood, and when h. was in China h.
had his arm anputatcd in the resurrection
will that fragment of the body fly Is. 900 mile.
So join the rest of the body"
You say. "Will it not be 4 very Difficult
thing for a spirit coming back in that day I
find the myriad particles Of its own body
when they have been scattered by the wind
or overland by whole generations of the dead
i''hAAN ~ IN III la fiiiifltS ii us oh
body, while there are q thousand milhol
other spirits doing the same thing. and al
the assortment TO he made within one day?
lo1 say. If 80 inen 70 into "A place .
evening entertainment and laay" their hat
and overcoats in the hall. when they com
hack II i almost impossible for them to ~
the right ones. or ~ get them without
great deal Of perpiexlty. and Yet You tell m
that mxrlaas Of spirits in the last day Wi
come and lind myrtats of bodies.
Have YOU any more questions to ask? An
more difficulties t. suggest Any more mvs
teries2 BRING them on Against a Who'll
regiment Of skeptlcism l will march thes
two "a ampions Marvel not at this. for ID
hour ts coming when all who are in the
Crav,d shall com" forth. The Lord sha
desceIi from heaven with a shout. and II
voice ~ the archaneel. AMI thu trump
tiod. and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
You -" | stick - thtSe Two passages. w
art thou. y fool. that ,hou rrpli,st again
God Hath H. PROMISED. and shall H. II.
10 it Hath II" Commanded. AMI shall t
: not hrins II 10 pass Haveyou not r~ont.i.n
! in His aTnnlpQt"nce. II He .oui1 In the FIR
, Iaa"~' build my body. after il il torn dow
: can IL MOI tuili il again
: ''ph." YOU -av. Il would leliayethat il ~
: wis Explain Il lam not disposed t. /