The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-07-05

can not answer about this resurrection.
You say, for instance: III Q mans
body is constantly changing, and every
seventh year he has an entirely new
body, and he lives on to 70 years of age,
and so has had ten different bodies, and
at the hour of his death there is not
particle of flesh on him that was there
in the days of his childhood-in the
resurrection, which of the ten bodies
will come up, or will they all rise?"
You say: Suppose man dies and his
body is scattered in the dust, and out
of that dust vegetables grew, and men
eat the vegetables, and caunivals Stay
these men and eat them, and cannibals
fight with cannibals until at last there
shall be hundred men who shall have
within them some particles that started
from the dead body first named, COM
ing up through the vegetables, through
the first man who ate it, and through
the cannibals who afterward ate him,
and there be more than hundred men
who have rights in the particles of that
body-in the resurrection, how can
they be assorted when these particles
belong to them all? You say: "There
is missionary buried in Greenwood,
and when he was in China he had his
arm amputated-in the resurrection,
will that fragment of the body
fly $4,000 miles to join the rest
of the body? You say: Twill it not
be very difficult thing for q spirit
coming back in that day to find the
myriad particles of its own body, when
they may haue been scattered by the
winds or overlaid by whole generations
of the dead-looking for the myriad
particles of its own body, while there
are thousand million other spirits do
ing the same thing, and all the assort-
ment to be made in one day?" You say:
IF hundred and fifty men 60 into q
place of evening entertainment, and
leave their hats and over coats in the
hall, when they come bach it is almost
impossible for them to get the right
ones, or to get them without a 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 diff.
culties to suggest? Any more myster-
iesp Bring them on! Agrinst whole
regiment of skepticism will march
these two champions; Marvel not at
this, for the hour isa coming when
all who are in their graves
shall come forth" 1.-THE Lord shall de.
scend 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 l stick to
these two passages. Who art thou, oh.
fool, that thou repliest against Godt
Hath He promised, and shall he not do
it? Hath He not commanded, and shall
He not bring it to passP Have you not
confidence in His omnipotence? If He
could, in the first place, build my body
after it is torn down can he not build il
again"
"Oh," you say, II would believe that
If you would explain it. am not dis
posed to be sceptical, but explain how
it can be done" My brother, you be.
lieve great many things you can no,
explain. You believe your mind acrs
on your body. Explain the process
This seed planted comes up a yellow
low 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 OBJ
stacles strike each other in the air, dc
you hear the percussion! What is the
subtle energy that dissolves solid in a
crucible?
What makes the notches on an oak
leaf different from any other kind Of
leaf? What makes the orange bios
som different from that of the rosei
How can the almightiness which rides
ON the circle of the heaven find room tt
turn it's chariot on heliotrope? Elk
plain these. Can you do itp Then
will not explain the resurrection. Yor
explain one-half of the common myster
. les of everyday life, and l will explain
the mysteries of the resurrection. Yor
can not answer me very plain questions
in regard to ordinary affairs. l am no
ashamed to say that can not explain
God, and the judgment, and the resur
rection. simply accept them as fact
tremendous and infinite.
Before the resurrection takes plac,
everything will be silent The mauso
leums and the labyrinths silent. TIL,
graveyards silent; the cemetery silent
save from the clashing of hoofs anC
the grinding of wheels as the last funer
; al procession comes in. No breath o
, air disturbing the dust where Perseop
oils stood, and Thebes and Babylon
No winking of the eyelids lonl
, closed in darkness. No stirring o
, the feet that once bounded the hill
} side. No opening of the hand that one
| plucked the flower out of the edge o
t the wildwood. No clutching of sword
by the men who went down when Per
1 STA battled and Rome fell. Silenc
from ocean beach to mountain cliff
( and from river to river. The sea sing
ing the same old tune. The lake
E hushed to sleep in the bosom of tn
[ same great hills. No hand disturbing
4 the gate of the long barred sepulchre
1 All the nations of the dead motionles
a in their winding sheets. Up the sid
e of the hills, down through the troug
4 of the valleys, far out in the cavern.
4 across the fields, deep down in tn
f coral palaces of the ocean depths wher
n leviathan sports with his fellows
r everywhere, layer above layer, heigh
s above height, depth below depth-deac
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