Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-04-08
ACCOMAC c. II VA. SATURDAY. APRIL s.


anything can't understand"
Why, putting down one kind of flow
er seed, comes there up this flower of
this color? Why, putting down another
flower seed, comes there up 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 worry much
alikea Explain these things. Explain
that wart on the finger. Explain why
the oak leaf is different from the leaf of
the hickory. Tell me how the Lord
can turn the chariot of his
omnipotence on rose leaf. You ask
me questions about the resurrection 1
cannot answer. will ask you thou
sand 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 the ex-
PLANTATION. You Gun go on and say:
"Suppose returned missionary dies in
Brooklyn. When he was in China, his
foot was amputated. He lived years
after in England, and there he had an
arm amputated. He is buried today 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 reconstructed in the
resurrection2 How is that possible?"
You say that 1.-The human body changes
every seven years, and by 70 years of age
q man has had 10 bodies. III the resurrec-
ton which will come up?" You say, ga
man will die and his body crumble into
dust and that dust be taken up into the
life of the vegetable. An animal may eat
the vegetable; men eat the animal. In
the resurrection that body, distributed
in so many directions, how shall it be
gathered up?" Have you any more ques-
tons of this style to ask? Come on and
ask them. l do not pretend to answer
them. fall back upon the announce
ment of Gods word, Cali who are in
their graves shall come forth.
WHEN THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND.
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 that
day will be great sound. / do not
know that it will be very loud, but /
know it will be very penetrating. In
the mausoleum, where silence has reigned
a thousand years, that voice must pene-
trate. 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 bodies. We gave
them to you in corruption; surrender
them now in interruption" Hundreds
of spirits lowering about the crags of
Gettysburg, for there the bodies are
buried. A hundred thousand spirits COM
ing 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 steamer went down departed
spirits coming back lowering over the
wave. There is where the City of Bos-
ton persisted. Found at last. There is
where the President persisted. Steamer
found at last. There is where the Cen
trail America went down. Spirits hover
of spirits lowering, wait
ing for the reunion Of body and soul.
Out on the prairie spirit alights. There
is where traveller died in the snow.
Crash! goes Westminster Abbey, and
the poets and orators come forth; won
derful mingling of good and bad. Crash!
go the pyramids of Egypt. and the mon
archs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? l suppose
that one moment before that general ris-
ing there will be an entire silence save
as you hear the grinding Of wheel or
q clatter of the hoofs Of q procession pass
ing into the cemetery. Silence in all the
caves Of the earth. Silence on the side
Of the mountain. Silence down in the
valleys and far out into the sea. Silence.
But in q moment, in the twinkling of
an eye, as the archangels trumpet comes
pealing, rolling, crashing across noun
tain and ocean, the earth will give one
terrific shudder, and the graves of the
dead will heave like the waves of the
sea, and Ostend and Sebastopol and Cha
Ions will stalk forth in the lurid air, and
the drowned will come up and wiring
out their wet locks above the billow,
and all the land and all the sea become
one moving mass of ife-all faces, all
ages, all conditions, gazing in one direc-
ton and upon one throne-the throne of
resurrection. Call who are in their
graves shall come forth.
THE GLORIOUS BODY.
But" you say, "if this doctrine OF
the resurrection is true as prefgured by
this Easter morning, Christ, the first
fruits of them that slept, Christ rising a
promise and propecy of the rising of
all his people, can you tell us something
about the resurrected body?" can.
There are mysteries apouI tldI' uuU
shall tell you three or four things in re-
gard to the resurrected body that are be-
yond guessing and beyond mistake.
In the first place, I remark, in regard
to your resurrected body, it will be a
glorious body. The body we have now
Is a mere skeleton OF what it would have
been if sin had not marred and defaced
it. Take the most exquisite statue that
was ever made by an artist and chip il
here and chip it there with chisel and
batter and brrise it here and there and
then stand it out in the storms of hun
dred years. and the beauty would be
gone.
Well, the human body has been
Clipped and battered and bruised and
damaged with the storms of thousands
of years-the physical defects Of other
generations coming down from genera
ton to generation, we inheriting the in.
felicities of past generations, but in the
morning of the resurrection the body