Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-22

how it can be done" My brother, you
believe great many things you can
not explain. You believe your mind
acts on your body. Explain the pro-
cess. This seed planted comes up a
blue flower. Another seed planted
comes up q yellow flower Another
seed planted comes up a white flower.
Why? Why that wart on your finger?
Tell ne why some cows have horns,
and other cows have no horns. Why,
hen two obstacles strike each other
in the air, do you hear the percussion?
What is the subtle energy that dis
solves a solid in a crucible? What
makes the notches on an oak leaf diff
ferent from any other kind of leaf?
What makes the orange blossom differ
ent from that ofthe rose? How can the
almightiness which rides on the circle
of the heaven, find room To turn its
chariot on heliotrope? Explain these.
Can you not do it? Then will not ex-
plain the resurrection. You explain
one half of the common mysteries of
everyday life, and / viii explain all
the mysteries of the resurrection.
You cannot answer me very plain ques-
tons in regard to ordinary affairs. /
am not ashamed to say that l cannot
explain God, and the judgment, and
the resurrection. | simply ACCEPT
them as facts, tremendous and Infinite.
Before the III Surrection takes place,
everything will Ire silent. The mauso-
ums and the lnbyrinths silent The
graveyards silent the cemetery silent,
save from the clashing of hoofs and
the grinding of wheels as the last
funeral procession Games in. No
breath of air disturbing the dust where
Persepolis stood, and Thebes, and
Babylol. No winliing of the cyelds
long closed in darkness. No stir
ring of the feet that once bounded
the hillside. No opening of the hand
that once plucked the flower out of
the edge of the wild wood No clut h
ing of swords by the men who went
down when Persia battlcd 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 thH same great hills. No hand
disturbing the gate of the long barred
sepulchre. All the nations of the dead
motioniess in their winding-sheetS.
Up the side of tie hills, dow II through
the trough of the valleys, far out in
the caverns, across the fields, deep
down into the coral palaces of the
ocean depths where leviathan sports
with his fe.lows-everyvhere, layer
above layer, height above height,
depth below depth-dead! dead! dead!
But in the twinlSling OF an eye, as
quick as that as the archangcfs trum-
pet comes pcaling, rolling, rcverberat-
ing, CT ASKING across continents and
seas, the earth viii give one fearful
shudder and the door OF the family
vault, without being unlocked, will
burst open; and all the graves of the
dead will begin TO throb and heave
like the waves of the sea- and the
mausoleum of princes will fall into
the dust: and Ostcud and Sebastopol,
and Aust Ritz and Gettysburg, stalk
forth IN the lurid air, and the ship
wrecked rise from the deep, Their wet
10 ks looming up above the billow;
and all the land and all the sea become
one moving mass of life-all genera
tons, all ages with upturned countcn-
ances-some kindled with rapture and
others blanched with despair, bat
gazing in one direction, upon one
object, and that the throne of resur-
rection,
On that day You will get back yoIr
Christian dead. There is where the
comfort comesin. They will como up
with the same hand, the same foot,
and the same entire body; but with
perfect hand, and "a perfect foot, aud
II perfect body; corruption having be-
come iny orruptioh, mortality having
become immortality. And oh, the re-
union; oh, the embra after SO long
an absence. Comfort one another
with these words.
While present these thoughts this
morning, does it not seem that heaven
comes very near us, as though oar
friends, whom we thought great way
OF, are not in the distance, but close
by? You have sometimes come down
to river at night fall, and you have
been surprised how easily you could
hear voices across that river. You
shouted over 10 the other side of the
river, an they shouted back. 1t is
said that, when George Nh!teiieid
preached in Third Street, Philadcl-
phia, one evening time, his vol c
was heard clear across to the
New Jersey shore. When ! was lit
tie while chaplain in the army, | re-
member how at even tide we could
easily hear the voices of the pick cts
across the lotomac just when they
were using ordinary tones. And as
we come to day and stand by the river
of Jordan that divides us from our
friends who are gone, it seems to me
we stand on one bank and they stand
on the other, and it is only narrow
stream, and our voices go and their
voices come. Hank! Hush. I hear
distinctly what they say: These are
they who came out of great tribula-
ton, and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb. +"
Still the voice comes across the water,
and / hear: 1--WE hunger no more, we
thirst no more; neither shall the sun
light on us, nor any heat, for the Lamb
which is in the midst of the throne
leads us to living fountains of wat, r,
and God wipeth away all tears from
our eyes"
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