The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-08

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You say that 'the human body
changes every seven years, and by 70
years of age u man has had ten bodies;
in the resurrection which will come
up?" You say, "a man will die and his
body crumble into dust, and that dust
be taken up into the life of the vege-
table; an animal may eat the vegetable,
men eat the animal; in the resurrection,
that body distributed in so many direc-
tious, how shall it be gathered up?"
Have you any more questions of this
style to ask? Come On, and ask them.
| do not pretend to answer them. fall
back upon the announcement of Gods
word: "All who are in their graves
shall come forth"
You have noticed, l suppose, in read
ing the story of the resurrection that
almost every account of the Bible gives
the idea hat the characteristic of that
day will be a great sound. l do not
know that it will be very loud, but do
know that it will be very penetrating.
In the mausoleum where silence has
reigned a thousand years that voice
must penetrate. 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 bod
les; we gave them to you in corruption,
surrender them nov in interruption"
Hundreds of spirits lowering about the
crags of Gettysburg, for there the bod
les are buried. A hundred thousand
spirits coming 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 a 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 how
ering-hundreds of spirits lowering
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul Out on the prairie a spirit alights.
There is where a traveller died in the
snow. Crash! goes Westminster abbey
and the poets and orators come forth
wonderful mingling of good and bad.
Crash! go the pyramids of Egypt and
the monarchs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? 1 suppose
that one moment before that general
rising there will be an entire silence,
save as you hear the grinding of "a
wheel, or the clatter of the hoofs of a
procession passing into the cemetery.
Silence in all the caves of the earth.
G.Ia,,ao ~ 4l,o etIa 80 {ha ra0,nfoin
Silence down in the valleys and far out
into the sea. Silence. But in a mo-
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, as
~archangel's trumpet comes pealing.
rolling, crashing across mountain 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 Chalons
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 life-all
faces, all ages, all conditions gazing in
one direction and upon n throne-the
throne of resurrection. "All who are
in their graves shall come forth"
But" you say, "if this doctrine OF
the resurrection is true, as prefigured
by this Easter morning, Christ the
first fruits of them that slept Christ
rising a promise and q prophecy of the
rising of all his people, can you tell us
something about the resurrected body?"
1 can. There are mysteries about that,
but / shall tell you three or four things
in regard to the resurrected body that
are beyond guessing and beyond mis-
take.
In the first place, l remark in regard
to your resurrected body: 1t will be a
glorious body. The body we have now
have been If sin had not married and
defaced 1t. Take the most exquisite
statue hat was ever made by an artist,
and chip it here and chip it there with
q chisel, and batter and bruise 1t here
and there, and then stand it out in the
storms of a hundred years, and the
beauty would be gone Well, the hu.
man body has been Clipped and battered
and bruised and damaged with the
storms of thousands of years-tht
physical defects of other generation:
| coming down from generation to gen
Grafton, we inheriting the ipfelicitiei
OF past generations; but in the morr Ing
of the resurrection the body will be
adorned and beautified according to the
original model. And there is no sucf
difference between a gymnast and ar
emaoiated wretch in the lazaretto, a.
there will! be a difference between oul
bodies as they are now and our resur
rected forms.
There you will see the perfect eye,
after the waters of death have washed
out the stains of tears and study. There
you will see the perfect hand, after thu
knots of toll have been united from the
knuckles. There you will see the form
erect and elastic, after the burdens
have gone off the shoulders-the very
life of God in the body.
In this world, the most impressive
thing, the most expressive thing, is the
human face; but that face is veilet
with the gricfs of a thousand years;
but in the resurrection morn that veil
will be taken away from the face, and
the MONDAY sun is dull and dim and
stupid compared with the %outfiaming
glories of the countenance of the saved
When these faces of the righteous, those
resurrected faces, turn toward the gate,
or look up toward the throne, it will be
like the dawning of a new morning on
the bosom of everlasting day! o glorl.
GUS, resurrected body!
But l remark also in regard to that
body which you are to get in the resur-
r~ection, it will be an immortal one
These bodies are wasting away,
Somebody has said as soon as we
begin 10 live we begin to die. I'm,
less we keep putting the fuel into
the furnace the furnace dies out
The blood. vessels are canals talk.
ing the breadstuffs t O all parts of the
system. We must be reconstructed
hour by hour, day by day. Sickness
and death are all the time trying to get
their prey under the tenement, or tc
push us off the embankment of the
grave; but, blessed be God, in the res
direction we will get a body immortal
No malaria in the air, no cough, nc
neuralgia twinge, NO rheumatic pang