The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-03

turned missionary dies in Brooklyn; when
he was In China his foot was amputaCed be
lived years after IN England, aud there be
had an arm amputated: ha is buried to-day
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 resurrec-
tionl How is that possible"
You say that 1.-THE human body changes
every seven wears, aud by seventy years or
age a man has had ten bodies: in the resur-
rection which will come up" You say, "A
man will die and mis- body crumOle into the
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 resur-
reotion, that body distributed IN so many
directions, 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. l fall back upon
the announcement Of Gods word: All
who are in their graves shall come forth.
You have noticed Isuppose, III readlnR
kbe 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 1t will be
very loud, but know it will be very pene-
trsting In the mausoleum where silence
has reiRned q thousand years that voice
must peuetrate. In the coral cave OF the
deep that voice must penetrate. Millions of
spirits will come through the gates Of eter-
nitY and they viii come TO the tOmbs OF
abe earth, and they will cry: Give us back
our bodies: we gave them to you In COrrup-
tfon surrender them now in interruption.
Hundreds Of spirits lowering about the
crags Of Gettysburg, for there the bodies
are buried. 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
7 FsavE T1Yla VIII a
steamer went down, departed spirits com
ing back, lowering over the wave. There
is where the City of Boston perished. Found
at last There is where the President per-
ished. Steamer found at last There Is
where the Central America went down.
Spirits overing-huudreds Of spirits hover
ing, waiting for the reunion OF body aud
soul Out on the prairie spirit alghts.
There is where a traveller died in the snow.
Crash! goes Westminster abbey, and the
poets and orators come forth; wonderful
mingIing of good and bad. Crash! 20 the
pyramids Of Egypt, and the monarchs come
forth.
Who can sketch the scene? I suppose for
one moment before that general rising there
will be an entire silence, save as you hear
the grinding Of q wheel, or a clat,er of the
hoofs of procession passing into the cemeS
terry. Silence il all the caves Of the earth.
Silence on the side Of the mountain. Silence
Silence. But in a moment, III the twink
ling of an eye, as the archangePs trumpet
comes pealing, rolling, crashing across
mountain and ocean, the earth viii give one
terrific Shudder, and the graves OF the dead
will heave like the waves OF the sea, and
Ostend and SebRstopol and ChelOns 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 MACS Of life
all faces, all ages, all conditions gazing in
one direction and upon one 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 prehgIred by this
Easter morning, Christ, the drst 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 resur- |
rected bodyF l 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, remarked IL regard to
your resurrectedsOody 1t Will be a glorious
body The body we have now Is a mere
skeleton Of what IL would have been II sin
had not marred and defaced it. Take the
most exquisite statue that was ever made
by an artist, and chip It here and chip it
there with a chisel, and batter aud bruise 10
here and there, and then stand it out in the
storms of a hundred 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 gener- |
ations coming down from generation to |
generation, we inheriting the lnfelicities OF |
past generations; but in the morning OF the |
resurrection the body will be adorned and |
beautified according to the original model. |
And there is no such difference between q |
Rymnast end an eInaCiated wretch in q lsz- (
arctic, as there VIII be a difference between /
our bodies as they are now and our resur- |
rected FORMS
There you will see the perfect eve, after !
the waters of death have washed out the !
stains of tears aud study There you will (
see the perfect hand, after the knots of toll
have been united from the knuokss. There !
you will see the form erect and elastic,
after the burdens have gone Off the shout |
der-the very life Of God in the body.
In this world the most impressive thing,
the most expressive thing, is the human
face; but the face Is yelled with the grefe
of a thousand years but in the resurrection
morn that veil will be taken away from the
face, and the MONDAY sur is dull and dim
and stupid compared with the outiiaming
Rlories Of the cOuutenanCes of the saved.
When those faces of the righteous, those
resurrected faces, turn toward the gate, or
look up toward the throne, IL Will De Hk6
the dRwning of a new morning on the
bosom OF everlasting day! o glorious, res
directed body
But remark also in regard TO that body,
which you are to get In the resurrection, it
will be an immortal cody. These bodies
are wasting away. Somebody has said as
soon as we begin to live we begin to die.
Unless we keep putting the fuel into the
furnace thefurpaca dies out. Tho blood
vessels are canals taking the breadstufTs 70
all parts Of the system. We must be re-
constructed hour by hour, day by day.
Sickness and death are all the time trying
TO get their proy under the tenement, or to
push US off the embankmeuB of the grave;
but, blessed be God, IN the resurrection we
will get a body immortal No malaria in
the air, no cough. no neuralgia twiuge. 10
rheumatic pang no fiuttering Of the heart,
no shortpess OF breath, no ambulance, no
dispensary, no hospital, no iuvalid's chair.
no spectacles to improve the dim vision; bus
health, immortal health o ye who have
aches and pains indescribable this morning
% We who are never well-O We who arr
lacerated with physical disiresses, let mo
tell you Of the resurTected body, free from
all disease. Immor tall Immortal
twill go further, and say in regard t
that body which you are 70 get 10 the res
direction. it will be powerful body. We
walk now eight or ten miles and we are "a