The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-04-13
''I wont believe anything 1 can't I'M

Hover seed, comes there up flower OF
this color? One flower white, another
yellow, another flower crimson. Why
the difference, when the seeds look to be
very much alike-are very much alike?
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 AL.
mighty can turn the chariot of his
omnipotence on arose Leaf? You ask
me questions about the resurrection l
cannot answer. l will ask you thous-
and questions about everyday life you
cannot answer.
| l find my strength in this passage,
"All who are in their graves shall come
forth" l do not pretend to make tho
explanation. You can 90 son and say:
Suppose a 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 Green
wood. In the resurrection will the foot
come from China, will the ann come
from England, and will the different
I parts OF the body be reconstructed in the
resurrection? How is that possible?"
You say that 1.-THE human body
changes every seven years, aud by 20
years or age man has had 10 bodies.
Ia the resurrection which will come up?n
You says: "a man will die and his
body crumble into the dust, and that
dust be taken up into the lie of the vege-
table. An animal may eat the vegetable;
men cat the animal. In the resurrec-
ton, that body distributed in 80 many
directions, how shall it be gatheredup?H
lave you any more questions of this
style to ask? Come on and SIX them.
DO not pretend to answer them. 1
lall back upon the announcement of
Gods word, "All who are in their
graves shall come forth"
ou have noticed, l suppose, in read
ing the story Of tho resurrection that al
most every account of the Bible gives
Ihe idea that the characteristic of that
daY Will be great sound. 1 do not
know that it will be very loud, but
know it will be very penetrating. In
the mausoleum where silence has reigned
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, "Glve us back our
bodies; we gave them to you in COR
rupton, surrender them now in incor-
ruptlon." Hundreds OF spirits lowering
about the crags of Gettysburg, for there
the bodies are buried. A hundred thous-
and 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
y ork to Liverpool at every few miles
where steamer went down; departed
lSp!rlts coming back, lowering over the
wave. There is where the City OF Bos-
ton pcrishcd. Found at last. There is
where the President persisted. Steamer
loNnd at last. There is where the Cen
tral America went down. Spirits hover
ing hundreds OF sprts lowering, wait
my Tor the reunion Of body and soul.
Out on the pralrlc n 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
tho monarchs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? / sup
pose that one moment before that gen.
cral rising there will be an entire sill
encc, save as you hear the grinding of a |
wheel or clatter OF the hoots of a pro-
ccsslon passing into the cemetery. Sill
cncc in all the caves Ofthc earth. Silence |
on the side OF the mountain. Silence |
down in the valleys and far out into the |
sea. Silence.
But IN moment, IN tWinkling of |
an eye, as the archangel's trumpet |
comes pcallnG, rolling, crashing, across |
mountain and ocean, the earth will give !
one terrific shuddcr, and the graves of |
the dead will hcave like the waves of the |
sea, and Ostend and Sebastopol and |
Chalons will stalk forth in the lurid air, |
and the browne Il will come up and wiring |
out their wet locks above the billow. |
and all The land all the sea become one |
moving mass of llfe--all faces. all ages,
all conditions gazing in one direction |
and upon one thrOne-the throne of re-
surrcction. "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 prophecy of the rising |
OF all his people, can you tell us some |
l. |
can, There are mysteries about that,
but sh?ll tell you three or four things |
in regard " the resurrected body that |
arc beyond guessing and beyond mis-
take.
In the first plcc, l remark, In regard
TO your resurrected body, it will be a |
glorious body. The body we have now
is a mere skeleton what it would have
been If sin had not marred and defaced
1t. Take the most exquisite statue that
was ever made by an artist ana chip il
there with chisel and batter and bruise
IT here and there and then stand it out |
IN the storms ola hundred years, and |
the beauty would be gone.
Well, the human body has been chin.
ped and battered and bruised and dam
aged with the storms of thousands ol
years-the physical defects of other
generations coming down from genera.
tlon TO generation, we inheritlng the in.
ielcltles OF past generations, but in the |
morning OF the resurrection the bodg
cd o,,l loo