The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-05

man has had 10 bodies. In the resurrection
which will come upf" You say: "a man
will die and his body crumble into the dust,
and that dust be taken up into the life Of
the vegetable An animal may eat the veg
etable; men eat the animal. In the resur-
rection. 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. I do not
pretend 10 answer them. fall back upon
the announcement of Gods word, "All who
are in their graves shall come forth"
You have noticed suppose, in reading
the story Of the resurrection that almost
every account of the Bible gives the idea
that the Characteristic Of that day will be
a great sound / do not know that Il will
be very loud, but / know it will be very
penetrating. In the mausoleum where ST.
lence has reigned 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 bac!. our bodies; we gave them to
you in corruption, surrender them now in
interruption" Hundreds of spirits hover
ing about the crags of Gettysburg, for
there the bodies are buried. A hundred
thousand spirits coming to Greenwood, for
there the bodies are buried, waiting for the
reunion of body and soul.
TIE SEA TO GIVE UP IT'S DEAD.
All along the sea route from New York
to Liverpool at every few miles where a
steamer went down, departed spirits com
ing back, lowering over the wave There
Is where the City of Boston persisted Found
at last. There is where the President per
ished Steamer found at last There is
where the Central America went down
Spirits Observation-Disclosures of spirits how
ering. waiting for the reunion of body and
soul. Out on the prairie a spirit al iShts
There is where traveller died in the snow.
Crashi goes Westminster abbey, and the
poets and orators come forth-wonderful
mingling of good and bad. Crashl go the
pyramids of Egypt, and the monarchs come
forth
Who can sketch the scenef / suppose
that one moment before that general rising
there will be an entire silence. save as you
hear the grinding of wheel or a clatter of
the hoOfs of a procession passing 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 moment, in a twinkling Of an
eye, rs the archangeI's trumpet comes peal
ing, rolling, crashing, across mountain and
ocean, the earth will give one terrific shud-
der, and the graves of the dead will heave
like the waves of the sea, and Ostend and
SebastOpol ard 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 be
come one moving mass of life-all faces,
all ages, all conditions gazing in one direc-
tion 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 prefgured by this
Easter morning, Christ the first fruits of
them that slept Christ rising a promise
and a prophecy Of the rising of all his peo-
pie, can you tell us something about the
resurrected bodyf" / can. There are mys-
teries about that, but / shall tell you three
or four things in regard to the resurrected
body that are beyond guessing and beyond
mistake.
TIE GLORIFIED BODY.
In the first place, l remark, In regard to
your resurrected body, it will be glorious
body The body we have now is a mere
skeleton Of what it would have been if sin
bad not married and defaced IL. Take the
most exquisite statue that was ever made
by artist and chip it here and chip il
there with chisel and batter and bruise
it here and there and then stand it out in the
storms of a hundred years, and the beauty
would be goEe.
Well, the human body has been Clipped
and battered and bruised and damaged with
the storms of thousands of years-the phys
ical defects Of other generations coming
down from generation to generation, we in
heriting the infelicities of past generations,
but in the morning of the resurrection the
body will be adorned and beautifed accord
ing TO the original model And there is no
such difference between gymnast and an
emaciated wretch in lazaretto as there
will be difference between our bodies as
they are now and our resurrected forms
There you will see the perfect eve after
the waters OF death have washed out the
stains of tears and study There you will
the perfect hand, after the 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 shoulder
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 yelled with the griefs
of 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 outha1ning
glories Of the Countenances of the saved
When those faces of the righteous. those
resurrected faces, turn toward the gate or
look up toward the throne, il will be like
the dawning of new morning on the bos-
ON OF everlasting dayl Oh, glorious, resur-
rected body
But L remark also. in regard to that body
which you are to get in the resurrection, il
viii be an immortal body These bodies
are wasting away Somebody has said as
soon as we begin TO live we begin 10 die.
Unless we keep putting the fuel into the
furnace the furnace dies out. The blood
( vessels are canals taking the breadstuffs TO
all parts Of the system. We must be re
constructed hour by hour, day by day Sick
ness and death are all the time trying to
get their prey under the tenement, or to
push Us oil the embankment of the grave.
But, blessed be God, in the resurrection we
will get BODY immortal.
No malaria in the air, no cough, no neu-
ralgic tNinge, no rheumatic pang, no dut-
tering Of the heart, no sbOrtness of breath,
no ambulance, no dispenssry, no hospital,
no invalid's chair, no spectacles TO improve
the aim VISION. But health. Immortal
health o ye who have aches and pains
indescribable this morning-O We who are
never well-O We who are lacerated with
physical distresses, let me tell you Of the
resurrected body, free from all disease. Inn
mortall immortal
THE STRENGTH OF THE IsfMORTALs
/ will go further and say, in regard to
that body which you are TO get in the res
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