Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-04-14
rate. In the coral cave of the deep that

Liverpool! at every lew miles where Ste2n-
went down departed spirits com in- back
lowering over the wave. There is where
the City OF Boston persisted. Found rs last.
There IS where the President persisted.
Steamer found at last. There Is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
Observation-Disclosures OF spirits lowering,
waiting for the reunion OF body and soul.
Out on the prairie a spirit allghtS- There Is
where traveller died in the snow. Crash!
goes Westminster Abbey, and the poets anu
orators come forth; wonderful ming ing OF
good and bad. Crash! go thu pyramids o.
Egypt, and the monarcds come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? ! suppose that
enc moment before that general rising there
will be an entire silence save as you hear the
grinding OF a wheel or a CHATTER or the ho0fs
or 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 AMI far out into the seq.
Silence.
But in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, as the archangePs trumpet comes peal
ing, rolling, crashing across mountain and
ocean, the earth will give on9 tnrrifc shu1-
der, and the graves OF the dead will heaVe
like thu waves of the sea, and Ostend and
Sebastopol and Chalons will stalk forth III
the lurid air, AMI the drowned will come up
and wiring out their Wet locks above the bill
low, and all the land ali / all the sea become
one moving mass official faces, all age,
all conditions, gazing in one direction ana
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 prefigured by this
Easter morning Christ, the first fruits OF
them that slept, Christ rising promise and
prophecy Of the rising Of all His people,
can you tell US something about the resur-
rected body?' 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, [ remark, in regard to
your resurrecUed body, it will be glorious
body. The body we have now is a mere
skeleton of what it would have been if sin
had not marred and dafaced it. Take Che
most exquisite statue that was ever made 10y
an artist and chip it here and CHIP it there
with a chisel and batter and bruise it here
and there and then stand 1t out III the storms
of hundred years, and the beauty would
be gone. ,o, No., hoo os;,
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
herlting tine infelicities of past generations,
but in the morning OF the resurrection the
body will be adorned and baautifed accord
ing to the original model. Aud 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 eye after
the waters Of death have washed out the
stains of tears and study. There you Will
see 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 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 outfaming
glOrles of the countenances OF the saved,
When those faces of the righteous those re-
surrected faces, turn toward the gate or
look up toward the throne, it will be like
OF everlasting day! Oh. glorious resur-
rectei body!
But remark also, in regard to that body
which you are to get in the resurrection, it
will be an immortal body. 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
| the furnace dies out. The blood vessels are
canals taking the breadstutfs to 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 I'M
DER the tenement, or to push US OFF the en-
Dankment OF the grave; but, blessed be God,
IN the resurrection we will get body i'm
| mortal.
No malaria in the air, no cough, no neu-
| ralgic twinge, no rheumatic pa1g, no dut-
| terlng OF the heart, no shortness Of
breath, no ambulance, no dispansary, no
hospital, no invalids chair, no specta cles to
improve the dim vision. but health, i'm
mortal health! Oh ye who have aches and
pains lndescribable this morning-Oh ye
who are never weu-Oh ye who are lacarated
with physical distresses, let me tell YOU of
the resurrected body. free from all disease.
Immortal! Immortal!
will go further and say, in regard to that
body which you are to get in the resurrec-
ton, 1t will be powerful body. We walk
now eight or ten miles, and we are fatig ued;
we lift a few hundred pounds, and we are ex-
| hausted; uuarmed, we meet Il wild beast,
and we must run or fly or climb or dodge
| because we are Incompetent to meet it: we
| toll eight or ten hours vigorously, and then
we are weary. but in the resurrection we are
| to have body that never gets tired Is it
| not glorious thought?
Plenty OF occupation in heaven. I suppose
Broadway, New York, in the busiest season
! of the year at monday is not SO busy as
| heaven is all the time Grand projects of
| mercy for other worlds. Victories to be
! celebrated. The downfall of despotlsms on
| earth to be announced. Great songs to be
| learned and sung. Great expediTlons on
| which God shall send forth His children
Plenty to do, but no fatigue If you are
seated under the trees of life, it will not be
| to rest, but to talk over with some old COM
rade old times-the battles where you fought
| shoulder to shoulder.
Sometimes in this world we feel we would
like to have such a body as that There is
| so much work to be done for Christ there