Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-08

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on the mountain, no man on the
sea, an abandoned ship plow-
ing through immensely. Again
and again has He done this
work with all generations. He Is
monarch rs we'll as conqueror; His
palace scpulcher; His fountains the
falling tears of world. Blessed be
God in the light of this blessed Easter
morning. see the prophecy that his
scepter shall be broken, and his palace
shall be demolished The hour is COM
ing when all who are in their graves
shall come forth, Christ risen, we shall
rise. Jesus "the first fruits of them
that slept" Now, around this doctrine
of the resurrection there are great
many mysteries.
You come to me this morning and
say: II the bodies of the dead are to
be raised, how is this, and how is that?
and you ask me thousand questions
am incompetent to answer; but there
are great many things you believe
that YOU are not able to explain. You
would be u very foolish man to say:
81 won't believe anything l can I'M
derstand."
Why, putting down one kind of
flower seed, comes there up this flower
of this color? Why, putting down an
other flower seed. comes there up Il
flower of this color? One flower white,
another flower 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 En-
plain why the oak-lcaf is different
from the leaf of the hickory. Tell me
how the Lord Almighty can turn the
chariot of His omnipotence on n rose
leaf. You ask Inc questions about the
resurrection | cannot answer. i will
ask you q thousand questions about
everyday life you cannot answer.
/ find my strength in this passage:
"All who are in their graves shall come
forth" do not pretend to make ex-
PLANTATION. You can go on and say:
"Supposc returned missionary dies in
Brooli!yn; when he was in China
his foot was amputated; he lived
years after in England, and there he
had his arm ampu.ated; he is buried to-
dav 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 recon-
structed in the resurrection? How is
that possible?
You have noticed, suppose, in read
| ing the 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 it will he very loud, but do
know that i: will be very penetrating.
In the mausoleum where silence 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 back our bod
les; we gave them to you in corruption,
surrender them now in interruption. !"
Who can sketch the scene? / 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 n
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 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 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 pretigured
by this Easter morning, Christ the
first fruits of them that slept Christ
rising promise and a prophecy of the
rising of all his people, can you tell us
something about the resurrected body?
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 resurrected body: 1t will be
glorious body. The body we have now
is u mere skeleton of what it would
have been If sip had not married and
defaced it. Take the most exquisite
statue that was ever made by an artist,
and chip it here and chip it there with
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