Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-19

ioa ASK NE a great many questions
cannot answer about this resurrection.
GU say, for instance, III mans BODY
constantly changing, and every sew
enlh year be has an entirely new body.
ana he hyee on to 90 years Of age aud
SO has had 10 different bodies. and NJ TIA
honr Of his death there is not particle
o. hesh on him that was thore in tho
Gays OF bis childhood. in the resurree-
ton which Of the 10 bodies will come
MP or will they all riso.p
ION say, Suppose man dies, and hia
oody Is scattered in the dust, and ont Of
that dust vegetables grow, and men cat
tho vegetables. and cannibals slay these
men and cat them, and cannibals fight
with cannibals until at last thoro shall
be hundrel men who's have within
them some PARTICLES that started from
the dead body first named, coming up
through the vegetable, through the first
man who ate it aud through the canni-
oais who afierwArd ate him. and there
be more than hundred men who have
rights in the PARTICLES of that body-in
Tie resurrection how can they be assort
ed when these particles belong 10 them
allY
Housay, THERE'S missionary buried
in Greenwood. and whom he was in China
he had his arm amputated-i tho resur.
rection will that fragment of tho body
fly 10000 miles TO join tho rest of the
bodyg'
You say, win it not be very diin
cult thing for spirit coming back in
that day to find the myriad particles Of
its own body when they may have been
scattered by the winds or overlid by
whole generations Of the dead, looking
for tho myriad particles of its own body,
while there are a thousand million other
spirits doing the same thing, and all the
assortment 70 be made within one day."
You say, "If 100 men 20 into place
of evening entertainment and leave
their hats and overcoats in the hill,
when they come back II ia almost iinpos.
sib!e for them to get the right ones, or to
get them without a great deal OF per.
plexity, and yet you tell mo that myr.
lads of spirits in the last day will come
and find myriads of bodies"
Have yon any more questions 10 ask
Any moro difficulties 70 suggest ANY
moro mysteries2 Bring them onl Against
a whole regiment of skopticism | will
march these two champions: Marvel
not at this. for the hour is coming whom
ali who are in their graves shall come
forth" 1.-THE Lord shall descend from
heaven with asiout, and the voice OF the
archangel, and the trump of God, and
the dead in Christ shall rise first" You
see l stick TO these two passages. Who
art thou, o fool, that thou repliest
against God? Hath he promised, and
shall no not doiti Hath he commanded,
and shall he not bring it to pass? Have
you not confidence in his omnipotoncei
II he could in the first place build my
body, after it is torn down eau no not
build il again?
"Oh,' you say, ~ would believe that
II you would explain it. am not dis
posed to DO skeptical, but explain how
it can DO done" My brother, you be-
heyo great many things you cannot
explain You believe your mind acts on
your body. Explain tho process. This
seed planted comes upa blue flower. An
other seed planted comes up yellow
flower, Another seed planted comes mp
q white flower Why? Why that wart
on your finger? Tell me why some cows
have horns md other cows have no
horns, Why, when two obstacles strike
each other in the air, do you hear tho
percussion? What is the subtle energy
that dissolyes a solid in cruciboi
What makes the notChes on an oak leaf
different from any other kind Of leaf
What makes the orange blossom differ
ent from that Of tho roseY How can tho
nlnightiness which rides on the circle Of
the heaven find room 90 turn its chariot
ON n heliotropei Explain these. Can
you not DO it, Then will not explain
the resurrection. You explain one-hnlf
Of the common mysteries Of everyday
life. and ] will explain all the mysteries
Of the resurrection You cannot answer
me very plain questions in regard TO or
binary affairs. am not ashamed to uay
that cannot explain God, and the iudg-
ment, and the resurrection. i simply &C.
cept them as facts. tremendous and inf
mite,
MEAN UNTO HEAVENS GATES.
Before the resurrection takes place
everything will 30 silent The mauso-
leums and the labyrinths silent, Tho
srayeyards silent, the cemetery silent,
save from the clashing OF hoofs and tho
grinding Of wheels as the last funeral
procession comes in. No breath Of air
disturbing the dust where Persepolis
stood and Thebes and Babylon.
No winl.ing of the eyelids long closed
in darkness. No stirring Of the feet
that once bounded the hillside, No
opening Of the hand that once plucked
the flower out Of the edge Of the wild.
wood. No clntching Of swords by the
men who went down when Persia bat
tied and Rome fell. Silence from ocean
beach to mountain cliff and from river
to river. The sea singing thSFame old
tuno. Tho lakes hushed 10 ideep in the
bosom Of the same great hills. No hand
disturbing the gate Of the long barred
sepulcher. Ali the nations of the dead
motion. oss in their winding sheets. Up
tho side OF the hills, down through tho
trough of the valleys, far out in the cav
ems, across the fields. deep down into
the coral palaces Of the ocean depths
where leyiathan sports with his fellows
everywhere, layer above layer height
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