The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-05-27


great many mysteries
You come to me this morning and
say: If 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 a very foolish man to say:
II won't believe anything / don't un-
derstand"
Why, putting down one kind of How-
err seed, comes there up this flower of
this color? Why, putting down anoth-
flower seed, comes there up 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. Ex-
plain why the oak-leaf is different from
the leaf of the hickory. Tell me how
the Lord Almighty can turn the
chariot of His omnipotence on a rose
leaf? You ask me questions about the
resurrection l can not answer. will
ask you thousand questions about
everyday life you can not answer.
find my strength in this passage:
"All who are in their graves shall come
forth" l do not pretend to make ex-
PLANTATION. You can go on and say:
Suppose returned missionary dies in
Broolslyn; when he was in China his
foot was amputated; he lived years after
in England. and there he had his arm
amputated; he is buried to-day in Green
wood; in the resurrection will the foot
come from China, will the arm come
from England, and will the different
parts of the body be reconstructed in
the resurrection? How is that posi-
ble?"
You say that ''the human body
changes every seven years, and by
seventy years of age man has had
ten bodies; in the resurrection which
will come up?" You say: "a man will
die and his body crumble into dust, and
that dust be taken up into the vegeta-
BILE; an animal may eat the vegetable,
men eat the animal; in the resurrec-
ton. that body distributed in so many
directions, how shall it be gathered
up?" Have.you any more questions of
this style toaslS? Come on, and ask
them. / do not pretend to answer
them. / fall back upon the announce
mcnt of Gods word: '.All who are in
their graves shall come forth"
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 be very loud, but
do know that it will be very pene-
trating. In the mausoleum where 81
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 back our bodies;
we gave them to you in corruption, sur
render them now in interruption. :"
Hundreds of spirits lowering about the
crags of Gettysburg, for there the bod
les are buried. A hundred thousand
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
York to Liverpool at every few miles
where steamer went down, departed
spirits coming back. lowering over the
wave. There is where the City of Bos-
ton persisted. Found at last. There is
where the President persisted. Steam
CIR found at last. There is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
lowering of spirits lowering
waiting fer the reunion of body and
soul Out on the prairie 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
the monarchs come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? / sup
pose that one moment before that gen.
eral rising there will be an en- tire ST.
lence, save as you hear the grinding of
q wheel, or 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 the valleys and far out
into the sea. Silence. But in a mo-
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, as
the 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 NOV
ing mass of life-all faces, all ages, all
conditions gazing in one direction and
upon one throne-the throne of resur-
rection. "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
promise and a prophecy of the rising
of all His people, can you tell us some
thing 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.
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