The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-22

mother and child IN each others ARD. II
wae sad. but II was beautiful, and II W. ap-
proprlate. Together they went DOWN To-
gether they will rise. One on earnt ono
In heaven. II there not something cteering
in all this thought and something to ihpreas
upon us the idea that the departed arr ours
yef-ours forever2
But console you again with the fact Of
your present scquaintsnceship and com
munication with your departed friends.
have no sympathy, need not say, with the
ideas OF modern spiritualism. hut what
mean is the theory set forth by the apostle
when he says. I'VE are surrounded by q
great cloud OF witnesses" Just as In the
ancient amphitheatre there were 10000
or 100 900 people looking down from the gal
leries upon the CONTESTANTS In the center, so,
says Paul. there IL q great host ofyour
friends In all the galleries OF the sky looking
down upon our earthly struggles. ls
sweet, a consoling, scriptural idea. With
wing OF angel, earth and heaven are In con-
slant communication.
Docs not the Bible say. care they not sent
forth "a ministering spirits TO those who
shall bc heirs OF salva tionT" And when
ministcring spirits come down and SEQ us, do
they not take some message back2 IL IL i'm
possible TO realize, I know, the idea that
there is such rapid and perpetual intercon-
munication OF earth and heaven, but It Is a
glorious reality. You take rail train, aud
the train IL in full motion, and another train
from the opposite direction flashes past you
SO swiftly that you are startled. Allthe way
between here and heaven Is filed win the
up trains and the down trains--spirits com
ing-epirits going g-coming-going-co
going.
That friend OF yours who died laa month
do you not suppose he told oil the family
news about you in the good land TO the
friends who are gomez Do you not suppose
that when there are hundreds OF opportuni-
ties every day for thom in heaven TO hear
from you that they nsk about you-that they
know your tears. your temptations, your
struggles. your victorics2 Ave, they do.
Perhaps during the last war you had boy
In the army. and you got pass and you
went through the lines, and you found him,
and the regiment coming from your neigDor-
hood and you knew most OF the boys there.
one day you started for home. You said /:
well, now, have you any letters TO sond2
Any messages 10 send2' And they filed
your pockets with letters. and you started for
home. Arriving home, the neighbOrs came
in, and one said. "Did you see my John2'
and others. "Did you see GeorgeT DO
you know anything about my Frank And
then you brought out the letters and i,aye
them the messages OF which you had been
the bearer. Do you suppose that angels of
God. coming down TO this awful battlefield
OF sin and sorrow and death and meeting US
and seeing us and finding ont all about US,
carry back no message to the skies2
oh. there II consolation In IL You are I'm
present communication with that land. They
are In sympathy with you now more than
they ever were. and they are waiting for the
moment when the hammerstrokc shall shatter
the last chain Of your earthly bondage. and
your soul shall spring upward. and they will
stand on the heights OF heaven and see YOU
come. and when you are within hailing dis
tance your other friends will be called out.
and rs you fash through the pearl hung gate
their shout will make the hills tremhlc.
Hail ransomci spirit, 10 the city OF the
blessed ~
! console you still further with the idea Of
resurrection. | know there are great
many people who do not accept this because
they cannot understand IL but. my frtnds.
there are two stout Passages could bting
hundred, hut two swarthy passsgot arc
enough--and one David will strike down the
largest Goliah. marvel not at this. for the
hour is coming when all who are in their
graves shall come forth" The other swarthy
passage Is this 'The Lord shall descend
from heaven with shout. and the voice OF
the archangel. and the trump OF God and
the dead In Christ shall rise flrst." Oh there
will be such thing as a resurrection.
You ask me great many questions T. can
not answer about this resurrectionl You
say, for Instance, ''If n mans BODY e. con-
stontly changing, and every seventh yAar he
has an entirely new body. and he lives on 20
seventy years OF age and so has had ten dif-
ferent bodies, and at the hour o, his death
there Is not n particle OF flesh on him that
was there In the days OF his childhood, in the
resurrestion which OF tho ten bodies will
come up or will they all risc2"
You say, Suppose u man dies, and his body
Is scattered In the dust, and out Of that dust
vegetables grow, and men eat the yegeta-
bles, and cannibals slay these men and eat
them. and cannibals fight with csnnibals un-
I'll nt last there shall be hundred men who
shall have within them some particles that
started from the dead body first named.
coming up through the vegetable through
the first man who ate II and through the can
nibals who afterward ate him, and there be
more than hundred men who have rights
In the particles OF that body-in the resur-
rection how can they be assorsed when these
particles belong TO them alp
You say, There is a missionary buried IN
Greenwood, aud when he was IN China he
had his arm amputated--in the resurrection
will that fragment Of the body lily 49, 900 miles
TO join the rest OF the bodyT"
You say, "Will II not be very difficult
thing for spirit coming back in that day TO
iind the myriad particles OF its own body,
when they have been scattered by the winds
or overlaid by whole generations OF the dead
looking for the myriad PARTICLES OF its own
body, while there are a thousand million.
other spirits doing the same thing and all
tlt lSSOTtultIt 10 bt WITHIN one uHyl
You say, "lf $50 men go into n place OF
evening entertainment and leave their hats
and overcoats In the hall. when they come
back II Is almost impossible for them to get
the right ones. or to get them without n
great deal OF perplexity, and yet you tell me
that myriads OF spirits In the last day will
come aud find myriads OF bodies"
Have you any more questions TO ask? Any
more difficulties 10 suggest2 Any more mys-
teries? Bring them on Against whole
regiment Of skeptlcism / will march these
two champions "Marvel not at this. for the
hour is coming when all who are In their
graves shall come forth" ''rhe Lord shall
descend from heaven with shout and the
voice OF the archangel, and the trump OF
! God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. ="
You soe stick 10 these two passages. Who
art thou. o fool, that thou replicst against
God2 Hath He promised, and shall He not
| do ~ Hath He commanded. and shall He
not bring 1t to pass2 Haveyou not confidence
Ia His omnipotence2 II He could In the first
place build my body, after It is torn down
| can He not build IL again?