The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-14

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. Elk
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 1 cannot answer. l will
ask you a thousand questions about
everyday life you cannot answer
find my strength in this passage;
"All who are in their graves shall come
forth" 1 do not pretend to make ex-
PLANTATION. You can go on and say;
Suppose a returned missionary dies in
Brooklyn; 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 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 say that ''the human body
changes every seven years, and by 70
years of age a 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 life of the vege-
table; an animal may eat the vegetable,
men eat the animal; in the resurrection,
that body distributed in so many direc-
tons, how shall it be gathered up?''
Have you any more questions of this
style to ask? Come on, and ask them.
do not pretend to answer them. fall
back upon the announcement 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 a great sound. / do not
know that it will be very loud, but | do
know that it 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. ~
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 a 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. Steamer
found at last There is where the Cen
trail America went down Spirits how
ering-hundreds of spirits lowering
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul Out on the prairie a'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 monarcbs come forth.
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 CHATTER 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 in the valleys and far out
into the sea Silence. But in a mo-
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, as
archangels 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 prefgured
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 resurrected 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 resurrected body: 1t will be a
glorious body. The body we have now
is mere skeleton of what it would
have been if sin 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
a chisel, and batter and bruise it here
and there, and then stand it out in the
storms of hundred years, and the
beauty would be gone. Well, the hui
man body has been Clipped and battered
and bruised and damaged with the
storms of thousands of years-the
physical defects of other generations
coming down from generation to gen.
Grafton, we inheriting the infelicities
of past generations; but in the morning
of the resurrection the body will be
adorned and beautified according to the
original model. And there is no such
difference between a gymnast and an
emaciated wretch in the laZaretto, as
there will be difference between our
bodies as they are now and our resur-
rected forms