Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-03


do not pretend to nosiite the explanation. You
can Foon and say: Suppose returned ms
piopary dies in Brooklyn; when he was IN
China, bis foot was anaputnted; no hyed
yrars after IN England, and there he bad an
arm amputatei; 10 ia buried today IN Green
wood. In the resurrection win the foot
come from China, will the arm come from
England, and viii the different parts Of the
body Do reconstructed IA the resurrectioni
How IL THAI posdblsw
You say that 1.-THE human body change
every seven years, and by 20 years Of age o
man has had 10 bodies. In the resurrection
which will come upT You say; N man
will die and his body crumble intothe dust,
and that duiG be taken up into the life Of
the vegetable An animal may eat the veg
etable; men eat The animal In the rostir
rection, that body distributed in so many
directions, how shall II be gathered upp'
Have you any more questions Of this style
TO aski Come on and ask them. ! do not
pretend TO answor thea. fall back upor
the announcement OF Gods word, AN who
are In their graves shall come forth"
You have noticed, suppose, In reading
tho story Of the resurrection that almost
every account Of the Bible gives the iGcf
that the characteristic Of that day will h
great sound. do not know that IL viii
be very loud, but know 1t wall be very
penetrating. In the mausoleum whore 81
lence has reiqied a 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 tc
tho tombs Of the earth and they will cry
"Give us back our bodies; we gave them tc
you IN corruption, surrender them now II
interruption" Hundreds OF spirits hover
ing about The crngs Of Gettysburg, foI
there the bodies are buried. A hundred
thousand spirits coming TO Greenwood, foi
there the bodies are buried, waiting for the
reunion Of body and soul.
THE SRA 10 GIVE UP ITS DEAD.
All along the sen route from New York
10 Liverpool at every few miles where
steamer went down, departed spirits com
ing back, lowering over the wave. There
Is where the City Of Boston persisted. Found
Mt last. There Is where the President per
ished Steamer found at last. There I,
where the Central America went down
Spirits Observation-Disclosures Of spirits hov
ering, waiting for the reunion Of body and
soul Out on the prairie a spirit alights
There is where traveller died In the snow
Crashl goes Westminster abbey, and tn,
poets and orators come forth-wOnderful
mingling Of good aud bad. Crash 90 the
pyramids Of Egypt, and the monarchs com,
forth.
Who can sketch the scene2 / suppost
thnt one moment before that general RISING
there will be an entire silence save as you
hear the grinding OF wheel or a clatter ol
H.. l. e.. . l..
cemetery. Silence In ell the caves Of the
earth. Silence on the side Of tho mountain
Silence down in the valleys aud far out into
the sea- Silence
But in moment, In twinkling OF az
eye, as the arohangels trumpet comes peal
ing, rolling, crashing, across mountain ant
ocean, the earth will give one terrific shud
der, and the graves Of the dead will heay,
like the waves Of tho sen, and Ostend anc
Sebastopol and Chalons will stalk forth IL
the lurid air. and the drowned will CONF
up and wiring out their wet locks above tn,
billow. and all the land and all the sen be
como one moving mass Of life-al faces
all ages, all conditions gazing In one diroc
tion and upon one throne-the throne OF
resurrection. "AH who are in their grave,
shall come forth"
resurrection B true as preGgured by this
Easter morning, Christ tho flrst fduits Of
them that slept Christ rising n promiS
aud prophecy Of the rising Of all his poo
pie, can you tell ms something about Ii,
Tcsurrected bodyW / can. There are nays
teries about that, but shall tell you thre,
or tour things in regard TO the resurrecte6
body that arc beyond guessing and beyond
mistake.
THE dLoRTHD BODY.
In the frJt place, remark, in regard e
your resurrOcted body, II will be n gloriou,
body. Tho body we have now ia mert
skeleton Of what II would have been II sr
had not mGrred and defaced IT, Take the
most exquisite statue that w5ss ever mad,
by an artist and chip Il here and chip A
there With a ohisel and batter and bruis,
1t here aud there and then stand ii ont in the
storms OF hundred years, and the beauty
would be gone
Well, the human body has been Clipped
and battered and bruised and damaged will
the stormsof thousands OF years-the phys
icnl defects OF other generations cosninp
down from generation 10 generation, we IN
heiiting the tnfelicities OF past generations.
but In tho morning Of the resurrection tho
body will be adorned and beautified accord.
ing to the original model. And there b nc
such difieIence between a gymnsst and M
emaciated wretch in a lazRretto as there
will he difference between our bodies as
they are now and our resurrected ferns
There you viii see the perfect eye after
the waters Of death have washed out Che
stains Of tears and study. There you viii
see the perfect hand, after tho knots OF toll
have been united from the kuuckleS There
you will see che form erect and elastic, after
the burdens have gone Off the shoulder
the very life Of God In the body.
In this world the most impressive thing
the most expressive thing Is the human
fsee, but that face Is yelled with the arief,
OF a thousar years, but in the resurrection
morn that v1ilwill be taken away from the
face, and the nooaday san IS dun and dim
aud stupid ooRpared with the ontdnnina
glories Of the couatenances Of the saved
When thososfaces Of the righteous. those
resurrected inces, turn toward the gate or
look up toward the throne, it win Be Iilse
The dawning Of a new morning On the boa.
om Of everlasting Sayi Oh, glorious, resur,
rected body!
But remark nlso, IN regard to that BODY
which you arc 20 get in the resurrection. Il
VIII be an immortal body. These bodies
are wasting away. Somebody has saia as
soon as We begin to live we begin "a die