Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-03

is coming Wn6n all VINO are III Ino1f
graves shall come forth. Christ risen,
we shall rise. jesus the first fruits of
them that slept" Now. around this doc
trine of the resurrection there are great
many mysteries.
MYSTERIES OF THE RESURRECTION.
You come to me this morning and say
eff the bodies of the dead are to be raised,
how is this and how:is that?'' And you ask
me a thousand questions l am incompe-
tent 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, Il won't believe
anything can't understand"
Why, putting down one kind of flow
er seed, comes there up this flower of
this color? Why, putting down another
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. Explain 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 q rose leaf. You ask
me questions about the resurrection l
cannot answer. will ask you thou
sand questions about everyday life you
cannot answer.
| find my strength in this passage,
All who are in their graves shall come
forth" do not pretend to make the e1-
PLANTATION. You can so on and say:
Suppose returned missionary dies in
Brooklyn. When he was in China, his
after in England, and there he had an
arm amputated. He is buried today 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 reconstructed in the
resurrection? How is that possibles''
You say that 1.-The human body changes
every seven years, and by 70 years of age
q man has had 10 bodies. In the resurrec-
ton which Will come up?" You say, "a
man viii die and his body crumble into
dust and that dust be taken up into the
life Of the vegetable An animal may eat
the vegetable: men eat the animal. In
the resurrection that body, distributed
in so many directions, how shall it be
gathered up?' Have you any more ques-
tons Of this style to ask? Come on and
ask them. | do not pretend to answer
them. fall back upon the announce
ment of Gods word, ''All who are in
their graves shall come forth
WHEN THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND.
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 I
know it will be very penetrating. In
the mausoleum. where silence has reigned
a thousand years, that voice must pene-
trate. 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; surrender
them now in interruption" Hundreds
of spirits lowering about the crags Of
Gettysburg, for there the bodies are
buried. A hundred thousand spirits COM
ing to Greenwood, for there the bodies
gre 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 hover
ing-aundreds Of spirits lowering, wait
ing f0e 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; won
aerful mingiing of good and bad. Crash!
go the pyramids of Egypt. and the mon
archS come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? [ suppose
that one moment before that general ris-
ing there viii be al entire silence save
RS you hear the grinding of a wheel or
q clatter Of the hoOfs Of a procession pass
ing 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 moment, in the twinlzling of
an eye, as the archangel's trumpet comes
pealing, rolling, crashing across noun
tain 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 Cha
Ions will stalk forth in the lurid air, and
5he drowned will come up and wiring
out their wet locks above the billow,
and all the land and all the sea become
ore moving mass of life-an faces, all
ages, all conditions, gazing in one direc-
ton and upon one threne-the throne of
''AIl who are in their
graves shall come forth. -
THE GLORIOUS BODY.
but, you say, ''if this doctrine of