Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-29

| sisters. VINO used LII sport 10 HlnS unem-
selves on the grass, now again reclin-
ing side by side in the grave, in fiecks
Of sunlight sitting through the long.
1.-the willows. Then at h trumpet of
the archangel to rise side by side, shak-
ing themselves from the dust of ages.
! The faces that were CHASTITY and fixed
when you saw them last all ahush
with the light of interruption. The
father looking around on his children,
and saying. Come, come, my dar-
| lings. this is the morning of the resur-
rection." Mrs. Sigourney wrote beau
| tifully with the tears and blood or
her own broken heart:
There was n shaded chamber,
A silent, watching band,
On a low couch a suffering hid
Grasping her mothers hand.
But mid the gasp and struggle,
With shuddering lips h cried,
Mother, oh, dearest mother,
Bury me by your side"
Only one wish she uttered,
AS life was ebbing fast,
"Sleep by my side dear mother,
And rise with me at last"
Oh, yes. we want to be buried toge-
Their. Sweet antelope of everlasting
residence in each others companion
ship.
When the wrecker went down into
| the cabin of the lost steamer he found
the mother and child in each others
arms. 1t was sad, but it was beautiful,
/ and it was appropriate. Together they
went down. Together they will rise.
one on earth. One in heaven. Is there
not something cheering in all this
thought. and something TO impress up
on us the idea that the departed are
ours yet-ours forever?
/ console you still further with the
idea of a resurrection. / know there
are n great many people who do not
accept this because they can not un-
derstand it, but, my friends, there are
two stout passagesI could bring a
hundred, but two swarthy passages
are enough-and one David will strike
down the largest Goliath. 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 a shout. and the voice of
the ~archangel and the trump of God.
and the dead in Christ shall rise first"
oh. there will be such 4 thing as a res
direction.
You ask me n great many questions
/ can not answer about this resurrec-
ton. You say, for instance: If a
mans body is constantly changing, and
every seventh year he has an entirely
new body. and he lives or to seventy
years of age. and so has had ten differ
ent bodies, and at the hour of his death
there is o a particle of flesh on him
that was there in the days of his child
hood-in the resurrection, which of the
ten bodies viii come up, or will they
all riseT" You say: Suppose a nan
dies and his body is scattered in the
dust. and out of that dust vegetables
grow, and men eat the vegetables. and
cannihals fight with cannibals until Mt
last there shall be 100 men who shah
have within some particles that started
from the dead body first named, COM
ing up through the vegetable, through
the first man who ate ii, and through
the cannibals who afterward ate him,
ard there be more than 100 men who
have rights in the particles of that body
in the resurrection how can they be
assorted when these particles belong
TO them all? You say: There is a
missionary buried in Greenwood, and
wheI he was in China he had his arm
amputated - in the resurrection. will
that fragment of the body fly $4,000
miles 70 Join the rest of the body? You
say: VIII it not be a very difficult
thing for n spirit coming back in that
day TO find the myriad particles Of its
own body. when they may have been
scattered by the winds or OVERLAND
by whole generations of the dead
looking for the myriad particles of its
lu-n hnlx< uhfla fharn ana N thnntSanI
million other spirits doing the sane
thing. and all the assortment to be
made within n day You say: IF
$50 men go into a place of evening en-
tertainment. and leave their hats and
o%vercoats in the hall. when they come
back i. is almost impossible for them
TO get the right ones. or TO get them
without a great deal of peTpiexity.
And yet you tell me that myriads of
spirits in the last day viii come and
find myriads of bodies" Have YOU
any more questions TO ask? any more
difficulties 10 suggest? any more mys-
teries? Bring them on. Against n
whole regiment of skepticism / viii
march these two champions: Marvel
not at this. for the hour is coming
when all who are in their graves shall
come forth" The Lord shall descend
from heaven with a shout, and the
voice of the a~rchangel. and the trump
of God. and the dead in Christ shall
rise first" You see / stick TO these
two passages. Who art thou, oh. fool,
that thou repliest against God? Hath
he promised. and Snail he not do il?
Hath he commanded, and shall he not
bring il to pass? Have you not conf
dence in his omnipotence? IL he could
in the first place. build my body, after
it is torn down can he not build it
again?
"Oh," you say, Il would believe that
J If You would explain ~. l am not dis
posed TO be skeptical, but explain how
IL can be done" My brother, you be-
lieve d great many things you cannot
explain. You believe your mind acts
on your body. Explain the process.
This seed planted comes up a blue
flower. Another seed planted comes
up a yellow flower. aiaotiier seed
nlaptad comaS nm N white finwar Whyl