The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-06-30

trumpet OF the archangel to rise side by
side, shaking themselves from the dust
of ages. The faces that were CHASTITY
and fixed when you saw them last all
afush with the light of interruption.
The father looking around on his
children, and saying: 'Come, come, my
darlings, this is the morning of the
resurrection" Mrs. Sigourney wrote
beautifully with the tears and blood of
her own broken heart:
There was shaded chamber,
A silent, watching hand.
On a low couch a suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand.
But mid the gasp and struggle,
With shuddering lips she cried,
Mother, oh, dearest mother,
Bury me by your side"
| Only wish she uttered,
| AS life was ebbing fast
| ''Sleep by my side, de2r mother,
| And rise with me at last"
Oh, yes, we want to be buried to-
gether. Sweet antelope of everlasting
residence in each others companion
ship.
But 1 console you again with the
fact of your present acquaintanceship
and communication with your departed
friends. / have no sympathy, / need
not say, with the ideas of modern spir-
itualism; but what / mean is the theory
set forth by the apostle, when he says:
"We are surrounded by great cloud
| of witnesses" Just as in the ancient
amphitheater there were eighty thou
sand or one hundred thousand people
looking down from the galleries upon
the combatants in the center, so, says
Paul, there is a great host of your
friends in all the galleries of the sky
looking down upon our earthly strug-
gle. 1t is sweet, consoling, a
scriptural idea. With wing of angel,
munication. Does not the Bible say:
care they not sent forth as ministering
spirits TO those who shall be heirs of
salvation?" And when the ministering
spirits come down and see us, do not
they take some message back? 1t is
impossible to realize, l know, the idea
that there is such rapid and perpetual
intercommunication of earth and
Heaven, but it is a glorious reality,
You take rail train and the train is in
full motion, and another train from
the opposite direction dashes past
you so swiftly that you are
startled; all the way between here and
Heaven is filed with the up trains and
the down trains-spirits coming
spirits going-coming- going-coming
| going. That friend of yours who died
last month-do you not suppose he
told all the family news about you in
the good land to the friends who are
gone? Do you not suppose that when
there are hundreds of opportunities
every day for them in Heaven to hear
from you that they ask about you?
That they know your tears, your temp
tations, your struggles, your victories?
Aye, 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
neighborhood, you knew most of the
boys there. One day you started for
home. You said: 'Well, now, have
you any letters to send? any messages
to send?" And they filed your pockets
with letters, and you started home.
! Arriving home, the neighbors came
in, and one said: Ibid you see my
John?" and others: did you see
George?" "Do you know anything
about my Frank?" And then you
brought>out the lettere and gave them
the messages of which you had been
the bearer. Do you suppose that angels
of God, coming down to this awful bat
tlefield of sin, and sorrow and death,
and meeting us and seeing us, and find
ing out all about us, carry back no
message to the skies?
console you still further with the
idea of a resurrection. l know there
are great many people who do not ac-
cept this because they can not under
stand it, but, my friends, there are two
stout passages-I could bring a hun
dred, 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 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 thing as a res
direction.
L Ou ask me RTedU IIldIly QUESTIONS
can not answer about this resurrection.
You say, for instances: IF a mans
body is constantly changing, and every
seventh year he has an entirely new
body, and he lives to seventy years of
age, and so has had ten different bodies,
and at the hour of his death there is
not a particle of flesh on him that was
there in the days of his childhood in
the resurrection, which OF the ten
bodies will come up, or will they all
rise?" You say: Suppose man
dies and his body is scattered
in the dust, and out of that
dust vegetables grow, and men
eat the vegetables and cannibals
slay these men and eat them, and cam
ibals fight with cannibals until at
last there shall be hundred men who
shall have within some particles that
started from the dead body first named,
coming mp through the vegeta bic,
through the first man who ate it, and
through the cannibals who afterward
ate him, and there be more than hun
bred men who have rights in the parti-
cles of thai body-in the resurrection
how can they be assorted when these
particles belong to them all? You
say: There is missionary
buried in Greenwood, and when
he was in China he had his arm am
putated-in the resurrection, viii that
fragment of the body fy sixteen thou