The Grenada sentinel., 1893-06-24

| W ltH SHuuutTlHT lips Sut CTlcOs
| Mother. oh. dearest mother,
| Bury me by your side.'
Only one wish she uttered.
| As life was cbbing fast,
Sleep by my side, dear mother,
| And rise with me ut last"
Oh, yes, we want to be buried to
gether. Sweet antetype Of everlasting
residence in each others companion
ship.
When the wrccl1cr 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.
Ono on earth One in Heaven.
Is there not something cheering
in all this thought, and some-
thing to impress upon us the idea that
the departed are ours yet--ours forever
o, there is consolation in it! You are
in present communication with that
land. They are in sympathy with you
now more than they ever We're, and
they are waiting for the moment when
the hammer-stroke shall shatter the
last chain OF your earthly bondage and
soul shall spring upward; and they
will stand on the heights of Heaven
and see you come, and when you are
within hailing distance your other
friends will be called out, and as you
flash through the pearl-hung gate, their
shout will make the hills tremble:
"EIail! ransomed spirit, to the city of
the blessed"
console you still further with the
idea of a resurrection. 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 hun
drcd, 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 res.
direction.
You ask me a great many questions
can not answer about this resurrection.
You say, for instance: IF 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 q particle of flesh on him that was
there in the days Of his childhood in
thes 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 can
nibals fight with cannibals until at
last there shall be a hundred men who
shall have within some particles that
started from the dead body first named,
coming up through the vegeta bic,
through the first man who ate it, and
through the cannibals who afterward
ate him, and there he more than hun
dred men who have rights in the parti-
cles Of that 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, will that
fragment of the body fly sixteen thou.
sand miles to join the rest Of the body?
You say: "Will 1t not be q very din.
cult thing for q spirit coming back in
that day to find the myriad particles Of
It's own body, where they may have
been scattered by the winds or overlaid
by whole generations Of the dead
looking for the myriad particles Of its
own body, while there are q thou.
sand million other spirits doing the
same thing, and all the assortment To
be made within one day?" You say:
"1f one hundred and fifty men 20 intoa
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