Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-04-08

pared with the outHam1ng g1or1es Of the
countenances of the saved. When those
faces of the righteous, those resurrected
faces, turn toward the gate or look up
toward the throne, it will be like the
dawning of new morning on the bosom
of everlasting day! Oh, glorious resur-
rected body!
THE IMMORTAL BODY.
But l remark also, in regard to that
body which you are to get in the resur-
rection, it will be an immortal body.
These bodies are wasting away. Some
body has said as soon us we begin to live
we begin to die. Unless we keep put
ting the fuel into the furnace the fur
mace dies out. The blood vessels are
canals taking the breadstuffs to all parts
of the system. We must be reconstruct
ed hour by hour, day by day. Sickness
and death are all the time trying to get
their prey under the tenement, or to
push us off the embankment of the
grave; but, blessed be God, in the resur-
rection we will get body immortal.
No malaria in the air, no cough, no
neuralgia twinge, no rheumatic pang, no
futtering Of the heart, no shortness of
breath, no ambulance, no dispensary, no
hospital, no invalid's chair. no specta-
cles to improve the dim vision, but
health, immortal health! 0 we who
have aches and pains indescribable this
morning-O We who are never well-O
ye who IRE laccrated with physical dis
tresses, let me tell you of the resurrected
body, free from all disease Immortal
Immortal!
will go further and say, in regard to
that body which you are to get in the res
direction, it will be powerful body. We
walk now eight OF ten miles, and we are
fatigued; we lift few hundred pounds,
and we are exhausted; unarmed, we
meet wild beast. and we must run or
fly or climb or dodge because we are in
competent to meet it, we toll eight or ten
hours vigorously, and then we are weary,
but in the resurrection we are to have
body that never gets tired. Is it not a
glorious thought
NO IDLENEss IN HEAVEN.
Plenty of occupation in heaven. l
suppose Broadway, New York, in the
busiest season of the year at monday
is not so busy as heaven is all the time.
Grand projects of mercy for other
worlds. Victories to be celebrated. The
downfall Of despotisms on earth to be
announced. Great songs to be learned
and sung. Great expeditions on which
God shall send forth his children. Plenty
to do, but no fatigue If you are seated
under the trees of life, it will not be to
rest, but to talk over with some old COM
rade old times-the battles where you
fought shoulder to shoulder.
Sometimes in this world we feel we
would like to have such body as that.
There is so much work to be done for
Christ, there are so many tears to DO
wiped away, there are so many burdens
to lift, there is so much to be achieved
for Christ, we sometimes wish that from
the first Of January to the last of Decen-
Der we could toll on without stopping to
sleep, or take any recreation, or to rest.
or even to take food-that we could toll
right on without stopping moment in
our work of commencing Christ and
heaven to all the people. But we all get
tired.
It is characteristic of the human body
in this condition. We must get tired. Is
it not glorious thought that after awhile
we are going to have body that will
never get weary? Oh, glorious resurrec-
ton day. Gladly will l fling aside this
poor body of sin and fling it into the
tomb if at thy bidding shall have
body that never wearies. That was a
splendid resurrection hymn that was
sung at my fathers burial:
So Jesus slept. Gods dying Son
Pissed through the grave and blessed the bed.
Rest here, blest saint, till from his throne
The morning breaks to pierce the shade.
O blessed resurrection! Speak out,
sweet flowers, beautiful flowers, while
YOU tell of u risen Christ and tell of the
righteous who shall rise. May God fill
you this morning with anticipation!
HAPPY REUNION.
heard of father and son who among
others were shipwrecked at sea. The
father and the son climbed into the rig
cling. The father held on, but the son
after awhile lost his hold in the rigging
and was dashed down. The father sup
posed he had gone hopelessly under the
wave. The next day the father was
brought ashore from the rigging in an
exhausted state and laid in a bed in
fishernlan's hut, and after many hours
had passed he came to consciousness and
saw lying beside him on the same bed
his boy.
Oh, my friends, what glorious thing
it will be when we wake up at last to
find our loved ones beside us! Coming
up from the same plot in the graveyard;
coming up in the same morning light
| the father and son alive forever, all the
loved ones alive forever, nevermore to
weep, nevernore to part, nevermore to
die.
May the God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of The everlasting covenant make
you perfect in every good work, to do
his will, and let this brilliant. scene OF
the morning transport our thoughts to
the grander assemblage before the
| throne
This august assemblage is nothing COM
pared with it. The one hundred anu
forty and four thousand, and the ''great
multitude that no man can number"
some of our best friends among them,
we after awhile to join the multitude.
Blessed anticipation!
Ny soul anticipates the day,
Would stretch her wings and soar away
To aid the song. the palm 10 bear
And bow, the chief of sinners. there.
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