The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-29

Iii)h ID" eau Iil'y DC assorted when
these PARTICLES belong to them ally"
You say, There is a missionary
| buried IN Green wood. aud when he was
IN China he had his arm amputated-iu
| the resurrection will that fragment of
the body Ilv $4,000 miles 10 Join the rest
| OF the holN?"
You s,v. "Wll 1T not b, Il very diff.
cult hhInS Iora spclL cDmin. btck iu
I'M diY - ana tn" IN trrad plrncles of
lis - WI nolv whGl they may have been
scrtcr"" ~ the winds or ovcrlaid by
Whole generation OF the ,lra1-l0 KIM
I"r the MYRIAD PARTICLES ct its own body,
while there are thousand million
ntlcr SplrltS doing the same thing, and
all The assortment to be m ,de within
one day."
You say, IL a hundred and iuy nen
20 ilto pace nt evening entertainment
and ic ave Their iiaLs aud 0vercoats in the
la'I. when thcY come back it is almost
impossible i)r tfem to get the riyht
ones, or To get them without a great
deal OF p@rplnNity, and yet you tell me
mat nYrlads ot spirits in the last d,y
WIN come and lind myriads of bodies. -
Have you any mere questions To ask,
any more mysteries? Bring them OF!
AGaltSl Whole regiment Of skcpticism
| W!ll mrGh thcse Two champions:
'MTVoi notat this, for the hour is com
n,H "hen all who are in their graves
sha'l comC forlh.' THE Lord shall
descent from h .aycn with Il shout. and
tAc V"ica ol The archanyel. aud the
trump ul Cod, and the dead in Christ
shall rlst first" You sec L stick to
these two passages. Who art thou. 9
| hn
Hath ho promised, and shall he not do
IL? Hath he commanded, aud shall he
not bring it TO pass? Have you not conf.
'encc in his omnipotcncc? he could
IN the fist place build my bDly, after
| 1t Is torn down can he not build il again?
"Oh,' you say, 81 would believe that
# you woald explain it. | am not dis.
posed TO be skCpt:cal. but explain how
IL can be done." My brother, YOU &c.
lioVc great many things you cannot eX.
plain. You believe your mind acts on
your body. Explain the process. This
seed planted comes up Il blue ilower,
Another seci planted comes up a vel.
low l'Dwcr. Another seed planted
comes w 4 white llOwer. WHY? Whv
that wart Oh your fiHgcr? Tell me whv
some COWS have horns and other cows
have ~ horns. Why. when two OBJ
staclcs strike cacl other in the air, do
you hear the percussion: What IS the
subtle energy that dissolves a solid in q
crl:lbe: What makes the nOtches on
an oak leaf different irom any other kind
ot Leaf? What makes the orange bios
som different from that OF the rose?
How can the almghLiness which ri,iod
on the circle Of The heaven find room TO
turn It's chariot on a hellotropc? Ex-
plan these. Can you not do II? Then
| Will not explain the resurrection. You
explain one-hlli of the common mys.
lcrtrs OF everyday life, and [ will cx-
PAIN all the mysteries Of the resurrec.
Llon. You cannot auwser me very pl lin
Uln3tlpna In regard to ordinary affairs.
! am MT ashamed to say that cannot
explain God aud the Judgment and the
resurrection. | simply accept them as
facts, tremendous ana infinite.
Before the resurrection takes place.
everything will be silent. The mauso-
lenmS and the labyrinths silent. The
silent, the cemetery silent, |
save from the citShing of boots and
the grinding Of wheels as the la st |
funeral procession comes in. No |
breath OF air disturbing the dust where |
i.erSrpolis stood, and Thebes, and |
iiahylon. No winking Of the eyeids
lCn9 closed in darkness. y } stirring Of
the feet that once bounded the hill.
SIDE. No opening of the hand that
t h" edge Of the wildwood. No clutch
ing OF swords by the men who |
went down when Persia battled and |
l'"mr fell. Silence from ocean beach |
to mountain cliff and from river to |
river. The sea singing the same old |
| 'ltr. The lakes hushed to sleep in the |
BOSOM of the same great hills. No |
hand dlSturDin ng the gate of the long |
barred sepulcher. All the nations Of |
the dead motionleSs in their winding |
sheets. p the side of the hills, down |
through the trough Of the valleys, far
out IN the caverns, across the fields, |
deep down into the coral palaces of the |
ocean depths were leviathan sports |
with his fellOws-everwyhere, layer |
above layer, height above height-dead.
dead. dead. But in the twinkling of an
eye, rs quick as that, us the archangle's |
trumpet comes pealing, round, rever-
Deratlng crashing across continents
and seas, the earth will gi We one fear
tul shudder, and the door of the family
vault, without being unlocked, will
burst open, and all the graves of the
dead Will begin to throb and heave
bhS WV ""fCo vi bllC Sod, duu GIG
mausoleum of princes will fall into the
dust, and Ostend and Sebastopol and
Austerlitz and Gettysburg stalk forth
in the lurid air, and the shipwrecked
rise from the deep, their wet locks
looming above the billoW, and all the
land and all the sea be come one mov-
ing mass of llfe-all generations, all
ages with upturned countenances-
some kinilcd with rapture and Others
blanched with despair, but gazing in
ore direction, upon one object, and
that the throne of resurrection!
ON that day you will get back your
Christian dead. There is where the
comfort comes in. They will come up |
with the same hand, the same foot, and |
the same entire body, but with per-
feet hand, and perfect foot, and per
iect DOdy-cOrruption having become
interruption, mortality having become
immortality. And oh, the reunion! oh,
the embrace after so long an absence
Comfort one another with these
words.
While present these thoughts this
morning, does 1T not seem that heaven