Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-24

this: "The Lord shall discend from
Heaven with II 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.
You ask me great many questions
I can not answer about this resurrec-
ton. You say, for instance: IF n
mans body is constantly changing, and
every seventh year he has an entirely
new body, and he lives on to 20
years of age, and so has had ten differ
ent bodies, and ut the hour of his death
there is not particle of flesh on him
that was there in the days of his child
hood-in the resurrection, which of
the ten bodies will come up, or will
they all rise?"
Have you any more questions to
ask? Any more difficulties to
suggest? any more mysterious? Bring
them on. Against whole regiment of
skepticism l will 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 n
shout. and the voice of the archangel,
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 lie promised, and shall He not do
it? Hath lie commanded, and shall He
not bring it to pass? Have you not
confidence in His omnipotence? If He
could, in the first place, build my body,
after it is torn down, can lie not build it
again?
"Oh," you say: II would believe that
if you would explain it. am not dis
posed to be skeptical, but explain how
it can be done" My brother, you be-
lieve great many things you cannot
explain. You believe your mind act
on your body. Explain the process.
This seed planted comes up blue
flower. Another seed planted comes
up yellow flower Another seed
planted comes up white flower Why?
Why that wart on your finger? Tell me
why some cows have horns and other
cows have no horns. Why. when two
obstacles strike each other in the air,
do You hear the percussion? What
is the subtle energy that dis
solves solid in crucible? What
makes the notchcs in an oak leaf differ
ent from any otherlsind of leaf? What
makes the orange blossom different
from that of the rose? How can the
almightiness which rides on the circle
of the heaven find room to turn it's
chariot on heliotrope? Explain
these. Can you not do it? Then will
not explain the resurrection. You en-
plain one-half of the common mysteries
of everyday life, and will explain all
the mysteries of the resurrection. You
cannot answer me very plain questions
in regard to ordinary affairs. am not
ashamed to say that cannot explain
God, and the Judgment, and the resur-
rection. simply accept them rs facts,
tremendous and infinite.
Before the resurrection takes place,
everything will be silent. The mauso-
leums and the labyrinths silent. The
graveyards silent. the cemetery silent.
But in the twinkling of an eye, as quick
as that. rs the archangers trumpet
comes pealing, rolling, reverberating,
crashing across continents and seas,
the earth will give one fearful shudder
and the door of the family vault, with
out being unlocked, will burst open;
and all the graves of the dead will be-
gin to throb and heave like the waves
of the sea: and the mausoleum OF
princes will fall into the dust, and Qs-
tend, and Sebastopol, and Austerlitz,
and Gettysburg. stalk forth in the
lurid air; and the ship-wrecked rise
from the deep, their wet locks looming
above the pillows; and all the land and
all the sea become one moving mass OF
life-all generations, all ages with up
turned countenances-some kindled
with rapture and others blanched with
despair, but gazing in one direction,
upon one object, and that the throne OF
resurrection.
While present these thoughts this
morning, does it not seem that Heaven
comes very near to us, as though our
friends, whom we thought a great way
off. are not in the distance, but close
by? You have sometimes come down
to a river mt nightfall, and you have
been surprised how easily You could
hear voices across that river You
shouted over to the other side of the
river, and they shouted back. 1t is
said that when George Whitefeld
preached in Third street, Philadelphia,
one evening time. his voice was heard
clear across to the New Jersey shore.
When ! was a little while chap
lain in the army, remember
how at eventiie we aid easily
hear the voices o. the pickets
across the Potomac just when they
were using ordinary tones. And we
come to-day and stand by the river OF