The evening call. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1891-1893, 1893-07-05

! nfSt man VINO ate lt, and through IN
: cannibais who afterward ate him. an
! there be more than 100 men who hav
! rights in the particles OF that body
the resurrection how can they be q:
a sorted when these particles belong t
> them alp"
! You say, there is missionary burie
, in Greenwood, and when be was in Chin
r he had his arm amputated-in the resur
, rection will that fragment of the bod
fly 16, 900 miles to join the rest of tn
body?"
You say. "Will it not be a very diff
cult thing for spirit coming back il
that day to find the myriad particles O
its own body when they may have beer
scattered by the winds or overlaid by
whole generations Of the dead-lookine
for the myriad particles OF its own body
while there are thousand million oihel
spirits doing the same thing, and all the
assortment to be made within one day?'
You say, IF hundred and fifty men
go into place OF evening entertainment
and leave their hats and overcoats in the
hall, when they come back it is almost
impossible for them to get the right ones,
or to get them without a great deal Of
perplexfty, and yet you tell me that
myriads of spirits IN the last day will
Gene and find myriads of bodies"
| Have you any more Questions to ask,
any more difficulties to suggest. any more
mysteries? Bring them on! Against a
whole regiment Of skepticism l will
march these two companions: 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 shout, and the voice of
the archangel, and the trumpet of God.
and the dead in Christ shall rise first"
You see | stick to these two passages
Who art thou, o fool that thou repIiest
against God? Hath He promised, and
shall He not dOit? Hath He 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 He not
build it again?
"Oh," you say, II would believe that
II you would explain it. ] am not dis
posed to be skeptical but explain how
it can be done" My brother. you be-
lleve great many things you cannot ex-
plain. You believe your mind acts on
your body. Explain the process This
seed planted comes up blue flower.
Another seed planted comes up a yellow
flower. Another seed planted comes ND
a 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
Dercussion2 What is the subtle energy
that dissolves solid in a crucible? |
What makes the notches on an oak leaf |
different from any other kind Of leaf? |
What makes the orange blossom different |
from that Of the rose? How can the al |
nightiness which rides on the circle of |
the heaven find room to turn its chariot
On helIotroDe? Explain these. Can /
you not do it? Then l will not explain
5he resurrection. You explain one-half
of the common mysteries of everyday
life, and will explain all the mysteries
u the resurrection. You cannot answer
ne very plain questions in regard to
ordinary affairs. l am not ashamed to
ay that l cannot explain God and the
resurrection. l simply accept them as
acts. tremendous and infinite.
Silence or the Tomo.
Before the resurrection takes place.
will be silent The mauso-
Gums and the labyrinths silent The
'raveyards silent, the cemetery silent,
ave from the clashing of hoofs and the
FINDING of wheels as the last funeral
recession comes in. No breath of air
disturbing the dust where Persepois
TODD, and Thebes. and Babylon. No
Vinking of the eyelds long closed in
arkness. No stirring of the feet that
nee bounded the hillside No opening
t the hand that once plucked the flower
ut OF the edge of the wildwood. Nc
lutching OF swords by the men who went
own when Persia battled and Rome fell.
Hence from ocean beach to mountain
lii and from river to river. The sea J
nRtng the same old tune. The lakes |
ushed to sleep in the bosom of the same G
reat hills No hand disturbing The gate :
the long barred sepulcher. All the
atoms Of the dead motonless in their
! nd1n9 sheets. Up the side of the hills I
own through the trough of the valleys Z
ar out In the caverns, across the fields,
eep down into the coral palaces t
the ocean depths where levia-
IAN sports with his fellows-every- Z
here, layer above layer, height L
oove height, depth below depth-dead! =
9ad! dead! But In the twinkl;ng of an
Re, as quick as that, as the archangePs .
umpet comes pealing, rolling. reverber- y
ing, crashing across the continents t
I'd seas, the earth will give one fearful +
ludder, and the door of the family a
lult, without being unlocked, will burst \
zen, and all the graves Of the dead will h
'gin TO throb and heave like the waves -
the sea, and the mausoleum Of princes :,
III fall into the dust and Ostend and
'bastopol and Austerlitz and Gettys- II
lrS stalk forth IN the lurd air and the
Ilpwrecked rise from the deep, their II
ct locks looming above the billow, and T
the land and all the sea become one m
owing mass OF life-all generations, all ~
'es, with upturned cOuntenances- :
me kindled with rapture and others II
anched with deep despair but gazing dI
one direction, upon one object, and "a
at the throne of resurrection
While l present these thoughts this
ornlng. does IT not seem that Heaven
mes very near 10 Us, as though our f.,
ends, whom We thought a great way -,
, are not In the distance, but close -
You have sometimes come down to
river at nightfall, and you have been al
rprised how easily you could hear ar
ices across that river. You shonted ~
er 10 the other side Of the river, and on
ey shouted back. 1t is said that when il
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