Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-06-30


slant communication.
Does not the Bible say, "Are they not sent
forth as ministering spirits to those who
shall be heirs of salvation?" And when
ministering spirits come down and see US. do
they not take some message back? 1t is I'M
nossible to realize, l know, the idea that
there is such rapid and perpetual intercon-
munication of earth and heaven but IL IS
glorious reality. You take rail train, ana
the train is in full motion, and another traln
from the opposite direction flashes past you
co swiftly that YOU are startled. All the way
between here and heaven is filed with the
nm trains and the down trains-spirits COM
ing-spirits going -Soing-comln3
goinS.
That friend OF yours Who died last month
do Won NOT suppose he told all the family
news about YOU in the good land to the
friends who are gone? Do you not suppose
that when there are hundreds OF opportuni-
files every day fo- them in heaven to hear
from YOU that they ask about you-that they
know YOUR tears, your temptations, your
struggles, your victories2 Aye, they 40.
Perhaps during the last war you had ooy
in the army. and you got a pass. ana you
went through the lines, and you 1ouna MN,
and the regiment coming from your neiSpor-
hood and you knew most OF the boys tnere.
One day YOU started for home. You SAID
"Wen. now, have you any letters to send!
Any messages to send?" And they mica
YOUR pockets with letters, and you started 1or
home. Arriving home, the neighbors came
in. and one said, Ibid you see my JoanY'
and others. "Did you see George?" "Do
YOU know anything about my Frank And
then YOU brought out the letters and gave
them The messages of which you had been
the bearer Do you suppose that angels OF
Col. coming down to this awful battleheio
of sin and sorrow and death and meeting us
and seeing us and finding out all about US,
carry back no message to the skies?
Oh. there is consolation in it You are In
present communication with that land. Iney
are in sympathy with you now more tnan
they ever were. and they are waiting 1or the
moment when the hammer stroke Shall snatteI
the last chain of your earthly bondage, and
your soul shall spring upward. ana tney wiz
stand on the heights of heaven and see you
come. and when you are within halnng ois-
lance your other friends will be called out,
and as YOU fash through the pearl hung gate
their shout Will make the hills tremple,
HAL. ransomed spirit, to the city OF the
blessedr'
console you still further with the idea OF
q resurrection, l know there are great
many people who do not accept this because
they cannot understand it but, my friends,
there are two stout passages-I could bring
hundred, but two swarthy passages are
enough-and one David will strike down the
largest Goliah. "Marvel not at this, for the
hour is coming when all who are in their
graves shall come forth" The otherswarthy
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" On, there
will be such thing as resurrection
You ask me great many questions can
not answer about this resurrection. You
saw for instance, "If mans body is con-
stantly changing, and every seventh year ne
has an entirely new body, and he lives on to
seventy years Of age and so has had ten dii-
ferent bodies. and at the hour OF his death
there is not particle OF flesh on him that
was there in the days of his childhood, In the
resurrection which Of the ten bodies Will
come up or will they ali riser
You say, "Suppose man dies, and MS pooy
is scattered in the dust, and out of that dust
vegetables grow, and men eat the vegeIa-.
| bles. and cannibals slay these men and eat
them, and cannibals fight with cannibals I'M
! til at last there shall be a hundred men VINO
| shall have within them some particles that
started from the dead body first named,
coming up through the vegetable, through
the first man who ate it and through the can
nibals who afterward ate him, and there be
more than hundred men who have rights
in the particles Of that body-in the resur-
rection how can they be assorted wnen tneSe
particles belong to them all?
You say, "There is missionary buried IN
Greenwood, and when he was in China ne
had his arm amputated-in the resurrection
will that fragment of the body fly 10, O00 miles
! IN ioin the rest of the bOdy?"
You saw. "Will it not be very difficult
thing for spirit coming back in that day to
find the myriad particles OF its own Dooy
when they have been scattered by the winds
or overlaid by whole generations OF the dead
looking for the myriad particles OF Its owl
body, while there are thousand mliiioI
other spirits doing the same thing, and al al
the assortment to be made within one dayF
You say, "If $50 men go into place O
evening entertainment and leave their mats
AMI oyercoats in the hall, when they come
back 1t is almost impossible for them to ge
the right ones, or to get them without
great deal of psrplexlty, and yet you tell m'
that myriads OF spirits in the last day vii
come and find myriads of bodies.
Have you any more questions to ASK An.
more difficulties to suggest? Any more mys
teries2 Bring them on Against wnoi
regiment OF skepticisn / will march tines
|
hour is coming when all who are IN thei
graves shall come forth" "The Lord shal
descend from heaven with a shout, and tn
voice of the archangel, and the trump Q
God. and the dead in Chri1t shad rise nrst
You see I stick to these two passages. Wn
art thou. 0 fool, that thou repliest agains
God? Hath He promised. and snail ne nc nc
do it? Hath He commanded. ana snail ID
not bring it to pass? Haveyou not conhdene
in His omnipotence? If He could In the nrs
place build my body, after it is torn 90"
can H. not bSild it again.
ooh" you say, II would believe that IL 20
would explain it I am not dlspoSed 10
skeptical, but explain how 1t can be done.
My brother, you believe great many enlHs
YOU cannot explain. You believe Your min
acts on your body. Explaint the process. IN
seed planted comes up a blue flower. Anotn'
seed planted comes up yellow flower: Al
other seed planted comes up white howe
Whv? Why that wart on your nnger! ie
, me why some COWS have horns and otn
COWS have no horns Why, when two oDst
, Giles strike each other in the air, 40 you me-
the percussion? What is the subtle enere
, that dissolves solid in cruciple. WI
: makes the notches on an oak leaf dlnerel
tom anv other kind of leaf? What max
7 the orange blossom different from that ottl
, rose? How can the almightiness which rid
+ on the circle OF the heaven find room TO tll
. its chariot on hsliotrope9 Explain tines
1 / Can Won not do it? Then | will not expla
r fine resurrection. You explain one-halI
, the common mysteries of everyday lie, al
? will explain all the mysteries OF the resu
4 rection. You cannot answer me very pa
=. questions in regard to ordinary affairs:
not ashamedto say that cannot explain Gc
. and the Judgment, and the resurrection.
: simply accept them as facts, tremendous al
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