The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-04-14

BODY Will be adorned ana Deaub1Qeu ac-
cording to the original model. And
there is no such difference between q
gymnast and an emaciated wretch in a
lazaretto, as there will be difference
between our bodies as they are now
and our resurrected forms
There you will see the perfect eye,
after the waters of death have washed
out the stains of tears and study. There
you will see the perfect hand, after the
knots of toll have beeu united from the
knuckles. There you will see the form
erect and elastic, after the burdens have
sofie off the shoulders s--the very life OF
God in the body.
In this world, the most impressive
thing, the most expressive, thing, is the
htitnan face, bat that face is veiled with
the griefs of a thousand yeafsl bat ID
the resurrection morn that veil will be
taken away from the face, and the
floohsdat suii is dull and dim and stupid
compared with the outfaming g1oriea
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 dawhing of new mofning on
the bosom of everlasting dati D gloria
Gus, resurrected body.
But I remark also in regard to that
body, which you are to get IN the res.
direction, 1t will be an immortal ole.
These bodies are wasting away. Some
body has said as soon as we begin To
live we begin to die. Unless ne keep
putting the fuel into the furnace the
furnace dies out. The blood vessels
are canals taking the breadstuffs to all
parts of the system. We must be res
constructed hour by hour, day by day.
Sickness and death are all the time try=
ing to get their prey iinder the tenss
ment, or to push us off the embank-
ment of the grave; but, blessed
be God, in the resurrection we
will get a body immortal. No
malaria in the air, no cough, no neus
ralEic twinEe, no theuinatic pang; nd
Huttering of the heart, no shortness OF
breath, no ambulance, no dispensary,
no hospital, no invalid's chair, no spec
tacles to improve the dim vision; but
health, immortal healthl o ye who
have aches and pains ifidescribable this
We who are lacerated with physical dis
tresses, let me tell you of the resur-
rected body, free from all disease. Inn
mortal 1mmorta1i
will go further, and say in regard
to that body which you are to yet in
the resurrection. 1t will be powerful
body. We walk now eight or ten
miles, and we are fatigued; we lift a
few hundred pounds, and we are ex-
haustsdI unarmed we meet wild
beast, and we must run, or fly, or
climb, or dodge, because we are incom-
petent to meet it; we toll eight or ten
hours vigorously, and then we are
weary; but In the resurrection TIRE are
to have body that never gets tired.
Is it not glorious thought?
Plenty of occupation in Heaven.
suppose Broadway, New York, in tho
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 comrade old times-the bat
ties where you fought shoulder to shoul.
der.
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 be
wiped away, there are so many burdens
to life, there is so much to be achieved
for Christ, we sometimes wish that
from the first of January to the last Of
December we could toll on without
to sleep or take any recrea-
ton or to rest or even to take food
that we could toll right on without
a moment in our work of COM
Christ and Heaven to all the
people. But we all get tired.
1t is characteristic of the human body
N this condition; we must get tired.
Is it'not a glorious thought that after
awhile we are going to have body
that will never get weary? o glorious
dayl Gladly will l fling
aside this poor body of sin and fling it |
nto the tomb If at Thy bidding l shall
nave a body that never wearies. That
vas splendid resurrection hymn that |
vas sung at my fathers burial
so Jesus slept, Gods dying son
Passed through tn grave and blessed the bed. |
Rest here, blest saint, till from His throne
Fhe morning breaks to pierce the shade.
l heard of father and son who, |
lmong others, were shipwrecked at |
ea. The father and the son climbed |
nto the rigging. The father held on, |
1ut the son after awhile lost his hold |
n the rigging and was dashed down.
The father supposed he had gone hope
essly under the wave. The next day |
he father was brought ashore from |
he rigging in an exhausted state, and |
aid in bed in a fsherman's hut, and /
Lfter many hours had passed he |
anne to consciousness, and saw lying |
beside him on the same bed, his boy. |
Oh, my friendsI what a glorious thing
t will be when we wake up at last ia |
ind our loved ones beside us! Coming |
lp from the same plot in the grave
Tard, coming up in the same morning
ight-the father and son alive forever,
Ill the loved ones alive forever, never
more to weep, nevermore to part, never
more to die.
May the God of peace, that brought
gain from the dead our Lord Jesus,
hat great Shepherd of the sheep
through the blood of the everlasting
ovenant make you perfect in every
-ood work, to do His will, and let this
brilliant scene of the morning
transport our thoughts to the
'rander assemblage before the throne.
his august assem- blage is nothing COM
ared with it. The one hundred and