Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-04-15
the silver reappears. Il one force dis
ss,lves, another force TeorSdnlkes.
Out of the Night the Day.


ssWhy sbnrld it be thought thing
Incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?'' The insects flew and
the worms crawied last autumn feebler
and feebler and then stopped They
have taken no food; they want none
They lie dormant and insensible, but
soon the south wind will blow the res
direction trumpet, and the air and the
earth will be full Of them. Do you not
think that God can do as much for our
bodies as he does for the Wasps, and
the spiders, and the snails? This morn
ing at half past o'clock there was a
resurrection. Out of the night, the day
In a few weeks there will be a resurrec-
ton in all our gardens Why not some
day resurrection amid all the graves?
Ever and anon there are instances of
men and women entraneed.
A trance is death, followed by resur-
rection after few days-total suspen-
sion of mental power and voluntary
action. Rev William Tennent, a great
evangelist of the last generation, of
whom DR.. Archibald Alexander, a man
far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic terms-Rev. William
Remnant seemed to die. His spirit seem
ed to have departed People came in
day after day and said, ''He is dead;
he is dead . But the soul returned,
and William Tennent lived to write out
experiences of what he had seen while
his soul was gone. It may be found
some time what is called suspended
animation or comatOs0 state is brief
death, giving the soul an excursion into
the next world, from which it comes
back-a furlough of q few hours grant
ed from the conflict OF life to which it
must return.
Do not this waking up of men from
trance and this waking up of grains
buried 5000 years ago make it easier
for you to believe that your body and
mine, after the vacation Of the grave,
shall rouse and rally, though there be
3, 900 years between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangeliC reveiIIe?
Psychologists tell us that, while the
most of our bodies are built with such
wonderful economy that we can spare
nothing, and the loss of a finger is
hindrance, and the injury Of q toe joint
makes US lame, still we have two or
three apparently useless physical appa-
rati, and no anatOmist or Psychologist
has ever been able to tell what they are
good for. Perhaps they are the founda-
ton of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to us in this state, to be indis-
pensibly valuable in the next state. Tho
Jewish rabbis appear TO have had q hint
Of this suggestion when they said that
in the human frame there was a small
bone which was to be the basis Of the
body. That may have been
a delusion. But this thing is certain.
the Christian scientists Of our day have
found out that there are two or three
of the body that are some
thing glOriOusly suggestive of another
state.
I called at my friend s house one sum
mer day. J. found the yard all piled up
with rubbish of carpenter and mason's
work The door was off. The pluI4bers
had torn up the floor. The roof was be-
ing lifted in cupola All the pictures
were gone, and the paper hangers were
doing their work All the modern i'm
provements were being introduced into
that dwelling. There was not a room liz
the house fit to live III at that time, al
though a month before, when visited
that house, everything was SO beautiful
/ could not have suggested an improve
ment My friend had gone with his fam
lily to the Holy Land. expecting to come
back at the end Of six months, when the
building was to DO done
Tho New House.
And, oht what was his Joy when at
the end of six months he returned and
the old house was enlarged and i'm
proved and glori1iedi That is your body
1t looks we'll now. All the rooms filled
with health, and we could hardly make
a suggestion. But after awhile your
soul will 20 10 the Holy Land, and
while you are gone the old house of
your tabernacle will be entirely recon- |
structed from cellar to attic, every
nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and
artery must be hauled over and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged,
and all the improvements Of heaven in
troduced, and you will move into it on
day. "For we know that,
if our earthly house of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building of |
God, a house not made with hands, |
eternal in the heavens. % Oh, what a
day when body and soul meet again!
They are very fond of each other Did |
your body ever have a pain and your
soul not re-echo it? Or, changing the |
question, did your soul ever have any |
trouble and your body not sympathize
with it, growing wan and weak under
the depressing influence? Or did your
soul ever have gIadness but your body !
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step. Surely God never in
tended two such good friends to be very
long separated. And SO when the
worlds last Easter morning shall come
the soul will descend, crying, "Where