The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-04-19

our overshoes, our outward apparel that
we may not DO impeded in the brilliant
round Of the drawing room. Well, my
friends; when we 60 out Of this world
we are going to kings banquet, and
to reception Of monarohs, and at the
door Of the tomb we leave the cloak of
flesh and the wrappings with which we
meet the storms Of the world. At the
close of our earthly reception, Under the
brush and broom Of the porter, the coat
or hat may be handed to us better than
when we resigned It, and the cloak of
humanity will finally be returned to us
improved and frightened and purified
and glorified. You and do not want
our bodies returned to us as they are
now. We want to get rid of all their
weaknesses, and all their SUSCEPTIBLE
ties to fatigue, and all their slowness
Of locomotion. They will be put through
chemistry of soil and heat and cold
aiid changing seasons out of which God
will reconstruct them as much better
than they are now as the body of the
tosiest and healthiest child that bounds
over the lawn is better than the sickest
patient In the hospital.
But as to our soul, we will cross
right over, not waiting for obsequies.
independent of obituary, into state in
every way better, with wider room and
velocities beyond computation; the dull
est Of MS into companionship with the
very best spirits In their very best
moods, in the very best room Of the
universe, the four walls furnished and
panelod and pictured and glorified
with all Che splendors that the infinite,
God in all ages has been able to invent.
Victory!
:; This, view Of course makes it Of but
little importance whether we are cre-
mated or sepultured. If tho latter is
dust to dust, the former is ashes to
ashes If any prefer incineration, let
them have 1t without caricature The
world may become SO crowded that Gre
nation may be universally adopted by
law as we'll as by general consent.
Many of the mightiest and best of earth
have gone through this process. Thou
sands and tens Of thousands Of Gods
children have been cIemated. P. P.
Bliss and wife, the evangelist singers,
cremated by accident at Ashtabula
bridge; John Rogers cremated by per-
secution, Latimer and Ridley cremated
at Oxford, Pothinus and Blondina, a
slave. and Alexander, a physician, and
their comrades, cremated at the order
Of Marcus Aurelits. At least a hundred
thousand Of Christ's disciples cremated,
and there can be no doubt about the
resurrection Of their bodies. If the
world lasts as much longer as 1t has al
ready been built, there perhaps may be
no room for the large acreage set apart
for the resting places, but that time has
not come. Plenty of room yet, and the
race need not pass that bridge of fire
until it comes to it. The most of us pre-
fer the old way. But whether out of
natural disintegration or cremation we
shall get that luminous, buoyant, glad
some transcendent, magnificent, mex
plicable structure called the resurrec-
ton body you will have it, will have
it. 1 say to you today as Paul said to
Agrippa, "Why should it be thought o
thing incredible with you that God
Should raise the dead?"
The Clouds Symbol of the Resurrection.
That far up cloud, higher than the
hawk flies, higher than the eagle flies,
what is it made of? Drops of water from
The Hudson, other drops from tho East
river, other drops from stagnant pool
out Oh Newark flats Up yonder there,
embodied in cloud, and the sun kim
dies it. If God can make such a lustrous
cloud out Of water drops, many of them
soiled and impure and fetched from
miles away, can he not transport the
fragments Of human body from the
earth and out Of them build radiant
body? Cannot God, who owns all the
material out of which bones and muscle
and flesh are made, set them up again if
they have fallen? If a manufacturer of
telescopes drop telescope on the floor.
and it breaks, can he not mend it again
SO you can see through it? And if God
drops the human eye into the dust, the
eye which he originally fashioned, can
he not restore its Ave. if the manufac-
turer of the telescope, by a change of
the glass and change Of focus, can
make a better glass than that which
was originally constructed and actual
ly improve it, doyou not think the fash
Toner Of the human eye may improve its
sight and multiply the natural eye by
the thousandfold additional forces of the
resurrection eye?
why should 1t be thought with you
an incredible thing that God should
raise the dead?' Things all around us
suggest it. Out Of what grew all these
flowers? Out Of the mold and earth.
Resurrected Resurrected. The radiant
butterfly, where did it come from? The
loathsome caterpillar. That albatross
that smites the tempest with its wing,
where did 1t come fromf A senseless
shell. Near Bergerac, France, in a Celt-
10 tomb, under a block, were found
flower seeds that had been buried 2,000
years. The explorer took the flower seed
and planted it, and It came up. 1t
bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two
thousand years ago buried, yet resur-
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mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that
had been buried there 8, 900 years ago
He brought them out, and on June 4,
1874, he planted them. and in 80 days
they sprang up. Barred 5000 years, yet
resurrected.
why should 1t be thought thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?" Where did all this silk
come from-the silk that adorns your
persons and your homes? In the hollow
of staff Greek missionary brought
from China to Europe the progenitors
of those worms that now supply the silk
markets of many nations. The pageantry
Of hammered host and the luxurious ar
ticles of commercial emporium blazing
out from the silkwormsl And who shall
be surprised If, out of this insignificant
earthly life, our bodies unfold into
something worthy of the coming eterni-
ties? Put silver into diluted inter, and
1t dissolves Is the silver gone forever?
No. Put In some pieces Of copper. and