The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-04-17

and the loss of a finger is a hindrancs,
and the injury of toe joint makes us |
lame, still we have two or three ap- \,
parently useless physical apparati, and
no anatomist or Psychologist has ever
been able to tell what they are good
for. Perhaps they are the foundation
of the resurrection body, worth nothing
to us in this state, to be indispensably
valuable in the next state. The Jewish
rabbis appear to have had hint OF this
suggestion when they said that in the
human frame there was small bone
which was to be the basis of the resur-
rection 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
superfuities of the body that are some
thing gloriousiy suggestive of another
state.
called at friends house one sum-
mer day. found the yard all piled up
with rubbish or carpenters and masons'
work. The door was off. The plumb
ers had torn up the floor. The roof was
being lifted in cupola. All the pictures
were gone and the paper hangers were
doing their work. All the modern inn
provements were being introduced into
that dwelling. There was not room
in the house fit to live in at that time,
although month before when visited
that house everything was so beautiful
could not have suggested an improve
ment. My friend had gone with his
family to the Holy Land, expecting to
come back at the end of six months,
when the building was to be done. And
oh! what was his joy when at the end
of six months he returned and the old
house was so enlarged and improved
and glorifed. That is your body. 1t
looks well now All the rooms filed
with health, and we could hardly make
a suggestion. But after while your
soul will go to 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
introduced, and you will move into it
on resurrection day. For we know
that, if our earthly house of this taber-
nacle were dissolved, we have a build
ing of God, house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" o.,
what 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 inhu-
ence? Or, did your soul ever have a
gladness but your body celebrated it
with kindled eye and cheek and elastic
step? Surely, God never intended two
such good friends to be very long sepa-
rated. And so when the worlds last
Easter morning shall come, the soul
will descend, crying, "Where is my
body?" and the body will ascend say
ing, "Where is my soul?" and the Lord
of the resurrection will bring them to-
gether and it will be perfect soul in a
perfect body, introduced by a perfect
Christ into perfect heaven. Victory
Only the bad disapprove of the resur
rection. A cruel heathen warrior hearC
Mr.. Moffat, the missionary, preacf
about the resurrection, andh he said to the
missionary: "Will my father rise in the
last day?" "Yes," said the missionary
evil all the dead in battle rise?" sale
the cruel chieftain. ''Yes," said the
missionary. "Then," said the warrior
''let me hear no more about the resur
rection day. There can be no resur
rection, there shall be no resurrection
l have slain thousands in battle. VII
they rise?" All! there will be more tt
rise on that day than those want tt
see whose crimes have never been re
: pented Of But for all others who al
lowed Christ to be their pardon, anc
: life. and resurrection, it will be a day
of victory. The thunders of the las
} day will be the salvo that greet
, YOU into harbor. The lightnings vii
be only the torches of triumphal pro
: cession marching down to escort yol
home. The burning words flashing
through immensity will be the rocket
: celebrating your coronation on thrones
| where you will reign forever and for
' ever. Where is death? What have w,
= to do with death? AS your reunited
! body and soul swing off from thi
, planet on that last day, you will SCI
. deep gashes all up and down the hills
, deep gashes all through the valleys
: and they will be the emptied graves
; they will be the abandoned sepulchers
l with rough ground tossed on eithe
r side of them, and slabs will lie unevel
on the rent hillocks, and there will b
S fallen monuments and cenotaphs, an,
. then for the first time you will appre
i, ciate the full exhilaration of the text
Q ''He will swallow up death in victory.
Y Hail the Lord of earth and Heavenl
| Praise to Thee by both be given;
n Thee we greet triumphant now,
Hail the resurrection, thou
i. Bold Robbers.
: FT, WAYNE, Ind, April ia mos
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