Connecticut western news., 1895-04-18

very best spirits in their very best moods, in the very best room of the universe, the four walls furnished and paneled and pictured and glorified with all the 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 the latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any prefer incineration, let them have it without carioature. The world may become so crowded that cre- 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 oremated. P. P. Bliss and wife, the evang list singers, cremated by accident at Ashtabula bridge; John Rogers cremated by per secution, Latimer and Ridley cremated at Oxford, Pothinus and Blondina, a slavo. and Alexander, physician, and their comrades, oremated at the order of Marcus Aurelius. At least 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 it 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 resurreo- tion body you will have it, will have it. say to you today as Paul said to Agrippa, "Why should it be thought thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" The Clouds a 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 the East river, other drops from stagnant pool out on Newark flats. Up yonder there, embodied in a cloud, and the sun kin dies it. If God can make such 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 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 be not restore it? Aye, if the manufac turer of the telescope, by change of the glass and change of focus, can make better glass than that which was originally constructed and actual ly improve it, do you not think the fash toner of the human eye may improveit its sight and multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold additional forces of the resurrection eye?
 "Why should it 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 Resurreoted The radiant butterfly, where did it come from? The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross that smites the tempest with it's wing, where did it come from? A senseless shell. Near Bergerac, France, in Celt- io tomb, under 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. It bioomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet resur- rected. A traveller says he found in mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had been buried there 5000 years ago. He brought them out, and on June 4, 1844, he planted them. and in 30 days they sprang up. Buried 8, 900 years, yet resurrected.
 "Why should it 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 a staff a Greek missionary brought from China to Europe the progenitors of those worms that now supply the silk markets of many nations. The pageantry of bannered 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 hitter. and it dissolves. Is the silver gone forever? No. Put in some pieces of copper, and the silver reappears. If one force d1s- solves, another force reorganizes.
 Out of the Night the Day.
 "Why should it be thought thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" The insects flew and the worms crawled 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- urrection 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. Ost of the night, the day. In few weeks there will be resurrec- tion in all our gardens. Why not some day resurrection amid all the graves? Ever and anon there are instances of men and women entranced.
 A trance is death, followed by resur- rection after few days-total suspen- sion of mental power and voluntary action. Rev. William Tennent, great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistio terms-Rev. William Tennant seemed to die. His spirit seem- ed to have departed. People came in
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