The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24

vent. Victory
This view, of course, makes it of but
| little importance whether we are Gre
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 caricature. The
world may become so crowded that
cremation may be universally adopted
by law as well as by general consent.
Many of the mightiest and best of
earth have gone through this process.
Thousands and tens of thousands of
Gods children have been cremated.
P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelist
singers, cremated by accident at Ash
tabula bridge; John Rogers, cremated
by persecution; Latimer and Ridley,
cremated at Oxford; Pothinus and
Blondina, a slave, and Alexander, a
physician, and their comrades, Gre
mated at the order Of Marcus Aurelius.
At least 100000 of Christ's disciples
cremated, and there can be no doubt
about the heresurrection of their bodies. If
the world last as much longer as it has
already been built, there perhaps may
be no room for the large acreage set
apart for 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 prefer the old way. But wheth-
er out of natural disintegration or
cremation we shall get that luminous,
buoyant, gladstone, transcendant,
magnificent, inexpicable structure
called the resurrection body, you will
have it, I will have it. I say to you
today, as Paul to Agrippa. why
should it be thought a thing incredible
with you that God should raise the
dead2"
The 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
East river, other drops from stag
nant pool out on Newark flats. Up
yonder there, embodied in cloud and
and the sun kindles it. If God can
make such a lustrous cloud out Of wa
ter 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 a radiant body?
Cannot God, who owns all the mate
rial out Of which bones and muscle
and flesh are made, set them up again,
if they have fallen2 If a manufactu-
rer Of telescopes drop a 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 origi-
nally fashioned, can he not restore it.:
Aye, if the manufacturer Of the teie-
scope, by a change Of the glass and a
change of focus, can make a better
glass than that which was originally
constructed and actually improve it,
do you not think the fashioner of the
human eye may improve its sight and
multiply the natural eye by the thous-
andfold additional forces of the resur-
rection eye2
why should it be thought with you
an incredible thing that God should
raise the dead2" Things allaround US
suggest it. Out Of what grew all these
flowers? Out of the mold and earth.
Resurrected. Resurrected. The ra-
diant butterfly, where did it come
fron2 The loathsome caterpillar.
That albatross that smites the tempest
with its wings, where did it come
from2 A senseless shell. Near Ber-
gerac, Francs, in celtic tomb, under
a block, were found flower seeds that
had been buried 1000 years. The ex-
plorer took the flower seed and plant
ed it, and it came up, it bloomed in
bluebell and heliotrope. Two thous-
and years ago buried, yet resurrected.
A traveller says he found in a munlIny
pit in Egypt garden peas that had been
buried there 5000 years ago. He
brought them out, and on June 4,
1914, he planted them, and in 80 days
they sprang up. Buried 5000 years,
yet resurrected.
"Why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead2" 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 ma
tons. The pageantry of hammered
host and the luxurious articles of
commercial emporium blazing out
from the silkworms And who shall
be surprised if out of this Insignificant
earthly life our bodies unfold into
something worthy of the coming eter.
nifty Put silver into diluted nitre and
it dissolves. Is the silver gone forev-
er- No. Put in some pieces of copper
and the silver appears. If one force
dissolves, another force reorganlzes.
"Why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the deadm The insects flew and
the worms crawled last autumn fee
bier and feebler, and then stopped.
They have taken no food; they want
none. They lie dormant and insensi-
bic, but soon the south wind will blow
the resurrection 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 morning at half past 4
o'clock there was resurrection. Out
of the night, the day. In few weeks
there will be a resurrection in all our
gardens. Why not some day resur-
rection among all the graves? Ever
and anon there are instances of men
and women entranced. A trance is
death, followed by resurrection after
few days. Total suspension of
mental power and voluntary action.
Rev. William Tennent, a great
evangelist of the last generation, Of
whom DR.. Archibald Alexandra, a
man far from being sentimental,
wrote in most eulogistic terms-Rev.
VIM. Tenant seemed to die. His
spirit seemed to have departed: Peo-
pie came in day after day, and said:
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