The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-05-10

Al least "a hundred thousand of Chusts dis /
cpIea errmHted. aud there can be- no doubt
about The resurrection 0f their bodies. Iitho
world lasts as much longer Hs q hos already
been built, there perhaps may be no room
Tor the large acreage set apart Tor the resting
places, but that time has not come. Plenty
of room yet, and the race need not pass that
bridge ~ Gre until Il comes 90 a. The most
Of us prefer tho old way. But whether out
Of natural dialutegrlUun or cremation Nc
shall get that luminous. buuyunt gladstone,
transeendent, magnificent, inexplicable struos
turo called tho resurrection body you viii
have It, / will have IT, / say 10 you to-day
as Paul said 10 AgHppa, "Why should It be
thought a thing incredible with you that God
should raise tho dead 2'
That IN up cloud, higher than the hawk
flies, higher than the eagle flies, what Is Il
made OF Drops OF water from the Hudson.
other drops from the East River, other drops
from a stagnant pool out on Newark flats.
Upyonder there embodied In a cloud, and
the sun klndles Il. II God can make such
lustrous cloud out OF water drops, mauy Of
them sollod and impure and fetched from
miles away, can He not transport the frug-
ments of q human body from the earth aud
out OF them build radiant body? Cannot
God, who owns all the material out OF which
bones and muscle and flesh are made, set
Thorn up again n they have fallenY II a
manufacturer of telescopes drops telescope
ON the floor, and il breaks. can he not mgnd
30 again so you can sees through ~ Aud II
God drops the human eye into the dust, the
eye which He originally fashioned. can He
not restore iH Aye, If the manufacturer OF
the telescope, by a change Of the glass and q
change oil focus, can make better glass than
that which was originally constructed and
actually improve 10, 60 You not think the
| lnshioner of the human eye may improve It's
sight and multiply the natural eye by the
| thousandiold additional forces Of the resur-
rcction oye3
"WhYshould II be thought with YOU an in
credible thing that God should raise the
doad:" Things all around us suggest it. Out
OF what grew all these flowers? Out Of the
mold and earth. Resurreeted. Resurected.
Iae radiant butterfly, whore did It come
from2 The loathsomo caterpillar. That al
bEtr0ss that smites the tempest with its wing.
whore did 1t come frOm2 A sanseless shell.
| Near Bergerac, France. In a Celtic tomb, un-
| der a block, were found flower seeds that had
| been buried 1000 years. The explorer took
| the flower seed and planted it, and It came
| up. II bl0med in bluebcll and heliotrope.
/ Two thousand years ago buried, yet gesur-
reeted. A traveller says he found in mum
my pit in Egypt garden peas that had been
| buried there 5000 years ago. He brought
/ them out and on June 4, 1874, he planted
/ them, and in thirty days they sprang up.
/ Buried 5000 years, yet resurrected.
"Why should it be thought a thing in
| credible with you that God should raise the
! deadY Where did all this silk come from
! the silk that adOns your persons and your
/ homes? In the hollow of a 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 hosts and the
al, s.Hs. Il
/ blazing out from the silk worms And who
shall be surprised il, out of this insignificant
earthly life, our bodies unfold into something
worthy Of the coming eternities2 Put silver
into diluted inter. and it dissolves. Is the
! silver gone forever No. Put in some pieces
OF copper, and the silver reappears. II one
force dissolves. another force reorganizes.
"Why should it be thought a thing in
credible with you that God should raise the
deadt' The insects flew and the worms
crawled last autumn fsebler and feebler and
then stopped. They have taken no food;
they want none. They lie dormant and in
sensible, 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 sp ders, and the
snails? This morning at half past o'clock
there was O resurrection. Out Of the night,
the day. In few weeks tn = will be a res
surrectton in all our gardens Why not some
day a resurrection amid 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
Iennent, great evangelist OF the last gem
Grafton, of whom DR.. Archibald Alexander, u
man far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic terms-Rev. William Ten
nent seemed to die: His spirit seemed to
have departed. People came in dav 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. 1t may be found
some time what is called suspended anima-
tion or comatose state is brief death, giving
the soul an excursion into the next world,
from which 1t comes back-a furlough of a
few hours granted 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 5000 years between our last breath
and the sounding of the archangelic reVeille?
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 finger is q hindrance, and the in
jury of a toe joint makes us lame, still we
, have two or three apparently useless physi:
cal apparati. and no anatomist or physiolog-
list has ever been able to tell what they are
| good for. Perhaps they are the foundation
e Of the resurrection body, worth nothing to
| us in this state, to be indispensibly valuable
. in the next state. The Jewish rabbis appear
to have had hint of this suggestion wher
t they said that in the human frame there was
3 q small bone which was to be the basis of the
: resurrection body. That may have been d
: deluson. But this thing is certain, the Chris
tian scientists of our day have found on
| that there are two or three superhuties o.
t the body that are something gloriously sug
4 gestive of another state.
e called at my friends house one summer