The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-19

. soul an excursion into the next world
from which it comes back-a furlougl
of few hours granted from the con
hict of life to which it must return.
Do not this waking up of men from
trance, and this waking up of grain.
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 a
finger is n hindrance, and the in
jury of a toe joint makes us lame
still we have two or three apparent
| ly 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 moth
ing to us in this state, to be indispens-
ably valuable in the next state. The
Jewish rabbis appear to have had a
hint of this suggestion when they said
that in the human frame there was a
small bone which was to be the basis
Of tie resurrection body. That may
have been delusion. But this thing
! is certain. The Christian Scientists of
our day have found out that there are
two or three superhuities of tn, body
that are something gloriously suggest
i've of another state.
called at my friends house one
summer day. l found the yard all
piled up with rubbish of carpenters
and maSon's work. The door was off
The plumbers had torn up the floor
The roof was being lifted in cup)la.
| All the pictures were gone and the
paper hangers were doing their work
All the modern Improvements were
! being introduced into that dwelling.
There was not room in the house fit
to live in ut that time, although q
month before when visited that house
everything was so beautiful could not
have suggested an improvement. My
friend had gone with his family 10 the
Holy Land, expecting to come back at
the end of six months, when the build
ing was to be done. And oh, what was
his joy when at the end of six
months he returned and the old
house was enlarged and i'm
proved and glorified That is
your body. 1t looks well now. All the
rooms filed with health, and we could
hardly make suggestion But after
awhile your soul will go to the Holy
Land, and while you are gone the old
house of your tabernacle will be entire
ly reconstructed from cellar to attic;
every nerve, muscle. and bone. and tis-
sue, 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 tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God. n house
not made with hands. eternal in the
heavens" Oh, 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 influence? Or did your
soul ever have n gladness but your
body celeb ebrated it with kindled eve
and cheek and elastic step? Surely,
God never intended two such good
f,.fn d. 20, I,a taI Nd
so when the worlds last Easter morn
ing shall come, the soul will descend,
crying: Where is my body?" and the
body will ascend. saying: Where is
my soul?" and the Lord of the resur-
rection will bring them together and
it will be a perfect soul in perfect
body, introduced by a perfect Christ
into perfect Heaven. Victory!
Only the bad disapprove of the resur-
heard Mr.. Moffat, the missionary.
preach about the resurrection, and he
said to the missionary: Will my father
rise in the last day?" Yes" said the
missionary. ''Will all the dead in bat
tie rise?" said the cruel chieftain-
Yes" said the missionary Then"
said the warrior, ''let me hear no more
about the resurrection day. There can
be no resurrection, there shall be no
resurrection. have slain thou
sands in battle VIII they rise?' Ah!
there will te more to rise on that day
than those who want to see whose
crimes have never been repented of. But
for all others, who allowed Christ to be
their pardon, and life, and resurrection,
it will be a day of victory. The thun-
ders of the last day will be the salvo
that greets you in horror. The light
nings will be only the torches of
triumphal procession marching down
to escort you home. The burning
worlds flashing through immensity
will be the rockets celebrating your
coronation on thrones. where you will
reign forever, and forever, and for
ever. Where is death? What have we
to do with death? As your reunited
body and soul swing off from this
planet on that last day, you will see
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,
with rough ground tossed on either
side of them. and slabs will lie uneven
on the rent hillOcks, and there will be
fallen monuments and cenotaphs, and
then for the first time you will appre-
ciate the full exhilaration of the text:
HE will swallow up death in victory"
Hail the Lord OF earth and Heaven.
Praise TO Thee by both be given;
Thee we greet triumphant now,
Hail the resurrection Thou!