The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-08

their susceptibilities to fatigue, sHt
all their slowness of irp5filotion. They
will be pat through chemistry of soil
and heat and cold and changing sea-
sons, out of which God will recon-
struct them as much better than they
are now as the body Uf The rosiest and
/ iYealthiest child that bounds over the
lawn is better than the siclsest patient
in the hospital,
But as to eur s6ui, we wilfsxross
right over, not waiting for obsequies,
independent of obituary, into n,~stnte
in every way better. with wider room
and veleeities .syondcomputation; the
a'sstest of us into companionship with
the very best moods, in the very best
room of the universe, the four walls
furnished and paneled and rittuicd
and slofifed WITH gil the splendors
| that the Infinite God in all ages has
been able to invent. Victory!
This view, of course, makes 1T OF bpt
| little Importance whetker ,re are Gre
mated or sspuiiiircd. II the latter is
dust to dust, the former is ashes to
ashes. If any prefer ihcineration. let
them have it without earicatdre The
world HAY become so crowded that Gre
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.
Fhp,,safds and TENS of thousands of
uod's children have been cYeniated.
p. p. Bliss and wife, the evangelist
IL. NV at Ach
tabula bridge. JOHN Rogers cremated
by persecution; Latimer and Ridley
cremated at Oxford; Pothinus aud
Blondina. q slave, and Alexander, a
! physician, And their comrades, Gre
mated at the order of Marcus Aurelius.
At least hundred thousand of
Chrlst's disciples cremated, and there
can be no doubt abost the resurrection
of their bodies. II the world lasts as
much longer as It has already been
built. there, perhaps, may be no room
Tor the large acreage set apart for
resting places, but that time has not
come. Plenty of room yet, and the
race need net pass that bridge of fire
until Il comes to it. The most of us
prefer the old way. But whether out
of natural disintegration or crema-
ton we shall get that luminous, buoy
ant, gladstone, transeehdent, maenih-
cent, inesplieable structure called the
resurrection body, you will have it, |
will have it. l say to you to-day, as
Paul said to Agrippa: ''Why should it
be thought thing incredible with
you, that God should raise the deadf
That far-up cloud, higher than the
hawk flies. higher than the eagle flies,
what is it made Off Drops of water
frbm the Hudson, other drops from
East.river. other drops from stagnant
pool out on Newark fats. Up yondeI
there, embodied in a cloud and the
sun kindles it. If God can make such
lustrors cloud out OF water drops
many of them soiled and impure, and
fetched from miles away, can He
not transport the fragments of a he
man body from the earth, and out ol
them build a radiant body? Can not
God, who owns all the material out
of which bones, and muscle, and
flesh are made, set them up agair
if they have fallen? II manu-
fncturer of telescopes drop a telescope
on the floor and it breaks, can he not
mend it again so you can see though it.
And if God drops the human eye int
the dust, the eye which He originally
fashioned, can He not restore it? Aye
If the manufacturer of the telescope
by change of the glass and chang,
of focus, can make better glass thar
that which was originally construct
ed, and actually improve It, do yol
not think the fashioner of~the human
eye may improve its sight and multi
ply the natural eye by the thousand
fold additional forces of the resurrec
ton eye?
'.Why should it be thought with yo,
an incredible thing that God should
raise the dead?" Things all around u
suggest it. Out of what grew all thes'
! fowcrs9 Out of the mould and earth
Resurrected. Resurrected. The radi
ant butterfly, where did it come from
| The loathsome caterpillar. The al
batross that smites the tempest witt
, its wings, where did it come from?
i senseless shell. Near Bergerac, France
in Csltlc tomb, under a block, wer
found flower seeds that had been bur
| led two thousand years. The explore
/ took the flower seeds and planted il
, and it came mp, it bloomed in bluebel
and heliotrope. Two thousand year
| ago buried, yet resurrected. A trav
: eler says he found in a mummy pit il
: Egypt garden peas that had been bur
{ led there three thousand years agt
3 He brought them out, and on June 4
) 1s44. he planted them, and in thirt
E days they sprang up. Buried tire
thousand years, yet resurrected.
: why should it be thought a thin
a incredible with You that God shout
r raise the dead9" Where did all TIL
: silk come from? The silk that adorn
4 your persons and your homes? In tn
!, hollow of staff a Greek missionar
: brought from China to Europe the pre-
q genitors of those worms that now sur
!" ply the silk markets of many nations
: The pageantry of hammered hose an,
/ the luxurious articles of commercia
i. emporium blazing out from the sill
a worms! And who shall be surprised
: out of this insignificant earthly life on