Milford chronicle., 1895-04-19

children have been crematcd. p. p. Bills
and wife, the evangelist singers, oremate,
by accident at Ashtabua bridge; JOIN
Rogers, crcmated by prosecutions Latime
, and Ridley, crenated at Oxford Pothinu.
, and Blondinu, slave, and Alexander, &
s physician, and their comrades. cremated
& at the order of Marcus Aurelius AT leasi
S 100000 Of Christ's disciples cremated aud
IS thcrecan henO doubt about The rasurs,c zion
90 Of their bodies. II the world lasts as much
Il longer as it has already been built, There
;, perhaps may be no room for Tie largo acre
age set apart for resting places, but that
+ time has not come Plenty Of room yet.
e and the race need not pass that bridge of
fire until it comes to it, The most of us
C prefer the old way. But whether ont Of
{ natural disintegrati0n or cremation we
4 shall get that luminous, buoyant, glad
B some, transcendant, magnificent, inexplic-
r able structure called the resurrection body,
] you viii have it, 1 win have it. I say to
you today, as Paul said to Agrippa, "Whv
should it be Thought a thing incredible
with you thar God should raise the deads"
That farUp cloud, higher than the hawk
flies, higher than the eagle flies what is it
made Of? Drops of water from the Hud-
son, other drops from East river, other
drops from stagnant pool ont on Newark
flats Up yonder there, embodied in q
cloud, and the sun kindlcs it. IL God can
make such lustrous cloud out OF water
drops, many of thcm soiled and impure
and fetched from miles away, can he not
transport the fragments of a human body
from the earth, and out of thera build a
radiant body? Cannot cd, who owes all
the material out of which bones and mus
Gle and flesh are made, set them up again
if they have fallen2 If "a manufacturer of
cola a. IL q Q.
IL breaks can he not mend it again SO you
can see though it? And if Sod drops the .
human eye into the dust, the eye which he
originally fashioned, can he not restore it,
Ave if the manufacturer of the telescope,
/ by change Of the glass and "a change of
focus can make better glass than that
which was originally constructed and ac-
tually improve it, do you not think the
\ fashioner Of the human eye may improve
/ its sight and multiply the natural eye by
the thousaDdfold additional forces of the
resurrection eye?
Why Is the Resurrection Incredible?
"Why should it be thought with you an
incredible thing that God should raise the
deadF' Things all around us suggest il.
Out of what grew all these flowers? Out
of the mold and earth. Rosurreeted. Res
directed. The radiant butterfly whore 4
did il come frqms The loathsome caterpil- 5
lar. That alhaUoss chat snites the tom q
pest with its wing where did ii come from? q
A senselcss shell. Near Bergerac France, y
in a Celtic tomb, under a block, were I
found flower seeds that had been buried +
1000 years. The explorer took the flower
seed and planted it, and it came up, it
bloomed in blucbell and heliotrope. Two
thousand years ago buried, yet resurrected
A traveller saws he found in mummy pit
in Egypt garden peas that had been buried
there 3 600 years ago. He brought them out,
and on June 4, 1874, he planted them, and k
IN 30 days they sprang up. Buried 5000 o.
years, yet resurrected a
'Why should it be thought thing in II
credible with you that God should raise h
the deadY' Where did all this silk come Ii
from-the silk that adorns your persons Il
and your homes? In the hollow Of a staff q
q Greek missionary brought from China to W
Europe the progenitors Of those worms Il
that now supply the silk markets Of many pl
nations, The pageantry Of hammered host Iii
md the luxurious articles Of commercial i,
emporium blazing out from the silkwcrps! al
And who shall be surprised if out of this
Insignificant earthly life our bodies untold ed
nto something worthy of the coming e,cr- "
lity. Put silver into diluted niter, and it II
lissolves. Is the silver gone forever? No Ia
Put in some pieces of copper and the sill ci
er roappears. II one force dissoives, am tn
ther force reOrganizes. Wa
"Why should it be Thought "a thing in pu
redible with you that God should raisothe &c,
ead?" The insects flew and the worms i'm
rawled last autumn fccblcr and feeblcr, ev
nd then stopped They have taken 10 20
BOD; they want none They lie dormant Va
nd insensible but soon the south wind COZ
I'LL blow the resurrection trumpet, and thi
ne air and the earth win be fun of them no
10 you not think that God can do as much rio
IT our bodies as he does for the wasps ers
nd the spiders, and the snails? This lea
forming at half past Z o'clock there was a pol
'surrection. Out of the night, the day. ins
2 a few weeks there will be resurrection def
all our gardens. Why not some day II
amid all the graves? Ever
nd anon there are instances of men and
omen entranced A trance is death, fol- Z
wed by resurrection after few days. for
otal suspension of mental power and vol Of
ltary action. o.
Suspended Animation. Of
Rev. William Tennent, great evangel- the
Of the last generation, Of whom DR. mar
rchibald Alexander, man far from be Kin
g sentimental, wrote i'm most eulogistic me
William Remnant seemed to fv ,
e. His spirit seemed to have departed. few
'ople came in day after day and said: inn
lie is dead. He is deadr' But the soul bod
turned, and William Tennent lived to fvir
lite out experiences of what he had seen an,-
nile his soul was gone. 1t may be found som
me time chat what is called suspended pro,
imation, or cOmatose state, is brief Ans
ath, giving the soul an excursion into
g next world, from which it comes back.
a furlough Of few hours granted from
n
Do not this waking up of men from
nee and this waking up Of grains buried 60
100 years ago make it easier for you to liam
ieve that your body and mine, after the t,re
cation Of the grave shall rouse and rally, aboi
ugh there be 5000 years between our saw
t breath and the sounding of the arch tiful
gelic reveiile? Psychologists tell us that Tbo
lie the most of our bodies are built with c,,ri
h wonderful economy that we can spare @
hing, and the loss of a finger is the
drance, and the injury of a toe joint ea,v
kes us lame, still we have two or three mn Fl
'arently useless physical apparati, and he +,
or Psychologist has ever been plan
g to tell what they are good for. Per anu
IS they are she foundation of the resur- Aolll
ton body, worth nothing to us in this VINO
.e to be indispensably valuable in the anu
t state The Jewish rabbits appear to tam
e had a hint of this suggestion when ehiid
y said that in the human frame there uhge
a small bone which was to be the basis Attle
he resurrection body. That may have WON
n a delusion, But this thing is certain on 5
he Christian scientists Of our day have Welil
nd out that there are two or three super truss
ties Of the body that are s5mething glo- she
called ~ nv frianiis bonse ono s,,, besid
dav 7 fonnd tbe vard iii niIed m with
rubbish Of cornenteris and rnoeor,s ing a
K The door WIS IN THO plumbers hear
torn up the floor The roof was being close
d in cupola All the pictures were ana
G, and the paper hangers We're doing
r work. All the modern improvements
@ being introduced into that dwelling.
ne was not room in the house nt b -