Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-04-19

Tennant seemed 10 dfe his spliis seon
ed to have departed. People came in
day after day and said, HE is dead;
he is dead" But the soul returned,
and William Tennent lived TO write out
experiences Of what be had seen while
his soul was gone. 1t may be found
some time what is called suspended
animation or comatose state is brief
death, giving the soul an excursion into
the next world, from which it comes
back-a furlough Of few hours grant
ed 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
8, 900 years between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangelic reyeillel
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 a
hindrance, and the injury Of toe joint
makes us lame, still we have two or
three apparently useless physical appa-
rati, and no anatomist or psychologist
has ever been able to tell what they are
good for. Perhaps they are the founda-
ton Of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to US in this state. to be indis-
pensibly valuable in the next state. The
Jewish rabbis appear TO have had hint
Of this suggestion when they said that
in the human frame there was a small
bone which was to be the basis OF the
resurrection body. That may have been
a delusion But this thing is certain,
the Christian scientists of our day have
found out that there are two OF three
superfiuities of the body that are some
thing gloriously suggestive Of another
state.
called at my friends house one sum-
mer day. 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 be-
ing lifted in cupola. All the pictures
were gone, and the paper hangers were
doing their work. All the modern i'm
provements were being introduced into
that dwelling. There was not a room IN
the house fit 70 live in at that time, al
though month before, when visited
that house, everything was so beautiful
l could not have suggested an improve
ment. Ny friend had gone with his fam
lily to the Holy Land, expecting to come
back at the end of six months, when the
building was to be done.
The New House.
And. OIL what was his joy when at
the end of six months he returned and
the old house was enlarged and i'm
proved and glorifiedl That is your body
Il looks we'll now. All the rooms filled
with health, and we could hardly make
a suggestion. But after awhile your
soul will 20 to the Holy Land, and
while you are gone the old house OF
your tabernacle will be entirely recon-
structed from cellar to attic, every
nerve. muscle and bone and tissue 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 in
troduced, and you will move into 1t on
resurrection day. "For we know that,
if our earthly house Of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building OF
God. a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens Oh, what a
dav 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 sympathlze
with il, growing wan and weak under
the depressing influence! Or ala your
soul ever have gladness but your body
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step. Surely God never in
tended two such good friends to be very
long separated. And so when the
worlds last Easter morning shall come
the soul will descend, crying, Where
is my body?" And the body will ascend
saving. Where is my soul?" And the
Lord Of the resurrection will bring them
together, and it will be perfect soul
in a perfect body, introduced by per
feet Christ into perfect heaven. VIC
toryl
Only the bad disapprove Of the resur.
rection. A cruel heather warrior heard
Mr.. Moffat, the missionary, preach
about the resurrection, and he said TO
the missionary. will my father rise in
the last day?' Eyes, said the mission
ary. will all the dead in battle riser
said the cruel chieftain. "Yes, " said
the missionary. Then" said the war
rior, "let me hear no more about the
resurrection day. There can be no resur-
rection, there shall be no resurrection.
have slain thousands in battle VIII
they rise? All, there will be more to rise
on that day than those want to see
whose crimes have never been repented
Of But for alI others who allowed Christ
to be their pardon and life and resur'
reCtion it will be day OF victory Inc
thunders Of the last day will be the salv'
that greets you into harbor, The iignt
nings will be only the torches OF trium
phant processions marching down to es
cort Won home. THE burning world
flashing through immensity VIII D
the rockets celebrating your corona
ton ON thrones where you Will reigl
forever and forever and forever
Where is death? What have we 7
do with death! AS your reunited bod
and soul swing off from this planet o
that last day you will see deep gashe
all up and down the hills zee
eashes all through the valleys, and the
will be the emptied graves, they will q
the abandoned sepulchres. with roug
ground tossed on either side OF then
and slabs will be uneven on the rel
: hiliocks, and there will be fallen mon'
ments and cenotapbs, and then Tor tf
first time you will appreciate the fu
{ erhilaration Of the text. "He will swa
low up death in victory"
0 Hail the Lord Of earth and heayenl
( Praise 70 Thee by both be given;
y Thee we greet triumphant now,
+, Hail the resurrection Thoul
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