Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-15

D have taken no food. they want none.
/ They lie dormant and irs5usi5-a, hrt
7 soon Tine south wind win blow the
resurrection trumpet, and the air and
/ the earth viii De full Of them.
I called at my friends house one
summer doy I found the yard plea
nd with rubbish of carpenters and
uasOu's work. The door was or. The
; plumbers had torn up The floor. The
roof was being lifted i'm cupo.a All.
/ the pictures We're gone and the paper
hangers We're dCinE their work. All
/ the modern improvements were
being introduced into Jhat dwelling.
There was not q room iu The house FL
to live iu at that time. although @
month before when visited thaJ house
everything was so beautiful ] could
not have SUGGESTED an Improvement
Ny friend had gone with his family
TO the Holy Land. expecting % come
| back az tho end OF six months, when
the Building was 10 DE done. And oh.
what was his joy when at the end Of
six months ne returned and the old
house was enlarged and improved and
glorii.d. That is your body. u looks
well now. An the rooms filled with
. health. and we could hardly make @
suggestion. But after awhile YOU are
gone 10 the Holy Land, and while yOu
are gone the old house Of your tabor
nGCie viii be entirely reconstructed
from cellar TO attic; every nerve, mus
Gle. and bone and tissue and artery
must be- hauled over. and the old sruc-
ture viii DE FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cUpolaed and enlarged,
and am the Improvements of heaven
introduced. and You VIII move into it
ON RESURRECTION DAY.
For we know jhat. If our earthly
house Of this o. bCruacie were dissolved
we have @ building Of God house not
made with hands, eternal in the heay-
ems"
Only The bad diSapprove Of the res
direction. A cruel heather warrior
heard Mr. Nonlr. the missionary
preach about the resurrection, ana he
said 10 the missionary. "Will my
father rise I'm the last dGy?' Yes.
said the missionary. Then said the
warrior. "lCr me hear no more about
tho resurrection day. There can be
no resurrection. there shall be no res
direction. | have slain thousands i'm
battle VIII they rise?' All. there
win De more TO rise on that day than
those want 20 see whose crimes have
never been repentej Of But for all
others who allowed Christ to be their
pardon, and life, and resurrection, it
~ mi
win be a day of victory. The thunders
greets sou into barber The ightniugs
viii Dee only the torches OF triumphal
procession marching down to escort
YOU home. The burning worlds fash
ing through immeusity viii be the
rockets celebrating Your coronation on
thrones, where
YOU WILL REIGN FOREVER,
and forever. and forever. Where is
death what have we to do with death
AS your reunited body and soul swing
of from this planet on that last day.
YOU viii see deep gashes all up and
down the hills. deep gaslG5 an through
the valleys, and they viii be the emp
tied graves. they viii be The abgn-
dOued sepulchres, with rough ground
tossed on either side of them. and slabs
win lie uneven on the rent hiilocss,
and there viii bo fallen monuments
and ce1otapbs, and then for the first
time y0u will appreciate tho full eE-
huarati0u of the text. "He will swallow
up death iu victory.
Fal the Lord of earth and heaven.
Praise Co thee 1y both He given;
Thee we greet triumphant now,
HAN the resurrection Il1ul