The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-04-27

ant our overcoat, our overshocs. on
outward apparel, that we may not b
impeded in the brilliant round OF til
I drawing room. Well, my friends
when we go out of this world we ar
going to kings banquet, and to q re
ception of monarchs, and ut the doc
> of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesl
and the wrappings with which W,
meet the storms of the world. At tn,
close of our earthly reception, unde
the brush and broom OF the porter
, the coat or hat may be handed to Vi
, better than when we resigned 1t, ant
the cloak OF humanity will finally b,
returned to us improved and bright
cned and purified and glorifed. Yor
and do not want our bodies returned
to us rs they are now. We want to
get rid of all their weakness, and al
their susceptibilities to fatigue, and
all their slowness of locomotion. They
will be put through chemistry of soil
and heat and cold and changing sea
sons, out of which God will recon
struct them us much better than they
are now as the body of the rosiest and
healthiest child that bounds over the
lawn is better than the siclsest patient
in the hospital.
But as to our soul. we will cross
right over, not waiting for obsequies,
independent Of obituary, into state
in every way better. with wider room
and velocities beyond computation; the
dullest of us into companionship with
the very best moods, in the very best
| room of the universe, the four walls
furnished and paneled and pictured
and glorfied with all the splendors
that the infinite God i'm all ages has
been able to invent. Victory.
/ This view, of course, makes it of but
little Importance whether we are Gre
mated or scpultured. If the latter is
dust to dust, the former is ashes to
ashes. If any prefer incarceration, let
them have it without caricaturc. The
world may become so crowded that cre-
nation may be universally adopted by
law as well as by general consent.
Many of the mightiest and best of
earth have gone through this process.
Thousands and tens of thousands of
Gods children have been cremated.
p. p. Bliss and wife, the evangelist
singers, cremated by accident at Ash
tabula bridge. John Rogers cremated
by persecution; Latimer and Ridley
cremated at Oxford Pothinus and
Blondina, slave, and Alexander,
physician, and their comrades, Gre
mated at the order of Marcus Aurelius.
At least hundred thousand of
hsrC - As,@1o Il
can be no doubt about the resurrection
of their bodies. If the world lasts as
much longer as it has already been
built. there, perhaps, may be no room
for the large acreage set apart for
resting places, but that time has not
come. Plenty of room yet, and the
race need not pass that bridge of fire
until it 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, transcendent, magnif-
cent, inexplicable structure called the
resurrection body, you will have it, 1
will have it. say to you to-day, as
Paul said to Agrippa: ''Why should it
be thought thing incredible with
you, that God should raise the deadw
That far-up cloud. higher than the
hawk flies, higher than the eagle flies.
what is it made of? Drops of water
from the Hudson, other drops from
East river, other drops from n stagnant
pool out on Newark flats. Up yonder
there, embodied in cloud and the
sun kindles it. If God can make such |
I'm oil 90,
many OF them soiled and impure, and |
fetched from miles away, can He |
not transport the fragments of a hu-
man body from the earth, and out of |
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 again
II they have fallen? If n manu-
facturer of telescopes drop 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 into
the dust, the eye which He originally
fashioned, can He not restore it? Aye,
IL the manufacturer of the telescope,
by change Of the glass and change
Of focus, can make better glass than
that which was originally construct
ed, and actually improve it, do You
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 you
an incredible thing that God should
raise the dead?" Things all around us
suggest it. Out of what grew all these
lowers? Ont of the mould and earth.
Resurrccted. Resurrected. The radi-
ant butterfly, where did it come from?
The loathsome caterpillar The al
batross that smites the tempest with
It's wings, where did it come from? A
'enseless shell. Near Bergerac, France,
in Celtic tomb, under block, were
found flower seeds that had been bur-
led two thousand years. The explorer
took the flower seeds and planted it,
and it came up, it bloomed in blucbell
md heliotrope. Two thousand years
igo buried, yet resurrected. A trav-
sler says he found in mummy pit in
Egypt garden peas that had been bur-
ed there three Thousand years ago.
He brought them out, and on June 4.
1914, he planted them, and in thirty