The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
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ly suggestive of fanother state.
I called at my friends house o!e
summer day. l found the yard I'll
piled up with rubbish Of carpenters OF
and masons work. The door
was off. The plumbers had
torn up the floor. The
roof was being lifted in cupola. III
the pictures were gone, and the pareg
hangers were doing their work. All
the modern improvements We're being
introduced into that dwell
ing. There was not room in the
house fit to live in at that time,
although month before, when visit
ed that house, eveything'was so beautI-
full l couldnot have suggested an I'M
provement Ny friend had gone with
his family to the Holy Land, eXpenct-
ing to come back at the end of six
months, when the building was to
be done. And oh, what was his JOY
when, at the end of six months, he re-
turned, and the old house was improv-
ed and enlarged and glori6ed. That
is your body. 1t looks well now. All
the rooms are filed with health, and
and we could hardly make sugges-
ton. But after while your soul will
90 to the Holy Lane, and while you
are gone the old house of your taber-
nacle will be entirely reconstructed
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 adorn.
ed and raised and cupolaed and en-
larged, and all the improvements of
heaven introduced, and you will move
into it on resurrection day. For we
know that, if our earthly house Of
this tabernacle where dissolved, we
have building Of God, a house not
made with hands, eternal in the
heavens. "Oh, what a day when
body and soul meet again. They are
very fond of each other. Did you ever
have pain and your sound soul not
re-echo it2 Or, changing the subjuct,
did your body ever have any trouble
and body not sympathize with it, grow
ing wan and weak under the drepress-
ing influence. Or did your soul ever
have gladness but your body celebr:
ated it with kindled eye and cheek kand
elastic step2 Surely God never
intended two such good friend to be
long separated. So when the souls asst
Easter morning shall come the soul
will descend, crying. Where IS my
body?" and the body will ascend. say
ing, Where is my soul:" and the
Lord of the resurrection will bring
them together, and it will be perfect
soul in perfect body, introduced By
a perfect Christ into perfect heaven.
Victory.
Only the disapprove of the resurrec.
ton. a cruel heather warrior heard
Mr.. Moffat, the missionary, preach
about the resurrection, and he said to
the missionary, "Willl my father rise
| in the last day." Yes" said the mis-
sionary. will all the dead in bate
rise?n said the cruel chieftain. Yes,
said the missionary. Then" said the
warrior, ''let me hear no more about
the resurrection day. There can be no
resurrection, there shall be no resur-
rection. l have slain thousand in
battle. VIII they rised?" All, there
will be more to rise on that day than
those want to see whose crimes have
been repented of. But for all the
others who allowed Christ to be their
pardon and life and resurrection, i
| will be a day OF victory. The thunders
of the last day will be the salvo that
! gleets you into harbor. The lightnings
| will be only the torches of triunohal
procession marching down to esc0r;
| YOU home. The burning worlds fash,
ing through immensity will be the
rockets celebrating your coronation on
thrones, where you will regin forever
and forever and forever. Where is
| death? What have we to do with
DEATH As your reunited body and
soul swing off from this planet on that
| asst day you will see deep gashes' all
up and down the hills, deep gashes all
through the valleys, and they will be
the emptied graves, they will be the
abandoned sepulchers, with rough
ground tossed on either side Of them,
and slabs will lie even on the rent hill
locks, and there will be fallen monu-
| ments and cenotaphs, and then for
the first time you will appreciate the
| full exhilaration of the text. He will
swallow up death in victory
Hail the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to Thee by both be given;
Thee we greet triumphant now,
Hail the, esurrection Thou!