The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-08

peutied animation or cOmauOS q Sts1Vc -
brief death, giving the soul an excur-
sion into the next world, from which
/ II comes back--a ftirlotigh of few
It,o,,rs-grartsd ftoih 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 three thousand years ago. make
| 1t easier for you to believe that your
body and mine, after the vacation OF
the grave, shall rouse and rally, though
tthere be three thousand years between
our last breath and the sounding OF
the archangelic reveille? Physiolo-
eists tell us that while the most of our
bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing,
AID the loss of finger is a hinderance.
and the injury of a toe-joint makes us
lame, still we have two or three APP
parently useless physical apparati,
and no eaatotiiist OF Psychologist has
ever been able to tell what they are
good for. Perhaps they are the fotir1;
dation 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 Id the human frame there
was 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 seient-
! lists of our day have found out that
| there are two or three superhuities of
! the body that are something glorious
| ly suggestive of another state
I called at my friends house ole
summer day. 1 found the yard piled
4 up with rubbish of carpenters and
masons work. The door was off.
The plumbers had torn up the floor.
The roof was lifted in cupola. All the
pictures were gofie, and the paper
Hangers were doing their work. All
the modern improvements were being
introduced into that dwelling. There
was not room in the house TT to live
in at that time, although Month be-
thing was so beautiful could not have
suggested an Improvement. My friend
had gone with his family to the Holy
Land, expecting to come back at the
end of six months, when the building
was to be done. Aid OH what was his
JOY when at the end of six months he
returned and the old house was en-
larged and improved and glorifed.
That is your body. 1t looks well now.
| And the rooms filled with health, and
we could hardly make suggestion.
But after awhile yotir soul will go to
the Holy Land, and while you are gone
the old house of your tabernacle will
be entirely reconstructed from eel
lar to attic; every nerve, muscle,
and bone and tissue and artery
must be hauled over, and the old struc.
ture will be FURNISHED and adorned and
raised and cupoloed and enlarged, aud
all the improvements of Heaven intro
!duccd.. and you will move into it or
resurrection day. For we know that
if earthly house of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have building Of
God, a house not made with hands
eternal in the Heavens" Oh, what q
day when body and soul meet again
They are very fond of each other. Die
your body ever have pain and YOU
soul not re-echo it? Or, changing
the question, did your soul evel
any trouble and your body mo-
sympathike with it, growing wal
and weak under the depressing influ
ence? Or, did your soul ever have l
gladness but your body celebrated i
with kindled eye and cheek and elias
tic step9 Surely, God never intended
two such good friends to be very long
separated. And so when the world
last Easter morning shall come, tn,
soul will descend, crying: Where il
my body9. and the body will ascend
saying: 'tIthere Is my soul?' and til,
, Lord of the resurrection will brinj
them together and it will be perfec
J soul in perfect body, introduced b,
, perfect Christ into a perfect Heaven
Victory.
Only the bad disapprove of the res
, direction. A cruel heather warrio
heard Mr.. Moffat, the missionary
preach about the resurrection, and h
said to the missionary: "Will my fathe
rise lib the last dayg" YES" said tn
; missionary. xviii all the dead in bal
tie rise?' said the cruel chieftain
YES said the missionary
Them said the warrior, lie
! me hear no more about tb
: resurrection day. There can be n
resurrection. there shall be no resur
rection. / have slain thousands in bal
tie. Will they rise?" All! there vii
be more to rise on that day than thosa
want to see whose crimes have neve
been fepented of but. for all 9th
. ers who allowed Christ to b
their pardon, and life, and resui
rection, it will be day Q
victory. The thunder of the last da
! will be the salvo that greets you int
: harbor The lightnings will be tn
only torches of triumphal processio
: marching down to escort you home
: The burning world flashing throug
!. immensity will be the rocket
!, celebrating your coronation o
! thrones, where you will reig
! forever, and forever. and fol
! ever. Where is death? What have y
Z to do with death?. As your reunite
: body and soul swing of from thl