The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-19

manufacturer OF telescopes drops a telescope
on the floor, and 1t breaks. can ne not memo
IL again so you can see through it2 n II
God drops the human eye into the dust, the
ave which He originally fashioned, can He
not restore it, Aye, II the manufacturer OF
the telescope, by a change of the glass and a
change OF focus, can make q better glass than
that which was originally constructed and
actually improve it, do you not think me
fashioner OF the human eye may improve its
sight and multiply the natural eye by .ns
t~housandfold additional forces OF the resur
,ection eye2
tWhy should ii be thought with you an in
credible thing that God should raise the
dead?" Things all around us suggest it. Out
Of what grew all these iowers2 Out OF the
mold and earth. Resurrected. Resurected.
The radiant butterfly, where did It come
batross that smites the tempest with its wing,
where did it come from2 A senseless shell.
Near Bergerac, France. in a Celtic tomb, I'M
der a block. were found flower seeds that had
been buried 1000 years. The explorer TOOK
the flower seed and planted 1t, and It came
up. II blomed in bluebel and heiotrope'
Two thousand years ago buried, yet resur-
rected. A traveller says he found In a NUM-
my pit in Egypt garden peas that had been
hurried there 5000 years ago. He brought
them out, and on June 4, 1874, he planted
them, and in thirty days they !sprang up
Buried 5000 years, yet resurrected.
"Why should 1t be u 2 tning ~
ldead2" Where did all this silk come from
the silk that adorns your persons and your
lhomes2 In the hollow Of a staff a Greek
missionary brought from China to Europe
the p~rogenitors OF those worms that now
supply the silk markets OF many Nations.
The ~pageantry of hammered hosts and tne
Luxurious articles of commercial emporium
blazing out from the ilk worms! And who
shall be surprised II, out of this insignificant
earthly life, ourbodies unfold into something
worthy of the coming eternities2 Put silver
Into diluted inter, and 1t dissolves. Is the
silver gone forever? No. Put in some pieces
of copper, and the silver ~reappears. II one
force dissolves. another force r~eorganizes.
"Why should it be thought a thing in
credible with you that God should raise the
ldead?" The insects flew and the worms
lcrawled last autumn feebler and feebler and
then stopped. They have taken no food
they want none. They lie dormant and in
sensible, but soon the south wind Will blow
the resurrection trumpet, and the air and the
earth will be full Of them. Do you not think
that God can do as much for our bodies as He
does for the wasps, aud the sp ders, and the
snails2 This morning at half past 4 O'CLOCK
there was a resurrection. Out Of the night,
the day. In a few weeks there will be a res
surrection in all our gardens. Why not some
tudY d GtsuIECCtlOn dLuh oA 49, $780,
Ever and anon there are instances OF men
md women entraLced.
A trance is death. followed by resurrection
after a few ~days-total suspension OF menta
power and voluntary action. Rev. William
Tennent, a great evangelist OF the last gen
GRAFTON, of whom DIR. Archibald Alexander, Q
man far from being sentimental, wrote II
most eulogistic terms-Rev. William Ten
aent seemed to die. His spirit seemed t.
! have departed. People came in day aftel
lay and said, "He Is dead; he Is dead. Blu
! he soul returned, and William Tennent live
TO write out experiences of what he had seer
while his soul was gone. II may be founo
some time what Is -caAea. ssfspefusa ANNE
! ton or comatose state is brief death, givint
. the soul an excursion into the next world
. from which it comes back-a furlough OF
1 few hours granted from the conflict OF life t
, which it must return.
! Do not this waking up Of men from tranc
and this waking up of grains buried 300
!. years ago make 1t easier for you to believ
: that your body and mine, after the vacatio
? Of the grave, shall rouse n rally, thougI
. there be 5000 years between our last breati
\ and the sounding of the archangelic reveille
u Psychologists tell us that, while the most Q
3 BUR bodies are built with such wonderful
\ economy that we can spare nothing, and tn
: loss Of a finger is a hindrance. the II
|, Jury of a toe joint makes us lame, still W
: have two or three apparently useless phys
y cal ~apparati. and no anatomist or physloloe
J. lst has ever been able to tell what they ar
y good for. Perhaps they are the foundatto
: Of the resurrection body. worth nothing I
4 US in this state, to be indispensibly valuabl
I In the next state. The Jewish rabbis apes
y they said that in the human frame there Wa
. q small zone which was to be the basis 9th
. resurrection body. That may have been
/ idelusion. But this thing Is certain, the Chri
!. tian scientists of our day have found OF
y that there are two or three superiuities
. the body that are something gloriousiy sut
. ~gestive Of another state.
y called at my friends house n SUNNI
y day. I found the yard all piled up with rnl
"A Dish of carpenters and mason's work. II
), door was of. The plumbers had torn uptt
q door. TIL roof was being lifted in cupol
y all the pictures were gone, and the pap
- hangers doing their work. All the mode,
= Improvements were being introduced int
n that dwelling. There was not a room in Il
8 house at to live in at that time, although
70 month before, when / visited that hous
u everything was so beautiful 1 could not ha'
y suggested an improvement. My friend hs
70 gone with his family to the Holy Land. e
4, pecting to come back at theend OF sixmonth
when the building was to be done.
q And, oh, what was his Joy when at Il
x and of six months he returned and the Q
70 house was enlarged and improved and 81
Sc rihed! That is your bodyl 1t loooks W.
10 now. All the rooms filled with health, al
os we could hardly make a suggestion. b
% after awhile your soul will go to the He
Pc Land, and while you are gone the old hou
"a Of your tabernacle will be entirely reco
OF structed from cellar to attic, every nery
70 muscle and bone and tissue and arte
X must be hauled over, and the o
a. structure will be Furnished and adorn
n; and raised and coupolaed and enlarge
~ and all the improvements Of heaven intr
" duced. and you will move into It on resurre
ton dav. 'tEor we know that. II our earth
20 house Of this tabernacle were dissolved, y
q have a building Of God, a house not ma
with hands, eternal in the heavens" Q
what a day when body and soul meet agal
., They are very fond Of each other. D
your body ever have q pain and 20
", soul not re-echo it2 Or, changing I
n question, did your soul ever have a
n trouble and your body not sympathi
~ with it. growing wan and weak unt
Il, the depressing iniuenee2 Or did yo
80 soul ever have a gladness but your DO
M celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek a
en- Elastic step. Surely God never intended +
such good friends to be very long separate
Tie And so when the worlds last Easter morni
or shall come the soul will descend, cryiI
No "Where is my body?" And the body v
N ascend, saying, "Where is my soul?" A
"a, the Lord of the resurrection will bring thu
90 together, and it will be a perfect soul II
gu perfect body, introduced by a perfect Chr