The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-15

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+ not pass that bridge Of FIRE until Il come 10
/ IT, The most OF us prefer the old way
Z But whether out Of natural disintegra-
tiOn or cremation we shall get that lumi-
nous bOuyant. giadsOme. transcendent,
magnificent inexplicable structure called
I the resurrection body. you will have II. 1
viii have it, ! say to you to-day. as Paul
said to Agrippa, why should IL be thought
a thing incredible with you, that God
should raise the dead2'
That far-up cloud, higher than the hawk
flies. higher than the eagle flies. what g.
81 made of Drops Of water from the
Hudson, other drops from East river,
other drops from a stagnant pool out on
Newark Flats. Up yOnder there. emDOd-
lei in cloud and the sun kindlcs IL.
II God can make such a lustrOus cloud out
OF wateT-drcps, many Of them sOilcd and
impure, ana fetched from miles away.
can he not transport the fragments OF
human body from the earth, and out II
them build radiant bOdy2 Cannot God,
who owns all the material out Of which
bones, and muscle, and flesh are made,
set them UP again II they have fallent II
a manufacturer of telescopes drop a tele-
scope on the floor and II breaks, can ne
not mend il again 50 you can see through
the dust, the eve which he originally fash
Toned, can he not restore III Aye, II the
manufacturer of the telescope, by
change Of the glass and a change Of To-
Gus. can make a better glass tnan that
which was originally constructed, and &C
tually improve it, do YOU not think the
fashioner Of the human eye may improve
its sight and multiply the natural eye
by the thousandfOld additional forces OF
the resurrection eye2
why should IL be thought with YOU an
incredible thing that Cod should raise the
dead2" Things all around US suggest d..
Out Of what grew all these fowers2 out
Of the mould and earth. Resurrected. Ras-
directed. The radiant butterfly, where did
IL come from The loathsOne caterpillar.
That albatross that smites the tempest
with its wing, where did II come from2 a
senseless shell. Near Bergerac, France,
in a Celtic tomb. under block, We're
found flower seeds that had been buried
1900 years. The explorer took the flower
seed and planted IL, and il came UP, IL
bloomed in bluebell and heliotrOpe. Two
ed. a traveller says he found a mum
my pit IN Egypt garden peas that had
been buried there 5000 years ago. He
brought S~sm out. and on June T. 1914, he
planted them, and in thirty days they
sprang up. Buried 5000 years. yet resur-
rected.
why should il be thought a thing in
credible with you that God should raise
the dead? Where did all this silk come
from? the silk that adorns your persons
and your homes? In the hollow of a STAFF
10 Europe the progcnitOrs of those worms
that now supply the silk markets of many
and the luxurious articles Of commercial
emporium blazing out from the silkworms:
And who shall be surprised if out Of this
insignificant earthly life our bodies unfold
into something worthy Of the coming
etarnities Put silver into diluted nitre
and II dissolves. Is the silver gone for
ever? No. Put in some pieces of copper
and the silver reappears. If one fcIce dis
solves, another force recognizes.
why should II be thought a thing in
credible with YOU that God should raise
the dead? The insects flew and the worms
crawled last autumn feebler and feeber,
and then stopped. They have taken no
food. they want none. They lie dormant
and insensible, but soon the south wind
viii blow the resurrection trumpet, and the
ar 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,
and the spiders and the snails2 This morn
ing at half-past four o'clock there was a
resurrection. out OF the, night the day.
In few weeks there VIII be resurrection
in all our gardens. Why not some day a
resurrection amid all the graves? Ever
and anon there are Instances of men and
women entranced. A trance is death, fol-
lowed by resurrection after a few days.
Total suspension of mental power and vol
untary action. Rev. William Tennent-a
great evangelist of the last generation, of
whom DR.. Archibald Alexander, a man far
from being sentimental, wrote in most
| eulogistic terms-Rev. William Tennent
/ departed. People came in day after day and
said: HE is dead; he is dead" But the
soul returned, and William Tennent lived
to write out experiences of what he had
| seen while his soul was gone. 1t may be
found some time that what is called sus-
pended animation or -comatose state is
into the next world. from which II comes
back-a furlough Of a few hours granted
from the conflict OF life to which 1t 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,
1 shall rouse and rally, though there be
[ three thousand years between our last
/ breath and the sounding of the archangeliC
1 reveille? Psychologists tell us that while
/ the most of our bodies are built with such
wonderful economy that we can spare
nothing, and the loss of a. finger is a him
/ drance, and the injury of a toe-toint
makes us lame, still we have two or three
apparently useless physical apparau, anC
/ no anatomist or Psychologist has evei
been able to tell what they are good for
| Perhaps they are the foundation of tht
! resurrection body, worth nothing to us il
this state, to be indispensibly valuable il
the next state. The Jewish rabbis appear
| to have had a hint of this suggestion
when they said that in the human fran,
| there was a small bone which was to h,
the basis of the resurrection BODY Tbo
may have been delusion. But this thin,
Is certain, the Christian scientists of on
day have found out that there are tw,
or three superfluities of the body that ar,
state.
1 called at my friends house one snm
mer day / found the yard all piled nj
/ with rubbish of carpenters and masons
work. The door was off. The plumbet
llstu urn UP lile NOQf. Inc TOOf was DoiQ!
lifted in cupola. All the pictures wer
gone and the paper-hangers We're doini
their work. All the modern Improvement
We're being introduced into that DWELLING
There was not a room in the house ii
TO live in at that time, although a mont
before when ! visited that house every
thing was so beautiful l could not hav
suggested an improvement. Ny friend ha,
gone with his family to the Holy LAND
| expecting to come back at the end of si
months, when the building was to b
done And oh! what was his joy when a
the end of six months he returned an
the old house was enlarged and improve
and glorihed. That is your body Ii look
well now. All the rooms filled wit
health, and we could hardly make a sue
gestion But after a while your soul
will go to the Holy Land and while vo
are gone the old house of your tabernacl
will be entirely reconstructed from celia
to attick; every nerve, muscle, and bon
and tissue and artery must be hauled Over
and the old structure will be FURNISHED an
adorned and raised and cupolaed and er
larged and all the improvements q
heaven introduced, and you will move int
it on Resurrection Day, For we kno1
that, If our earthly house of this taberna
Gle were dissolved. we have building G
God. house not made with hands, eterns
in the heavens " Oh, what a day whe
body and soul meet again. They are yer
. fond az each other Did VOnr h,l,- az.