The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-04-17

bridge. John Rogers cremated by per-
secution; Latimer and Ridley cremated
at Oxford; Pothinus, and Blondina, a
slave, and Alexander, a physician, and
their comrades cremated at the order
of Marcus Aurelius. At least hun
dred thousand of Christ's disciples Gre
mated, and there can be no doubt about
the resurrection of their bodies If the
world last as much longer as it has al
ready 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 cremation
we shall get that luminous, buoyant,
gladstone, transcendent, magnificent,
inexplicable structure called the resur-
rection body, you will have it, | 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 dead"
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 stag
nant pool out on Newark Flats. Up
Wonder there, embodied in a cloud, and
! the sun kindles it. If God can make
such lustrous cloud out of water
drops, many of them soiled and i'm
pure, and fetched from miles away,
can he not transport the fragments Of
human body from the earth, and out
of them build a radiant body? Cannot
God, who owns all the material out of
which bones, and muscle, and flesh are
made, set them up again if they have
fallen? If a manufacturer of tele-
scopes drop telescope on the floor and
it breaks, can he not mend it again so
you can see through it? And if God
drops the human eye into the dust, the
eye which He originally fashioned, can
He not restore it? Aye, if the manu-
facturer of the telescope, by change
of the glass and change of focus, can
make better glass than that which
was originally constructed, and actual
ly improve it, do you not think the
Fashioner of the human eye may i'm
prove its sight and multiply the nat
ural eye by the thousandfold add.
tional forces of the resurrection 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
: flowers? Out of the mold and earth
|, Resurrected. Resurrected. The radiant
! butterfly, where did it come from? The
loathsome caterpillar. That albatros'
; that smites the tempest with its wing
where did it come from? A senseles'
shell. Near Bergerac, France, in {
! Celtic tomb, under block, were founC
! flower seeds that had been buried two
: thousand years. The explorer took thu
: flower seed and planted it, and it came
l up, it bloomed in bluebell and hello
{ trope. Two thousand years ago buried
{ vet resurrected. A traveller says h,
{ found in mummy pit in Egypt gar
$ den peas that had been buried ther,
l three thousand years ago. He brough
them out, and on June 4, 1874, h
g planted them, and in thirty days the,
!, Sprang up. Buried three Thousand
: years; yet resurrected.
g "Why should it be thought thinl
l Incredible with you that God shoul,
4 raise the dead?" Where did all thi
e silk come from? The silk that adorn
: your persons and your homes? In tn
: hollow of staff a Greek missionar
l brought from China to Europe the pre-
i genitors of those worms that now sur
r ply the silk markets of many nations
The pageantry of hammered hosts an
= the luxurious articles of commercial
S emporiums blazing out from the silk
e worms! And who shall be surprised
t out of this insignificant earthly life ou
{ bodies unfold into something worthy c
n the coming eternities. Put silver int
+ diluted nitre and it dissolves. Is tn
i silver gone forever? No. Put in som
S pieces of copper and the silver real
It pears. If one force dissolves, anothe
n force reorganizes.
), "Why should it be thought thin
e incredible with you that God shoul
k raise the dead?" The insects he1
G and the worms crawled last al
e tumn feebler and feebler, an
# then stopped. They have taken n
n food, they want none. They Ii
l. dormant and insensible, but soon tn
t south wind will blow the resurre,
= ton trumpet, and the air and th
IS earth will be full of them. Do yo
is not think that God can do as much fc
e our bodies as he does for the wasp
If and the spiders, and the snails? Th
D morning at half-past 4 o'clock ther
n was resurrection. Out of the nigh
+, the day. In few weeks there will
= resurrection in all our gardens. VIII
d not some day resurrection amid a
E, the graves? Ever and anon there al
l. instances of men and women entrancet
,r A trance is death, followed by resu
D. rection after few days. Total su
D. pension of mental power and voluntar
h action. Rev. William Tenants gres
c. evangelist of the last generation, {
d whom DR.. Archibald Alexander, a ma
10 far from being sentimental, wrote
le most eulogistic terms-Rev Willial
1t Tenant seemed to die. His spir
re seemed to have departed. People can
S, in day after day and said: "He is dea'
"a he is dead" But the soul returne
1T and William Tennant lived to write ol
Of experiences of what he had seen whi
le his soul was gone. 1t may be four
le some time'that what is called suspende
IN animation or comatose state is bri,
NJ death, giyinp the soul an excursion I'M