The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-09
WINNSBORO, S. c., MAY 9 1895.

hought thing Incredible with you that Cox
! hould raise the dead?"
That far up cloud, higher than the haws
lies, higher than the eagle flies, what Is Il
: made of Drops Of water from the Hudson
| sther drops from the East River, other drop!
tom a stagnsnt pool out on Newark fats
Up yondar there, embodied In a cloud, ant
4 ustrousscloud out Of warer drops, many o
hem soiled and impure and fetched hon
! niles away, can he not transport the tag
neut5 Of a human body rom the earth ant
,ut Of them build a radiant body2 Canno
Sod, VINO owns all the material out Of which
ZONES and muscle and flesh are made, se
| hem up. again II they have fallen2 II 6
! Manufacturer q telescopes drops telescope
! IN the floor, aud 1t breaks. can he not memo
! tagain SO you can. see through 1t? And /
| God drops the human eye into the dust, the
! Eye which he originally fashioned, can HI
,ot restore it? Aye, If the manufacturer O.
The telescope, by change Of the glass and {
lhange of focus, can make better glass thar
hat which was originally constructed ant
lctuallY improve 1t, do you not think tht
'ashioner Of the human eye may improve it!
right aud multiply the natural eye by th'
ihousandfold additional forces Of the resur
'ection eye?
"Why should it be thought with you an in
credible thing that God should raise thu
iead?" Things all around US suggest it. Out
f what grew all these flowers? Out Of tht
mold and earth. Resurrected. Resurected
| The radiant butterfly, where did It come
rom? The loathsome caterpillar. That al
oatross that snoites the tempest with It's wing
where did 1t come from2 a senseless shell
Near Ber9erac, France. in Celtic tomb, un'
Ter a block, were found flower seeds that had
,een buried 1000 years. The explorer took
he flower seed and planted 1t, and 1t came
lp. It blomed In bluebeu and heliotrope
EWo thousand years age buried, yet resur
ected. A traveller says he found In mum.
ny pit in Egypt garden peas that had been
! ,uried there 5000 years ago. He brought
hem out, and on June 4, 1914, he planted
hem, and in thirty days they sprang up
buried 5000 years, yet resurrected.
"Why should it be thought thing In,
redible with you that God should raise the
/ ;ead?" Where did all this silk come from
he silk that adorns your persons and your
homes? In the hollow Of staff Greek
Missionary brought from China to Europe
he progenitors Of those worms that now
npply the silk markets Of many Nations.
The pageantry of hammered hosts and the
luxurious articles of commercial emporium
,lazing out from the silk worms! And who
hall be surprised II, out OF this Insignificant
larthly life, our bodies unfold into something
Forthy Of the coming eternities? Put silver
nto diluted inter. and it dissolves. Is the
diver gone forever? No. Put In some pieces
# copper, and the silver reappears. II one
| oroe dissolves. another force reorganizes
"Why should it be thought thing In,
redible with you that God should raise the
! iead?' The insects few and the worms
Tawled last autumn feebler and feebler and
| hen stopped. They have taken no food;
! hey Vant none. They lie dormant and in
ensible, but soon the south wind will blow
| he resurrection trumpet, and the air and the
!arth will lie full Of them. Do you not think
hat God Gin do az much for our bodies as he
| loes for the wasps, and the sp ders, and the
malls? This morning at half past O'Clock
| here was resurrection. Out OF the night,
| he day. In few weeks there will be res
urectlon in all our gardens. Why not some
lay a resurrection amid all the graves!
| Syef and snoU tnorc-e-e instances OF men
md women entranced.
| A trance is death. followed by resurrection
I Ifter few days-total suspension OF mental
,ower and voluntary action. Rev. William
rennent, great evangelist Of the last gen.
ration, Of whom Dr.. Archibald Alexander, a
| nan far from belpg sentimental, wrote IN
| most eulogistic terms-Rev. William Ten
lent seemed to die. His spirit seemed to
lave departed. People came In day after
lay and said, "He is dead; he Is dead" But
| he soul returned, and William Tennent lived
70 write out experiences of what he had seen
Ehile his soul was gone. It may be found
Iome time what Is called suspended anima-
ion or comatose state Is brief death, giving
he soul an excursion into the next world,
rom which it comes baak-a furlough Of a
ew hours granted from the conflict OF life to
which It must return.
Do not this waking up Of men from trance
md this waking up Of grains buried 5000
rears ago make It easier for you to believe
hat your body and mine, after the vacation
# the grave, shall rouse and rally, though
here be 5000 years between our last breath
md the sounding Of the archangeic reveille?
Psychologists tell US that, while the most Of
,ur bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing, and the
oss Of finger is hindrance. and the in
ury Of a toe joint makes US lame, still we
lave two or three apparently useless physl:
al apparati. and no anatomist or physiolog-
st has ever been able to- tell what they are
rood for. Perhaps they are the foundation
If the resurrection body, worth nothing to
ls in this state, to be indispensibly valuable
the next state The Jewish rabbis appear
o have had hint of this suggestion when
hey said that in the human frame there was
small bone which was to be the basis Of the
resurrection body. That may have been a
lelusion. But this thingis certain, the Chris
ian scientists of our day have found out
hat there are two or three super6uities OF
he body that are something gloriously sug.
;estive of another state.
called at my friends house one summer
found 10 word oil r,ilad IN with rllh-
Dish of carpenters aud mason's work. The
loor was Off. The plumbers had torn up the
loor. The roof was being lifted in cupola.,
All the pictures were gone, and the paper
hangers doing their work. All the modern
improvements were being introduced into
hat dwelling. There was not room in the
louse fit to live in at that time, although
month before, when I visited that house,
everything was so beautiful could not have
uc-;ested an improvement My friend had
gone with his family to the Holy Land. ex-
,cctin- to come back at the end OF sixnonths.
yhen the building was to be done.
And, oh, what was his joy when at the
nj Of six months he returned and the old
louise WAS enlarged and improved and glo-
:ifed! That is your bodyi It loooks well
low. All the rooms filled with health, and
ne could hardly make suggestion. But
ttlcI dNIlllt SOul SOcl ~ w NA0 ASAy
Land, and while you are gone the old house
II your tabernacle Will be entirely recon
,tructed 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 adorned
and raised and coupolaed and enlarged
md all the improvements Of heaven intro
1ucel. and you will move into it on resurrec-
ion day. For we know that, if our earthly
;oUsa OF this tabernacle were dissolved. we
,ave building Of God, house not made
Sitn hands, eternal in the heavens" Oh,
what day when body and soul meet again!
rhey are very fond OF each other. Did
FOUR body ever have a pain and your
ioul not re-echo 1t? Or, changing the
question. did your soul ever have any
lrouble aud your body not sympathize
With it. growing wan and weak under
ile depressing influence? Or did youl
ioul ever have glainess but yonr body
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and
elastic step. Surely God never intended two
such good friends to be very long separated.
And so when the worlds last Easter morning