Connecticut western news., 1895-04-18

or thlS suggestion when they said that in the human frame there was a small bone which was to be the basis of the resurrection body. That may have been delusion. But this thing is certain, the Christian scientists of our day have found out that there are two or three opportunities of the body that are some- thing gloriously suggestive of another state.
 called at my friends house ono sum mer day. found the yard all piled up with rubbish of carpenters and mason's work. The door was off. The plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof was be- ing lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone, and the paper hangers were doing their work. All the modern inn provements were being introduced into that dwelling. There was not room i'll the house fit to live in at that time, al though month before, when visited that house, everything was so beautiful could not have suggested an improve ment My friend had gone with his fam fly to the Holy Land, expecting to come back at the end of six months, when the building was to be done.
 The New House.
 And, oh! what was his joy when at the end of six months he returned and the old house was enlarged and i'm proved and glorified! That is your body It looks we'll now All the rooms filled with health, and we could hardly make a suggestion. But after awhile your soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely recon structed 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 oupolaed and enlarged, and all the improvements of heaven in- troduced, and you will move into it on resurrection day. "For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have O building of God, house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Oh, what day wheN body and soul meet again. They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever have a pain and your soul not re-echo it? Or, changing the question, did your soul ever have any trouble and your body not sympathize with it, growing wan and weak under the depressing influence? Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step. Surely God never in- tended two s,oh good friends to be very long separated. And so when the worlds last Easter morning shall come the soul will descend, crying, Where is my body?" And the body will ascend, saying, "Where is my soul?" And the Lord of the resurrection will bring them together, and it will be perfect soul in perfect body, introduced by per feet Christ into perfect heaven. Vic toryl
 Only tho bad disapprove of the resur- reution. A cruel heather warrior heard Mir. Moffat, the missionary, preach about the resurrection, and be said to the missionary, Twill my father rise in the last day?' "Yes, " said the mission ary. Twill all the dead in battle rise?" said the cruel chieftain. "Yes," said the missionary. "Then," said the war rior, ''let me hear no more about the resurrection day. There can be no resur- rection, there shall be no resurrection. have slain thousands in battle. Will they rise? An, there will be more to rise on that day than those want to see whose crimes have never been repented of. But for all others who allowed Christ to be their pardon and life and resur- tction it will be day of victory. The  thunders of the last day will be the salvo that greets you into harbor. The light uings will be only the torches of trium- phant procession marching down to es- cort you home. The burning worlds flashing through immensity will be the rockets celebrating your corona ton on thrones where you will reign forever and forever and forever. Where is death? What have we to do with death? AS your reunited body and soul swing off from this planet on that last day you will see deep gashcs all up and down the hills, deep sashes all through the valleys, and they will be the emptied graves, they will be the abandoned sepulchres, with rough ground tossed on either side of them, hillocks, and there will be fallen monu- ments and cenotaphs, and then for the first time you will appreciate the full exhilaration of the text, ''He will swal- low up death in victory"
 Hail the Lord of earth and heaveni
 Praise to Thee by both be given
 Thee we greet triumphant now,
 Hail the resurrection Thoul