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Out Of the Night tho bay.
"Why should it be thought a thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead2" The insects flew and
the worms orawled last autumn feebler
and feebler and then stopped. They
have taken no food; they want none.
They lie dormant and insen sible, but
soon the south wind will blow the res
direction trumpet and the air and the
earth win be fill Of them. Do you not
think that God can do as much for our
bodies as he does for the tsasps, and
the spiders. and the snails? This morn-
ing at half past O'Clock there was,
resurrection. Out Of the night, the day.
In a few weeks there will be a resurreo-
ton in all our gardens. Why not some
day resurrection amid all the gravesi
Ever and anon there are instances Of
iliefi did women entranced.
A trance Is death; followed by resur-
rection after few days-total stispeR'
sion of mental power and voluntary
action. Rev. William Tennent, great
evangelist Of the last generation, Of
whom DR.. Archibald Alexander, man
far from being sentimental, wrote In
most eulogistio terms-Rev. William
Tenant seemed to die. His spirit SEEM
ID to. have 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 aus
experiences of what he had seen while
his soul was gone. 1t may be found
some time what Is called suspended
animation or comatose state is brief
death. giving tho soul On excursion into
the next world, from which It comes
baok-a furlough of few hours grant.
cd 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 5000 years tgc make it easier
for you to believe that y6uf body and
mine, after the vacation of the grave,
shall rouse and rally, though there be
5000 years between our last breath and
the sounding Of the archangelio 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
hindrance, and the injury Of a toe joint
makes us lame; still we have two or
three apparently useless physical appa-
rati, and no anatomist or physislogist
has ever been able to tell what they are
good for. Perhaps they are the founda-
ton Of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to us in this state, to be indis-
bensibly valuable in the next state. The
Jewish rabbis appear to have had a hint
of this suggestion when they said that
in the human frame there was small
bone which was to be tho basis of the
resurrection body. That may have been
q delusion. But this thing is certain,
the Christian scientists of our day have
found out that there are two or three
superf1uities of the body that are some
thing gloriously suggestive of another
state.
called at my friend s house one sum
mer day. l found the yard all piled up
with rubbish of carpenters and mason g
work. The door was of. The plumbers
had torn up the floor. The roof was be-
ing lifted in eupola. All the pictures
were gone, and the paper hangers were
doing their work. All the modern i'm
provements were being introduced into
that dwelling There was not room in
the house fit to live in at that time, al
though month before, when I visited
thatshouse, everything was so beautiful
I could not have suggested an improve
ment. Ny friend had gone with his fam
lily 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, OIL what was his Joy when at
the end of six months he returned and
the old house was enlarged and i'm
proved and glorifiedi That is your body
1t looks we'll now. All the rooms filled
with health, and we could hardly make
a suggestion. But after awhile your
soul will 60 to the Holy Land, and
while You are gone the old house Of
your tabernacle will be entirely recon-
struoted from cellar to attic, every
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. "Fof we know that,
if our earthly house of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building Of
God, house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. Oh, what a
day when body and soul meet again!
They are very fond Of each other. Did
your body ever have 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 1t, growing wan and weak under
the depressing influence? Or did your
soul ever have gladness but your body
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step. Surely God never in
tended two such 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 a per-
feet Christ into perfect heaven. Vic
toryl
Only the bad disapprove Of the resur-
reotion. A cruel heather warrior heard
Mr.. Moffat, the missionary, preach
about the resurrection, and he said tc
the missionary. will my father rise in
the last day." Eyes, "said the mission
airy. "Will all the dead in battle rise7'
said the cruel chieftain. Eyes" 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? Alb, 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-
yection it will BIO day Of victory. The
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