The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-26

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lied two Thousand years. The explorer
took the flower seeds and planted ",
and it came up, it bloomed in bluebell
and ssheliotrope. Two Thousand years
| ago buried, yet resurrected. A tray
eler says he found In . mummy PIT IN
Egypt garden peas that had been bur
led there three thousand years ago.
He brought them out, and on June 4,
1874. he planted them, and in thirty
days they sprang up. Buried three
thousand years, yet resurrected.
why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the deadp" Where did all this
silk come from? The SILK that adorns
your persons and your homes? In the
hollow of staff Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the pro-
genitors Of those worms that now sup
ply the silk markets of many nations.
The pageantry of hammered hose and
the luxurious articles OF commercial
emporium blazing out from the silk
worms! And who shall be surprised II
out of this insignificant earthly life our
bodies unfold into something worthy
of the coming eternities. Put silver
into diluted inter and it dissolves. Is
the silver gone forever? No. Put in
some pieces of copper and the silverre
appears. II one force dissolves, an
other force reorganizes.
'Why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?" The insects flew and
the worms crawled last autumn feebler
and feebler, and then stopped. They
have taken no food-they want none
They lie dormant and insensible, but
soon the south wind will blow the
resurrection trumpet, and the air and
the earth will be full of them. Doyou
not think that God can do as much for
our bodies as he does for the wasps,
and the spiders. and the snails? This
morning at half past four o'clock there
was resurrection. Out of the nigh
the day. In a few weeks there
will be resurrection in all our gar
dens. Why not some day resurrec-
ton amid all the graves? Ever and
anon there are instances of men and
women entranced. A trance in death,
followed by resurrection in few days.
Total suspension of mental power and
voluntary action. Rev. VIM. Ternent
"a great evangelist of the last gem
Grafton, of whom DR.. Archibald
Alexander, a man far from be-
ing sentimental. wrote in most
eulogistic terms-Rev. VIM. Tennent
seemed to die. His spirit seemed
to have departed. People came in day
after day and said: 'He is dead; he is
dead" But the soul returned and
VIM. Tennent lived to write out OK
periences of what he had seen while
his soul was gone. It may be found
some time that what is called sus-
pended animation or comatose state is
brief death, giving the soul an excur-
sion into the next world, from which
it comes back-a furlough of few
from the conflict OF
life to which it must return.
Only the bad disapprove of the res
direction. A cruel heather warrior
heard Mr.. Moffat, the missionary,
preach about the resurrection, and he
said to the missionary: will my father
rise in the last day?" ''Yes," said the
"Will all the dead in bat
tie rise?" said the cruel chieftain.
'Yes," said the missionary.
Then" said the /. warrior, ''let
me hear. no more about the
day. There can be no
there shall be no resur-
rection. have slain thousands in bat
Tie. Will they rise?" All! there will
be more to rise on that day than those
want to see whose crimes have never
been repented of. But for all 9TH
ers who allowed Christ to be
their pardon, and life, and resur-
rection, it will be day of
The thunder of the last day
will be the salvo that greets You into
harbor. The lightnings will be the
only torches of triumphal procession
down to escort you home. |
The burning world flashing through |
immensely will be the rockets
celebrating your coronation on
thrones, where You will reign |
forever, and forever, and for
ever. Where is death? What have we
to do with deatha AS your reunited |
body and soul swing off from this
planet ON that last day, you will see
deep gashes all up and down
the hills, deep gashes all through |
the valleys, and they will be
the emptied graves, they will be
the abandoned sepulchers, with |
rough ground tossed on either side of
them, and slabs will lie uneven on the |
rent hillocks, and there will be fallen |
monuments and cenotaphs, and then |
for the first time you will appreciate
the full exhilaration of the text: HE |