Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-05-02

\ l'SLSOh VI power anu NOluI-
tary action. Rev. WIN. Tennent--a
great evangelist of the las, generation
Of whom Archibald Alexander. a man
far from being sentimental wrote in
most eulogistic terms-Rev. WIN. Ten
nent seemed to die. His spirit seem
I'd to have departed. People came in
lay after day and said: He is dead;
he is dead But the soul returned and
VIM. Tennent lived to. write out eN-
Ipercnces of what lie lad seen while
his soul was gone. 1t may be found
some time that what is called suspend
I'd animation or comatose state is
Drief death. giving the soul an excur-
sion into the next world, from which
1t comes back--a furlough of few
hours granted from the conflict of life
% which it must return.
| Do not this waking up of men from
trance. and this waking up of grains
Hurried 1000 years ago. make it easier
for you to believe that your body and
mine. after the vacation Of the grave,
shall rouse and rally though there he
| 1000 years between our last breath
and the sounding OF the archanselic
reveille? Psychologists tell us that
while the most of our bodies are built
with such wonderful economy that we
L
finger is a hindrance. and the injury
IF toe-joint makes us lame. still we
nave two or three apparently useless
physical apparati. aud no anatomist or
| phySioloEiSt has ever been able to tell
what they are good for. Perhaps they
Ire the foundation of the resurrection
]ody. worth nothing To us in this state.
to be indispenshly valuable i'll the
leyt state. The Jewish rabbiS appear
% have had Il hint of this suggestion
when they said that in the human
frame there was Il small bone which
was to he the basis of the resurre,-
ion body. That may have been de-
usion. But this thing is certain. the
'lriStinn scientists of our day have
'ound out that there are two or three
supcrtiuities of the body that are
something .loriously suggestive of an
other state.
l called at my friends house one
summer day. / found the yard all
piled up with rubbish OF carpenters
md maSon's work. The door was Off
The plumbers had torn up the floor
The roof was heins lifted in the Gu
Dola. All the pictures We're gone and
he paper hangers We're doing their
Work. All the modern improvements
were being introduced into that dwell
M. There was not room i'll the
house tit to live in at that time. al
houGh month before when visited
hat house everything was so beauti-
>ul l could not have suggested an i'm
Dru"ement My friend had gone with
his family to the Holy Land. expecting
a come back ut the md of six months
when the building was to be done.
And oh. what was lis joy when at the
md of six months he returned and the
I'D house was enlarged and improved
md gloiitied That is your body. 1t
ooks we'll now. All the rooms filled
with health and we could hardly make
1 suggestion. Eut after awhile your
soul will 90 to the Holy Land. ind
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
md artery must be hauled over. and
The old structure will be FURNISHED
and adorned aud raised and cupolaed
md enlarged. and all the improve
mcnts of heaven Introduced. and You
will move into it on Resurrection Day.
For we know that. if our earthly
house of this tabernacle We're diSSoiv
I'd. we lave Il building of God. Il house
not made With hands eternal i'll the
heavens oh. what a day when body
md soul meet again! They are Very
'ond of each other. Did You body ever
have Il pain and your soul not re- echo
t! 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
4 gladness but your body celebrated
liz with kindled eye and cheek and
elastic step? Surely. God he: err intend
ed two such good friends to be Very
long separated. And SO when the
worlds last Easter morning. shall
come. tue soul will descend crying.
Where is my body" and the body
will ascend saying Where is my
soul?' and the Lord of the resurrec-
ton will bring them together and it
will be a perfect body. introduced by
A perfect Christ into Il perfect heaven.
Victory.
Only the bad disapprove of the res
direction. y cruel heather warrior
heard Mr.. Moffat, the missionary.
preach about the resurrection. and he
said to the missionary, will my IA
Their rise in the last day." YES" said
the missionary. will ali the dead in
battle rise:' said the cruel chieftian.
Yes" said the missionary. Then"
said the warrior. "iet me hear no more
about the resurrection day. There can
be no resurrection. there shall be no
resurrection. l have slain thousands
in battle. Will they rise:' All! There
will be more to rise on that day than
those want to see whose crimes have
never been rcpented of But for all
others who allowed Christ to be their
pardon. and life. and resurrection. it
will be day of victory. The thunder
Of the last day will be the salvo that
sreets you into harbor. The lishtnings
will be the only torches of triumphal
procession marching down to escort
you nome. The burning world flash
ing through immensely will be the
rockets celebrating your coronation on
thrones, where you will reign forever.
and forever. Where is death? What
have we to do with death? AS your re-
united body and soul swing off from
this planet on the last day, you will
see deep sashes all up and down the