Connecticut western news., 1897-04-22

by he gave to some of his disciples his three credentials He showed them his hands and his side. Three paragraphs written in rigid or depressed letters A scar in the right palm, scar in the left palm, scar amid the ribs-scars, scars That is the way they knew him. That is the way you and will know him.
 Aye, am I saying this morning too much when say that will be one of the ways in which you and will know each other by the scars of earth-scars of ac- cident, scars of sickness, scars of perse- cution, scars of hard work, scars of bat tie, scars of old age. When see Christ's resurrected body having scars, it makes me think that our remodeled and resur- rected bodies will have scars. Why, be- fore we get out of this world some of us will be covered with scars all over. Heaven will not be bay into which float summer yachts after pleasuring with the gay bunting and with the em- broidered sails as fair as when they were first unfurled. Heaven will be more like navy yard where men-of- war come in from Trafalgar and Lepan to-men-of- war with masts twisted by a cyclone, men-of-war struck on all sides by "A pounders, men-of-war with decks scorched of the shell. Old Consti. tutions, old Consultations, floating in discharged from service to rest forever. In the resurrection Christ credentialed by scars. You and will be credentialed and will recognize each other by scars. Do you think them now disfgurement? Do you think them now badge of en- durance? tell you the glorious thought this morning, they are going to be the means of heavenly recognition.
 A Notable Fact.
 There is ono more thing that the world and the church have not noticed in this resurrection of Christ, and that is that Christ from Friday to Sabbath was lifeless in a hot climate where sani- tary prudence demanded that burial take place the same day as death, and where there was no ice to retard disso lution. Yet, after three days he comes up so healthful, so robust and so rubi- cund Mary Magdalene takes him for a gardener. Not supposing him to be an invalid from hospital, not supposing him to be corpse from the tomb, but supposing him to be the gardener. Healthfu1 by the breath of the upturned sod and by perpetual life in the sun- shine.
 After Christ's interment every cellular tissue broke down, and nerve and artery and brain were physiological wreck, and yet he comes up swarthy, rubicund and we'll. When see after such mortu- ary silence such radiant appearance, that settles it that whatever should be- come of the bodies of our Christian dead, they are going to come up, the nerves restrung, the optic nerve reil- lumined, the ear drum a-vibrate, the whole body lifted up, without it's weak nesses and worldly uses for which there is no resurrection. Come, is it not al
 most time for us to go out to meet our reanimated dead? Can you not hear the lifting of the rusted latch?
 Oh, the glorious thought, the glori- ous consolation of this subject when l find Christ coming up without any of the lacerations-for you must remember he was lacerated and wounded fearfully in the crucifxion-coming up without onel What does that make me thinki That the grave will get nothing of us except our wounds and imperfections. Christ went into the grave exhausted and bloodless. All the currents of bis life had poured out from his wounds.
 and privation, and then he died lin gering death. His entire body hung on four spikes. No invalid of 90 years suf- fering ever went into the grave so white
 and ghastly and broken down as Christ,
 and yet here he comes up so rubicund and robust she supposed him to be the gardener.
 An, all the side aches, and the head aches, and the back aches, and the leg
 aches, and the heart aches we will leave
 where Christ left hisl The ear will come up without its heaviness, the eye will come up without its dimness, the lungs will come up without oppressed respira- | tion Oh, what races we will run when we become immortal athletesl Oh, what | circuits we will take when, all earthly | imperfections subtracted and all celes- | tial velocities added, we shall set up our residence in that city which, though
 vaster than all the cities of this world, shall never have one obsequyi
 Standing this morning round the shattered masonry of our Lords tomb, point you to world without hearse, without muffied drum, without tumulus,
 without catafalque and without tear. Amid all the cathedrals of the blessed nc
 longer the "Dead March On Saul" but
 whole libretti of ''Halleluiah Chorus. ' Oh, put trumpet to lip and finger to key | and loving forehead against the bosom oi
 risen Christi Halleluiah, amenl Hal leluiah, amenl