The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-11

raised may be, indeed, ca7ied It's own
body. and yet IL 10 o new body.. 1t Is
raised anew. with stem, leaves and
fruit, and yet nll the time we know that
tits no new wheat. It IN the. old life In
the seed reappearing, developed In d
higher, form and growing with maryei-
Gus power. Now, remember that this.
new life will only be developed under
certain circumstances; and that Its
germ may sleep for ages and yet oil the
tlmc carry this latent power within
Itself. may get n grain OF Egyptian
corn from n mummy which has prob-i
ably existed from tho time OF Joseph.
How dead, dry and good for-nothlnS II
looks! And yet, let me place II In the
ground where 1t can asslmilate 10 itself
the surrounding earth and water, and
In o little while the life In the dried-up
grain bursts its celiular tomb and be-
comes manifest Ii, the growing plant"
so also In the resurrection OF the dead,
II Is lsown in corruption, II Is raised In
interruption: 1t Is sown IN doshonor, It
Is raised in glory; II 10 sown In weak
ness. It ID raised In power; 1t Is sown a
natural body, II Is raised q spiritual
body" There Is q natural body and
there 10 a spiritual body" The, apostle
does not describe II; nor do we attempt
1t, neither could We II we tried, to de-
scribe this body, but certainly we very
much lower the life OF the spirItua,
body IL we think that It shah possess
only, those Impressions brought 10 Il by
these five nttle senses, we call sight.
ana touch. and hearing, and taste. and
smell; for tho Bible leads US to believe
that the resurrection body shah intro
Guee US. by Its great power, into a
sphere OF life, OF which we are to-day
utterly ignorant. Nov we know"
says this same apostle. lin part, but
then shall we know even US also we are
known. Now we see through q glass
darby, but then face to face" EYE
hath not seen. nor car heard, neither
hath It entered into the heart OF man
to conceive tho things Cod hath pre-
pared for those who love Him" Our
knowledge. our power, our glory In the
resurrection body can not be imagined
much less described. but rs there not
Joy unspenkablc In the fact OF the body
that shah be? And how natural Is It
for us to re.echo the words OF giadness:
Thanks be to God who giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
AnuiLnS We W doV peCauSe We CtiIl say
THE Lord is risen indeed"
Third-But there is one other great
truth and fact, the resurrection OF our
Lord assures US Of, and 1t brings to our
souls great JOY and gadness. There Is
yearning In all our hearts after i'm
mortality and that not In our lowest,
but In our highest moods. We find be-
lief In this doctrine stamped upon the
records OF history; the wisest as well as
the most ignorant have ever had a nat
urtl inclination to believe It. The Old
Testament speaks more clearly still of
this most comforting article OF our be-
lief, and the New Testament speaks
palmer than the old; for life and i'm
mortality were brought to light by the
Gospel. 1T has converted the better
guesses INTERPRETATION OF philosophy
into certaintieN and made the creed Of
the Jewish belieNers as to the world be-
yond the grave IN article OF the Chris
tan faith. But hN who spoke with the
most infallible authority OF this most
comforting truth was Jesus Himself,
who sanctioned both the Old as well as
the New Tcstaments on this subject
HIS own utterances cover the whole
area OF what IS revealed on the subject
and His resurrection Is q positive as
surance OF the fact OF our Immortality.
Who was so well qualified to speak OF
the unseen world and Of the great fu,
ture as our blessed Lord. who holds
the keys OF death and hell? In that He
died and rose again He held the keys Of
His experience on the Subject OF death,
and since He went into the unseen
world and returned and gave His Wit
ness, He certainly holds the very best
experience rs to this unseen world, and
the great future to which We are all
Fastening. To whom shall we go but
unto Him who has not only the words
but the very experience OF eternal life?
What JOY thrills our very being when
We come to know and believe in Him
who was dead but Is alive again for
.evcrmore and holds the keys of dealt,
and hell! How differently we look on
death and the untried future now II so
be. We believe in Him and will follow
Him in life and death. Now we may
look through the open door and, see
Immortality as certain fact Death Is
not the end of life. but the last dark
experience Of our present state OF ex-
istence. Christ has demonstrated this.
Jesus has come down to us and opened
wide the gate and tells us to cook on
immortality"Bccau live, We shall
live also" Il am the resurrection ard
the life. He that bclieveth on Me
though he were dead. yet shall he i've"
There is, 1t is said, n beautiful custom
In parts OF Sicily when the fishermen
are going on some expedition into the
deep sea; their wives and children ac-
company them TO the shore and MS they
embark they raise all together their
voices in hymn OF praise TO God. and
as they put out to sea, those in the boats
answer to those on the shore, in an
antephon Of devotion, verse after verse,
until their voices die away in the dis
lance, and the yearning sea carries
them out OF sight and hearing. sol we
stand to-day on the shore OF eternity,
and as soul after soul puts forth Into