The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-16

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body burned to ashes, eaten by worms
disintegrated in the soil and taken uI
again in vegetable life, and in the at
mosphere until 1t is all but annihilat-
ed, how can that body be raised again"
Modern science has made this question
so suggestive as to almost disprove the
resurrection.
Paul answers it very lucidly, by using
an illustration of His Lords, the Illus
tration of the seed: The seed Is planted
and dies, but it does not rise seed, as
| it was planted, it rises blade of grass
a rose lily, an oak. Man sows the
seed and "God gives it body as it hath
pleased Him, and to every seed His own
body" So the body of man, like the
seed, covered with earth, dies, to rise
in new body, which it shall please
God to give. The resurrected body will
not be this old body of flesh and blood,
of disease and deformity, for "flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God" ut is sown in corruption, but is
raised in interruption. 1t is soWn
natural body; it is raised spiritual
body" The resurrected body will be as
much more beautiful and efficient than
the present body, as the blade of grass
is more wonderful than the seed, the
lily than the bulb the oak than the
acorn. 1t will be a spiritual vestment,
a glorified body, fitted as this body is
not, for a spiritual existence, where
space cannot separate, where time can
not part, where tears never flow, where
pain is never felt, and where death IS
banished forever.
Jesus referred to the final resurrec-
ton when he said to Mary "And who
soever liveth and believeth on Me, shall
never die He was talking about His
second coming. For those living at the
second coming will have their gloritied
bodies given in the twinkling of an eye
Then shall be brought to pass the say
| ing that is written.
90 death where is thy sting,
0 grave where is thy victory"
| We cannot say that now; death has
| its sting for all of us. No one in health
and happiness looks at death without
feeling a sting. The grave has its vic
tory every time body is lowered there
and covered with earth. But when
Jesus comes death will lose it's sting,
for no one then living will die, and the
grave will lose it's victory, for every
body will be raised from the graves,
which will never have another victory.
Every song of the birds in spring, every
blade of grass and sprig and flower and
tree that grows and blooms again af-
ter the death of winter, every rivulet
and stream that runs down the noun
tain side, after Its blockade of snow
and ice, symbolizes this promised resur-
rection of the dead The fact that the
Easter festival heralds the first signs
of winters end and springs advent, with
life everywhere lifting up it's head and
speaking, life abundant, life joyous, life
with the voice of song and the form of
loveliness, seems as if nature herself
wished to illustrate how from the bleak
and barren groves, Which dot the earth,
the dead bodies Of our loved ones shall
feel the touch Of the warm life giving
the breath OF the Son of Righteousness
and arise clothed like the Son Himself.
o land of eternal spring, land of the
breath of roses the perfume of lilies,
and the song of birds, land without
storms without sin, without destruction
and death, balm of every heartache and
satisfaction of every soul longing, come
thou like the great son of the morning,
to illuminate our death vision with thy
celestial glory
Thanks be to God that our Saviour,
Jesus Christ, has already storm the
sting from death and robbed the grave
of it's victory, by His own resurrection
becoming the assurance of our own
resurrection. Jesus says: Marvel not
at this, for the hour is coming, when
all that are in the grave shall hear His
voice and shall come for it, st. Paul
reiterates the promise of Jesus: 1.-THE
trumpet shall sound and the dead shall
be raised incorruptable. For the Lord
Himself shall descend from heaven with |
a shout, with the voice of the arch
angel, and with the trump of Cod and |
the dead in Christ shall rise first Then |
we which are alive and remain shall be |
caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air. and
SO shall we ever be with the Lord
What are the conditions on our part |
necessary to make possible this resur-
rection? Jesus gives the conditions in
His announcement: II am the resurrec-
ton and the life, whatsoever believeth in
Me, though he die, yet shall he live"
To believe on Christ sums up the whole
thing. 1t is the extreme of simplicity,
yet nothing costs so much. 1t costs our
our wilfullness and our sin
fulness. 1t means to be crucified to the
world and alive to Christ Whoever is
willing to die to sin here and now may
rise with Christ and be an heir to eter-
nal life right in this world
In the midst of our Easter rejoicing
how sad the fact that millions have
never heard an Easter hymn, have
never heard of the Risen Lord. But it
is infinitely more pathetic that any
should join our Easter service to-day,
help swell its chorus bear part in it's
praise, and yet have no Easter hope in
their hearts.
The joy, the glory of Easter is the
resurrection rests not alone on an MIS-
-orical fact, but that we may have the
of our Risen Lord in that
)eaces whichsettles in the secret place of
The heart. And Jesus is still saying to-
lay, reach hither thy hand and know
hat I the Risen Lord am here. O
blessed Easter hope! If you have not
his hope within, reach forth your hand
and receive the Christ of Easter that
he Risen Lord may be to you the hope
If glory, IAN inheritance incorruptable