Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

SiRnhnc0DCO OF 6ro8G 8Oun0.
You have noticed I suppose, in read
ing the story of the resurrection that
almost every account of the Bible gives
the idea that the characteristic of that
day will be a great sound. do not
know that it will be very loud, but
1 know it will be very penetrating. In
the mausoleum where silence has
reigned a thousand years that voice
must penetrate. In the coral cave of
the deep that voice must penetrate
Millions of spirits will come through
the gates of eternity, and they will
come to the tombs of the earth, and
they will cry, "Give us back our bod
les; we gave them to you in corrup-
ton; surrender them now in incor-
ruption." Hundreds of spirits hover
ing about the fields of Gettysburg, for
there the bodies are buried. A hun
dred thousand spirits coming to Green
wood, for there the bodies are buried,
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul
All along the sea route from New
York to Liverpool, at every few miles
where a steamer went down, departed
spirits coming back, lowering over the
wave There is where the City of Bos-
ton perished. Found at last. There is
where the President perished. Steam
er found at last. There is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
lowering, hundreds of spirits, ,hovering
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul. Out on the prairie a spirit
alights. There is where a traveller
died in the snow. Crash goes West
minister abbey, and the poets and the
orators come forth; wonderful ming
ling of good and bad. Crash go the
pyramids of Egypt, and the monarchs
come forth
The Immortal Body.
But, you say, ''if this doctrine of
the resurrection is true, as prefigured
by this Easter morning, you tell
us something about the resurrected
body?" 1 can. There are mysteries
about that, but 1 shall tell you three
or four things in regard to the resur
rected body that are beyond guessing
and beyond mistake
/ In the first place, L remark in regard
| to your resurrected body. it will be
glorious body. The body we have now
| is a mere skeleton of what it would
have been if sin had not marred and
| defaced it. Take the most exquisite
statue that was ever made by an artist
and chip it here and chip it there with
! chisel and batter and bruise it here
| and there and then stand it out in the
storms of a hundred years, and the
/ beauty would be gone. Well, the hui
man body has been Clipped and bat
/ tered and bruised and damaged with
! the storms of thousands of years-the
! physical defects of other generations
coming down from generation to gen.
| Grafton, we inheriting the infelicities
| of past generations. But in the morn
| ing of the resurrection the body will
be adorned and beaut1fied according to
the original model. And there is no
such difference between a gymnast and
an emaciated wretch in lazaretto as
there will be difference between our
bodies as they are now and our resur-
| rected forms. There you will see the
| perfect eye after the waters of death
have washed out the stains of tears
and study. There you will see the per-
feet hand after the knots of toll have
| been united from the knuckles. There
you will see the form erect and elastic
after the burdens have gone off the
shoulder-the very life of God in the
body. In this world the most impress
siye thing, the most expressive thing,
Is the uuIldn lace, out IHdI lace Is veil
ed with the griefs of a thousand years.
But in the resurrection morn that veil
will be taken away from the face, and
the nooAiay sun is dull and dim and
stupid compared with the outfiaming
glories of the countenances of the
saved. When those faces of the right
eous. those resurrected faces, turn to-
ward the gate, or look up toward the
throne, it will be like the dawning OF
a new morning on the bosom of ever
lasting day. o glorious, resurrected
body,
But I remark. also. in regard to that
body which you are to get in the res
direction, it will be an important body
These bodies are wasting away. Some
body has said that as soon as we begin
to live We begin to die. Unless we
keep putting the fuel into the furnace
the furnace dies out. The blood ves-
sells are canals taking the breadstuffs
to all parts of the system. We must
be reconstructed hour by hour, day by
day. Sickness and death are at all
times trying to get their pry under the
tenement or to push us of the embank-
ment of the grave. But. blessed be
God. in the resurrection we will get a
| body immortal No malaria in the air
no cough. no neuralgia twinge, nc
rheumatic pang, no fluttering of the
heart, no shortness of breath, no am
bulance, no dispensary. no hospital, nc
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