Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-04-12


gathered up?' Have you any more
questions OF this style to ask? Come
on and ask them. do not pretend to
answer them. fan back upon the an
YOuncemeat OF Gods word. "AIl who
are In their graves shall come forth"
The Last Day.
You have noticed. I suppose. I'm 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 great sound.
do not know that it will be very loud.
but know it win be very penetrating.
In the mauSoleurl. where silence has
reignod a thousand years. that voice
must penetrate. In the coral cave OF
the deep that voice must penetrate
Millions of spirits viii come through
the gates OF eternity. and they will
come to the tombs Of the earth. aud
they viii cry: Give us back our
bodies. We gave them to you In cor
ruption- Surrender them now i'm I'm.
corruption" Hundreds of spirits how
ering about the fields of Gettysburg.
for there the bodies are buried. A
hundred thousand spirits coming to
Greenwood. for there the bodies are
buried. waiting for the reuuion of body
and soul
All along the sea route from Kew
York TO Liverpool. at every few miles
where steamer went down. departed
spirits coming back. lowering over the
wave. There is where the City of
Boston persisted. Found at last. There
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CT found at last. There is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
Observation-Disclosures OF spirits lowering,
waiting for the reunion OF body and
soul. Out on the prairie spirit alights.
There is where traveller died In the
snow. Crash goes Westminster alb
hey, and the poets and the orators
come forth! Wonderful mlngling OF
good and bad. Crash go the pyramids
of Egypt. and the monarchs come
forth.
Who can sketch the scene? | sup
pose that one moment before that gen.
eral rising there VIII be an entire ST.
lence. save as you hear the grinding OF
wheel or the clatter OF the boots OF
procession passing into the cemetery.
eSLNhNC III OH NuS CdN eS VI tue G1Iln.
Silence on the side OF the mountain.
Silence down in the valleys aud far
out into the sea Silence. But in a mo-
ment. in the tw!ukling of an eye. as the
archangers trumpet comes pealing.
rolling, crashing across the mountain
and sea, the earth will give one terrific
shudder, and the graves OF the dead
will hcave like the waves or the sea,
and Osiend and Sevastopol and Chalons
will stalk forth In the lurid air. and
the drowned will come UP and wiring
out their wet locks above the billov.
and all the land and all the sea be-
come one moving mass OF life-all
faces. ell ages. all conditions gazing in
one direction and upon one throne. the
throne Of resurrection. "All who are in
their graves shall come forth"
The Pcrfec. BODY.
But" you say. IF this doctrine of
the resurrection is true, as prefigured
by this Easter morning. can you tell
Us something about the resurrected
bCdy: eau. There are mysteries
about that. but shall tell you three or
four things in regard TO the resurrected
body that are beyond guessing and be-
yond mistake
In the first place. remark In regard
TO Your resurrected body. II will be a
glorious body. The body we have now
is mere skeleton OF what Il would
have been II sin had not married and
defaccd II. Take the most exquisite
statue that was ever made by an artist
and chip IL hcsc and chip IL there with
n chiScl aud batter and bruise Il here
and there and then stand IL out IN the
storms of hundred years. and the
beauty would be gone. Well. the hu
man body has been Clipped and bat
tered and bruised and damag with
the storms or thousands or years. the
physical defects OF other generations
coming down from generation 10 gen
Grafton. we inheriting the inrelicities OF
past generations. But In the moruir.
Of the resurrection the body will be
adorned and beautified according to
the original model. And there is no
such difference between a gymnast
and an emaciated wretch In a lazaret-
TO as there will be difference be.
tween our bodies as they are now and
our resurrected 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
perfect hand after the knots of toll
nave been united from the knuckies:
there you will see the form erect and
elastic after the burdens have gone or
the shoulder-the very life OF God In
the body. In this world the most i'm
pressive thing, the most expressive
thing, is the human face, but that face
is yelled with the griefs OF a thousand
years. But In the resurrection morn
that veil VIII be taken away from the
race, and the monday sun is dull and
dim and stupid compared with the out
flaming glories OF the countenances of
the saved. When those faces OF the
righteous, those resurrected IL ces. turn
toward the gate or look up toward the
throne, it will be like the dawning of
n new morning on the bosom of ever
lasting day! o glorious, resurrec,ed
body!
Glorious Thought.
But | remark also in regard to that
body which you are to get In the resur-
rection, ii will be an immortal BODY.
body has said that as soon as we be-
gin to live We begin to die. Unless we
Keep putting the fuel into the furnace
the furnace dies out. The blood YES
sells are canals taking the breadstuffs
to all parts OF the system. We must
De reconstructed hour by hour, day by
day. Sickness and death are all the
time trying to get their pry under the |
tenement or to push us Off 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, no rheu. |
matte panS, no fluttering OF the heart, |
no shortness of breath, no ambulance,
no dispensary. no hospital. no invalid's |
chair. no spectacles To improve the dim |
vision; but health, immortal health.
o We who have aches and pains in
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