Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-04-10
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BILE into the dust, and that dust be taken
up into the life of the vegetable: an ami
MP may eat the vegetable: men eat the
animal. In the resurrection, that body.
distributed in 80 many directions how
shall it be gathered up:' Have you any
more questions Of this style to ask
Come on and ask them. 10 not pretend
to answer them. fall back upon the
announcement Of Gods word. Ali no
3 are in their raves shall come forth
Significance of Great Sound.
Iop have noticed, | suppose. in reading
the story of the resurrection that almost
every account Of the Bible gives the idea
that tae characteristic of that day will
be great sound. do not know that it
will be very loud, bur | know it will be
very penetrating. In the mausoleum
where silence has reigned Il 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 bodies;
we gave them to you in corruption; sur
render them now in interruption Hun
dreds of spirits lowering about the fields
of Gettysburg. for there the bodies are
buried. a hundred thousand spirits com
ing to Greenwood, for there the bodies
are buried, waiting for the reunion of
body and soul
All along the sea route from New York
TO Liverpool, ut every few miles where a
steamer went down, departed spirits COM
ing back, lowering owe, the wave. There
is where the City of Boston persisted.
Found at last. There is where the Pres
ident persisted. Steamer found at last.
There is where the Central America
went down. Shirts lowering hundreds
of spirits lowering, waiting for the re-
union of body and soul. Out on the prai-
RE spirit alights. There is where a
traveller died in the snow. Crash goes
Westminster abbey, and the poets and
the ora tors come forth; wonderful min
Cling OF good and bad. Crash go the
pyramids of Egypt, and the monarchs
come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? | suppose
that one moment before that general ris-
ing there will be an entire silence. So. .
as you hear the grinding of wheel or
the clatter of the hoofs of procession
passing into the cemetery. Silence in all
the caves of the earth. Silence ON the
side of the mountain. Silence down in
the valleys and far out into the sea 81
lence But in a moment, in the twin
Killing of an eye, as the archangeFs trum-
pet comes pealing, rolling, crashing.
across the mountain and sea, the earth
will give one terrific shudder, and the
graves of the dead will heave like the
waves of the sea, and Ostend, Sevastopol
and Chalons viii stalk forth in the lurid
air, and the drowned will come up and
wrii nut their wet locks above the bill
lows, md all the land aud all the sea be-
come one moving mass of life-all faces,
all ages, all conditions, gazing in one di-
rection and upon one throne-the throne
of resurrection. An who are in their
graves shall come forth.
The Immortal Body.
"But," you say. IF this doctrine of the
resurrection is true, as prehgured by this
Faster morning, can you tell us some
thing about the resurrected body" /
can. There are mysteries about that,
but shall tell you three or four things
in regard to the resurrected body that
are beyond guessing and beyond mistake.
In the first place, remark in regard to
your resurrected body, it will be a glo-
roua body. The body we have now is a
mere skeleton of what it would have
been if sin had not marred and defaeed
it, Take the most exquisite statue that
was eyer made by an artist and chip it
here and chip it there with a chisel and
batter and bruise it here and there and
then stand it out in the storms of hun
dred years. and the beauty would be
gone. Well, the human body has been
Clipped and battered and bruised and
damaged with the storms of thousands
of years-the physical defects of other
generations coming down from genera
ton q, generation, we inheriting the in
felicities of past generations. But in the
morning of the resurrection the bod~ will
be adorned and beautitied according to
the original model. And there is no such
difference between a gymnast aud an
emaciated wretch in a laZaretto as there
will be a difference between our bodies
as they are now and our resurrected
forms. There you will see the perfect
eye after the waters of death have wash
ed out the stains of tears and study.
There you will see the perfect hand after
the knots of toll have been united from
the knuekles. 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
mos: impressive thing, the most express
i've thing, is the human face, but that
face is yelled with the griefs of Il thou
sand years. But in the resurrection
mora that veil will be taken away from
the face, and the MONDAY sun is duh
III nd CT .3I will In
ou.rsaming glories of the eountenances of
th, saved. When those faces of the
righteous, those resurrectpd faces, turn
toward the gate or look up toward the
th"one, it will be like the dawning of a
new morning on the bosom of everlasting
day. o glorious, rcsurrected body.
But ! remark, also. in regard to that
body which you are TO get in the resur-
rect;on. il will he an important body.
These bodies are wasting away. Some
bcly has said that a soon as we begin
to live we begin 30 die. Unless we keep
puttnx ss-ss~el into the furnace the fur
maze dies oih.t 9The blood vessels are ca
mas taking the hrcadstufs TO all parts
of the system. We must he reconstr, ct
ed hour by hour, day by day. Sickness
an. death are all the time trying to get
their pry under the tenement or to push
us off the embankmcnt Of the grave.
But blessed he God, in the resurrection
we viii get body immortal. No mala-
ria in the air, no cough, no neuralgia
twinge. no rheumatic pang. no futtering
of the heart, no shortness If breath, no
ambulance. no dispensary, no hospital
no invalid's chair. no spectacles to i'm
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