The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
5st @x5ressive thing, iz'the durnsE

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the resurrection morn that veil Will
be taken away from the face, and the
noondav sun is dull and dim and
stupid compared with the outfaming
elories Of the countenances OF the
saved. When those faces Of the
righteous, those resurrected faces,
surn toward the gate or look up to-
ward the throne, it will be like the
dawning of a new morning on the
bosom of everlasting day. o glorious,
resurrected body!
But I remark, also, in regard to that
body which you are to getin the resur-
rection, 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 vessels
are canals taking the breadstufs to
all parts of the system. We must be
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 enbank-
! ment of the grave. But, blessed be
God, in the resurrection we will get
body immortal. No malaria in the air,
no cough, no neuralgia twinge, no
rheumatic pang, no futterins of the
heart, no shortness of breath, no am
bulance, no dispensary, no hospital,
= = ohoi n
prove the din vision, but health, i'm
mortal health! o ye who have aches
and pains indescribable this morning,
ye who are never well, ye who are
lacerated with physical distress, let
me tell you of the resurrected body,
free from all disease. Immortal! I'm
mortal
I go further and say in regard to
that body which you are to get in the
resurrection, it will be vigorous body.
We walk now eight or ten miles, and
we are fatigued; we lift few hundred
pounds, and we are exhausted; un-
armed, we meet wild beast, and we
must run or flee or climb or dodge be-.
cause we are incompetent to meet 1t;
we toll eight or ten bars energentlcal-
", and then we are Weary. But IN the
resurrection we are to have body
that never gets tired. Is it not glori-
Gus thought?
Plenty of occupation in Heaven. I
suppose Broadway, New York, in the
busiest season of the year at MONDAY
is not so busy as Heaven is all the
time. Grand projects of mercy for
other worlds. Victories to be cele-
brated. The downfall of despotism Oh
earth to be announced. Great songs to
be learned and sung. Great expedi-
tions on which God shall send forth
His children. Plenty to do, but no
fatigue. If you are seated under the
trees of life, it will not be to rest, but
to talk over with some old conrade old
ti1nes-the battles where you fought
shoulder to shoulder.
Sometimes in this world we feel we
would like to have such body as that.
There is so much work to be done for
Christ, there are so many tears to be
wiped away, there are so many bur-
dens to life, there is so much to be
achieved for Christ, we sometimes
wish that from the first Of January to
the last of December we could toll on
without stopping to sleep or to take
any recreation or to rest or even to
take food-that we could toll right on
without stopping moment in our
work of commencing Christ and
Heaven to al the people. But we ali
get tired. 1t is characteristic of the
human body in this condition; we must
get tired. Is it not glorious thought
that we are going to have body that
will never grow weary? O glorious
resurrection day! Gladly will fling
aside this poor body Of sin and fling
it into the tomb if at thy bidding I
shall have a body that never wearies.
That is splendid resurrection hymn
that we have all sung:
So Jesus slept Gods dying Son
Passed through the grave and blessed the
bed
Rest here, blest saint, TIL from His throne
The morning breaks to pierce the shade.
O blessed resurrection! Speak out,
sweet flowers, beautiful flowers!
While you tell of a risen Christ tell Of
the righteous who shall rise. May God
ill you this morning with anticipa-
ton!
I heard of q father and son who
among others were shipwrecked at
sea. The father and the son climbed
into the rigging. The father held on,
but the son after awhile lost his hold
on the rigging and was dashed down.
The father supposed he had gone hope
lessly under the wave. The next day
the father was brought ashore from
the rigging in an exhausted state and
laid on bed in fsherman's hut, and
after many hours had passed he came
to consciousness and saw lying beside
him on the same bed his boy On, my
friends, what glorious~thing it will
be i we wake -gp~at last to find our
loved ones beside US, coming up from
the same plot in the graveyard, coming
up in the same morning ight-the IA
ther ana son awe ICISFCE, all IIS 1OfCo
ones alive forever, never more to weep,
never more to part, never more to die.
May the God OF peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great Shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting
covenant make you perfect in every
good work, to do His will, and let the
associations of this morning transport
our thoughts to the grander assem-
blage before the throne. The one hun
dred and forty and four thousand and
the great multitude that no man can
number" some of our best friends
among them, we after awhile to join
the multitude. Glorious anticipation!
BIest. are the saints beloved Of God;
Washed are their robes IN Jesus blood.
Brighter than angels. 10, they shine,
Their wonders splendid and sublime.
My soul anticipates the day,
Would stretch her wings and soar away