Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-04-13


the dlfference-why the oak leaf Is DIFF
ferent from the leaf of the hickory. |
Tell me how the Lord Almighty can
turn the chariot of his omnipotence on
a rose leaf. You ask me questions
about the resurrection | cannot an. (
swer. | will ask you a thousand ques. |
tions about everyday life you cannot
answer.
find my strength in this passage, |
"All who are in their graves shall come
forth" do not pretend to make the
explanation. You go on and say: sup |
pose returned missionary dies in this
city. When he was in China. his foot
was amputated He lived years after
in England, and there he had an arm
amputated. He Is buried today in yon-
der cemetery. In the resurrection VIII
the foot come from China. will the arm
come from England and will the dlf'
ferent parts of the body be reconstruct
ed in the resurrection? How Is that
possibleY.
You say that "the human body
changes every seven years and by 'o
wears of age a man has had ten bodies.
In the resurrection, which will come
upT" You say: "a man will die ara
his body crumble into the dust ana
that dust be taken up into the llfe OF
the vegetable. An animal may eat the
vegetable. Men eat the animal. In
the resurrection that body, distributed
I'm so many directions, how shall 1t be
gathered upT Have you any more
questions of this style to ask? Come
on and ask them. do not pretend to
answer them. fall back upon the an
nouncement of Gods word, "All who
are In their graves shall come fC.th.
The Last Day.
You have noticed. 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 know It will be very penetrating.
In the mauso:eum, 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 VIII
come TO the tombs Of the earth, and
they will cry: "Give US back our
bodies. We gave them to you In cor
ruption. Surrender them now In In
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 reunion OF Dody
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 or
Boston perished Found at last There
| is where the President perished. Steam
or found at last. There is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
i boyeripg-hundreds of spirits lowering.
:, s,vaning for the reunion or body and
soul Out on the prairie spirit alights.
There is where a traveller died In the
snow. Crash goes Westminster abb
bey, and the poets and the orators
come FORTH Wonderful mingling OF
good and bad Crash go the pyramids
of Egypt and the monarchs come
forth.
Who can sketch the scene? l sup
nose that one moment before that gen.
eral rising there will be an entire ST.
Ience. save as you hear the grinding oil
n 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 fal
out into the sea. Silence. But In mo
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, as the
arcbangers trumpet comes pealing
rolling, crashing across the mountain
and sea, the earth will give one terrific
shudder, and the graves Of the deat
will heave like the waves OF the sea
and Ostend and Sevastopol and Chalon
will stalk forth in the lurid air, an(
the drowned will come up and wrini
out their wet locks above the billow
and all the land and all the sea be
come one moving mass OF life-al
: faces. all ages, all conditions gazing Il
: one direction and upon one throne, tn
= throne of resurrection. "All who are L
their graves shall come forth"
The Perfect Body.
But" you say, "if this doctrine Q
+ the resurrection Is true, as prefigure
by this Easter morning, can you te
, us something about the resurrecte
! body? can. There are mysterle
about that. but shall tell you three
: four things in regard to the resurrecte
q body that are beyond guessing and b.
| yond mistake.
In the first place, | remark In regar
+. to your resurrected body, 1t Will be
e glorious body. The body we have no
+ Is a mere skeleton Of what It wou
@ have been If sin had not marred az
O | defaced it. Take the most exquisl
@ statue that was ever made by an artl
,. and chip II here and chip It there WI
d a chisel and batter and bruise It he
Il and there and then stand 1t out In Il
>. storms Of n hundred years, and Il
e beauty would be gone. Well, the b
n man body has been Clipped and oa
a. tered and bruised and damaged WI
h the storms Of thousands of years, q
le physical defects Of other generatio
s. coming down from generation 10 &c
d. Grafton. we inherltlng the infelicities
Is past generations. But in the mornil
~ =, If the resurrection the body Will
70 70 adorned and beautifed according
- - the original model. And there Is
~ such difference between a gymna
T., ~ and an emaciated wretch in a lazar'
to as there will be q difference