Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

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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 steamer went down, departed
spirits coming back, lowering over the
wave. There is where the City OF Bos-
ton persisted. Found at last. There is
where the President persisted. Steam
err found at last There Is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
lowering, hundreds 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 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 prefgured
by this Easter morning can you tell
us something about the resurrected
body?" l can. There are mysteries
about that, but l 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, remark in regard
to your resurrected body, it will be a
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
a chisel and batter and bruse ii here
and there and then stand II 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 gem
Grafton. we inheriting the infelicities
of past generations But in the morn
ing of the resurrection the body will
be adorned and beautlfied according 10
the original model. And there is no
such difference between a gymnast and
an emaciated wretch in a 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.
sive thing, the most expressive thing,
is the human face. but that face 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 MONDAY sun is dull and dim and
stupid compared with the outhaming
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, ii will be like the dawning of
new morning on the bosom OF ever
lasting day. glorious, resurrected
body!
But | 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 yes
sells are canals taking the breadstuffs
to ell 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 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, nc
rheumatic pang. no fluttering of the
heart, no shortness of breath, no am
bulance, no dispensary, no hospital, nc
invalid's chair, no spectacles to i'm
prove the dim vision, but health. i'm
mortal health, o We who have aches
and pains indescribable this morning
we who are never well, We who are lac
Grated with physical distress, let me
tell you oc the resurrected body, free
from all disease Immortal! Immortal
In Heaven.
Plenty of occupation in heaven.
suppose Broadway, New York, in the
busiest season of the year at noonday
is not so busy as heaven is all the time
Grand projects of mercy for Other
worlds. Victories to be celebrated
The downfall of despotism on earth t
be announced. Great songs to be learn
| ed and sung. Great expeditions OIL
which God shall send forth his child
rem. Plenty to do, but no fatigue. If yol
are seated under the trees of life, 4
will not be to rest, but to talk owe
with some old comrade old times-th,
battles where you fought shoulder t.