The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-04-11

the reunion OF BODY aud soul. Out on
prairie a spirit alights. There is where
Q, traveller died in the snow, Crash goes
Westminster Abbey and the poets and
the orators come forthl Wonderful min.
Cling Of good and bad. Crash go the
pyramids of Egypt, and the monarcha
come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? supposc
that one moment before that general ris.
ing there will be an entire silence. save
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 She sea Silence
But in moment. in the twinkiny Of an
eye;. as the archangel's .rumpar comes
healing, rolling, crashing across tho noun.
tain and sea. the earth will give one
terrific shudder, and the graves Of tho
dead will heave like the waves Of the
sea, and Ostend and Sevastopol and Cha.
Ions will stalk forth in the lurid air, and
the. drowned will come up AVID wrins out
their wet locks above the billow, and all
the land and all the sea become one NOV.
ing mass Of life-all faces, all ages. all
conditions gazing in one direction and
upon one throne. the throne OF resurrec
come forth"
'But," you saw. 'fif this doctrine of
tne ItsuIIectlon IL true, rs prehgured by
this Easter morning, can you tell us
somethinG about the resurrccted bodv?"
| can. There are mysteries about that,
but l shall tell YOU three or four thinps
| IN regard TO the resurrected BODY that
| take.
In the first place. rcmnr!s in regard
| glorious body; The body we have now
IS mere skeleton of what it wonld
have been i sin had not marrcd and de-
| faced it. Take the most exnusitn statue
that was ever made bv an artist and
| chin it here and chip it there with chisel
and halter and hruise IL here and there
and then stand it ont in the storms of
| hundred years. and the beauty would be
| gone. Well; the human body has been
chipped and battered and bruised and
! damaged with the storms of Thousands
OF years. the physical defects of other
generations coming down from genera
tion to generation. we inheritng the infe.
| licities of mast generations.
-, But IN the morning Of the resurrection
the body will be adorned and beautiied
according to the original model. And
there is no such difference between a gym.
mast and an emaciated wretch in a lazaret-
| to as there will be a difference between
our bodies as they are now and our resur.
| rected forms. There you will see the per
| feet. eve 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 have been united from
the knuckles; there you will see the
| form erect and elastic after the burdens
have gone off the shoulder-the verv life
| OF God in the body In this world the
| most expressive thing is the human face
but that face is veiled with the griefs of
| q. thousand wears. But in the resurrec-
ton 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 counten-
ances Of the saved. When those faces of
| the righteous, those resurrected faces turn
toward the gate or look up toward the
throne, it will be like the dawning of
new. morning. on the bosom of everlasting
dav! u glorious, resurrected bodyi
But ] remark also in regard to that
BODY which YOU are to get in the resur-
| rectlon, it will be an immortal body. These
bodies are wasting away. Somebody 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 ont.
The blood vessels are canals taking the
breadstuffs to all parts of the system. We
must be reconstructed hour by hour day
nv dav. Sickness and death are all the
time trying to get their prv under the
tenement or to push us off the embank-
ment OF the grave, but, blessed be God,
in the, resurrection we will get body i'm
mortal
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
wiDed away. there are so many burdens to
lift. there is SO much tc 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 a moment in
our work Of commencing Christ and
heaven to all the people, but we all 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 I fling aside this poor body
Of sin and fling it into the tomb ii at
never wearies. That is a splendid resur
rection hymn that we have all sung:
So Jesus slept. Gods dying Son
Passed through the grave and blessed
the bed.
Rest here, blest saint. till from His
throne
The morning breaks to pierce the shade.
| heard of a father and son who, among
others, were shipwrecked at sea- The
father and the. son climbed into the rig
ging. The father held on, but the son
after awhile lost his hold on the rigging
and was dashed down. The father sup
posed he had gone hopelessly under the
wave. The next day the father was
brought ashore from the rigging in an ex-
hausted state and laid on a bed in
fsherman's hut, and after many hours
had passed he came to consciousness and
saw lying beside him on tho same bed his
boy.
Oh. my friends. what glorious thing it
will be If we wake up at last to find our
loved ones beside us, coming up from
the same plot in the graveyard, coming
up in the same morning light-the father
and son alive forever, all the loved 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
gou perfect in every good work to do
His will and let the associations of this
morning transport our thoughts to the
grander assemblage before the throne
The one hundred 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
Best are the saints beloved of God;
Washed in their robes in Jesus's blood.
Brighter than angels, 10, they shine,
Their wonders splendid and sublime.