Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-08

how is this and how is that?" And
rou ask me q thousand questions | am
Incompetent to answer. But there are
a.. great many things you believe that
you are not able to explain. YOu would
be Il very foolish man to say, 81 won't
believe anything | can't understand"
Why. putting down one kind of flower
seed, comes there up this flower of this
color? Why, putting down another
flower seed. comes there up q flower of
this color? One flower white, another
flower yellow. another flower crimson.
Why tile difference when the seeds
look to be very much alike-are cry
nue. alike? Explain these things; eX-
plain that wart on the finger; explain
the differencc-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-
tons about everyday life 0 cannot
answer.
l find my strength in this passage,
"AI who are in their graves shall come
1OI L OO uOI p1ClCId " IdAC uC
explanation. You go on and say: "Sup-
pose a returned missionary dies in this
city. When he was in China, his foot
was a~mputated. He lived years after
in England, and there he had an arm
amputated. He is buried today in n
der cemetery. In the resurrection will
the foot come from China, will the arm
come from England and will the diff
ferent parts of the body be reconstruct
ed in the resurrection? How is that
possible?'
You say that "the human body
changes every seven years and by 20
years of age q man has had ten bodies.
In the resurrection, which will come
up?' You say: "a man will die and
his body crumble into the dust and
that dust be taken up into the life of
the vegetable. An animal may eat the
vegetable. Men eat the animal. In
the resurrection that body, distributed
in so many directions, how shall it be
gathered up?" Have you IN more
questions Of this style to ask? Come
on and ask them. 1 do not pretend to
answer them. [ fall back upon the an
nouncement of Gods word, AL who
are in their graves shall come forth"
The Last Day.
You have noticed, I 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. l
do not know that it will be very loud,
but l knOW it will be very penetrating.
In the mausOleum. 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 will
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 body
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 of
Boston persisted. Found at last. There
is where the President persisted. Steam
er found at last. There is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
Observation-Disclosures of spirits lowering,
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul. Out on the prairie a spirit alights.
There is where a traveller died in the
snow. Crash goes Westminster alb
hey, and the poets and the orators
come forth! Wonderful mingIing of
good and bad. Crash go the pyramids
of Egypt. and the monarchs come
forth.
Who can sketch the scene? | sup
that one moment before that gen
eraI rising there will be an entire 81
lence, save as you neal the grinding of
a wheel or the chatter of the hOofs of a
procession passing into the cemetery.
Silence in all the yes of the earth.
Silence on the side of the mountain.
Silence down in the valleys and far
out into the sea. Silence. But in a mo-
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, as the
archangels trumpet m 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 and SevastopOl and Chalons
will stalk forth in the lurid air, and
the drowned will come up and wiring
their wet locks above the billow,
and all the land and all the sea be-
come one moving mass of life-all
faces, all ages, all conditions gazing in
one direction and upon one throne, the
throne of resurrection. "AH who are in
their graves shall come forth"