The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-19
eoiMpetsrt to ansWer! But thsre are az
great ineny things you believe Tint YOU yo

are not ,ablo to cxpl ainsS = III Yyo uld be
q very foolish lnan to sny: II won't
believe any thing can und orstand," !"
Why, putting downso ono kind OF flower
seed, comes there up, this flower Of this
color? /? Why, putting down another
dover seed, comes there up "a flower
OF this color? Ono flower white, an
o1herS flower yellow, ano ticr mower
crimson. Why the difference when the
seeds look TO bc very much alilsc--are
very much alike? Explain these things.
Explain that wart on the finger. Ex-
plain the difference why the oak leaf
ia different from the leRf OF the hick-
ory. Tell me how the Lord Almighty
can turn tho. chariot Of His omnipo-
tence on rose leaf. You askme ques-
tions about tho resurrection / cannot
answer. I will ask you o. thousand
questions about everyday life you can
not answer. l.3 8.5J Is ,syy n,
u Lind my strength In this passage:
can who are in their graves shall
como FORTH I do not pretend to
make the explanation. You go on
and say: Suppose returned mis-
sionary dies in this city. When he
was in China, his foot was ampu-
tated; he lived years after in Eng
land, and there he had an arm ampu-
tatcd; he is buried to-day in yonder
cemetery. In the resurrection will
the foot come from China, will the
arm como from England, and will tho
different parts Of tho body bo re-
constructed IN the resurrection? How
is that posslblc2"
You have noticed, I suppose, In
reading the story Of tho resurrection
that almost every account Of the
Biblo gives the idea that the charac.
tcristic Of that day will be great
sound. I do not know TINT it will be
very loud, but I}know it will be very
penetrating. Tn tho mausoleum
where silcnco has rcigncd thousand
years that voice must penetrate. In
the coral cave OF the deep that voice
must penetrate. Alillona Of spirits
will como through the gates OF
eternity, and they will como to the
tombs OF tho earth. and they will
cry: "Giye us back our bodies; wo
gave them to you in corruption; sur
render them now In interruption"
Hundreds of spirits lowering about
the fields Of Gettysburg, for thcre
tho bodies are buried. A hundred
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
whore steamer went down, depart
ed spirits coming back, lowering over
the wave. There is whero tho City
of Boston perished. Found mt last
There is where the President per.
ishcd. Steamer found at last. There
fs where the Central America went
down. Spirits lowering, hundreds OF
spirits lowering, waiting for the re.
union Of body and soul. Out on the
prairie spirit alights. There Is
where traveller died In tho snow
Crash goes Westminster abbey, and
tho poets and tho orators come
Tor fofthi sst, wonderful mingling Of good
and bad. Crash 60 tho lpyramids OF
Egypt, and tho monarahs como forth
Who can sketch the scene? 7 sup
pose. that ono moment before thai
silence, snve as you hear the grinding
Of wheel or tho clattor Of the hoofs
Of q procession passing into the Gem
etery. Silence In all the caves, of the
earth. Silence on the side Of tho
mountain. Silence down in the vol
lcys and far out into the sea. Silence
But in q moment, In tho twinkling o,
an eye, as the archangeps trumpe,
comes pealing, rolling, crashing
across tho mountain and sea, the
earth will give ono terrific shudder
and the graves Of the dead will heayt
like the waves of the sea, and Ostend
Sevastopol and Chalons will stall
| forth in the lurid air, and the
drowned Will como up and wiring out
their wet locks above the billows, ant
all the land and MI the sea become
ono moving mass Of life-.all faces
all ages, al conditions, gazing in one
direction and upon one throne-the
throne Of resurrection. Gall who are
in their graves shall come forth"
"But," you say, "if this doctrine Of
the resurrection is truo, as prcfaguret
by this Easter morning, can you tel
us something about tho reslirrecteG
body?" can. There are mysteries
about that, but shall toll you three
or four things In regard to the res
urrcctcd body that aro beyond guess
ing and beyond mistake.
Tn the first place, remarls in re-
gard to your resurrected body, it will
be glorious body. The body we
have now Is q mere skeloton of what
it would have been If sin had not
marred and defaced it. Take the
most exquisite statue that was over
made by an artist and chip It here
and chip 1t there with ohisel, and
batter and bruise It here and there
and then stand 1t out in the storms
Of q hundred years, and the beauty
would be gene. Well, tho human
body has been Clipped and battered
and bruised and damagod with the
storms Of thousands of years-the
physical defects Of other generations
coming down from generation to gen.
GRAFTON, wa inheriting tho infellcities
OF past generations. But in tho morn
ing OF tho resurrection the body viii
be adorned and beautifled accordine
to the original model. And thore Is
no such difference between gymnast
and nm emaciated wretch in a laz.
arctic as there will be difference
between our bodies as they are now
and our resurrected forms. There
you will eoo tho perfect eye 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