Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-04-11

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 man has had ten bodies.
In the resurrection, which will come
upw 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 upT Have you any more
questions of this style to ask? Come
OH and ask them. do not pretend to
answer them. 1 fall back upon the an
nouncement of Gods word, "Al who
are in their graves shall come forth"
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 1t will be very loud,
but / know it will be very penetrating.
In the mausoleum, where silence has
reigned a thousand years, that voice
must penetrate. In the coral cave or
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
err found at last. There is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
hovering-hundreds Of spirits lowering,
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul. Out on the prairie spirit alights.
There is where q traveller died In the
snow. Crash goes Westminster alb
hey, 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? 1 sup
pose that one moment before that gen.
eral rising there will be an entire ST.
lence, save as you hear the grinding of
a wheel or the clatter of the hoofs Of a
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 the sea. Silence. But in mo-
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, as the
archangePs trumpet comes 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
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 in
one direction and upon one throne, the
throne of resurrection. "All who are il
their graves shall come forth"
The Perfect Body.
But" you say, IF this doctrine o.
the resurrection is true, as pretiguret
US something about the resurrectet
body" l can. There are mysterie.
about that, but shall tell you three Of
four things in regard to the resurrectet
body that are beyond guessing and be
yond mistake.
In the first place, l remark in regart
to your resurrected body, 1t will be {
glorious body. The body we have nov
is a mere skeleton of what 1t woult
have been il sin had not marred an,
defaced 1t. Take the most exquisit
statue that was ever made by an arts
and chip 1t here and chip it there wit
a chisel and batter and bruise 1t her
and there and then stand it out in til
storms of q hundred years, and tn
beauty would be gone. Well, the hr
man body has been Clipped and bat
tered and bruised and damaged wit
the storms of thousands of years, til
physical defects of other generation
coming down from generation to ger
Grafton, we inheriting the infelicities G
past generations. But in the mornin
Of the resurrection the body will be
adorned and beautified according to
the original model. And there is nc
such difference between a gymnast
and an emaciated wretch in lazaret.
to as there will be a difference be
tween our bodies as they are now and
our resurrected 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
perfect hand after the knots of tot
have been united from the knuckles
there you will see the form erect and
elastic after the burdens have gone of
the shoulder-the very life Of God II
the body. In this world the most i'm
pressive thing, the most expressive
thing, Is the human face, but that face
is yelled with the griefs of Thousand
years. But in the resurrection morn
that veil will be taken away from the
face, and the monday sun is dull ant
dim and stupid compared with the out
flaming glories of the countenances Of
the saved. When those faces Of tn,
righteous, those resurrected faces, turf
toward the gate or look up toward the
throne, 1t will be like the dawning o.
l new morning on the bosom Of ever
lasting day! o glorious, resurrectet
body!
A Glorious Thought.
But l remark also in regard to thai
>ody which you are to get in the resur
section, it will be an immortal body
These bodies are wasting away. Some
body has said that as sOOn "a wa no