Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-04-12

most expressive thing, is the human
face, but that face is yelled 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 outflaming
glories of the countenances of the
saved. When those faces of tbs
righteous, those resurrected faces,
turn toward the gate or look up to.
ward the throne, it will be like the
dawning of a new morning on the
bosom OF everlasting day. o glorious,
resurrected body!
But remark, also, I'm regard to that
body which you are to get in the resur-
rection, 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 vessels
are canals taking the breadstuffs to
all parts of the system. We must be
reconstructed hour by hour, day by
day. Sickness and death are all the
time 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, no
| rheumatic pang, NO fluttering of the
| heart, no shortness of breath, no am
bulance, no dispensary, no hospital,
no invahd'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,
ye who are never well, We who are
| 1acerated with physical distress. let
me tell you of the resurrected body,
free from all disease. immortal! Inn
mortal!
| go further and say in regard to
| that body which you are to get in the
resurrection, it will be vigorous body.
We walk now eight or ten miles, and
we are fatigued; we lift few hundred
pounds, and we are exhausted; I'M
| armed, we meet a wild beast, and we
must run or flee or climb or dodge be-
| cause we are incompetent to meet it;
we toll eight or ten hours energentical-
ly, and then we are weary. But in the
| resurrection we are to have a body
that never gets tired. Is it not glori-
Gus thought?
Plenty of occupation in Heaven. I
suppose Broadway, New York, in the
busiest season of the year at MONDAY
is not SO busy as Heaven is all the
time. Grand projects of mercy for
other worlds. Victories to be cele-
brated. The downfall of despotism on
earth to be announced. Great songs to
be learned and sung. Great expedi-
tons on which God shall send forth
His children. Plenty to do, but no
fatigue. If you are seated under the
trees of life, it will not be to rest, but
to talk over with some old comrade old
times-the battles where you fought
shoulder to shoulder.
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
wiped away, there are SO many bur-
dens to life, there is so much to 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 moment in our
work of commencing Christ and
Heaven to all the people. But we all
get tired. It is a characteristic of the
human body in this condition; we must
get tired. Is it not a glorious thought
that we are going to have a 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 if at thy bidding
shall have a body that never wearies
That is splendid resurrection hymn
that we have all sung:
So Jesus slept Gods dying Son
Passed through the grave and blessed thu
bed.
Rest here. blest saint. till from His throne
The morning breaks to pierce the shade
o blessed resurrection Speak out
, sweet flowers, beautiful flowers!
, While you tell Of a risen Christ tell OF
, the righteous who shall rise. May Goo
fill you this morning with anticipa
ton!
I heard Of father and son who
among others were shipwrecked al
sea. The father and the son climbed
into the rigging. The father held on
| but the son after awhile lost his hold
5 on the rigging and was dashed down
The father supposed he had gone hope
lessIy under the wave. The next day
the father was brought ashore from
the rigging in an exhausted state ant
laid on a bed in fisherman's hut, ant
! after many hours had passed he came
i. to consciousness and saw lying beside
: him on the same bed his boy. Oh, my
: friends, what glorious thing it vii
. he if we wake up at last to find ou1
, loved ones beside us, coming up from
. the same plot in the graveyard, coming