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

competent to answer. But there are
great many things you believe that you
are not able to explain. You would be
very foolish man to say: II won't
believe anything I 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 flower
of this color? One flower white, an
other flower yellow, another flower
crimson. Why the difference when the
seeds look to be very much ahke-are
very much alike? Explain these things.
Explain that wart on the finger. Elk
plain the difference why the oak leaf
is different from the leaf of the hick-
DRY. Tell me how the Lord Almighty
can turn the chariot of His omnipo-
tence on a rose leaf. You ask me ques-
tions about the resurrection cannot
answer. I will ask you thousand
questions about everyday life you can
not answer.
I find my strength in this passage:
"All who are in their graves shall
come FORTH" 1 do not pretend to
make the explanation. You go on
and say: Suppose a 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-
tated; he is buried to-day in yonder
cemetery. In the resurrection will
the foot come from China, will the
arm come from England, and will the
different parts of the body be re-
constructed in the resurrection? How
is that possible?"
You have noticed. suppose, in
reading the story of the resurrection
that almost every account Of the
Bible gives the idea that the charac-
teristic Of that day will be a great
very loud, but know it will be very
penetrating. In the mausoleum
where silence has reigned 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 corruption; sur
| render them now in interruption
Hundreds of spirits lowering about
the fields of Gettysburg, for there
the bodies are buried. A hundred
| thousand spirits coming to Green
wood, for there the bodies are buried
| waiting for the reunion OF body an6
soul
All along the sea route from New
| fn 1,ivornn01 OF fox 1os
where a steamer went down, depart
ed spirits coming back, lowering Over
the wave. There is where the City
of Boston persisted. Found at last
There is where the President per
| ished. Steamer found at last. There
| is where the Central America wen
down. Spirits lowering, hundreds o.
| spirits lowering, waiting for the re
union of body and soul. Out on the
prairie spirit alights. There i.
where a traveller died in the snow
Crash goes Westminster abbey, an6
the poets and the orators com.
forth; wonderful mingling Of good
and bad. Crash go the pyramids O.
Egypt, and the monarchs come forth
| Who can sketch the scene? I sup
| pose that one moment before tina
general rising there will be an entir,
| silence, save as you hear the grinding
of wheel or the clatter of the hoof
Of procession passing into the Gem
etery. Silence in all the caves of tn,
| earth. Silence on the side of tn,
| mountain. Silence down in the val
leys and far out into the sea. Silence
But in a moment, in the twinkling o
an eye, as the archangeIs trumpe
comes pealing. rolling, crashing
across the mountain and sea, tn
earth will give one terrific shudde1
and the graves of the dead will heav
like the waves of the sea, and Ostend
Sevastopol and Chalons will stall
forth in the lurid air, and tn
drowned will come up and wiring GU
their wet locks above the pillows, an,
all the land and all the sea becom
one moving mass of life-aIl faces
all ages, all conditions, gazing in on
direction and upon one throne-th
throne of resurrection. Cali who ar
in their graves shall come forth"
But" you say, eff this doctrine O
the resurrection is true, as prefigure
by this Easter morning, can you tel
US something about the resurrecte
body?" I can. There are mysterie
about that, but shall tell you tire
or four things in regard to the res
directed body that are beyond guess
ing and beyond mistake.
In the first place, 1 remark in re
gard to your resurrected body, it wi
be glorious body. The body w
have now is a mere skeleton of VIVA
. it would have been if sin had nc
married and defaced it. Take tn
most exquisite statue that was eve
made by an artist and chip it her
, and chip it there with a chisel, an
batter and bruise it here and Their