Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-04-27

are not able To explain. You would be
very foolish man To say: Il won't
believe anything 1 can't understand"
Why. putting down one Kind ef flower
seed. comes there up this hower of this
color? Why. putting down another I;
flower seed, comes there up flower
of this colorf One flower white, an. !
other flower yellow. another flower
crimson. Why the difference when the
seeds look 10 be very much slike--are
very much slike7 Explain these things
Explain that wcrt on the finger. EN-
pain the difference why the oak leaf
is different from the leaf OF the hicls'
DRY. Tell me how the Lord Almighty
cen turn the chariot Of His cmnipo-
tence on rose leaf. You ask me cues
tionE about the resurrection ! cannot
answer. I will ask you a thousand
questions about everyday life you can
not answer.
find my strength in this passage;
"All who ere in their graves shall
come forth" I do not pretend 10
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.
tatcd; he is buried to-day in yonder
cemetery. In the resurrection will
the foot come from China. viii tho
arm come from England. and will the
different parts Of the body he 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 VAL be n great
SQUAD. do not know Sat il will be
very loud. but know - Sill D. ~cTy
P~zstratlng. In the EsauSoseum
~A~~s alehcs hos nsaSnA& ~Jthnsisar-i
rs~-s eA~A pSEa @xEs prwRpe In
uhs e~-~i eavs 0~ - 60 EFicc
o~~ p>S>s-aIz- 49, - s~asits
wa So1re through ~ gStes Of
eternity. and they will s~za - the
tombs OF the earth. and 49, will
| cry: "Givc rs back our bodies: we
| gave them 20 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 ere buried
waiting for the reunion OF body and
soul
al along the sea route from New
York 20 Liverpool. at every few miles
where a steamer went down, depart.
ed spirits coming back. lowering over
the wave. There is where the City
Of Boston persisted. Pound at last
There is where the President per
ished. Steamer found az last. Their
il where the Central America went
down. Spirits lowering. hundreds o.
spirits lowering. waiting for tho re
union OF body and soul. Out on tn,
| prairie a spirit slights. There
where n traveller died in the snow
| Crash goes Westminster abbey, ans
the poets and the orators com,
forth; wonderful miuFling Of goo,
and bad. Crash 20 the pyramids o
Egypt. aud the monarchs come forth
Who can sketch the seenc2 1 sup
pose that one moment before tina
general rising there viii be m entir
silence. save as YOU hear the grindinl
1 moor
OF a procession passing into the Gem
etery. Silence in all the caves of tn
earth. silence on the side OF tn
mountain. Silence down ia the va
leys and far out into the sea. Silence
But in a moment. In the twinkling @
an eve. as the archangers trumpe
comes pealing. rolling. crashing
across the mountain and sea. III
earth VIE give one terrific shuddel
and the graves Of the dead viii heay
like the waves of the sea, and OSten,
SevRstoPol and Chalons viii stall
forth in the lurid air, aud tn
drowned will come up and wiring ou
their wet locks absve the pillows, an
all the land and all she sea becOm
one moving mass of lifs-all face
all ages. all conditions. gazing in or
direction and upon one throne-th
throne of resurrection. "Al who al
; in their graves shall come forth
. "Rut," you say. "if this doctrine
; the resurrection is true. az prefgurt
by this Easter morning. can you Il
: as something about the resurrecte
l body?" / can There are mysteri,
Z about that. but shall tell you thr,
or four things In regard 10 the re
} directed body that are beyond CUES
: ing and beyond mistake.
,, In the first place. ! remark In r
4 gard TO your resurrected body. il W.
e be q glorious body. The body v
e have now IL a mere skeleton Of VIII
2 IL would have been IL sin had n
q married and defaced IL. Take q
Y most exquisite statue that was ey