Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-04-12

Central America went down. Spirits
lowering, hundreds of spirits. lowering
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul. Out on the prairie spirit
| alights. There is where a traveller
died in the snow. Crash goes West
minister abbey, and the poets and the
orators come forth; wonderful ming
ling of good and bad Crash go the
pyramids of Egypt. and the monarchs
come forth
The Immortal BODY.
But" you say, IF this doctrine OF
the resurrection is true, as prefigured
by this Easter morning. can you tell
us something about the resurrected
body?" | can. There are mysteries
about that, but | shall tell you three
or four things in regard to the resur
/ rected body That are beyond guessing
and beyond mistake.
! In the first place, | remark in regard
to your resurrected body. it will be a
glorious body. The body we have now
is a mere skeleton of what it would
have been if sin had not married and
defaced it. Take the most exquisite
statue that was ever made by an artist
and chip it here and chip it there with
chisel and bate: and bruise it here
and there and then stand it out in the
storms of hundred years. and the
beauty would be gone. Well the hu-
man body has been Clipped and bat
tered and bruised and damaged with
the storms of thousands of years-the
physical defects of other generations
coming down from generation to gen
GRAFTON, We i1heriting the infelicities
Of past generations. But in the morn
ing of the resurrection the body will
be adorned and beautlfed according to
the original model And there is no
such difference between gymnast and
+ an emaciated wretch in a lazaretto as
there will be difference between our
bodies as they are now and our reSur-
rected 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 per-
feet hand after the knots of toll have
| been united from the knuckleS There
/ you will see the form erect and elastic
after the burdens have gone off the
/ shoulder-the very life of God in the
body. In this world the most impress
! sive thing, the most expressive thing,
| is the human face, but that face is veil
! ed with the g-iefs of 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 outfiaming
glories of the cOuntenanceS of the
saved. When these faces Of the right
eOus, those resurrected faces, turn to-
ward the gate. or look up toward the
throne, it will be like the dawning of
new morning on the bosom of ever
lasting day. glorious, resurrected
body.
But remark. also. in regard to that
body which you are to get in the res
direction. 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
the furnace dies out. The blood YES
sells are canals taking the breadstuffs
10 all parts of the system. We must
be reconstructed hour by hour, day by
day Sickness and death are at all
times 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 flutterng of the
heart. no Shortness of breath no am
bulance, no diSpenSary. no hospital, no
invalids 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,
We who are never we'll, we who are lac
Grated with physical distress. let me
from all disease. Immortal. immortal,
In Heaven.
Plenty of occupation in heaven.
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 celebrated
The downfall of despotism on earth tc
be announced. Great songs to be learn
ed and sung Great expeditions or
which God shall send forth his child
rem. Plenty to do, but no fatigue. If you
are seated under the trees of life. il
will not be to rest, but to talk over
with some old comrade old times-the
battles where you fought shoulder tc
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 10 be wiped away. there are sc
many burdens to life. there is so much
to be achieved for Christ, we some.
times wish that from the first of Janu.
airy to the last of December we could
toll on without stopping to sleep OF
to take any recreation or to rest OF
even to take fOOd-that we could tot
right on without stopping a moment
in our work of commenting Christ and
heaven to all the people. But we all
get tired. 1t is characteristic of the
human body in this condition; we mus
get tired. Is it not a glorious thought