The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-04


all the splendors that the infinite God
in all the ages has been able to invent
Victory!
This view, OF course, makes 1t Of but
little importance whether we are Gre
mated or sepultuled II the latter Is
dust to dust, the former Is ashes to
ashes. II any prefer incineration, let
them have it without cavil or protest.
| The world may become so crowded that
cremation may be universally adopted
by law as well as by general consent.
Many of the mightiest and best spirits
have gone through this process. Thou
sands and tens of thousands of Gods
| children have been cremated-P. Z.
| Bliss and wife, the evangelistic singers,
cremated by accident at Ashtabula
bridge; John Rodgers, cremated by
persecution; Latimer and Ridley, Gre
mated at oxford; Pothinus and Blan-
dina, slave, and Alexander, a physi-
clan, and their comrades cremated at
the order of Marcus Aurelius; at least
n hundred thousand of Christ's discl-
pies cremated, and there can be no
doubt about the resurrection of their
bodies. Whether out of natural disin
tegration or cremation we shall get
that luminous, buoyant gladstone,
transcendent. magnificent, inexplicable
structure called the resurrection body.
You will have it; I will have it.
! say to you to-day, as Paul said to
Agrippa, Why should it be thought
thing incredible with you that God
| should raise the dead?" That far up
clo3d. higher than the hawk flies, high
er than the eagle flies, what is it made
of? Drops of water from a river, other
drops from lake, still other drops
| from stagnant pool but now embod-
led in cloud and kindled by the sun.
| If God can make such a lustrous cloud
out of water drops, MANY of them soil
| ed and impure and fetched from miles
away, can he not transport the frag-
ments of human body from the earth
and out of them build radiant body?
Cannot God, who owns all the material
out of which bones, muscle and flesh
are made, set them up again If they
have fallen? If a manufacturer of tel
Escapes drops telescope on the floor
and 1t breaks, can he not mend 1t
again so you can see through it? And
If God drops the human eye into the
dust, the eye which he originally fash
toned, can he not restore it?
| oh h.
an incredible thing that God should
raise the dead?' Things all around us
suggest it. Out of what grew all these
flowers? Out of the mold and the
earth. Resurrected! Resurrected The
radiant butterfiy-where did it come
from? The loathsome caterpillar. That
albatross that smites the tempest with
its wings-where did it come from? A
senseless shell. Near Bergerac, France,
| in n Celtic tomb near block, were
found flower seeds that had been bur-
led 1000 years. The explorer took the
flower seed and planted it. and it came
| up. 1t boomed in bluebell and hello
trope. Two thousand years ago bur-
|
he found in mummy pit in Egypt
garden peas that had been buried there
5000 years ago. He brought them out
and on the 4th of June, 1874, he plant
ed them and in thirty days they sprang
up. Buried 5000 years, yet resurrected.
why should it be thought a thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?"
Where did all this silk come from
the silk that adorns your persons and
your homes? In the hollow of a staff
of Greek missionary brought from Chi
ma to Europe the progenitors of those
worms that now supply the silk mar
lSets of many nations. The pageantry
of hammered host and the luxurious ar
| ticles of commercial emporium blaz-
ing out from the silkworms. And who
shall be surprised If out of this insig-
nificant earthly body, this insignificant
| earthly life, our bodies unfold into
something worthy of the coming eter-
mites? Put silver into diluted inter,
and it dissolves. Is the silver gone
| lOISNtI. NO. L Ut III oOll6 pieces Vi
copper, and the silver reappears. If
one force dissolves, another force or
! ganizes.
why should it be thought a thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?" The insects flew and
the worms crawled last autumn fee
bier and feebler and then stopped
They have taken no food. They want
none. They lie dormant and insensi-
BILE. but soon the south wind will blow
the resurrection trumpet. and the air
and the earth will be full of them. Do
you not think that God can do as much
for our bodies as he does for the wasps
and the spiders and the snails? This
morning at half-past o'clock there
was a resurrection. Out of the night
the day. In few weeks there will be
resurrection in all our gardens. Why
not some day resurrection amid the