The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-04-03
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which God will reconstruct them as much
better than they are now Is the body OF
| tie rosiest and healthiest child that bounds
ove. the lawn in Central Park is better
| than the sickest patient IL Bellevue Eospi-
| tai. But as 10 our soul. we viii cross rlgAt
| over, Tot waiting FOR ObsequiCs, lndepeEd-
| ent of obituary. into a state ii every way
bstter, with wide room and ve!ocitles be-
yond comnutation. the Guliest OF Us into
companioasnip with the very best spirits
| in their very best mood. III the very par.or
! OF the universe. the four walls FURNISHED aid
paacied and pictured and Ciorifcd with all
the sp!endoCs that the infinite God IN al
! the Gges has been able to invent. VIC
| tory.
Ever and anon thcr. are instances Of men
and women entranced. A trance Is death
| followed by reSurTe ction alter few days;
rntary action. Rcr. William Tennent, a
great evangelist cf the last generation, OF
whom Dr.. Archibald Alexander, a man
| far from being sentimental. wrote in most
eulogistic terrs-Ecv William Te2HeMt
seemed to die. His spirit apparently left
| the body. People came III day after Cay
and said, ''He IS dead. he is dead But
| the soul that fed returned. and Will Ten
rent lived to write what he had seen While
his soul was gone.
| 1t may be found some time that what is
called suspended animation or comatose
state is brief death, giving the soul an ex-
cursion into the next world, from which
| it comes back, furlough OF few hours
granted from the conflict OF life to which
| il must return. Do not this waking up OF
men from trance and this waking up of in
sects from winter iifciessness, ard this
| waking up OF grains buried 5000 years ago
make it easier for you to believe that your
| body and mine after the vacation o. the
! grave shall rouse and rally, though there
| be 5000 years between our last breath and
| the sounding Of the archangehc reveiEe?
! Physioiogists tell us that while the most
| of our bodies are built with such wonder
| full economy that we can spare nothing,
and the loss of finger is hinderment,
and the injury of toe joint makes Us lame,
still that we have two or three useless
| physical apparatuses, and no anatomist or
| physiologist has ever been able to tell what
| they are good for. They may be the
| foundation of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to US in this state to be indispen-
SADLY valuable in the next state. The
| Jewish rabbis and the scientists of cur
| day have found out that there are two or
three superAuities of body that are some
| thing gloriously suggestive OF another state.
/ called at my friends house one sum-
| mer day. | found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish OF carpenters and ma
sons work. The door was off. The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof
was being lifted in cupoia. Ali the PIC
lures were gone, and the paper hangers
were doing their work. All the modern
improvements were being introduced into
that dwelling. There was not room IN
-. - thof n
| though a month before when l visited
| that house everything was SO beautiful
could not have suggested an improvement.
| Ny friend had gone with his family to the
| Holy Land, expecting to come back at the
end of six months, when the building was
| to be done. And, oh, what was his Joy
when ct the end Of six months he returned
and found the old house had been en-
| larged and improved and glorihed. That
| is your body. 1t looks well now-all the
rooms filled with health, and we could
| hardly make a suggestion. But after
awhile your soul will 60 to the Holy Land,
and while you are gone the old house OF
your tabernacle will be entirely recon
structed from cellar to attic, and every
nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and ar.
terry must be hauled over, and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
! all the improvements of heaven intro
| duced, and you will move into 1t on resur-
recton day. For we know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle were dis
solved we have building OF God, house
not made with hands, eternal in the heav-
ems"
Oh, what day when body and soul meet
again! They are very fond OF each other.
| Did your body ever have pain and your
soul not pity it, or your body have JOY
and your soul not re-echo it, or, changing
the question, did your soul ever have
any trouble and your body not sympa-
thize with it, growing wan and weak IN
! der the depressing influence? Or did your
| soal ever have giadlesS but your body
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step? Surely God never intend
ed two such good friends to be very long
| separated.
And so when the worlds last Easter
| morning shall come the soul will descend,
crying, Where is my body?" And the
| body will ascend, saying, Where is my
| soui?' And the Lord OF the resurrection
| will bring them together, and 1t will be
| perfect soul III a perfect body, introduced
by perfect Christ into perfect heaven.
Victory!
Do you wonder that on Easter day we
swGthe our churches with garlands! DO
you wonder we celebrate it with the most
coEsecrated voice of song that we can in
vite, with the dcftest fingers on organ and
cornet and with doxo.ogies that beat these
arches with the pillows OF sound as the
sea smites the basalt at Giants Causeway?
Only the bad disapprove OF the resurrec-
tion.
A cruel heather warrior heard Mr.. Moi
fatt, the missionary, preach about the
resurrection, and he said to the mission
airy, Will my father rise in the last
day?' Eyes" said the missionary. will
all the dead in battle rise?" said the cruel
chieftain. "Yes," said the missionary.
Then said the warrior: Let me hear no
more about tho rnSlirrenfinn Thora nan