Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-04

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 "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 fec bier and fecbIer and then stopped. They have taken no food. They want none. They lie dormant and insenSi- bIe, 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 four o'clock there was a resurrection. Out of the night the day. In a few weeks there will be a resurrection in all our gardens. Why not some day resurrection amid the graves?
 l called at my friends house one summer day. found the yard all piled up with the rubbish of carpenters and mason's work. The door was off The plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof was being lifted in cuDola. All the pictures were gone. and the paper hangers were doing their work. All the modern improvements were be- ing introduced into that dwelling. There was not room in the house fl to live in at that time, although month before when lNisited that house everything was so beautiful 1 could not have suggested an improvement. My 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 at the end of six months he returned and found the old house had been enlarged and i'm proved and glorifed. That is yotr body. It looks well now-all the rooms filled with health, and we could hard y make suggestion. But after awhile your soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely re- constructed from cellar to attic, and every nerve, muscle and bone and tis- sue and artery must be hauled over, and the old structure will be furnished and adorned and raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and all the improve ments of Heaven introduced, and you will move into it on resurrection day. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heav- ems" Oh, what a day when body and soul meet again! They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever have a pain and your soul not pity it, or your body have a joy end your soul not re- echo it, or, changing the question, did your soul ever have any trouble and your body not sympathize with it, growing wan and weak under the de- pressing influences? Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step? Surely God never intended two such good friends to be very long separated.
 And so when the worlds last Easter morning shall come the soul will de- scend, crying: "Where is my body 9" And the body will ascend, saying: "Where is my soul?' And the Lord of the resurrection will bring them to- gether, and it will be a perfect soul in a perfect body, introduced by perfect Christ into a perfect Heaven. Victory! Do you wonder that on Easter day we I, oh le Do you wonder we celebrate it with the most consecrated voice of song that we can invite, with the deftest fingers on organ and cOrnet and with doXologies that beat these arches with the pillows of sound as the sea smites the basalt at Giants CauseWay? Only the bad disapprova of the resurrec- ton. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Moffatt, the missionary. preach about the resurrection, and he said to the missionary: "Will my father rise in the last day?" ''Yes," said the mis- sionary. 'NNill all the dead in battle rise?" said the cruel chieftain. "Yes," 7" said the missionary. Then said the warrior: Let me hear no more about the resurrection. There can be no res urrection; there shall be no resurrec- tion. l have slain thousands in battle. Will they rise?" An, there will be more to rise on that day than those whose crimes have never been repent ed of will want to see! But for all others who allowed Christ to be their pardon and their life and their resur- recton it will be a day of victory.
 The thunder of the last day will be the salvo that greets you into harbor. The lightnings will be only the torches