Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-04-03

md the earth will be full of them. Do
you not think that God can do as much
for our bodies as he does for tho wasps
and the spiders and the snails? This
morning Mt half past 4 o'clock there
was resurrection. Out of the night
the day. In few weeks there will be
a resurrection in all our gardens. Whv
not some day resurrection amid the
graves?
Ever and anon there are instances Of
men and women entranced. A trance
Is death followed by resurrection after
n few days; total suspension of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev. VIII.
liam Tennent, great evangelist of the
last generation, of whom DR.. Archi-
bald Alexander, man far from being
sentimental. wrote In most eulogistic
terms-Rev. William Tennent seemed
to die. His spirit apparently left the
body. People came in day after day
and said, "He IS dead he is dead. /"
But the soul that fed returned, and
VIII Tennent lived to write what he
had seen while his soul was gone.
Excursions Into the Unknown.
1t may be found some time that what
is called suspended animation or coma.
tose state is brief death, giving the soul
an excursion into the next world, from
which 1t comes back, furlough Of a
rev hours granted from the conflict Of
life to which It must return. Do not
this waking up Of men from trance and
this waking up of insects from winter
sy.t-
grains buried 5000 years ago make it
easier for you to believe that your body
ana mine after the vacation of the
grave shall rouse and rally, though
there be 5000 years between our last
breath and the sounding Of the arch
angelic reveille? Psychologists tell us
that while the most of our bodies are
built with such wonderful economy
that we can spare nothing. and the loss
of finger is Underwent. and the in
jury of toe joint makes us lame, still
that we have two or three useless phys
lcal apparatuses. and no anatomist or
Psychologist 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 he
indispensably valuable in the next
state. The Jewish rabbis and the sci.
entists Of our day have found out that
there are two or three superfuities Of
body that are something goriously sug-
gestive of another state.
| called at my friends house one
summer day. / found the yard all pill
cd up with the rubbish of carpenters
and mason's work. The door was of.
The plumbers had torn up the floor.
The roof was being lifted In cupola.
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 a room in the house fit
to live in at that time, although
month before when visited that house
everything was so beautiful | 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 glorified. That is your
body. 1t looks well now-all the rooms
filled with health, and we could hard
ly make a suggestion. But after awhile
your soul will so to the Holy Land,
and while yoH are gone the old house
of your tabernacle will be entirely re-
constructed from cellar to attic, and
every nerve. muscle and bone and It's
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, 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
a pain and your soul not pity 1t, 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 pouy HUI SylupalulZe WIFI III,
growing wan and weak under the de.
pressing influence? 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.
The Final Victory.
And so when the worlds last Easter
morning shall come the soul will de-
sccnd crying where is my body?
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 perfect soul in
perfect Dooy, introduced by perfect
Christ into perfect heaven. Victory!
Do you wonder that on Easter day we
swathe our churches with garlands?
Do you wonder we celebrate 1t 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 disapprove Of the resurrec-
ton. A cruel heather warrior heard
Mr.. Moffatt the missionary, preach
abOut tho raSurrpctioD and ba coid ~