The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-04-03

has tnus lur, tnere perhaps may De no
room for the large acreage set apart for
resting places, but there is plenty of room
yet, and the race need not pass that bridge
OF fire until it comes to it. The most of
us prefer the old way. But whether out of
natural disintegration or cremation we
shall get that luminous. buoyant, gladsome,
transcendent. magnificent, inexplicable
structure called the resurrection body
You will have it; / will have it.
Ever and anon there are instances Of men
and women entranced. A trance is death
followed by resurrection after few days;
total suspension of mental power and vol.
1ntary action. Rev. William Tennent, a
great evangelist of the last generation, of
whom DR.. Archibald Alexander, man
!ar from being sentimental. wrote in most
sulogistic 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
,he soul that fed returned, and Will Ten
aent lived to write what he had seen while
bis soul was gone.
It may be found some time that what is
,alled suspended animation or comatose
itate is brief death, giving the soul an ex-
'ursion into the next world, from which
comes back, a furlough Of few hours
yranted from the conflict Of life to which
t must return. Do not this waking up of
lects from winter lifelessness, and this
waking up Of grains buried 1000 years ago
make 1t easier for you to believe that your
body and mine after the vacation of the
yrave shall rouse and rally, though there
,e 5000 years between our last breath and
Inc sounding of the archangelic reveille?
Psychologists tell us that while the most
u our bodies are built with such wonder.
I'll economy that we can spare nothing,
md the loss of a finger is hinderment,
nd the injury OF toe joint makes us lame,
IT'LL that we have two or three useless
physical apparatuses, and no anatomist or
,hysiologist has ever been able to tell what
hey are good for. They may be the
oundation of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to us in this state to be indispen-
iably valuable in the next state The
Jewish rabbis and the scientists of our
lay have found out that there are two or
hree superfiuities of body that are some.
hing goriously suggestive OF another state.
l called at my friends house one sum-
ner day. / found the yard all piled up
With the rubbish of carpenters and ma.
IONS work. The door was off. The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof
was being lifted in cupola. All the pic.
lures were gone, and the paper hangers
we're doing their work. All the modern
improvements were being introduced into
hat dwelling. There was not room in
the house fit to live in at that time, al
though month before when l 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
20 be done. And, oh, what was his Joy
when at the end of six months he returned
md found the old house had been en-
arged and improved and glori6ed. That
g your body. 1t looks well now-all the
rooms filed with health, and we could
hardly make a 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 recon
,tructed from cellar to attic, and every
1erve, muscle and bone and tissue and ar
.ery must be hauled over, and the old
structure will be Furnished and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and
al the improvements of heaven intro
1uceo, and you will move into it on resur.
rection day. For we know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle were dis.
solved we have building of God, a 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 reecho it, or, changing
the question, did your soul ever have
any trouble and your body not sympa
thze, with it, growing wan and weak un
der the depressing influence? Or did your
soul ever have gladness but your bod,
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
soul?' And the Lord Of the resurrection
Will bring them together, and it will be a
perfect soul IN perfect body, 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 it with the most
consecrated voice of song that we can in.
vite, 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-
tion.
cruel heather warrior heard Mr. Moi
fatt, the missionary, preach about the
resurrection, and he said to the mission
airy, viii my father rise in the last
day." Yes" said the missionary. "Will
all the dead in battle rise" said the cruel
ehieftain., Yes" said the missionary.
Then said the warrior: "Let me hear no
more about the resurrection. There can
be no resurrection; there shall be no res
direction ! have slain thousands in bat.
tie. Will they rise" All, there will be
more to rise on that day than those whose
crimes have never been repented OF will
want. to see! But for all others who al
lowed Christ to be their pardon and their
hte and their resurrection it will be day
of victory.
The thunders of the last day will be the
salvo that greets you into harbor The
lightnings will be only the torches of tri-
umphal procession marching down to es-
cort you home. The burning worlds flash.
ing through immensity will be the rockets
celebrating your coronation on thrones
where you will reign forever and forever
and forever. Where is death? What have
we to do with death? As your reunited
body and soul swing off from this planet
on that last day you will see deep gashes
all up and down the hills, deep gashes all
through the valleys, and they will be
the emptied graves they will be the aban-
doned sepulchers, with rough ground
tossed on each side of them, and slabs will
lie uneven on the rent hillocks, and there
will be fallen monuments and cenotaphs,
and then for the first time you will appre-
ciate the full exhilaration of the text,
Death is swallowed up in victory"
copyright 1909. L. Klopsch.l
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