The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-06

Drops of water from a river other drops
 from lake. still other drops from
 cloud and kndled by the sun. If God
 can make such a lustrous cloud out of
 water drops. many of them soiled and
 impure and fetched from miles away, can
 He not transport the fragments 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 q
 manufacturer of telescopes drops a tele- scope of the floor and it breaks, can
 he not mend it agail. so you can see
 through it? And if God drops the human
 eye into the dust. the eye which He orig inally fashioned, can He not restore il?
 Aye. If the manufacturer of the telescope.
 by the use of new glass and a change
 Of material. can make a better instrument
 than that which was originally construct
 ed and actually improve 1t, do yon not
 think the fashioner of the human eye
 may improve its sight and multiply the
 natural eye by the thousandfold additional
 forces of the resurrection eye?
 Everyday Resurrections.
 Why should it be thought with you an
 incredible thing that God should raise the
 deadg Things all around us suggest it.
 Out of what grew all these flowers? Out
 of the mold and the earth. Resurrected: :
 Resurrected. Me radi11t butterfly
 where did it come from? The loathesoms
 caterpillar. That albatros that smites the tempest with it's wings-where did it come from? A senseless shell. Near Der gerac. France, in d Celtic tomb under q block. were found flower seeds that had been buried 2.o0o years. The explorer took the flower seed and planted 1t, and IL came up. It bloomed in blu abel and helto- trope. Two thousand years ago buried. yet resdrected! A travelsr says he found in mummy pit in Egypt garden peas l that had been buried there 5000 years H "a hrnrrVht ant l 4th of June, 1S44 he planted them, and in thirty days they sprang> up Buried 5000 years, yet resurrectedi Why should 1 it be thought a thing incredlDle 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 Gree k ] missionary brought from China to Flu rope the progenitors of those worms that
 now supply the silk markets of many na- tions. The pageantrv of bannered host and
 the luxurious articles of commercial em- porium blazing out from the sill<worms.
 insignificant earthly body. this insignif.
 cant earthly life. our bodies unfold into something worthy of the coming eterni- ties? Put silver into diluted niter and
 it dissolves Is the silver gone forever No. Put in some pieces of copper, and the silver reappears. If one force dis solves another force organizes
 Why should it be thought a thing in- credible with you that God should raise the dead: The insects flew and the
 worms crawled last autumn fcebler and feebler and then stoppCd. They have taken no food. They wart none They | lie dormant and insensibie, but soon the south wind will blow the resurrectio | trumpet. and the a!r 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 | 4 sa'n al lnaH h.o tn,a nt,t l of the night the day. In d few weeks there will be a resurrection in all ou, 1 gardens Why not some day resurrec- tion amid the graves?
 Ever and anon there are instances of
 men and women entranced. A trance is l death followed by resurrection after a i few days. total suspension of mental
 power and voluntary acton. Rev. Wil liam | Tennent, a great evangelist of the last generation. of whom Dr. Archibald Alex
 ander, man far from being sentimental wrote in most eulogistic terms-Rev. Will | liam Tennent seemed to die. His spiril | apparently left the body. People came Tn | day after day, and said, He is dead l he is dead" But the soul that fled re- | turned, and Will Tennent lived to write l what he had seen while his soul was gone l Excursions Into the Unknown. 1 It may be found some time that what
 Is called suspended animation or coma | tose state is brief death, giving the sou an excursion into the next world, from l which it comes back, a furlough of few l hours granted from the conflict of life l to which It must return. Do not thls waking up of men from trance and this waking up of insects from winter lifeless ness and this waking up of grains buried 5,0OJ years ago make 1t easier for you to believe that your body and mine after the vacation of the grave, shall rouse and rally, though there be 5000 years be- tween our last breath and the sounding of the archangelic revellle? Psychologists tell that while the most of our bodies are built with such wonderful economy that we can spare nothing and the loss of a finger Is hinderment and the in jury of toe joint makes us lame, stil that we have two or three useless phys ical apparatuses, and no anatomiSt oi physiologist has ever been able to tel what they are good for. They may be tht foundation of the resurrection body worth nothing to us in this state to be indispensably valuable in the next state The Jewish rabbis and the scientists oi our day have found out that there arc two or three superiluities os Hhdv that are
 something gloriously suggestive of another f state.
 l called at my friends house one sum mer day. 1 found the yard all piled ui
 with the rubbish of carpenters and ma sons work The door was off The plumbers had torn up the floor. The rooi was being lifted in cupola. All the pie lures were gone, and the paper hangers
 were doing their work. All the modern Improvements were being introduced into l that dwelling. There was not room it the house fit to live in at that time, al though a month before when visited thal house everything was so beautiful couo not have suggested an improvement. My | friend had gone with his family to tht l Holy Land expecting to come back at the | end of six months when the building | was to be done. And, oh. what was hl' | joy when at the end of six months h' l returned and found the old house hat l been enlarged and improved and gloriied
 all the rooms filled with health. and w | could hardly make d suggestion Bu | after awhile your soul will go to in | Holy Land. and while you are gone tht i old house of your tabernacle will be en | tirely reconstructed from cellar to attic | and every nerve, muscle and bone ant l tissue and artery must be hauled over 1 and the old structure will be burnsheC 1 and adorned and raised and cupolaed anC l enlarged and all the Improvements Oi | Heaven introduced, and you will move | into 1t on resurrection day. For Vt l know that if our earthly hou-- of this | tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God, house not made with | hands, eternal in the heavens" On what | d day when body and soul meet agaln. They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever have q pain and your soul not pity 1t. or your body have d joy and your soul not :e-eCho it, or chang ing the question. did your soul ever have any trouble and your body not sympat hlzc with it, growing wan and weak under the depressing innuenc'? Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated il with kin'llel eye and cheek and elastic step? Surely God never ln- tended two such good friends to be very 1 long separated.