Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-05

, for our bodies as be does for the wasps
Q and the spiders and the snails? This
}. morning at half past 4 O'Clock there
r was resurrection. Out of the night
b the day. In few weeks there will be
q Il resurrection in all our gardens. Why
q not some day a resurrection amid the
r graves?
p Ever and anon there are instances Of
men and women eDtranced. A trance
, is death followed by resurrection after
a few days; total suspension Of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev. Will
liam Tennent. great evangelist of the
last generation, of whom DR.. Archi-
bald Alexander, a 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
few hours granted from the conflict Of
life to which II must return. Do not
this waking up Of men from trance and
this waking up of Insects from winter
lifelessness and this waking up Of
grains buried 1900 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 1900 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 hlnderment. and the In
| jury OF Il toe joint makes US lame. still
that we have two or three useless phys
ical apparntuscs. and no anatomist or
Psychologist bag ever been able to tell
what they are good for They may be |
the foundation or ;he resurrection body, |
worth nothing to US In this state to be /
indispensably valuable in the next /
state. The Jewish rabbs and the sci |
entists Of our day hare found out that
there nre two or three suprrfiulties Of
body that are something gloriously sug-
gestive of another state.
! called ut my friends house one
summer day. | found the yard all pill
ed up with the rubbish Of carpenters
and mason's work. The door was off.
The plrmbers 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 room In the house fit
to live In at that time, although a
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 hau been enlarged and i'm
proved and glOritied. That Is your
body. 1t looks well now-all the rooms
filed with health, and we could hard ;
ly 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 re- I
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 t
and enlarged, and all the improve |
ments Of heaven introduced, and you
will move into 1t on resurrection day.
"For we know that II our earthly house 1
Of this tabernacle were dissolved we
have a 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
Z each other. Did your body ever have v
A pain and your soul not pity 1t, or your
body have a JOY and your soul not re- t
echo 1t. or. changing the question, did p
your soul ever have any trouble and r
your body not sympathlze with 1t, v
growing wan and weak under the de- o
pressing influence? Or did your soul h
ever have n gladness but your body "
celebrated ii with kindled eye and II
heck and elastic step? Surely God e.
lever intended two such good friends d
= be very long separated.
The Final Victory. al
And so when the worlds last Easter n
morning shall come the soul will de k
cend. crying. "Where Is my bOdy?
And the body will ascend. saying.
Where Is my soul?" And the Lord OF
he resurrection will bring them to- y
.ether. and it will be perfect soul In -
perfect body, introduced by perfect N
hrist into a perfect heaven. Victory! a.
10 you wonder that on Easter day we bl
wathe our churches with garlands? ra
10 you wonder we celebrate it with b;
he most consecrated voice Of song al
nat we can invite, with the deftest pC
ngers on organ and cornet and with NJ
oxologies that beat these arches with I'll
le biilows OF sound as the sea smites pa
le basat at Giants Causeway? Only le
ne bad disapprove Of the resurrec-
on. A cruel heather warrior heard VI
Ir. Moffatt, the missionary, preach eS
bout the resurrection, and he said to be
lie missionary, "Will my father rise lit
the last dayY Yes" said the mis- ar
onary. "Wlll all the dead in battle ed
sep said the cruel chleftain. Yes" tn
lid the missionary. Then said the gr
arrior: Let me hear no more about an
e resurrection. There can be no res no
rrectlon; there shall be no resurrec-
Oh. | have slain thousands In battle
Ill they riseY All, there will be
ore to rise on that day than those OBJ
hose crimes have never been repent an
Of will want to see But for all AL
hers who allowed Christ to be their cir
lrdon and their life and their resur. frC