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/ little Importance whether we are cremat-
/ ed or sepultured. If the later is dust to
1 dust, the former is ashes 10 ashes. IL
any prefer incarceration, let them have it
( without cavil or protest. The world may
become 50 crowded that cremation may
! be universally adopted by law as well US
I by general consent. Many of the might
est and best spirits have gone through
this process. Thousands and tens of
/ thousands of Gods children have been
eremated-P. p. Bliss and wife, the evan
gelistic singers, cremated by accident at
Ashtabula bridge; John Rodgers, cremat-
/ ed by persecution; Latimer and Ridh>y,
cremated at Oxford; Pothinus and Blan-
dina, a slave, and Alexander. a physi-
clan. and their comrades cremated at the
order of Marcus Aureius; at least hun
| dred thousand of Christ's disciples ere
mated. and there can be no doubt about
! the resurrection of their bodies If the
world lasts as much longer as it has thus
/ far, there perhaps may be 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
I 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 glad
some, transcendent magnificent, inexpli-
! cable structure called the resurrection
body. You will have it; l will have it,
| say to you to-day, as Paul said to
/ Agrippa. why should it be thought a
thing incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?' That Ear up cloud,
higher than the hawk flies. higher than
the eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops
OF water from a river other drops from
| lake. still other drops from stagnant
pool. but now embodied in a cloud and
kindled by t., sun. If God caa 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 a
| radiant body? Cannot God, who owns
all the material out of which bones, mus
Gle and flesh are made, set them up again
| if they have fallen? If a manufacturers
of telescopes drops a telescope on the
| floor and it breaks, can he not mend it
again so you can see through l.? And If
God drops the human eye into the dust,
the eye which he originally fashioned. can
he not restore it? Aye, if the manufac-
turer of the telescope, by the use of
new glass and a change of material. can
make better instrument than that
which was originally constructed and ac-
tually improve it, do you not think the
fashioner of the human eye may improve
its sight and multiply the natural eye by
the thousandfo!d additional forces of the
resurrection eye?
Everyday Resurrections.
why should it be thought with you
an incre diDie thing that God should raise
the dead:" Things all around US suggest
it. Out of what grew all these flowers?
Out of the mold and the earth. Resnr-
rectedl Resurrected! The radiant but
terfly-where did it come from? The
loathsome caterpillar That albatross that
smites the tempest with its wings-wheye
did it come from? A senseless she'll.
Near Bergerac. France, in a Celtic tomb
under block, were found flower seeds
that had been buried 1000 years. The
explorer took the flower seed and plant
ed it, and it came up 1t bloomed in
bluebell and heiotrope. Two thousand
years ago buried. vet resurrected. A
traveller says he found in mummy pit
in Egypt garden peas that had been bur-
led there 5000 years ago. He brought
them out. and on the 4th of June. 1914,
he planted them. and in thirty days they
sprang up. Buried 5000 years. yet res
directed. why should it be thought
thing incredible 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
Greek missionary brought from China to
Europe the progenitors of those worms
that now supply the silk markets of many
nations. The pageantry of hammered hoss
and the luxurious articles of commercial
emporium blazing out from the silk
worms. And who shall be surprised if
out of this insignificant earthly body, this
insignificant earthly life. our bodies UNI
fold INTO something worthy of the com
ing eternities? Put silver into diluted
inter- and it dissolves. Is the silver gone
forever? No. Put in some pieces of
copper. and the silver reappears. If one
force dissolves. another force organizes.
why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should raise
the dead?' The insects few and the
worms crawled last autumn feebler and
feeber and then stopped The have
taken no food They want non. They
lie dormant and insensible, but the
south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet and the air and the earth will
he 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
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 resurrec-
ton amid the graves?
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 pow
er and voluntary action. Rev. William
Tennent, a great evangelist of the last
generation. of whom DR.. Archibald Alex
ander. a man far from being sentimental.
wrote in most eulogistic terms-Rev. Viii
liam Tennent seemed to die. His spirit
apparently left the body. People came in
day after day and said, He is dead. !ie
is dead" But the soul that fed return
ed, 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 it comes back, a furlough of
few hours granted from the conflict of
life to which it must return. Do not this
waking up Of men from trance and this