The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1902-04-04

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| has thus far, there perhaps may De no
| room for the large acreage set apart ior
! reqting places but there - plenty OF room
vet. and the race need not pass that bridge
| Of FIRE until II comes 20 u. The most OF
! us prefer the old way. But whether out OF
! shall get that luminous. buoyant. gadsornei
! transcendent, magnificent, inexpliea6le
structure called the resurrection body.
! You viii have II; j VII nave ~.
/ say 20 you to-day, as Paul SAID 20
| Agrippa, why should II be thought a
| thing incredible with you that God should
raise the dead" That far up cloud, high
or than the hawk flies, higher than the
eagle hies. what u 1t made OF; Drops OF
water from river, other drops from a
| lake, still other drops from stagnant pool,
but now embodied In a cloud and kIndled
by the sun. ii God can make such lus
| trous cloud out OF water drops, many OF
them soiled and impure and fetched from
miles away. can He not transport the. irag..
ments Of a human body from the earth and
out OF them build a radiant body!
Cannot God, who owns all the material
! out OF which bones, muscle and flesh are
made, set them up again II they have iall
! eng II a manufacturer OF telescopes drops
a telescope on the floor and IL breaks, can
he not mend II again 20 you can see
| through IL! And If God drops the human
| eve into the dust, the eye which He origin
ally fashioned can He not restore 1t?
! Aye If the manufacturer Of the tele-
| scODe by the use Of a new glass and
! change OF material. can make better IN
strument than that which was originally
constructed and actually improve It, dc
I you not think the fashioner OF the human
| eye may improve IT'S sight and multiply
the natural eye by the thousandfold addI
tional forces OF the resurrection eye?
Do you not think that God can do as
/ for "a 10 10
wasps and .he spiders and the snails'
! This morning at half-past I o'clock there
| was a resurrection. Out OF the night the
day in a few weeks there viii be a resur.
rection in all our gardens. Why not some
| day a resurrection amid the graves!
Ever and anon there are instances OF men
| and women entranccd \ trance Is death
followed by resurrection after few days;
! total suspension OF mental power and vol
untary action. Rev. William Tennent,
great evangelist of the last generation, OF
whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man
far from being sentimental, wrote IN most
! eulogiStic terms-Rev. William Tennent
seemed to die. His spirit apparently LETT
the body People came in day after day
and said, "He is dead, he is dead" But
the soul that fed returned, and VIII Ten
nent lived TO write what he had seen while
his soul was gone
1t may he found some time that what is
state is brief death, giving the soul an ex'
curson into the next world, from which
| It comes back, a furlough of few hours
| granted from the conflict OF life 10 which
1t must return. Do not this waking up OF
mel from trance and this waking up of in.
sects from winter lifelessness, and this
! waking up OF grams buried 5000 years ago
make II 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 between our last breath and
| the sounding of the archangelic revellet
| Psychologists tell us that while the most
| Of our bodies are built with such wonder.
full economy that we can spare nothing
and the loss oi a finger Is Underwent
and the injury of q toe Joint makes Us lame
! still that we have two or three useless
| physical apparatusCs and no anatomist OF
psychologist has ever been able 20 tell what
they are good for. They may be the
foundation OF the resurrection body, worth
| nothing TO Us IN tins state TO be lndlspen'
| SADLY valuable in the next state. The
Jewish rabbis and the scientists of our
day have found out that there are two or
three superiiUities OF body that are some
thing glorously suggestive of another state
! called at my friends house one sum.
mer day. | found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish OF carpenters and ma
sons work. The door was off. The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The ROOT
was beng hltcd IN cupoia. All the PIC
lures were cone, and the paper hangers
were doing their work. Al the modern
Improvements were being introduced into
that dwelling. There was not a room IN
the house tit TO live IN at that time, al
though a month before when | visited
that house everything was beautiful j
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 slS 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 en-
larged and improved and gloritied. That
Is your body. 1t looks well now--all the
rooms filled with health, and we could
hardy make ! suggestion. BSt after
awhile your soul will 20 to the Holy Land
aud while you are gone the old house Of
your tabernacle VIII be entirely recon.
etructed from cellar to attic, and every
ner's, muscle and bone and tissue and ar.
terry must be hauled over, and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and
all the improvements of heaven intro
duced, and you Will move into 1t on resur
rection day. For we know that if our
earthly house OF this tabernacle were dis
solved we have a building of God, a house
not made with hands, eternal in the heav.
ems
Ga, 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 It, or your body have Joy
and your soul not re-echo 1t. or, changing
the question, did your soul ever have
any trouble and your body not sympa.
thlze with X. growing wan and weak un.
der the depressing influence; Or did your
soul ever have a gladness but your body
celebrated II with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step! Surely God never intend.
ed two such good friends to be very long
! separated.
And so when the worlds last Easte,
morning shall come the soul will descend,
crying, Where Is my body" And the
body VIII ascend, saying, Where Is my
souly' And the Lord on the resurrection
: will bring them together and II will be a
porieC; soul IN perfect body introduced
by perfect Christ into a perfect heaven.
Victory,
Do yor wonder that on Easter day we
swathe our churches with garlands: DO
. YOU wonder we celebrate 1t with the most
consevrated voice OF song that we can in.
vtt. with the Ceitest fingers on organ and
cornet and with doxoiogies that beat these
arches with the billows of sound as the
sea smites the basalt at Giants Causeway ;
Only The bad dIsspproye Of the resurrec-
ton.
cruel heather warrior heard Mr. Mof.
tatt. the missionary. preach about the