Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-22

ters and mason's work. The door was
off. The plumbers 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 being introduced into that dwell
ing There was not a room in the house .
tit 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 I.
what was his JOY when at the end OF I.
six months he returned and found the
old house had been enlarged and i'm
proved and glorihed. That is your
body. 1t looks we'll now-all the rooms
filed with health. and we could hard
ly make a Suggestion. But after awhile
your soul will 90 to the Holy Land,
and while you are gone the old house
of your tabernacle will be entirely re-
constructed from cellar to attic and
every nerve. muscle and bone and It's
sue and artery must be hauled over.
and the old structure will be FURNISHED
and adorned and raised and cupolaed
and enlarged, and all the improve
ments of heaven introduced, and you
will move into it on resurrection day
For we know that if our earthly house
of this tabernacle were dissolved 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
a pain and your soul not pity 1t, 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 sympathize with it,
growing wan and weak under the de-
| pressing influence? Or did your soul
ever have a gladness but your body
celebrated it with kndled eye and
cheek and elastic step? Surely God
never intended two such good friends
to be long separated.
morning shall come the soul will de-
scend, crying, Where is my body?"
And the body will ascend, saying,
Where is my soul?" And the Lord of
the resurrection will bring them to-
gether, and it will be a perfect soul in
a perfect body, introduced by O. per-
| feet Christ into a perfect heaven. Vic
tory! Do you wonder that on Easter
day we swathe our churches with gar
lands? Do you wonder we celebrate it
with the most consecrated voice of
song that we can invite, with the deft-
est fingers on organ and cornet and
with doXologies that beat these arches
with the billows of sound as the
sea smites the basalt at Giants Cause
way? Only the bad disapprove of the
resurrection. A cruel heather war
rior heard Mr.. Moffatt, the missionary,
preach about the resurrection, and he
said to the missionary, "Will my
father rise in the last day." Yes"
said the missionary viii all the
dead in battle rise?" said the cruel
chieftain. yes" said the mission
ary Then said the warrior: Let
me hear no more about the resurrec-
ton; there can be no resurrection;
there shall be no resurrection. | have
slain thousands in battle. VIII 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 allowed
Christ to be their pardon and their
life and their resurrection it will be
day of victory.
The thunders of the last day will
be the salvo that greets you into har-
Dor. The lightnings will be only the
torches of triumphal procession
marching down to escort you home.
The burning worlds flashing through
immensity will be the rockets cele-
brating your coronation on thrones
where you will reign forever and for
ever 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 abandoned
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 ceno-
taphs, and then for the first time you
/ will appreciate the full exhilaration OF
( the text, Death is swallowed up in