Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-04-04

You and do not want our bodies re-
turned as they are now. We want to
get I'd of all their weaknesses and all
their susceptibilities to fatigue and all
their slowness of lOcomotion. We
want them put through a chemistry Of
soil and heat and cold and changing
seasons, out of which God will recon-
struct them as much better than they
are now as the body Of the rosiest and
healthiest child that bounds over the
lawn in Central park is better than the
sickest patient in Bellevue hospital.
But as to our soul, we viii cross right
over, not waiting for obsequies, indie
pendent of obituary, into 4 state in ev-
cry way better. with wider room and
velocities beyond computation, the
dullest of us into cOmpaniOnship with
the very best spirits in their very best
mood, in the very parlor Of the uni
verse, the four walls FURNISHED and
pane ed and pictured and gloriiied with
all the splendOrs that the infinite God
in al the ages has been able to invent.
Victory!
The Urn or the Tomb.
This view, of course, makes it of but
little Importance whether we are Gre
mated or seputured. If the latter is
dust to dust, the former is ashes 10
asheA If any prefer incineration, let
them have it without cavil or protest.
The world may become SO crowded that
cremation may be universally adopted
by law as well as by general consent.
Many of the mightiest and best spirits
have gone through this process. Thou
sands and tens Of thousands of Gods
children have been cremated-P. p.
Bliss and wife, the evangelistic singers,
cremated by accident at Ashtabula
bridge; John Rodgers, cremated by
persecution; Latimer and Ridley, Gre
mated at Oxford; Pothinus and Blan-
dina, a slave. and Alexander, a physi-
elan, and their comrades cremated at
the order of Marcus Aurelius; at least
hundred thousand Of Christs disci-
pies cremated, and there can be no
doubt about the resurrection of their
bodies II the world lasts as much Ion
ger as it has thus far, there perhaps may
be no room for the large acreage set
apar. for resting places. but there is
plenty of room yet, and the race need
not pass that bridge of fire until it
comts to it. The most of us prefer the
old way. But whether out of natural
disintegratiOn OF cremation we shall get
that luminous, buoyant, gladstone,
transcendent, magnificent, inexplicable
strut ture called the resurrection body
You will have it; will have it.
say to you today, as Paul said to
Agrippa, why should it be thought a
thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead?' That far up
cloud, higher than the hawk flies high
er tlan the eagle flies, what is it made
of? Drops of water from river, other
drops from lake. still other drops
from a stagnant pool, but now embed
led in u cloud and kindled by the sun.
If God can make such a lustrous cloud
out Of water drops, many of them soil
ed and impure and fetched from miles
away, can he not transport the frag-
ments 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, muscle and flesh are
made. set them up again if they have
| fallenf If manufacturer of telescopes
drops a telescope on the floor and il
| breaks, can he not mend it again sc
you can see through it? And if Cod
drops the human eye into the dust, the
| eye which he originally fashioned, car
he not restore it? Aye. if the manu-
facturer Of the telescope, by the use OF
a new glass and change of material
! can make better instrument than thai
which was originally constructed an(
actually improve it, do you not thinl
the fashioner of the human eye may
improve its sight and multiply the nat
ural eye by the thousandfold additiOna
forces of the resurrection eye?
Everyday ResurrectiOns.
"Why should it be thought with yOl
an incredible thing that God SHOULD
raise the dead?" Things all around u
suggest it. Out of what grew all thes
flowers? Out of the mold and tn,
earth Resurrected Resurrected! Tn
radiant butteriy-where did it com
from? The loathsome caterpillar Tha
alba tross that smites the tempest wit
its vings-where did it come from? Z
senseless shell. Near Bergerac, France
in Celtic tomb under a block, wer
found flower seeds that had been bun
led 1000 years. The explorer took tn
flower seed and planted it. and it cam
up 1t bloomed in bluebell and hello
trope. Two thousand years ago bul
led. yet resurrected! A traveller say
he found in a mummy pit in EgyI
garden peas that had been buried theI
1900 years ago. He brought them on
and on the 4th of June, 1914. ne plan
ed them. and in thirty days they spran
up. Buried 5000 years, yet resurrect
ed! ''Why should it be thought thini
incredible with you that God shoul,
raise the dead?"
Where did all this silk come from
the silk that adorns your persons an
your homes? In the hollow of stat
of Greek missionary brought from CHI
J ma to Europe the progenitors of thoS
3 worms that now supply the silk maj
g kets of many nations. The pageantr
$ of hammered host and the luxuriou
+ articles of commercial emporium blai
1 ing out from the silkworms. And wi
e shall be surprised if out of this insi;
S nificant earthly body, this insignifical
d earthly life, our bodies unfold I'M
i something worthy of the coming etc
= mites? Put silver into diluted mite
and it dissolves. Is the silver gor
forever? No. Put in some pieces
n copper, and the silver reappears.
p one force dissolves, another force O
4, ganizes.
Ie why. should it be thought a thir
IS Incredible with you that God shou
l. raise the dead?" The insects flew al
IS the worms crawled last autumn fe
lie bier and feeber and then stoppe
T. They have taken no food. They wa,
re none. They lie dormant and insen.
id bic, but soon the south wind will bio
1t the resurrection trumpet, and the a
le and the earth will be full of them. /
d. you not think that God can do as mu
n fo' our bodies as he does for the was
It, and the spiders and the snails? tt
:" morning at half past o'clock the
was resurrection. Out of the mig
tx the day. In u few weeks there will
ut a resurrection in all our gardens W
ar not some day a resurrection amid t
il | graves?