The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-04

and the injury of toe Joint makes us
lame, still that we have two or three
useless physical apparatuses, and no
anatomist or physiologist has ever been
able to tell us what they are good for.
They may he the foundation of the
resurrection body, worth nothing to us
in this state to be indispensably valu-
able in the next state. The Jewish
rabbs and the scientists of our day
have found out that there are two or
three superfluites OF body that are
something gloriously suggestive Of an
other state.
called at my friends house one
summer day ! found the yard all
piled up with the rubbish of carpen-
| ter's and masons 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 room in the house
fit to live in at that time, although a
month before when visited that house p
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 had been enlarged and i'm
proved and glorified That is your
body. 1t looks well now-all the rooms
filed with health, and we could hard
ly make suggestion. But after awhile
your soul will go to the Holy Land,
and while you arc 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.
|
OF this tabernacle were dissolved we
have a building of God, a house not
made with hands, eternal in the heav
ems" Oh, what a day when body and
soul meet again. They are very fond
of each other, Did your body ever have
pain and your soul not pity it, or
your body have joy and your soul not
re-echo it, or, changing the question,
did your soul ever have any trouble
and YOU body not sympathize With it,
growing wan and weak under the de-
pressing influence? Or did your soul
ever have gladness but your body
celebrated it with kindled eye and
cheek and elastic step? Surely God
never intended two such good friends
to be long separated
And so when the worlds last Easter
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 perfect soul in
a perfect body, introduced by 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 doXologes that beat these arches
with the pillows 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, viii my
father rise in the last day." Eyes"
said the missionary. will all the
dead in battle rise?" said the cruel
| chieftain. Yes" said the mission
airy Then said the warrior: Let
me hear no more about the resurrec-
ton; there can be no resurrection;
there shall be no resurrection. l 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
a 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
| immensely 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 emptiei
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