The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-21

the very best spirits In their very best |
mood. ffi-sth1 very pAf1or Of thU ~uza
verse, the four walls burnished and
paneled and pictured and glorthed with
all the splendors that the infinite Coo
in all the ages has been able to invent
Victory!
This view, Of course, makes 1t of but
little importance whether we are Gre
mated or sepultured. If the latter is
dust to dust, the former is ashes to
ashes. If any prefer incineration. let
them have it without cavil OF 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 Coos
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, ere
mated at Oxford; Pothinus and Blan-
dina, a slave, and Alexander, phys1-
clan, and their comrades cremated at
the order of Marcus Aurelius; at least
| a hundred thousand of Christ's disci-
pies cremated, and there can be no
doubt about the resurrection OF their
| bodies. Whether out of natural disin-
| tegration or cremation we shall get
that luminous. buoyant, gladstone,
transcendent, magnificent, inexplicabie
structure called the resurrection body.
You will have 1t; I 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 far up
cloud, higher than the hawk flies, high
er than the eagle flies, what is 1t made
Of? Drops of water from a river. other
drops from lake, still other drops
from stagnant pool. but now embod-
led in a 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 II they
have fallen? If a manufacturer OF tel
escopes drops a telescope on the floor
and it breaks, can he not mend II
again so you can see through it? AND
if God drops the human eye into the
dust, the eye which he originally fash
toned, can he not restore it?
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! TIL
: radiant butterfy-where did 1t com
a from? The loathsome caterpillar. Tha
t albatross that smites the tempest wit
< its wings-where did it come from? .
2 senseless shell. Near Bergerac, France
j | in a Celtic tomb near a block, wer
q found flower seeds that had been bul
e led 1000 years. The explorer took tn
|! flower seed and planted it. and 1t cam
J, up. 1t bloomed in bluebe1l and hello
s trope. Two thousand years ago bul
d led, yet resurrected! A traveller sa,
d he found in a mummy pit in EgyI
It garden peas that haG been buried thel
It 5000 years ago. He brought them OF
and on the 4th of June, 1874, he plan
( ed them and In thirty days they sprau
Re up. Buried 5000 years. yet resurrectee
" why should it be thought thin
lie incredible with you that God shoul
< raise the dead?"
IS Where did all this silk come from
Oh the silk that adorns your persons an
'e your homes? In the hollow OF a sta
y of Greek missionary brought from Oh
ie ma to Europe the progenitors Of tho
- worms that now supply the silk ma
4 kets of many nations. The pageant
ie of hammered host and the luxurious a
- ticles OF commercial emporium bla
~ ing out from the silkworms. And WI
~ shall be surprised if out of this insi
. nificant earthly body, this insignifica
- :, earthly life. our bodies unfold in
- something worthy of the coming etc
- mites? Put silver into diluted mite
~, and it dissolves. Is the silver go
- forever? No. Put in some pieces
&c copper, and the silver reappears.
"a one force dissolves, another force c
n ganizes.
~, Why should it be thought thi
h. incredible with you that God shou
"a raise the dead?" The insects flew a
y, the worms crawled last autumn fe
Ito bier and feebler and then stoppe
H. They have taken no food. They wa
as none. They lie dormant and insen
he Bile, but soon the south wind will biz
,a1 the resurrection trumpet, and the
tic and the earth will be full Of them.
CHI you not think that God can do vas mu
for our bodies as he does for the was
ok and the spiders and the snails? tt
,ut morning at half-past o'clock the
Jar was resurrection. Out. OF the mig
i'll the day In few weeks there will
an a resurrection in all our gardens. w
no not some day a resurrection amid t
we graves?
or Ever and anon there are instances
ch men and women entranced. A traI
a is death followed by resurrection af
es few days. total suspension Of men
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