Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-04-03

something gioriously suggestive o. an
other state.
called at my friends house one
sumner day. l found the yard all
pile. UP with the rubbish Of carpen-
ter's and mason's work. The door was
of. The plumbers had torn up the
floor. The roof was being lifted in
cupola. All the pictures were gone.
and the paper hangers we're 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 l visited that house
everything was so beautiful l 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
pobys ~ lOOhb well HOW-dli tic lOOhAo
filled with health. and we could hard
ly make a suggestion. But after awhile
your soul will go 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 IL our earthly house
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 1t. or, changing the question,
did your soul ever have any trouble
and your body not sympathize with 1t.
growing wan and weak under the de-
pressing influence? Or did your soul
ever have gladness but your body
celebrated 1t with kindled eye and
cheek and elastic step? Surely God
never intended two such good friend,
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 1t will be perfect soul in
a perfect body, introduced by a per-
feet Christ into perfect heaven. Vic
tory! Do you wonder that on Easter
day we swathe our churches with gar
lands? Do you wonder we celebrate II
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 pillows of sound as the
sea smites the basalt at Giants Cause
wayi 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. "win my
father rise in the last day?" YES"
said the missionary. viii all the
dead in battle riser" 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. have
slain thousands in battle. Will 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 1t 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 on
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 en- 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
victory"
Hail the Lord of earth and heaven.
Praise to thee by both be given.
Thee we greet triumphant now;
Hail the resurrection thoul