Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-04-05


/ ne no doubt about the resurrection OF
| their bodies.
| Ii the word lasts as much longer as 1t
has thus lar, there perhaps may be no
, room for the large acreage set apart for
resting places, but there Is plenty OF room
/ yet. and the race need not pass that bridge
| of FIRE until it comes to it. The most of
US prefer the old way. Ent whether out or
natural disin;egration or cremation we
shall get that luminous. buoyant. gadsome,
tTansccndent: magnificent. inexpllca6!e
| structure called the resurrection body.
You will have it: will have it.
Ever and anon there are instances OF men
! and women entranced A trance ia death
| followed by resurrection after few days;
total suspension OF mental power and vol
untary action. Rev. William Tcnnent,
great evangelist OF the last generation, of
whom DR. Archibald Alexander. a man
| far from being sentimental. wrote in most
eulosistic terms-Rev. William Tenncnt
seemed to die. His spirit apparently left
| the body. People came in day after day
and said. "Hc is dead. he is dead But
| the soul that fled returned, and viii Ten
nent lived to write what he had seen while
his soul was gone.
| II may DE found some time that what is
| called suspended animation or comatose
| state is brief death giving the soal an e.
cursion into the next world. from which
| Il comes back, 4 furiough ~ a few holrs
granted from the conflict of lie 10 which
it must return. Do not this waking up of
men from trance and this waking Ip of ir-
sects from winter hseessness. and this
/ waking Up OF grains buried GOO years ago
make il easier for you TO believe that your
| body and mine after the vacation of the
| grave snail rouse and rally. though there
be 5000 years between our last breath and
| the sounding OF the archangeiic reveil.e:
| Psychologists tell us thai while the most
o. our bodies are butt with such wonder
| ful economy that we can spare nothing,
and the loss OF 4 finger Is indictment,
and the injury OF a toe joint makes us lame,
| still that we have two or three useless
| physical apperatuses. and 10 anatomis; or
| Psychologist has ever been abe to tell what
/ they are good for. They may be the
| foundation OF the resurrection body, worth
nothing to us in this state to be indispen-
| sadly valuable in the mex: state. The
| Jewish rabbis and the scientists OF our
day have found out that there are two or
| three superauities of body that are some
thing gloriols.y suggestive OF another state.
| called 81 my friends house one sum-
| mer day. / found the yard all piled up
| with the rubbish OF carpenters and ma
sons WORK. The doc. was OF. The
| plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof
was being lifted III cupo.a. All the pic
| lures were gone. and the paper hangers
were doing their WORK. All the modern
| improvements were being introduced into
| that dwelling. There was not = room III
| the house fit TO live ia at that time, "a
though a month before when l visited
| tnat house everything was so beautiful l.
could not have suggested an improvement.
NY friend had goae 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, on, what was his Joy
p-rnu n. n.. anA rs -s.- he, ,..t
and found the old house had been en-
larged and improved and g.orifed. That
Is Your body. IL looks well now-ail the
rooms filed with health, and we could
hardly make suggestion. But after
awhile your soul will go to the Hoy Land
and while you are gone the old house OF
your tabernacle Will be entirely recon-
structed from cellar to attic, and every
nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and ar
terry must be hauled over. and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged. and
all the improvements of heaven INTRO
dueed, and you Will move into it on resur-
rection day. For we know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle were dis
solved We have building of God. a house
not made with hands, eternal in the heay.
ems"
Oh. what Gay when body and soul meet
again. They are very iond OF each other
Did your body ever nave pain and your
soal not pity 1t, or your body have ioy
and your soul not re-echo it. or, changing
the question, did your soul ever have
any trouble and your body not sympa-
thize with 1T, growing wan and weak UNI
der the depressing influence. Or did your
soul ever have a gladnesS but your body
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step: Surrey God never intend.
ed two such good friends to be very long
separated.
And so when the worlds last Easter
morning shall come the soul will descend.
CRYING. Where is my body" And the
body VIII ascend, saying, Where is my
sour: And the Lord OF the resurrection
will bring them together. and it will be a
perfect soul in perfect body, introduced
by perfect Christ into perfect heaven.
Victory,
Do you wonder that on Easter day we
swathe our churches with garlands: Do
you wonder we celebrate il with the most
eonseerated voice OF song that we can in
ylte, with the deftest fingers on organ and
cornet and with doxoiogics that bea: these
arches with the pillows of sound rs the
sea smites the basalt At Giants Causeway.
Only the bad disapprovc OF the resurrec-
ton.
a cruel heather warrior heard Mr.. Mof-
iatt. the missionary, preach ABOUT the
FesurEecklon, ana ne SAID To the MISSION
airy, will my father rise in the last
day" Yes" said the missionary "Wil
all the dead in battle rise" said the cruel
ch'eitain. Yes said the missionary.
Then said the warrior: Let me hear no
more ABOUT the resurrection There can
be no resurrection; there shall be no res
direction. | have slain thousands in hat
tie. Will they rise:" All. there viii be
more 10 rise on that day than those whose
crimes have never been repented OF will
want TO see, But for all others who Al.
lowed Christ to be their pardon and their
lie and their resurrection it will be a day
OF victory.
The thunders Of the last DAY will be the
saivo that greets You into harbor The
lightnings will be only the torches of tri
umphal procession marching down TO es-
cort yon home. The burning worlds flash
ing through immensely will be the rockets
celebrating your coronation on thrones
where you will reign forever and forever
and forever Where IL 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 aban-
Goned sepuchers. 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 cepotaphs
and then for the first time YOU win apprc-
cate the full exhilaration of the text.
Death Is swallowed up in victory
copyright. 1915. L. klopsch.I