The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-11

mood. In the very parlor OF the uni
verse, the four walls Furnished and
paneled and pictured and glorified with
all the splendors that the infinite God
In all the ages has been able to invent
Victory!
This view. OF course, makes 1t OF but
little importance whether we are ere
mated or sepultured. II the latter Is
dust to dust. the former is ashes to
ashes. II any prefer incneration, let
them have 1t without cavil or protest
The world may become so crowded that
cremation may be universally adopted
by law as we'll as by general consent
Many of the mightiest and best spirit
have gone through this process. Thou
sands and tens Of thousands of Gods
children have been cremated-P. =.
Bliss and wife, the evangells,ic Singers,
cremated by accident at Ashtabula
bridge John Rodgers, cremated by
persecution; Latlmer and Ridley, Gre
mated at oxford; Pothinus and Blan-
dina n slave, and Alexander, a physi-
clan, and their comrades cremated at
the order of Marcus Aurelius; at least
q 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, inexplicable
structure called the resurrection body.
You will have it; will have it.
say to you to-day, as Paul said to
Agrippa, why should it be thought
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 a lake, still other drops
from stagnant pool, but now embod-
led in cloud and kindled by the sun.
If God can make such 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 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 fallen? If manufacturer of tel
escapes drops telescope on the floor
and it breaks, can he not mend 1t
again so you can see through it? And
if God drops the human eye into the
dust, the eye which he originally fash
ioned can he not restore it?
why should it be thought with you
an incredible thing that God should
raise the dead?' Things all around us
suggest it. Out of what grew all these
| flowers? Out of the mold and the
earth. Resurrected! Resurrected. The
radiant butterfiy-whe did it come
from? The loathsome caterpillar. That
| albatross that smites the tempest with
| its wings-where did it come from? a
! senseless shell. Near Bergerac, France
in a Celtic tomb near a block, were
found flower seeds that had been bur
led 1000 years. The explorer took the
| flower seed and planted it, and it came
up. It bloomed in bluebell and hello
| trope Two thousand years ago bur-
led, yet resurrected. A traveller says
he found in a mummy pit in Egypt
garden peas that had been buried there
5000 years ago. He brought them out
and on the 4th of June, 1914, he plant
ed them and in thirty days they sprang
up. Buried 5000 years, yet resurrected
why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?"
| Where did all this silk come from
| the silk that adorns your persons and
your homes? In the hollow of staff
of Greek missionary brought from Chi
ma to Europe the progenitors of those
worms that now supply the silk mar
kets of many nations. The pageantry
of hammered host and the luxurious ar
ticles of commercial emporium blaz-
ing out from the silkworms. And who
| snail De surprised IL Out VI lllS lHSlS
nificant earthly body, this insignificant
earthly life. our bodies unfold into
something worthy of the coming eter-
mites? Put silver into diluted inter
and it dissolyes, Is the silver gone
! forever? No. Put in some pieces OIL
copper, and the silver reappears. i
one force dissolves, another force or.
ganizes.
why should it be thought thing
incredible with you that God should
raise the dead?' The insects flew and
the worms crawled last autumn fee
bier and feebler and then stopped
They have taken no food. They want
none. They lie dormant and insensi-
BILE, but soon the south wind will blow
the resurrection trumpet, and the air
and the earth will be full of them Dc
you not think that God can do as much
for our bodies as he does for the wasps
and the spiders and the snails? This
morning at haif-past o'clock there