Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-22

SOIL ann neat ana COlu ana Cn0nEluE
seasons out of which God will recon
struct them as much better than they
are now as the body of the rosiest and
healthiest child that bounds over the
lawn in Central Park is better than the
sickest patient in Bellevue hospital.
But rs to our soul. we will cross right
over. not waiting for obsequies. inde-
pendent of obituary. into a state in
every way better with wider room and
yelocities beyond computation, the
dullest of us into companionship with
the very best spirits in their very best
mood in the very parlor of the uni
verse, the four walls FURNISHED and
paneled and pictured and glorified with
all TIE splendors that the infinite God
in all the ages has been able to invent
Victory!
This view. of course, makes II of but
little importance whether we are Gre
mated or sepultTed If the latter is
dust to dust, the former Is ashes to
ashes. If any prefer incineration, let
them have it without cavil or 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 Gods
| 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, Gre
mated at Oxford Pothinus and Blan-
dina, a slave and Alexander. a physi-
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. 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 a
thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead?" That far up
cloud. higher than the hawk flies nigh
er than the eagle flies what is it made
of? Drops of water from 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 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 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 a manufacturer of tel
escopes drops telescope on the floor
and it breaks, can he not mend il
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?
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 pageantrS
of hammered host and the luxurious ar
ticles of commercial emporium blaz
ing out from the silkworms. And who
shall be surprised if out of this insig
nificant earthly body, this insignificant
earthly life. our bodies unfold int
something worthy of the coming eter
mites? Put silver into diluted inter
and it dissolves. Is the silver gon,
, forever? No. Put in some pieces o
| copper, and the silver reappears.
one force dissolves, another force or
, ganizes.
Ever and anon there are instances o
, men and women entranced. A tranc
, is death followed by resurrection afte
= few days; total suspension Of menta
l power and voluntary action. Rev. Will
= liam Tennent, great evangelist OF tn
last generation, of whom DR.. Archi
( bald Alexander, man far from bein
t sentimental, wrote in most eulogisti
r terms-Rev. William Tennent seeme
= to die. His spirit apparently left tn
q body. People came in day after da
0 and said, "He is dead he is dead.
e But the soul that fed returned. an
r viii Tennent lived to write what h
b had seen while his soul was gone.
a 1t may be found some time that wha
!, is called suspended animation or coma
| l.