The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-09


ed and impure and fetched from miles
away. can he not transport the frag-
ments Ct G. 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 tele-
scopes drops telescope on the floor
and it breaks, can he not mend it again
so you can see through it? And if God
drops the human eye into the dust. the
eye which he originally fashioned. can
he not restore it? Aye, if the manu-
facturer of the telescope, by the use OF
a new glass and change Of material,
can make better instrument than
that which originally constructed and
actually improve it, do you not think
the fashioner of the human eye may
improve it's sight and multiply the nat
ural eye by the thousandfold additional
forces Of the resurrection eye?
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 butterhY-where did it come
from? The loaths0me caterpillar. That
albatrOSS that smiteS the tempest with
it's Wings-where did it come from? \
senseless shell. Near Bergerace,
France, in a celtic tomb under a block,
were found flower seeds that had been
buried 1000 years. The explorer took
the flower seed and planted it, and it
came up. 1t blooomed in bluebell
and heliotrope. Two thousand years
ago buried, yet resurrected. A travel
er says he found in mummy pit in
Egypt garden peas that had been
buried there 1900 years ago. He
brought them out, and on the 4th Of
June, 1874, he planted them. and in
thirty days they sprang up. Buried
5000 years, yet resurrected. why
should it be thought thing incredi-
BILE 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
articles Of commercial emporium blaz-
ing out from the silkworms. And who
shall be surprised if out Of this insig-
nifcant earthly body, this insignificant
earthly life, our bodies unfold into
something worthy of the coming eter-
mites? Put silver into diluted inter,
and it dissolves. Is the silver gone
forever? No. Put in some pieces OF
copper, and the silver reappearS. If
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. DO
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 half past o'clock there
was a resurrection. Out Of the night
the day. In few weeks there will be
a resurrection in all our rgardens. Why
not some day a resurrection amid the
graves?
Ever and anon there are instances OF
men and women entranced. \ trance
is death followed by resurrection after
a few days: total suspension Of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev.
William Tennent, great evangelist
of the last generation, Of whom DR..
Archibald Alexander, man far from
being sentimental, wrote in most
eulogistic terms-Rev. William Ten
nent seemed to die. His spirit ap-
parently left the body. People came
n day after day and said, He is dead.
he is dead" But the soul that fled
returned, and VIII Tennent lived to
write what he had seen while his soul
was gone.
I called at my friends house one
summer day. 1 found the yard all
piled up with the rubbish of carpen-
ter's and mason's work. The door
was off. The plumbers had torn up
the floor. The roof was being lifted
in cupola. All the pictures were gone,
and the paper hangers 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, al
though month before when visited
that house everything was so beautl-
full I could not have suggested an
Improvement. Ny friend had gone
with his family to the Holy Land. ex-
pecting 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 re
turned and found the old house had
been enlarged and improved and
glorifed. That is your body. 1t
looks well now--all the rooms filled
with health, and we could hardly
make a suggestion. But after awhile
your soul will 60 to the Holy Land,
and while you are gone the old house
of your tabernacle will be entirely
reconstructed from cellar to attic, and
every nerve, muscal and bone and It's
sue and artery must be hauled over,
and the old structure will be burnlsh-
ed and adorned and raised and cupola-
ed and enlarged, and all the improve
ments of heaven introduced, and you
will move into it on resurrection day.
For we know that If our earthly
l,,uca rP tbic taharnar1a were GiSSOly-