Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1902-04-10
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,:44Ia ;mnortance whether we are Gre
mated or sepultured. If the latter is dust
70 dnst. the former is ashes to ashes. IL
Nv nreter i~ncinesation, let them have 1t
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 mightlest
and best spirits have gone through TINS
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, cremated at Oxford;
Pothinus and Blandina, a slave, and Alex
ander, a physician, and their comrades
cremated at the order OF Marcus AZURE
Illus; at least a hundred thousand OF
Christ's disciples cremated, and there can
h. no doubt about the resurrection OF
their bodies.
IF the world lasts as much longer as it
has thus far, there perhaps may be no
room for the large acreage set apart tor
resting places, but there is plenty of room
vet. and the race need not pass that bridge
of fire until it comes to it.. The most OF
us prefer the old way. But whether out CT
natural disintegration or cremation we
shall get that luminous: buoyant, gladstone,
LIdnStCuu0uC, "dRA4ASSAOS AA~AHAAS
structure called the resurrection body.
You will have it; I viii have it.
Ever and NOR there are instances of men
and women entranced. A trance is death
followed by resurrection after a few days;
total suspension of mental power and vol
untary action. Rev, William Tennent, a
whom whom Dr.. Archibald Alexander, a man
far from being sentimental, wrote in most
eulogistic terms-Rev. William Tennent
seemed to die. His spirit apparently left
the body. People came in day after day
and said, "He is dead, he is dead" But
the soul that fed returned, and Will Ten
nent lived to write what he had seen while
his soul was gone.
It may be found some time that what is
called suspended animation or comatose
cursion into the next world, from which
it comes back, a furlough of a few hours
granted from the conflict of life to which
it must return. Do not this waking up of
men from trance and this waking up of In
sects from winter lifelessness, and this
waking up of grains buried 5000 years ago
make it easier for you to believe that your
grave shall rouse and rally, though there
be 5000 years between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangelic ~reveille?
Psychologists tell us that while the most
of our bodies are built with such wonder.
full economy that we can spare nothing,
and the loss of a finger is a Underwent,
and the injury Of a toe joint makes US lame,
physical apparatuses, and no anatomlst or
psychologist has ever been able 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 i~ndispen-
SADLY valuable in the next state. The
Jewish rabbis and the scientists Of our
day have found out that there are two or
thing gloriously suggestive of another state
I called at my friends house one sum-
with the rubbish of carpenters and ma.
sons work. The door was off: The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The ROOF
was being lifted in cupola. 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 a room in
the house fit to live in at that time, al
though a month before when I visited
that house everything was SO beautiful ]
could not have suggested an Improvement
Ny 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
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and found the old house had been en-
larged and improved and glorifed. That
is your body. It looks well now-all the
rooms filled with health, and we coule
hardly make a suggestion. But afte1
awhile you soul will go to the Holy Land
and while you are gone the old house O
your tabernacle will be entirely recon
structed from cellar to attic, and every
nerve, muscle and zone and tissue and al
terry must be hauled over, and the ole
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged, ant
all the improvements Of heaven intro
duced, and you will move into it on resur
rection day. For we know that if gu
earthly house of this tabernacle were dis
solved we have a building of God, a hous
not made with hands, eternal in the heav
ems"
Oh, what a day when body and soul NEE
again! They are very fond Of each other
Did your body ever have a pain and you
soul not pity it, or your body nave a jo,
and your soul not re-echo it, or, changin
the question, did your soul ever hav
any trouble and you body not sympa
thlze with it, growing wan and weak IN
der the depressing influence? Or did you
soul ever have a gladness but your bod
celebrated it with kindled eye and chez
and elastic step? Surely God never intend
ed two such good friends to be very lon
separated.
And so when the worlds last Easte
morning shall come the soul will descenc
crying, "Where is my body?" And tn
body will ascend, saying, Where is m
soul?" And the Lord Of the resurrect;o
will bring them together, and it will be
: perfect soul in a perfect body, introduce
by a perfect Christ into a perfect HEAVIER
| Victory!
. Do you wonder that on Easter day "
= swathe our churches with garlands?' D
+ you wonder we celebrate it with the mos
consecrated voice Of song that we can il
vite, with the deftest fingers on organ an
, cornet and with doxologies that beat thes
I arches with the pillows of sound as th
sea smites the basalt at Giants Causeway
. Only the bad ~disapprove of the resurre,
e ton.
A cruel heather warrior heard Mr.. Mo
+ TAFT, the missionary, preach about ti
a resurrection, and he said to the mission
. day.? YES" said the missionary. "W;
all the dead in battle rise?" said the cru
q chieftain. eyes," said the missioner
Then said the warrior: "Let me hear r
= more about the resurrection. There ca
be no resurrection. tbara eb,u -.