The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-04-18

TIC rosest and healthiest child that bounds
ove- the lawn In Central Park Is better
than the slekest patient In Bellevue hosni
tai. But NJ 10 our soul. we viii cross right
over, not waiting for obseQules independ-
ent Of obituary. into a state In every way
better, with wider room and velocities be.
yond computation the dullest OF ne into
companionshD with the very best spirits
in their very best mood IN the very parlor
Of the universe the four walls FURNISHED and
paneled and pictured and glorifcd with an
the sD.endors that the infinite God in an
the ages has been able 10 invent. VIC
tory
This view, Of course makes II OF but
little importance whether we are Gre
mated or sepultured. II the latter is dust
10 dust, the former is ashes to ashes. II
any prefer ineineration, let them have 10
without cavil or protest. The world may
become 80 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. Thousands and tens Of thousands
of Gods children have been cremated-P.
p. Bliss and wife, the evangehstic 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 al the order OF Marcus Aure-
Illus: at least hundred thousand Of
Christs disciples cremated, and there can
be 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 for
resting places, but there is plenty of room
yet, and the race need not pass that bridge
of fire until it comes to 1t. The most OF
us prefer the old way. But whether out of
natural disintegration or cremation we
shall get that luminous. buoyant, gladstone,
transcendent, magnificent, inexplicabie
structure called the resurrection body.
! You will have il; l viii have it.
Ever and anon there are instances of men
| and women entranced A trance is death
| followed by resurrection after q few days:
| total suspension Of mental power and vol
untary action Rev William Tennent, a
great evangelist Of the last generation, of
| whom Or. 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 viii 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
] state is brief death, giving the soul an ex-
cursion into the next world, frop 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 lifeessness, and this
waking up of grams buried 5000 years ago
make it easier for you to believe that your
body and mine after the vacation of the
grave shall rouse and rally, though there
be 5000 years between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangelc reveille
Psychologists tell us that while the most
of our bodies are built with such wonder
! tul economy that we can spare nothing,
and the loss Of a finger is a Underwent
and the injury of toe joint makes us lame
still that we have two OF three useless
physical apparatuses, and no anatomist Oh
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 indspen.
SADLY valuable in the next state. The
Jewish rabbis and the scientists of our
day have found out that there are two OF
three superhuities of body that are some
thing g!oriously suggestive of another state
/ called &C my friends house one sum
mer day. | found the yard all piled VI
with the rubbish of carpenters and ma
sons work. The door was off The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The roo
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 intC
that dwelling, There was not room il
the house fit to live in at that time, al
though a month before when l visited
that house everything was so beautiful
could not have suggested an improvement
Ny friend had gone with his family to thu
Holy Land, expecting to come back at thu
end of SIX months, when the building wa
! to be done. And, oh, what was his JOY
when at the end OF six months he returned
and found the old house had been en-
larged and improved and glorifed. Tha
Is your body. 1t looks well now-all thu
rooms filled with health, and we coulC
hardly make a suggestion. But afte
awhile your 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 ever,
= nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and al
terry must be hauled over, and the oil
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged an.
! all the Improvements of heaven intro
duced, and you will move into it on resu1
. rection day. For we know that if on
earthly house Of this tabernacle were dis
solved we have a building of God, hous
not made with hands, eternal in the heay
ems"
Oh, what 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 have a io
! and your soul not re-echo it, or, changn
the question, did your soul ever hay
any trouble and your body not sympa
; thlze with it, growing wan and weak ur
deF the depressing influence Or did you
soul ever have gladness but your bod
, celebrated it with kindled eye and chez
! and elastic step? Surrey God never Intend
ed two such GOOD friends 10 be ve1v Ion