The age-herald., 1902-04-06

hundred thousand of Christ,s disciples cremated, and there can be no doubt about the resurrection of their bodies. If the worIu lasts as much longer as 1t 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 1t comes to it. The most of us prefer the old way. But whether out of natural disintegration or cremation we shall get that luminous, buoyant gladstone, transcendent. magnih- cent inexplicable structure called the resurrection. You will have 1t; l will have 1t.
 I say to you today, as Paul said to Agrippa, "Why should 1t be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" That far up cloud, higher than the hawk flies, higher than the eagle flies, what is 1t made of? Drops of water from river, other drops from a lake, still other drops from stegnant pool but now embodied In a cloud and kindled by the sun. If God can make such a lustrous cloud out of water drops. many of them soiled and impure and fetched from miles away, can he not transport the frag- ments of a human body from the earth and out of them build a 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 telescopes drops a telescope on the floor and it breaks, can he not mend 1t again so you can see through 1t? And if God drops the human eye into the dust, the eye which he originally fashioned, can he not re- store 1t? Aye, if the manufacturer of the telescope, by the use of new glass and a change of material, can make a better instrument than that which was original ly constructed and and actually improve 1t, do you not think the fashioner of the human eye may improve its sight and multiply the natural eye by the thousand fold additional forces of the resurrection eye?
 Everyday Resurrections.
 why should it be thought with you an incredible thing that God should raise the dead?" Things all around us suggest 1t. Out of what grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and the earth. Resurrect- edl Resurrected! The radiant butterfly where did 1t come from? The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross that smite the tempest with It's wings--where did 1t come from? A senseless she'll Near Bergerac, France. in a Celtic tomb under a block, were found flower seeds that had been buried 2.000 years. The explorer took the flower seed and planted 1t, and it came up. It bloomed in bluebell and helio- trope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet resurrected! A traveller says he found in mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had been buried there 5000 years ago. He brought them out, and on the 4th of June, 1s44, ne planted them. and in thirty days they sprang up. Buried B. GOO years, yet resurrected! Why should 1t be thought thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?'
 Where did all this silk come from-thc silk that adorns your persons and your homes? In the hollow of a staff of Greek missionary brought from China to Eu- rope the progentors of those worms that now supply the silk markets of many na- i tions. The pageantry of bannered host and the luxurious articles of commercial emporium blazing out from the silk worms And who shall be surprised if out of this insignificant earthly body, this in significant earthly life, our bodies unfold into something worthy of the coming eternities? Put silver Into diluted hitter. and 1t dissolves. Is the silver gone for ever? No. Put in some pieces of copper, and the silver reappears. If one force dissolves, another force organizes. "Why should it be thought a thing in- credible with you that God should raise l the dead?" The insects flew and the worms crawled last autumn feebler and feebler and then stopped. They have l taken no food. They want none They lie dormant and insensible. but soon the south wind will blow the resurrection 1 trumpet, and the air and the earth will be i 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 4 o'clock there was a resurrection. Out of the night the day. In few weeks there will be a resurrection In all cur gardens. Why not some day a resurrection amid i the graves?
 Ever and anon there are instances of men and women entranced. A trance Is l death followed by resurrection after l few days; total suspension of mental power and voluntary action. Rev. Will 1 liam Tennent a great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald 1 Alexander, a man far from being senti- mental. wrote in most eulogistic terms Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. His spirit apparently left the body. Peo- 1 pie came in day after day and said, He 1 is dead. he Is dead" But the soul that i fled returned and Will Tennent lived to write what he had seen while his soul was gone.
 Excursion Into the Unknown. It may be found some time that what l is called suspended animation or como- 1 tose state is brief death, giving the soul l an excursion into the next world, from
 which 1t comes back, a furlough of a few hours granted from the conflict of life l to which 1t must return. Do not this waking up of men from trance and this waking up of insects from winter life lessness and this waking up of garins 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 archangelic reyeille? Physiologst 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 hinderment, and the injury of a toe joint makes us lame, still that we have two or three use- less physical apparatuses, and no anat- omist or physiologist 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 indispensibly valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbis and the scien- lists of our day have found out that there are two or three supernuities oi body that are something goriously sug- gestive of another state.
 called at my friends house one sum- mer day. I found the yard all piled up 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 nic-