Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-04-12

Struct Inem as mucn DeJrer Lnan 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 as 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
velocities 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 the splendors that the infinite God
in all the ages has been able to invent
Victory,
This view, of course, makes it of but
little importance whether we are Gre
mated or sepultured. If the latter is
dust to dust, the former is ashes to
ashes. If any prefer incineration, let
them have it without caviI 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 evangelislic 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, AMI their comrades cremated at
the order of Marcus AureHus; at least
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-
tegrat1On or cremation we shall get
that luminous, buoyant, gladsome,
transcendent, magnificent, inexplicable
structure called the resurrection body.
ou will have it; ] will have 1t.
1 say to you to-day, as Paul said to
Agrippa, why should it be thought
thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead?" That far up
cloud, higher than the hawk flies, high
er than the eagle flies what is it made
of? Drops of water from river, other
drops from a lake, still other drops
from a stagnant pool but now embod-
led in a cloud and kindled by the sun
II 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 it
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 a 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 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 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. III
| one force dissolves, another force or
! ganizes.
Ever and anon there are instances of
! men and women entranced. A trance
is death followed by resurrection after
few days; total suspension of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev. Will
liam Tennent, a great evangelist of the
last generation. of whom DR.. Archi-
bald Alexander, 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 Tennent lived to write what he
had seen while his soul was gone
1t may be found some time that what
| is called suspended animation or coma
tose state is brief death, giving the soul
an excursion into the next world. from
which it comes back, furlough of a
few hours granted from the conflict of
life to which it must return Physiolo-
gists tell us that while the most of our
bodies are built with such wonderful
/ 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