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| the ages has been able to invent.

mated or sepultured. If the latter Is dust
to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. J.
any prefer incarceration, let them nave II
without cavil or protest. The world ma!
become so crowded that cremation may bI
universally adopted by law as well as by
general consent. Many of the mlghtlesi
and best spirits have gone through TIM
process. Thousands and tens of thousand
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, 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 car
be no doubt about the resurrection Of
their bodies.
If the world lasts as much longer as ii
has thus far, there perhaps may be nc
room for the large acreage set apart fol
resting places, but there is plenty of room
yet, 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 Of
natural disinuegrauon cremation we
shall get that luminous. buoyant, gladstone
transcendent, magnificent, inexphcable
structure called the resurrection body.
You win have it; | will have it.
INcI duu dlOH IISIt dIC lllSldHCSs VI illCb
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
great evangelist of the last generation, Of
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.
1t 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, from which
it comes back, furlough of 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 hfelessness, and this
waking up of grains 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 archangehc reveillei
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 Underwent,
and the injury Of toe joint makes us lame,
still that we have two or three useless
physical apparatuses, and no anatomist 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 indispen.
SADLY valuable in the next state The
Jewish rabbis and the scientists of our
day have found out that there are two OF
three superfuities of body that are some.
thing gloriousIy suggestive of another state
l called at my friends house one sum.
mer day. l found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish of carpenters and ma
plumbers had torn up the floor. The ROOT
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 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 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
when at the end of six months he returned
and found the old house had been en-
larged and improved and glorited. That
Is your DOuy. IL LOOKS well HOW-du JHe
| rooms filled with health, and we could
hardly make a suggestion. But after
awhile your soul will go to the Holy Land,
and while you are gone the old house of
| your tabernacle will be entirely recon-
| structed from cellar to attic, and every
nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and ar
terry must be hauled over, and the old
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned
and raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and
lTnnrnUamantd nf haaUnn in
duced, and you will move into it on resur-
rection day. For we know that if our
| earthly house of this tabernacle were dis
solved we have a building of God, house
not made with hands, eternal in the heav-
ems"
Oh, what day when body and soul meet
again! They are very fond of each other.
Did your body ever have pain and your
soul not pity it, or your body have Joy
| and your soul not re-echo it, or, changing
the question, did your soul ever have
any trouble and your body not sympa-
thlze with it, growing wan and weak un-
der the depressing influence? Or did your
soul ever have a giadness but your body
celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step? Surely God never intend
ed two such good friends TO be very long
separated.
And SO when the worlds last Easter
iAAhS ondiA SOlnS Lie SOUL Will ueSCeuu,
crying, where is my body" And the
body will ascend saying Where is my
soGlT And the Lord of the resurrection
Will bring them together, and it will be
perfect soul in perfect body, introduced
by perfect Christ into perfect heaven.
Victory!
Do. you wonder that on Easter day we
swathe our churches with garlands? Do
you wonder we celebrate it with the most
consecrated voice of song that we can in
vite, with the deftest fingers on organ and
eornet and with doxologies that beat these
arches with the pillows of sound as the
sea smites the basalt at Giants Causeway?
Only the bad disapprove of the resurrec-
ton.
A cruel heather warrior heard Mr.. Moi
iatt, the missionary, preach about the
resurrection, and he said to the mission
ary,o Will my father rise in the last
day% Yes" said the missionary. 'Will
all the dead in battle rise?" said the cruel
ehieftain., YES" said the missionary.
Then said the warrior: LET me hear no
more about the resurrection. There can
be no resurrection; there shall be no res