The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-07
SERVICES AT OLD CHURCH.
Calvary Baptist Congregation Returns
to Former Abode--Sermon OF
Rev. Or. L. q. Bass.

Rev. l.. ID. Bass, ID. d. took for his
subject last Sunday evening The
Resurrection, founded upon | Cor
15:2O-3S. He said in part:
ITO make complete the redemption
6f humanity, it was needful that man
should triumph over the very field
where man had fallen, and over every
fos, to which man had been subjected.
BY his holy life, Christ triumphed
over sin in human flesh, and over the
condemnation which the law had pro-
nounced upon our sinful race. In his
attoning sacrifice, Christ triumphed
over Satan though suffering, as he
had before triumphed over him in the
temptation. and by his resurrection
Christ triumphed over death. But
this triumph, TO be made complete
aud final. must be renewed In every
enc of his followers. Christ set up a
Kingdom Of spiritual life and power,
For this. he. as Mediator now has
dominion; and unto this every enemy
must be subdued; then the dominion
OF the Son of the Redeemer shall be
merged into that of God as Father
But this shall not take place until
death is conquered in the final resur-
rection OF this the resurrection of
Christ was the earnest and the pledge.
The question Of bodily identity
which perplexes some, Paul disposes
of by a beautiful analogy. The sower
d0es not expect TO reap the self-same
seed which he casts into the ground.
hut the same kind of grain wheat
from wheat, barley from barley, maize
from maize; but what he reaps grows
OUT of the germ of the seed that he
sows, which Is qnickened into life by
the death OF its own body. So
itself may teach us that
there is within us life-principle, or
germ, of spirit potency, which is cap
able Of being hereafter quickened
and clothed with body by Him who
gives to every grain and plant its
|own body. answering to the seed from
WHICH IL springs.
Yet this sublime fact lies so beyond
the grasp of mans philosophy, that
mere rationalism cannot receive it,
The Saduces among the Jews, the
Epicureans among the Greeks.
Knocked at the resurrection as a thing
impossible. But they were material
lists. and believed neither in
spiritual existence nor in an here
sitter. Yes, Christ rose from the
dead; and therefore there is redemp-
tien for our sins and there is hope
for our resurrection.
What cannot God do? Oh. how
wonderful will be the resurrection
morning and what scenes will be I'M
folded on that tremendous occasion,
The very dust beneath the feet of
those then living will tremble with
strange and unusual connection, and
from the ground the dead win come
out. Forth from every roadway and
the busy marts of trade, and the
shadows Of the forest and the fields
OF waving grain. multitudes of human
beings shall emerge. brought out into
life again by the voice of God. The
old ocean also-the deep blue, rolling
main. where the Almighty form
glasses itself in tempsets"-the wild
and heaving ocean upon whose crest
man has sought in vain to lay his
eonquering hand. shall heave with UNI
usual fluctuations and forth from it's
briny bed the myriads II has swal-
lowed shall come. and every billow
be the standing place of some one of
the many who have been lost far out
at sea.
From the mountain peaks whose
solitudes are broken now only by the
scream of the eagle or the hoarse
battle-cry of the storm-from their
lev sepulchres amid SHOWS and gla-
Ciers OF the distant north. and their
beds amid the verdure of sunny lands
they shall come. And the Cattian
Alps and the sandy deserts-the
gloomy catacombs and the quiet coun-
try CARVE yards where now "tbe rude
forefathers Of Hamlet" rest-every
srot IN all the world where the foot
Of man has trod and his body been
committed TO the earth. shall be
thronged with living beings brought
TO life again-brought from where for
ages they have lain alike unknowing
and unknown. For the trumpet shall
sound and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible and we shall be
changed" Il matters not how they
lived. whether amid the pomp and
luxury OF princely state, OF in the
mud hut Of savage life. Every indi-
yidual from the humblest to the
greatest. will hear his voice and not
a human being from Adam to the one
last born before the trumpet sounded
VIII be overlooked.
Oh. my brethren. what a spectacle
Il viii be The rocks rending and
biistering. the earth yearning and
auivering the very ocean with its
Hquid waves gaping and separating
and forth from every corner Of both
and and sea the psIlid dead emery
inc obedient to tie loud conn and
Come forthi~ Friend. you aud ]
shall be there. You and ! make a
rart Of the gathering Of the last great
dsy. Are yon ready for it, As sure
as ron are now living YOU will see the