The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-05-07
Made in Sermon at Washing
ton by RGV. Shannon.
Speaks TOuChingIy Of the Death Of His
Worthy Grandmother, Mrs.
ChattiG Sullivan.

Not long ago Rev. Fred +. Shannon,
pastor of Grace NJ. E. Church, Brook
lyr, preached in Foundry NJ. E,
Church, Washington. "The Christian
Imperative" was the subject of Mr.
Shannon's morning sermon, the text
being l.. Corinthians xy:53: For
this corruptible must put on incorrup-
ton. and this mortal must put on
Immortality" He said in the course /
of his sermon: .....
The Christian imperative, so inimit-
ably expressed in my text, is based
upon colossal fact. 1t is not hear
say, nor fable, nor sentiment. Christ
did die, Christ was buried, Christ rose
again. This is the immovable iounda-
| ton upon which the Christian super
structure rests.
|. Weaponed with this indisputable
fact, and glowing with divine fire
It has kindled his soul, Paul ami
hiliates all unchristian denial of the
general resurrection. For the Corin-
thians did not question The immortali
of the soul. But some of them bluntly
denied the resurrection of the dead.
Then it is that Paul confronts them
with the fact of Christ's resurrected
body. How say some among you,
, then, that there is no resurrection Of
of the dead? Christ hath been raised,
and Christ is the head of humanity.
His resurrection reveals the law of re-
Nival, just as Newtons apple re-
veals the law of gravitation. Now,
ii there be no resurrection of the
, dead, then Christ is still dead"
After this Mr.. Shannon beautifully
hmpIified Paurs analogies of the
seed, animate nature, and the ce-
r lestial and terrestrial universe.
y The preachers argument aling these
. lines must be read intact no synopsis
can do it justice In concluding Mr..
II Shannon spoke as follows;
=, Yes; and the heart demands the
. Christian imperative also No one real
- ICED this so profoundly as Jesus,
and so He said: Let not your heart
be troubled" In the supreme things
the reasons of the heart are more
trustworthy than the reasons of the
brain. Else how are we to explain
-. these deathless longings of the heart
% They are found in all men, in all
races, in all climes in all times
The stream of years cannot wash
them out, either racially or individ'
ually. l was one of a company of dea'
r ones who sat in the quiet aftergloN
Il of last summers evening. We @er'
p talking of the passing away of oul
father, grandfather, and now great
n grandfather, foTty-five years ago
ID Finally, his companion and widow
,s said: "Ah, children, it has been
N long time since he left me, and Ipoin
o, ing to mel he was just a little Olde
,d than that boy, and on the threshold
IN of his ministerial career, when h,
nd went away" 1t was to me one of tn
" most pathetically touching expression
or O. unreQuitted longing that ! eve
ty heard. Now, here is a singular fac
m but it Is a fact. Sitting in my stuc
I on Tuesday morning, the 9th of thi
m month, about $50 O'Clock, l was pre-
foundly moved--moved in fact TO tea
by a sudden and vivid recollection {
these words of my grandmother, .
few hours later came the telegraI
announcing that she had gone hom
ry Aad she went at almost exactly tn
is same minute that was thinking I
ere her words concerning him who ma
a left her half a century ago. LittI
ng wonder on receiving the message,
,c- exclaimed: well, isn't it strange
ld- Yes; it does seem so to us, but ] al
IN pursuaded that 1t is not 50 TO tho'
ced who fall asleep in Jesus.
re- Now, l left at once for Kentuck
his But on account of a wreck near Phi
,n4 adeIphia, I missed connection, t
d. twenty minutes, with the only sout
ern train that would have me the
len II time for her funeral. Still,
yn know where they put her to res
ry- That beautiful city of the dead stan
as upon hill crowned with pines Nc
adj than once have / climbed to tn
nee peaceful summit in the moonlight
ndA listen to the music of those pint
as the summer breezes fingered III,