CHRISTIAN VIEW OF DEATB Rev. Dr. Taiauft Says About 1870 Easter Mornings Have Wakened the Earth. The Charge of the Black Qiant — Boat a! the Mag of Terror*.

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view oi death a* the entrant* Lie la presented >n thia

t curn to a f r uiact

br*DJ. Tlhi^ Irotn^the^test"l *(^r|

Sabbath* U made e arc prince, in Eailcr i* qut—

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which there u an entry of eighteen pence ior 400 colored and pictured egg*, with Which the people .ported. In Ruaaia .lave* wer* fed ana alms were distributed <)n Easter. Eexleeiaitical ecuncils met in Pontus. in Oaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to * decide the particular day and alter a controvany more animated than graciou* decided it, and now through all Chri»tendom in come way the firat Sunday after

the full moon which hap( ^Ujr March_jl^i* ftled n .able royal court of the up of fifty-two. Piftv-on the royal household, but

6he wears richer diadem, she away* more jeweled acepter, and in her smile nation* are irradiated. How welcome she is .when, afjer p harsh winter and late spring, •he' teems to' tUp out of the snowbank rather than the conservatory, to come out of the north instead of the south, out of ^he arctic rather than the tropics, dismounting from the icy equinox, but welcome this queenly day, holding high in her right hand the wrenched off bolt of Christ'a sepulcher, and folding high in her left hand tjic key to all the cemeteries in Christeniom. ; — w-w-o . iwily text is an ejaculation. It is spun out of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on in his argument about the resurrection, and observed all the laws of logic, but when he came to write the words of the text his fingers and his pen and the parchment on .which he wrote took fire, and he cried out, “Death is swallowed up in victory!” It is an exciting thing to see an army routed and flying. They run each other down. Thcr scatter everything valuable in the track. Unwheeled artillery; hoof of horse cn breast of wounded and dying man. iYsu have read of the French falling back from Sedan, of Napoleon - * track of 80.000 corpses in the snowbanks of Russia, of the retreat of our armies fram Manassas

* e fire kings tumbling over !th horan with their armii

has been able to invent. Vieview, of course, makes tt of bat little importance whether ws *« cremated or aepultured. If the UUer u dust to dust, the former is aahss to ashes. If any peeler incineration, let_th*sn nave it without cavil or protest. The world may become ao crowded that cremation may be universally adopted by Jaw sa wel as by general consent. Many of the mightiest and best spirits have gone through this process. Thousand* and ten* of thousand* of God's children have been cremated—P. P. Bliss and wife, the evaiupiKitio ringers, cremated by accident at Ashtabula bridge; John Hedgers, cremated by persecution; Latimer and Ridley cremated at Oxford; Pothinua and Blandina, a slave, sad Alexander,' a physician, and tbeir comrades cremated at the order of Marcus Aurelius: at least a hundred thousand of Christ'* disciples cremated, and there can be no dpubt about the resurrection of their ooaies* ->w —r»~-. If the world lasts as much longer as it has thus far, there perhaps may be no room for the large acreage act apart fox resting place#, but there is plenty of room yet, and the race need not pass that bridge of fire until it come# to if. The most ol prefer the old way. But whether out of itural disintegration or cremation we oyant, gladsome, it, inexplicable Ever and anon there are insUnces of men and women entranced. A trance is death followed by resurrection after a few days; total suspension of mental power and volttary action. Rev. William Tennent, a eat evangelut of the last generation, of hom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man r from being sentimental, wrote in most —[logistic terms—Rev-. William Tennent seemed to die. Hi* spirit-apparently left ~ • i n day after d

Beth boron with their armies hailstorms of heaven and the swords .. Joshua's host struck them with their fury. — In my text is a worse discomfiture. It seems that a black giant proposed to conquer the earth. He gathered for his host all the ache* and pains and malarias and cancers and distempers and epidemic* of the ages. H#marchcd them down, drilling them inwte northwest wind and amid the slush of tempest*. He threw up barricades of grave mound. He pitched tent of charnel bouse. Some of the troops marched with slow tread commanded by consumptions, some in double quick commanded by pneumonias. Some be took by long besiegement of evil habit and some by one stroke of the battleaxe of casualty. With bony hand he pounded wt the back door of hospitals and sickrooms and won all the victories in all the great battlefields

the sounding of the archangeUc reveille? Physiologist tell us that while the most of our bodies are built with such wonderr ful economy that we can spare n

the rocks of «°d the loss of a finger is a hindj

• tb °; iistTS; . still that we have two or three useless nrv physical apparatuses, and no anatomist 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 indispensably valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbis and the sciential* of our day have found out that there are two or

three

_ aL the five march! ordered th<

' all the

Forward,

coaqucrorsof conqucr-

ors, and all the generals am in-ehief and all president* i sultans and czars dropped under of his war charger. But "

king* and it tSe feet

and despotisms come out ..was appropriate that the should come out of the same quarter. Power is given Him to awaken all the fallen of all the,centuries and of all lands and marshal them against the black giant. Fields have already been won, but the last day of the world’s existence will see the decisive battle. When Christ shall lead forth His two brigades, the brieade of -the risen dead and the brigade of tne celestial Lost, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade from the riven sepulchers will take him from beneath, and the brigade of descending immortals will take him from above, an? death shall be swallowed up in victory. - The old braggart that threatened the conquest and demolition of the planet has lost bis throne, has lost his scepter, has lost his palace, has lost hi* prestige, and the one word written over all the gates of mausoleum and catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the lonely khan of the arctic explorer and on the catafalque of great cathedral, written in capita!* of azalia and calla HDy. written in musical cadence, written in doxology of great assemblages, written on the sculpr tnred door of the family vault, is “Vic-,

Victory! Word shouted

1 Blenheim, at Megiddo

». where the At

d at Culloden and at Megiddo and

S'hSsJS,

-7' Wi

he Saracen*; at Salami*, where Themis--oeles in the grAit sea fight confounded the Persians, and at the door of the eastern caveni of chiseled rock, where Christ came out through a recess and throttled the king of terrors and put him back in the niche from which the celestial Conqueror had just emerged. Aha! When tie jaw* of the eastern mausoleum took down the b.ark giant ‘death was swallowed up in victory.** I proclaim the abolition of ‘Ihe old antagonist is driven bark into mythology with all the lore about Stygian ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Melrose abbey and Kenilworth castle are no more in ruins than is th* senulcher. We •hall have no more to do with death than we have with the cloakroom at a govern-

S, i&svi

■ervent our overcoat, our *

peded in O^MLaSt roan'd of the^drai*f d v“ l ^"^tomb ws'lS^Ttk; elosk of f!s»b and the wrappings with which we -meet the storm* of this world. At the close of an earthly reception, under the brush and broom of the porter, the coat or hat may be handed to u* better than when we nmgned it. and th. cloak of mimnn.ty wiD finally be returned to us g”ri£d d “ d bTi|>l —* “ d “<1

You sod Id

t "r af ? *. 1 . >rc now- We want to gst r.d of author weaknesses ami aH their Boceptibihtics to fatigue and all ' which C.vi will iveocstruct theta aa saurb fesgalgl

n pne^ e found

_ some time called suspended animation or comatose atate is brief death, giving the soul an excursion into the next world, from which it comes back, a furlough of a few hours granted from the conflict of Lfe to which it must return. Do not this waking up of men from trance and thia waking up of inaects from winter lifeleaaneaa, and this waking up of grains buried 3000 year* ago make it easier for you to believe that your body and mine after the vacation oi the

>f another state.

I called as my friend's bouse one summer day. I found the yard all piled up with the rubbish of carpenter's and mason’s work. The door was off. The plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. All the pic-

and the r — ’

improvements that dwelling, the bouse fit i

being introduced into There was not a room in

- in at th '

— 1 to hve in at that time, although a month before when I visited that house everything was so beautiful I could not have suggested an improvement. My 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 bouse had been enlarged and improved and glorified. That is your body. It looks well now—aD the room* filled with health, and we could hardly make a suggestion. But alter awhile yottr soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic, and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and artery must be banled over, and the old structure will be burnished and adorned and raised and cupoiaed and enlarged, and all the improvement* of heaven introduced, and yon will move into it on resurrection day. “For we know that if our earth)}'. house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God, a hi

solv*u — . not made with bands, eternal

att."

Ob, what a day when bod/ and soul meet again! They are very Iona of each other. Did your body ever nave a pain and your soul not pity it, or your body have a joy and your soul not re-echo it, or, /-hsnpng the question, dio your aoal ever have toy-trouble and your body not sympathixe with it, growing wan and weak under the depressing iniluence? Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step? SurelyGod never intended two such good friends to be very long separated. Arid so when the world’s last Easter morning shall come the soul will descend, frying, ‘Where is my body?” And the will bring them toeether. and it writ h. . perfect soul in.a by a * m—

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go

you wonder wTceSbrsteTt with’ Hie most consecrated voice of song that we can invite, with the deftest finger* on organ and comet and with doxologies that neat these arches with the billows of sound as the sea smites the basalt at Giant* Causeway? Only the bad disapprove of the resurrecA cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Moffstt, the missionary, preach about the resurrection, and he said to the missionThen said the warrior; “Let me hear no more about the resurrection. There can be no resurrection; there shall b* no r*aurrection. I bare slain thousands in bat-

K'rall thq

* .mwa.cvmwu, mere bus. tion. I bare slain thou* Will they riser 1 Ah, t

to rise oa that day than -.r^ZiTE SWKKf.t’i The thunders of the last day will be ths

isuan mareiiuu d"wn to «•-

THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lctsoa Comment* For April i. Select: fast of Tarsst Convened, Acts lx., 1-20—OoUet Tsit: Acta 0L. 19—Mew•ry Versts, }-S—Commeatary os ths Day's Lcttoa. 1. “And." “But.”—R.. V. The ^ut" marks the contrast between the missionary seal of I’hilip, and the persecuting zeal of Saul. One ia inflamed by hatred, the other inspired by love. “Sanl.” The same as mentioned in the story of Stephen. His name in Hebrew was Saul, hi* Roman name was Paul. "Yet.” Up to thia moment his blind, persecuting rage against the disciple* of the Lord burned aa fiercely er. “Breathing out threatening*."

fully e

and waa r tion to tl 2. “Dan

uomi

them with the breath of hi* lips. "Unto ths high priest." “Being a zealous volunteer in the service he devised plan* for

ezterminating the religion of Jesus, as ready to carry them into execuo the utmost ox bis ability.*’ Damsacut." This is the oldest city

3. "Suddenly.” About noon (chap. 22: 6); at midday (chap. 26: 13), when the sun was shining so there could be no der ception. "Light.” It was “above the brightness of the sun.” Chap. 26: 13. It was in the midst of this glory that Christ was teen by Saul (1 Cor. 13: 8), so that hs could enumerate himself among those who had beheld the Lord after Hia resur-

rection.

4. “Fell to the earth.” The whole company fell to the earth. Chap. 26: 14. “Heard a voice.” In the Hebrew tongue. The voice-was clear and distinct to Saul, bnt to the

a*",

first part of v. 6 are omitt»d from the ited Version, but they belong fo the unt for Paul himself utters them In ). 26: 14. “Kirk against the pricks.”

I stubb -

wounding ’ tbemselves the more deeply. 6. “Trembling,” etc. A true description

mm whom be was on his *

■aT&:

to destroy.

7. "Hearing a voice." In chap. 22: IT we are told that those with Paul “heard not the word*.” What is meant is dearly that they did not bear the words a* words— could attach no meaning to the sound. that a voice is not heard, or that

- bear

^S.

we do not understand “Saw no roan." “Saw

de d fim'tot^ 1 MiSd. °TbU*bhnd-

Until

ness was, no doubt, mercifnlly intended by Providence tp give him an opportunity to attend to the great matter ol ha soul's

salvation.

D. "Neither did eat,” etc. The mental anguish lor a time overpowered the natural

craving for food.

10. "Ananias.” We know nothing of this man except what we find in thii lesson and in chap. 22: 12. He was a devout (nan, in good report among the Jews, was in communication with the brethren at Jerusalem, and was trusted by them. 'In a vision.” Saul was prepared for the visit by a vision, and by a vision Ananiax is

told to go to him.

11. '’straight." Main thoroughfare of Damascus; so-called from its running in a Kne from the eastern to the western

a. mile long, a bundi

nthian <

. *H* praycth." ) longer "threatening*

gate. It was a mile long, a hunt! Vide, and divided by Corinthian column* Into three svennes. "He p

i av

"Breathing out” no longer "threaten Ar <1 slaughter,” but struggling desires t L.> and light in the persecuted One. 13. "Have heard,” etc. This hesitancy an the pprt of Ananias to visit Saul does not prove that be was either fearful or indined to disobedience. He wa# merely ex-

Chnitian conr “saints,” that it, "holy mrsonx,” at _ very early period after the d!kth of Christ because of the marvelous outpourings of

the first convert*.

•si vs w( licit obc

because of the marreloui the Spirit upon the first « 15. "Go. This brief, of tbe Lord (1) demand

enee. (2) puts tne doubts of a weak faith to shame, (3) contains a promise ol ths Lord's aid and blessing. “A chosen vessel." One whom in view of his fitness as a man. Jesus had chosen for a great mission. THU, however, implies neither any

STnorany ration. God cause Saul chi

rver, implies neither any t he would disobey Hi*

' predestination to i

nd appointed Saul

chose the Lord.

‘He must suffer." Compare Paul's own words in chap. 90: 23. See also chap.

M: 19; 2 Cor. Ut 23-28.

17. “Ananias went.” How beautifully childlike is tbe obedience of Ananias to the heavenly visjonf “Brother Saul.” Knowing that the Lord Aiad chosen Saul to a Sacred office. Ananias felt a great respect for him and ax', interest in hie aalvsZ: “As it had been scales.” There is a difference ol opinion ae to whether litoral scales fell from hi* ewe. Tkjre is no question, however, but tiat the restoration of

his sight un * -

Tunry 1

X the recovery waa instanta-

fOtoplets. “Arose bspttoad ** From thia we aee Gut he was immediately baptized before he had received meat. fir^Meat.” Food. “Certain days." How long is not known. It might have been for some months, ss he did not go to Jeroataem until three yeans from this rime. He remained some time at Damascus. then went to Arabia and returned again to Damatru*, and then went to JsNo mas 1* so apt to fall as he umo

Is over-anxious to rise.

To keep Christ In the heart Is to

keep la thf heart of Christ

The mu mv he *

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