The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . ^ parlor of the universe, the four wallsburnished, and paneled, and pictured, and glorified with all the. splendors that theinfinite God in all the ages has been able to invent. Victory ! This view of course makes it of but little importance whether we are crematedor sepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If anyprefer incineration let them have it without caricature. The world ma
The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . ^ parlor of the universe, the four wallsburnished, and paneled, and pictured, and glorified with all the. splendors that theinfinite God in all the ages has been able to invent. Victory ! This view of course makes it of but little importance whether we are crematedor sepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If anyprefer incineration let them have it without caricature. The world may becomeso crowded that cremation may be universally adopted by law as well as by generalconsent. Many of the mightiest and best spirits have gone through this and tens of thousands of Gods children have been cremated—P. P. Blissand wife, the evangelistic singers, cremated by accident at Ashtabula bridge;John Rogers, cremated by persecution; Latimer and Ridley, cremated at Oxford;Pothinus and Blandina, a slave, and Alexander, a physician, and their com-rades, cremated at the order of Marcus Aurelius—at least 100,000 of Christs. THE ; PHYSICIAN.—/v ?om original Painting by P. Scoppetta. (483) 484 THE PATHWAY OF disciples cremated—and there can be no doubt about the resurrection of theirbodies. If the world lasts as much longer as it has already been built, there perhapsmay be no room for the large acreage set apart for the resting-places, but that timehas not come. Plenty of room yet, and the race need not pass that bridge of fireuntil it comes to it. The most of us prefer the old way. But whether out ofnatural disintegration or cremation we shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome,transcendent, magnificent, inexplicable structure called the resurrection body;you will have it, I will have it. I say to you to-day, as Paul said to Agrippa: Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise thedead. The far-up clou
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