The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-04-09

shelter or they would not have bloomed
at all. They are the children Of the
conservatories. But at this season, and
through the most of the year, the Holy
Land is all ablush with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family Of flowers
there, some that you supposed indigen-
GUS to the far North, and others indi-
genous to the far South-tbe daisy and
hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulipand
water-lily, geranium and ranunculus,
mignonette and sweet marjoram. In the
college at Beyrout you may see DR.. Posts
collection of about eighteen hundred
kinds of Holy Land flowers; while among |
trees are the oak Of frozen climes, and
the tamarisk Of the tropics, walnut and
willow, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder,
pine and sycamore. II such floral and
botanical beauties are the wild growths
of the fields, think Of what a garden
must be in Palestinel And In such
garden Jesus Christ slept after, on the
soldiers spear, His last drop OF blood
had coagulated. And then see how APP
propriate that all our cemeteries should
be fioralized and tree-shaded. In June
Greenwood is Brooklyn's garden.
swell, them" you say, "how can you
make out that the Resurrection Day Will
beautify the cemeteriesP win it not
leave them a plowed-up groundP On
that day there will be an earthquake,
and will not this split the polished Aber-
deem granite, as we'll as the plain slab
that can afford but the two words, Our
Mary or Our Charley'P" Well, will
tell you how Resurrection Day will
beautify all the cemeteries. 1t will be
by bringing up the faces that were to US
once, and in our memories are to us now,
more beautiful than any Gala lily, and
the forms that are to us more graceful
than any willow by the waters. Can
you think OF any thing more beautiful
than the temperance OF those from
whom we have been parted? / do not
care which way tho tree falls in the
blast Of the Judgment hurricane, or II
the plowshare that day shall turn under
the last rose-leaf and the last china-as-
ter, If out of the broken sod shall come
the bodies Of our loved ones not damaged,
but irradiated. The idea of resurrec-
ton gets easier to understand as | hear
the phonograph unroll some voice that
talked into 1t or sung into 1t year ago,
lust before our friends decease. You
turn the wire, and then come forth the
very tones, the very accentuation, the
very cough, the very song Of the person
that breathed into 1t once, but is now
departed. II man can do that, can
not Almighty God, without half trying,
return the voice Of your departedP and
II he can return the voice, why not the
lips and the tongue and the throat that
fashioned the voice? And II the lips
and the tongue and the throat, why moi
then the brain that suggested the wordsi
And II the brain, why not the nerves,
of which the brain is the hoadquar
ters? And IL He can return the nerves
why not the muscles, which are less in
genious? And II the muscles, why not
the bones, that are less wonderful? And
II the voice and the brain and the
muscles and the bones, why not the en-
tire bodyp II man can do the phono
graph, God can do the resurrection
VIII it be the same body that in the las
day shall be terminated? Yes, but in
finitely improved. Our bodies chang,
every seven years, and yet, in one sense
II Is the same body. On my wrist Ant
the second finger Of my right ham
l there is scar. / made that at twelv
years OF age, when, disguised at the pres
! ence Of two warts, took red-hot irol
D and burned them of and burned then
5 out. Since then my body has changes
. ut least half-dozen times, but thos
4 scars prove II Is the same body. An
: we never lose our identity. II God ca
: and does sometimes rebuild man Ave
y six, ten times, In this world, is 1t my'
s sterious that he can rebuild him ono
Q more, and that in the resurrectionP
n he can do II ten times, / think He ca
s do Il eleven times Then look at th
seventeen-year locusts. For seventee
u years gone, at the end Of seventee
y years they appear, and by rubbing th
d hind leg against the wind make this
d rattle at which all the husbandmen an
p vine dressers tremble as the insectil
k host takes up the march Of devastation
/ Resurrection every seventeen yearsl
o Another consideration makes the idt
l. OF resurrection easier. God made Adan
!. He was not fashioned after any mode
y There had never been human orga
!. ism, and 80 there was nothing to cop
10 At the first attempt God made perfe
10 man. He made him out Of the dust
{. the earth. II out Of ordinary dust OF u
r earth and without model God cou
o mako o perfect man, surely out
l. the extraordinary dust Of the mort
" body, and with millions Of models, G'
!" can make each one Of Us q perfect bell
IL in tho Resurrection. Surely the Ia
Or undertaking would not be greater th'
rs the FIRST See the gospel algebra: orr
a. nary dust minus model equals perfe
Of man; extraordinary dust and plus
or model equals resurrection bod
10 Mysteries about it2 o yes; that Is o
,g reason why / believe 1t. 1t would n
or be much OF God who could do thin
IL only as far as can understand. M,
n, teries9 o yesj but no more about I
no resurrection OF your body than abc
Oh Its present existence. ] will explain
An you the last mystery Of the resurrectic
pc and mako II as plain TO you as that T.
he and two make four, II you will tell !
nd how your mind, which is entirely inc
h pendent OF your body, can act upon 20
III body so that at your will your ey
at open, or your foot walks, or your ha
au q. a-S ~o4htu. L. .