The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-04-24

sectile host takes up the march of devasta-
ton. Resurrection every seventeen years!
Another consideration makes the idea OF
resurrection easier. God made Adam. He
was not fashioned after any model. There
had never been human organism, and so
there was nothing to copy At the first at
tempt God made perfect man. He made
him out of the dust OF the earth. 1t out o.
| ordinary dust of the earth and without
model God could make perfect man. surely
out of the extraordinary dust of the mortal
body, and with millions of models, Col can
make each one of us o perfect being in thu
resurrection. Surely the last under
taking would not be greater than the trst.
See the gospel algebra: ordinary dust minus
a model equals perfect man; extraordinary
dust and plus model equals resurrection
body. Mysteries about it? On, yes; that is
one reason why believe it. 1t would notb
much of God who could do things only as
far as can understand. Mysteries: On,
| yes: but no more about the resurrection OF
your body than about its present existence.
will explain to YOU the last mystery ot
the resurrection, and make it as plain to You
as that two and two make four, If you Will
tell me how your mind, which is entirely In
dependent of your body, can act upon your
body so that at your will your eyes open, or
| your foot walks, or your hand is extended.
So find nothing in the Bible statement con-
, cerninG the resurrection that staGgers me To-,
a moment. All doubts clear from my mind.
say that the cemeteries. however beautiful
/ now, will be more beautiful when the bodies
of our loved ones come up.
They will come in improved condition
They will come up rested. The most OF them
lay down at the last very tired. How often
! YOU have heard them say: 81 am so tired"
The fact is it is tired world. If should go
through this audience aud so round the
world, I could not find person IN any style
of life ignorant of the sensation OF fatigue;
do not believe there are fifty persons i'll this
audience who are not tired. Your head is
tired. or your back is tired. or your foot is
tired, or your brain is tired,
or your nerves are tired Long jour-
neying, or business application, or
bereavement or sickness have put OIL you
heavy weights So the vast majority of
those who went out of this world went out
| fatigued. About the poorest place to rest
| in is this world. Its atmosphere, its sur
rouudings and even its hilarities are ex-
hausting. So God stops our earthly life, aud
mercifully closes the eyes, and qu'ets the
! feet, and folds the hands, ard more especially
gives Quiescence to the lungs and heart tlat
have not had ten minutes rest from the first
respiration and the first beat.
If drummer boy were compelled in the
army to beat his drum for twenty-four iiours
without stopping, his officer would be court
martialed for cruelty. If the drummer BOY
should be commanded to beat his drum for
week without ceasing, day and night, hs
would die in attempting it. But under your
vestment is a poor heart that began its drum
beat for the march of life thirty or forty or
sixty or eighty years ago, and it has had no
furlough by day or night; and, whether Id
conscious or comatose state, it went right on,
for if it had stopped seven seconds your life
would have closed. And your heart will keep
going until some time after your spirit has
| flown. for the auscultator says that after the
last expiration of lung and Che last throb OF
pulse, and after the spirit is released, the
heart keeps on beating for a time What
mercy then it is that the grave is the place
where that wohIrous machinery OF ventrlcle
and artery can halt!
! Under the healthful chemistry Of the soil
/ all the wear and tear OF nerve and muscle
and bone will be subtracted and that bath Of
! good, fresh, clean soil will wash OF the last
! ache, and then some of the same style OF
dust out of which the body OF Adam was
constructed may be infused into the resur-
| rection body. How can the bodies OF the
human race, which have had no replenlsh-
ment from the dust since the time OF Adam
! in paradise get any recuperation from the
| store. house from which he was constructed
without our going back into the dust? That
, original, life-glving material having been
added to the body as it once was, and all the
defects left behind, what body will be the
resurrection body! And will not hundreds
/ of thousands of such appearing above tho
| Gowanus heights make Greenwood mora
| beautiful than any June morning after q
shower?
The dust of the earth being the original
material for the fashioning of the first human
being we have to go back to the same place
to get a perfect body. Factories are apt to
| be rough places, and those who toll IN thcm
have their garments grimy and their hands
smutched. But who carec for that. when
they turn out for us beautiful musical lnstru-
ments or exquisite upholstery! Wnat though
| the grave is a rough place, it is a resurrec.
| tion body mandatory, and from it shall
come the radiant and respondent forms OF
1 our friends on the brightest morning the
world saw ever. You put into factory cot
| ton, and it comes out apparel. You pus INTO
| q factory lumber and lead, and it comes out
! pianos and organs. And SO into the factory
| of the grave you put in pneumonias and con
sumptions, and they come out heatta. 1oa
put in groans and they come out halle!uJahs.
| For us, on the final day, the most attractive
places will not be the parks or ths gardens Or
tho palaces but the cemeteries.
We are not told in What sea5ol TINT dly
will come If it shoald bs winter, Those who
come up will be m ore lustrous than the SLOW
/ that covered them. If il the autumn, those
who come up will be more gorgeous than tae
woods after the froStS have p4nc!let them.
| If in the soriag the bloom Oh wlich they
tread will be dull coal2lrad with the ruoi-
cund of their cheeks. Oh the perfect resur-
rection body! Almost every ole has sone
defective spot in his physical Constitution;
! dull ear, or din eye, or arheauatic foos,
, or a neuralgia brow, o: n twist,1 mlscle, or
. @ weak side, or an inaanel toIsil, or so11e
point at which the east win1 or
season Of overwork assaults him. BIT
tho resurrection boly shall b, without
one weak spot, and all that the doctors an
nurses and apothecarieS Of earth will there
after have to do will BE- to rest without inter-
ruption after the broken nights of their eartn-
ly existence. Not only will that day bs the
Qualification of we'll kept cemeteries, but
some of the graveyardS that have been neg
lected, and been the pasture ground for cat
tie and roofing places for swine. will for tha
first time have attractiveness given them.
1t was shame that in that place ungrata-
full generations planted no trees, and twiste!
no garlands, and sculptured no marble for
their Christian ancestry; but on the day OF
which l speak the resurrected shall make
the place Of their feet glorious. From
I under the SHADOW OF the churcn, where
they slumbered among nett.es and
mullen stalks and thistles, and slabs
aslant, they shall rise with glory that shall
flash the windows of the village church, and
by the bell tower t,iat used to call them to
worship. and above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly assembled.
What triumpial procession never did for a
street, what an oratorio never did for an
&C ldemy, what an orator never did for
brilliant auditory. what obelisk never did
for King resurrection morn will do for all
the cemeteries.
This Easter tells us that in Christ's resur-