Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-04-10

What mercy, then, II Is that the grave
is the place where that wondrous ma
chinery Of ventricle and artery can
halt2
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 resurrection body. How
can the bodies of the human race, which
have had no replonishment 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 giving material having
been added to the body as it once was,
and all the defects left behind, what q
body will be the resurrection bodyl And
will not hundreds Of thousands of such
appearing above the Gowanus heights
make Greenwood more beautiful than
any June morning after shower2 The
dust of the earth being the original
material for the fashioning of the first
human being, we nave to go back to the
same place to get perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them have their
garments grimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that,
when they turn out for us beautiful
musical instruments or exquisite up
holstery? What though the grave is
rough place, 1t is resurrection body
manufactory, and from it shall come the
radiant and resplendent forms of our
frianAo k-s~ A.
world ever saw. You put into a factory
cotton. and it comes out apparel. You
put into factory lumber and lead, and
1t comes out pianos and organs. And
so into the factory of the grave you put
In pneumonias and consumptions, and
they come out health. You put in
groans, and they come out hallelujahs.
For us, on the final day, the most at
tractive places will not be the parks or
the gardens or the palaces, but the
cemeteries.
This Easter tells us that in Christ's
resurrection our resurrection, if we are
his, and the resurrection of all the
pious dead, is assured, for he was "the
first fruits of them that slept" Renan
says he did not rise, but $50 witnesses,
sixty of them Christ's enemies, say he
did rise, for they saw him after he lad
risen. If he did not rise, how did sixty
armed soldiers let him get away? Surely
sixty living soldiers ought to be able to
keep one dead mani Blessed be
God. He did get away. After his res
direction Mary Magdelene saw him.
Cleopas saw him. Ten disciples in an
upper room at Jerusalem saw him. Five
hundred at once saw him. Prof. Ernest
Renan, who did not see him, will excuse
us for taking the testimony of the $50
who did see him. Yes. yes; he got
away. And that makes me sure that our
departed loved ones shall get away.
Freed himself from the shackles of
clod, he is not going to leave us and
ours in the lurch.
There will be no DOOR knob on the
inside of our family sepulcher, for we
cannot come out, of ourselves; but there
is door knob on the outside, and that
Jesus shall lay hold of, and, opening,
will say: Good morningl You have
slept long enoughi Arise! Arise!" And
then what futter of wings, and what
flashing of rekindled eyes, and what
gladstone rushing across the family lot
with cries of Father, is that you?"
Mother, is that you2" My darling, is
that you?" How you all have changed!
The cough gone, the Group gone, the
consumption gone, the paralysis gone,
the weariness gone. Come, let us as
cend togetheri The older ones first,
the younger ones next! Quick now, get
into line! The skyward procession has
already started! Steer now by that en-
bankment of cloud for the nearest gate?"
And, as we ascend, on one side the earth
gets smaller until it is no larger than
and smaller until it is NO
larger than q palace, and smaller until
it is no larger than ship, and smaller
until it is no larger than wheel, and
smaller until it is no larger than
speck.
Farewell, dissolving earth! But on
the other side, as we rise, heaven at first
appears no larger than your hand. And
nearer it looks like q chariot, and nearer
it looks like a throne, and nearer it
looks like star, and nearer it looks
like sun, and nearer it looks like uni
verse. Hail, scepters that shall always
wave! Hail, anthems that shall always
roll! Hail, companionships never again
to be broken. and friendships never
again to part! That is what resur-
rection day will do for all the cemeter-
les and graveyards from the Machpelah
that was opened by Father Abraham in
Hebron to the Machpelah yesterday con-
secrated.