Connecticut western news., 1890-04-09

pOOIcSC pldCc CO rest III IS tulS WOrlu. Its atmosphere, its surroundings, and even its hilarities are exhausting. So God stops our earthly life, and merci- fully closes the eyes, and quiets the feet, and folds the hands, and more especially gives quiescence to the lung and heart, that have not had ten min utes' rest from the first respiration and the first beat.
 If drummer boy were compelled in the army to beat his drum for twen- ty-four hours without stopping, his officer would be court martialed for cruelty. If the drummer boy should be commanded to beat his drum for a week without ceasing, day and night, he would die in attempting it But under your vestment is poor heart that began it's 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 in con scious 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 the last throb of pulse, and after the spirit is released, the heart keeps on beating for time. What a mercy then it is that the grave is the place where that wondrous ma chinery of ventricle and artery can halt!
 Under the healthful chemistry of the soil all the wear and tear of nerve and muscle and bone will be sub- tracted and that bath of good, fresh, clean soil will wash off 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 replenishment 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 dust9 That original, life giving material having been added to the body as it once was, and all the defects left be- hind, what body will be the resur- rection body! And will not hundreds of thousands of such appearing above the Gowanus heights make Green wood more beautiful than any June morning after shower2
 The dust of the earth being the origi- nal material for the fashioning of the first human being, we have 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 a rough place, it is resurrection body manufactory, and from it shall come the radiant and resplendent forms of our friends on the brightest morning the world saw ever You put into a l factory cotton, and it comes out ap- parel. You put into factory lumber l 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 health. You put in groans and they come out halle1ujahs. For us, on the final day, the most attractive places will not be the parks or the gardens or the pal aces, but the cemeteries.
 THE BEAUTIES OF THE RISEN.
 We are not told in what season that day will come. If it should be win ter, those who come up will be more lustrous than the snow that covered them. If in the autumn, those who come up will be more gorgeous than the woods after the frosts have pen ciled them. If in the spring, the bloom on which they tread will be dull compared with the rubicund of their cheeks Oh the perfect resurrec- tion body! Almost every one has some defective spot in his physical constitution: dull ear, or dim eye, or a rheumatic foot, or a neuralgia brow, or a twisted muscle, or weak side, or an inf1amed tonsil, or some point at which the east wind or sea- son of overwork assaults him. But the resurrection body shall be without one weak spot, and all that the doc tors and nurses and apothecaries of earth will thereafter have to do will be to rest without interruption after the broken nights of their earthly ex- istence. Not only will that day be the Justification of we'll kept cemeteries, but some of the graveyards that have been neglected, and been the pasture ground for cattle and roofing places for swine, will for the first time have attractiveness given them.
 It was shame that in that place un. grateRul generations planted no trees, and twisted no garlands, and sculp- tured no marble for their Christian ancestry; but on the day of which I speak the resurrected shall make the place of their feet glorious. From un- der the shadow of the church, where they slumbered among nettles and mullen stalks and thistles. and slabs aslant, they shall rise with glory that shall flash the windows of the viii lage church, and by the bell tower that used to call them to worship, and above the old spire beside which their prayers formerly ascended. What tri- umphal procession never did for a sticet, what an oratorio never did for an academy, what an orator never did for brilliant auditory, what obelisk never did for a king, resurrection morn will do for all the cemeteries. FIVE HUNDRED SAW HIM AT ONCE.
 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 five hundred and eighty witnesses, sixty of them Christs enemies, say he did rise, for they saw him after he had risen. If
 he did not rise, how did sixty armed soldiers let him get away9 Surely sixty living soldiers ought to be able
 to keep one dead man! Blessed be God he did get away. After his resur-
 rection Mary Magdalene saw him. Cleopas saw him. Ten disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem saw him. On mountain the eleven saw him. Five hundred at once saw him. Professor
 Ernest Renan, who did not see him,