The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-12

flowers we see to-day had to be petted
and coaxed, and put under shelter or
they would not have bloomed at all.
They are the children of the
Conservatives. But at this seas on,
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 indigenous to the far North,
and others indigenous to the far South
the daisy and hyacinth, crocus and
anemone, tulip and 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 chimes
and the tamarisk of the tropics,
walnut and willow, ivy and hawthorn,
ash and elder, pine and sycamore. If
such floral and botanical beauties are
the wild growths of the field, think of
what garden must be in Palestine!
And in such garden Jesus Christ slept
after, on the soldiers spear, His last
drop of blood had coagulated. And
then see how appropriate that all
our cemeteries should be fioralized and
tree-shaded. In June, Greenwood is
Brooklyn's garden.
well, then, you say, show can you
make out that the Resurrection Day
will beautify the cemeteries? Will it
not leave them a plowed-up ground?
On that day there will be an earthquake,
and will not this split the polished
Aberdeen granite, as well as the plain
slab that can afford but the two words,
Our Mary or Our Charley?" 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 beau
tiful than the temperance of those
from whom we have been parted? do
not care which way the tree falls in the
blast of the Judgment hurricane, or if
the plowshare that day shall turn under
the last rose leaf and the last china
aster, if out of the broken sod shall
come the bodies of our loved ones not
damaged, but irradiated.
The idea of the resurrection gets
easier to understand as / hear the
monograph unroll some voice that
talked into it or sung into it year ago,
just before our friends decease. You
turn the wire, and then come forth the
very tones, the very accentuation, tho
very cough, the very song of the person
that breathed into it once, but is now
departed. If man can do that, can not
Almighty God, without half trying, re-
turn the voice of your departed? And if
He can return the voice, why not the
lips and the tongue and the throat that
fashioned the voice? And if the lips
and the tongue and the throat, why not
then, the brain that suggested
the words? And if the brain, why
not the nerves, of which the brain is
the headquarters? And lille can return
the nerves, why not the muscles, which
are less ingenious? And if the muscles,
why not the bones, that are less wonder
ful? And if the voice and the brain aud
the muscles and the bones, why not the
entire body? If man can do the phono-
graph, God can do the resurrection.
Will it be the same body that in the
last day shall be terminated? Yes, but
infinitely improved. Our bodies change
every seven years, and yet in one
sense, it is the same body. On my wrist
and the second finger of my right hand
there is scar. made that at twelve
years of age, when, disguised at
the presence of two warts, l
took red hot iron and burned
them off, and burned them out.
Since then my body has been changed
at least a half-dozen times, but those
scars prove it is the same body. And
we never lose our identity. If God can
and does sometimes rebuild man five,
six, ten times, in this world, is it mys-
FERROUS that He can rebuild him ohce
more, and that in the resurrection? II
He can do it ten times, | think He can
do it eleven times. Then look at the
seventeen-year locusts. For seventeen
years gone; at the end of seventeen
years they appear, and by rubbing the
hind leg against the wing make that
rattle, at which all the husbandmen and
Vine-dressers remble as the insectile
host takes up the march of devastation.
Resurrection every seventeen years.
Another consid Grafton makes the idea
of resurrection easier. God made Adam
He was not fashioned after any model.
There had never been human organ
ism, and SO there was nothing to copy.
AT the first attempt God made perfect
man. He made him out of the dust of
the earth. If out of ordinary dust OF
the earth and without a model God
could make a perfect man, surely out of
the extraordinary dust of the mortal
body, and with millions of models, God
can make each one of US perfect being
in the resurrection. Surely the last I'M
der taking would not be greater than
the first.
See the Gospel algebra: ordinary dust
minus model equals perfect man;
extraordi nary dust and plus a model
equals resurrection body. Mysteries
about it? Oh. yes: that ia ono raaron