Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-10

or the departed. 1t may nave Deen euS-
gested by the fact that Christ's tomb
was in q garden. And when say garden
do not mean a garden of these lati-
tudes. The late frosts OF spring and the
early frosts of autumn are so near TO
each other that there are only a few
months of flowers in the field. All the
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 conservato-
ries. 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 indigenous TO the
far North. and others indigenous to the
far South-the daisy and hyarinth, crocus
and anemone, tulip and water-lily ger
auium and rauunculus, mignouette and
sweet marjoram. In the college at Bey-
rout you may see DR.. Post s collection
of about 1900 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 aud sycamore. If
such floral and botanical beauties are
the wild growths OF the fields, think Of
what a garden must be IN Palestine!
And in such a garden Jesus Christ slept
after, on the soldiers spear, His last
drop of blood had coaguleted. And then
see how appropriate that all our ceme-
teres should be fOraIized and tree
shaded. In June, Greenwood is Brook
lyn s garden.
"Well, then, ," you say, Chow can
you make out that the resurrection day
will beautify the cemeteries? Will it not
leave them ploughed-up ground? On
that day there Will be an earthquake,
and viii not this split the polished Aber-
deem granite as well as the plain slab
that can afford but the two words, 'Our
Mary, or 'Our Charley?''' Well, l will
tell you how resurrection day will beau
tifY 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 foru.s that are to us more graceful
than any willow by the waters. Can
you think of anything more beautiful
than the temperance of those from
whom we have been parted? l do not
care which way the tree falls III the
BLAST OF THE JUDGMENT HURRICANE,
or if the pIOughshare 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 under
some voice that talked into it or sung
into it q year ago, just before our
friend s deCease. You turn the wire,
aud then comes forth the very tones. the
very aCCentuatiOn, the very cough, the
very song of the person that breathed
into it once, but is now departed. If a
man can do that, cannot Almighty God,
without half trying, return 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
not the nerves, of which the brain is the
headquarters? And if He can return the
nerves, why not the muscles, which are
less ingenious? And if the muscles, why
not the bones, that are less wonderful?
And if the voice and the brain and the
muscles and the bones, why not the en-
tire body? If man can do the phono-
graph, God can do the resurrection.
VIII it be the same body that in the last
day shall be terminated? Yes, but in
finitely improved Our bodies change
every seven years, and yet, in one sense,
it is the same body. On my wrist aud
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, took a red-hot
iron and burned them off, and burned
them out. Since then my body has
changed at least half dozen times, but
those sears prove it is the same body.
And we never lose our identity. If God
can and does sometimes rebuild q man
five, six, ten times, in this world, is it
mysterious that He can rebuild him once
more, and that in the resurrection? If
He can do it ten times, l think He can
do il 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 husbandmeu and vine
dTeSsers tremble as the iusectile host
takes up the march of devastation. Res
direction 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
a human organism, and SO there was
nothing to copy. At the first attempt
God made perfect man. ne made him
out Of the dust of the earth. If out of
ordinary dust of the earth and without
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 a
perfect beng in the resurrection. Surely
the last undertaking would not he greater
than the first. See the gospel algebra:
Ordinary dust minus model equals
perfect man; extraordinary dust and
plus model equals resurrec-
tlon body. Mysteries about it?
Oh, yes; that is one reason why l
believe it. It would not he much OF a
God who can do things only as far as
can understand. Mysteries? Oh yes;
but no more about the resurrection Of
yonr body than about il, present exist
ence. l Will explain to you the last mys-
terry OF the resurrection, and make il as
plain to you as that two and two make