Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-07

come. If 1t should be winter, those who come
mn win be more lustrous than the snow that
covered them. II in the autumn, those who
come up will be more gorgeous than the woods
after the frosts have penciled them. II in the
soring. the bloom on which they tread Will
be dull compared with the rubieund OF their
cheeks Oh, the perfect resurrection bodyl
Almost every one has some defective spot in
his physical constitution; duh ear, or a aim
eve, or a rheumatic foot, or neuralgia brow,
or a twisted muscle or q weak side, or an In
famed tonsil or some point at which the east
wind OF a season of overwork assaults Elm.
But the resurrection body shall be without
one weak spot, and all that the doctors and
nurses and apothecaries of earth will there
after have to do will be to rest without inter
ruption after the broken nights of their
earthly existence Not only will that day be
the Qualification of well kept cemeteries, but
some of the grayeyards that have been reg
lected, and been the pasture ground for cattle
and roofing places for swine, will for the
first time have attractiveness given them,
1t was a shame that in that place migrate
full generations planted no trees, and twisted
no garIands, and sculptured no marble for
their Christian ancestry; but on the day of
which speak the resurfected shall make the
place of their feet glorious. From under the
shadow Of the church, where they slumbered
among netties and mullen stalks and thistles
and slabs aslant, they shall rise with glory
that shall flash the windows Of tbs village
church, and by the bell tower that used to call
them to worship, and above the old spire be-
side which their prayers formerly assembled.
What triumphal procession never did for
street, what an oratorio never did for an
academy, what an orator never did for
brilliant auditory, what obelisk never did for
q king, resurrection morn will do for all the
cemeteries.
HE IS RISEN INDEED.
This Easter tells us that in Christ's resuP-
rection our resurrection, if we are his, and
the resurrection of all the pious dead, is as
sured, 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 Christ's 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 mani Blessed be
God! He did get away. After his resurrep-
ton Mary Magdalene saw him. Cleopas saw
him. Ten disciples in an upper room at Jeru-
salem saw him, On mountain the eleven
saw him Five hundred at once saw him,
Professor Ernest Renan, who did not see him,
will excuse us for taking the testimony of the
five hundred and eighty who did see him,
Yes, yes; he got away. And that makes me
sure that our departed loved ones and we
ourselves shall get away. Freed himself
from the shackes of clod, he is not going to
leave us and ours in the lurch
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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 morning!
You have slept long enoughi Arisel Arise!"
And then what futter of wings, and what
flashing of rellindled eyes, and what glad
some rushing across the family lot, with cries
of "Father, is that youl" Mother, is that
youP my darling, is that your "How
you all have changed! The cough gone, the
Group gone, the consumption gone, the par
alysis gone, the WEAKNESS gone. Come, let
us ascend together The older ones first, the
younger ones next! Quick now, get into
line! The skyward procession has already
startedl Steer now by that embankment Of
cloud for the nearest gatel" And, as we as
cend, on one side the earth gets smaller until
until it is no larger than palace, and smaller
until it is no larger than q snip, and smaller
until it is no larger than wheel, and smaller
until it is no larger than a speck.
Farewell dissolving earthl But on the
other side, as we rise, heaven at first appears
no larger than your hand. And nearer it
looks like a chariot, and nearer 1t looks like
throne, and nearer it looks like star, and
nearer it looks like a sun, and nearer it looks
like universe. Hail, scepters that shall al
ways wavel Hail, anthems that shall always
ROLL Hail, companionships never again to be
broken, and friendships never again to part
That is what resurrection day will do for all
the cemeteries and graveyards from the
Machpelah that was opened by Father Abra-
ham in Hebron to the Machpelah yesterday
consecrated. And that makes Lady Hunting
toms immortal rhythm most opposite:
When thou, my righteous judge, shalt come
To take thy ransomed people home,
Shall among them standY
Shall such worthless worm as |,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right handF
Among thy saints let me be found,
Whene'er tn archangels trump shall sound;
To see thy smiling face;
Then loudest of the throng I'll sing,
While heavens resounding arches ring,
With shouts of sovereign grace.
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