The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-07

tinel And in such a garden Jesus Christ
slept after. on the soldiers spear. his last
drop of blood had c7agulated. And then
see how appropriate that all our cemeteries
should be iioralizsd and tree-shaded. In
June, Greenwood is Brooklyn's garden.
swell hen," YOU say, chow can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beautify the cemeteriesi viii it not leave
them a plowed-up grounda 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
CharleyF" Well, win tell you how
resurrection day will beautify all the
Genet ries. 1t will be by bringing up the
faces that were to US once, and in our mem
ories are to us now, more beauti-
full than any Gala lily, and the
forms that are to US more graceful than
any willow by the waters Can YOU think
of anything more beautiful than the reap
pearance of those from whom we have been
partedf l do not care which way the tree
falls in the blast of the Judgment hurri-
cane, or if the ploughshare that day shall
turn under the last rose leaf aud the last
china aster, if out of the broken sod shall
come the bodies of our loved ones not dam
aged, but irradiated. The idea of the resur-
rection gets easier to understand as | hear
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, the very cough, the very
song, of the person that breathed into it
once, but is now departed. Il a man can
do that, cannot Almighty God, without
half trying, return tho voice of your de-
parted9 And if he can return the voice,
why not the lips and the tongue and the
throat that fashioned the voices And if
not then the brain that suggested the
wordsl And if the brain, why not the
nerves, of which the brain is the head
quartersl And il he can return the
nerves, why not the muscles, which
are less ingenious9 Aud IL the
muscles, why not the bones, that are less
wonderfula And if the voice and the brain
and the muscles and the bones, why not the
entire bodyl If man can do the phono-
graph, Gcd can do the resurrection. win
it be the same body that In tho last day
shall be reanimated2 Yes, but Infinitely
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 a scar
made that at twelve years Of age, when,
disgusted at the presence OF two warts,
| took n red-hot iron and burned
them off, and burned them out.
Since then my body has changed at
least 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 a man five. six, ten
times in this world, is it mysterious that he
can rebuild him once more, and that in the
resurrection? II he can do it ten times,
think he can do 1t eleven times. Then look
at the seyenteen-year locnsts. For seven
teen years gone, at the end of sevelteer
years they appear. aud by rubbing he hind
leg against the wing mako that rattle al
which all the husbandmen and viae-dresseri
tremble as the insectiie host takes up the
march of devastation. Resurrection every
Sc enteen years!
Another consideration makes the idea o.
resurrection easier. God made Adam. He
was not fashioned after any model. There
had never been human organism, and SO
there was nothing to copy. At the first
attempt God made perfect mal. He
made him out of the dust of the earth. Ii
out OF ordinary dust of ths earth and with
out model God could make 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
undertaking would nos DO greater
than the first. See the gospel
algebra ordinary dust minus q
model equals perfect ma1; extraordinary
dust and plus model equals a resurrection
body. Mysteries about it! o, yes; that is
one reason why believe it. l5 would not
be much OF God who could do taings
only as far as | can understand. Mysteries
o, yes; but no more about the resurrection
Of your body than about its present exist
ence. | will explain to you the last mys.
terry of the resurrection, and make it as
plain to you as that two and two make
four, if you will tell me how your mind,
which is entirely independeat of your body,
can act upon your body 50 that at your
will your eyes open, or your foot
walks, or your hand is extended. So
find nothing in the Bible statement
concerning the resurrec ion that stakgers
me for moment. All doubts clear from
my mind, / say that the cemeteries, how.
ever beautiful now, will be more beautiful
when the bodies of our loved ones come up.
They will come in improved condition
They will como up rested. The most OF
them lay down at the last very tired. How
often have you heard them say, 81 am SC
tiredw The fact is, it Is tired world. II
l should go through this audience, and go
round tue world | could not find person
III hll SbJ1D RA lAAO ABAApi Va tAiS NCunAeACh
Of fatigue do not believe there are fifty
persons in this audience who are not tired
Your head is tired, or your back is tired,
or your foot is tired, or your brain is tired, or
your nerves are tired. Long jourGeying, or
business application, or bereavement, or
sickness have put on you heavy weights.
So the vast majority Of those who went out
Of this world went out fatigued. About
the poorest placo to rest in is this world.
Its atmosphere, its surroundings, and even
its hilarities are exnausting. 80 God stops
our earthly life, and mercifully closes the
eyes, aud quiets the feet, and folds the
hands, and more especially gives quiescencs
to the lungs a I'd heart, chat have not had
ten minutes rest from tbs first respiration
and the first beat. If drummer boy we're
compelled in the army TO beat his drum for
twenty-four hours without stopping, his
officer would be court-martialed for
cruelty. If the drummer boy Ghouli
be commanded to beat bis drum
for week without ceasing, day
and night, he would die in attempt
ing it. But under your vestment is poor
heart that began its drum-beat for the
marca of life thirty or forty or sixty OF
eighty years ago. and it has had no fur
lough by dag or night; and. whether IL
conscious or comatose state, it went right
on, for If it had stopped seven seconds your
life would have closed. Aud your hear
will keep going until some time after your
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