Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-04-11

tamarisk OF the tropics, walnut and willow,
ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder, pine and
sycamore. If such floral and botanical beau
ties are the wild growths of the fields, 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
aud tree shaded In June, Greenwood is
Brooklyn's garden.
THE RESURRECTION IDEA.
well, them you say, chow can you make
out that the Resurrection day will beautify
the cemeteriesl win it not leave them
plowed up groundl On that day there will
he 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 Charleyfn Well, will tell
you how Resurrection day will beautfy all
the cemeteries. 1t will be by bringing up the
faces that were to US once, and in our memoir
les are 10 US now. more beautiful than any
Gala lily. and the forms that are TO ais more
graceful thnn any willow by the waters. Can
you think of anything more beautiful than
the reappearance Of those from whom we
have been partedl / do not care which way
the tree falls in the blast of the Judgment
hurricane, or if the powshure 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 dam
aged, but irradiated.
The idea of the resurrection gets easier to
understand as | hear the phonograph unroll
some voice that talked into it or sung into it
a year ago just before our friends decease.
You turn the wire, and then come forth the
cough, the very song of the person that
breathed into it once, but is now departed
If man can do that, cannot Almighty God,
without lIAf 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 voiccs And if the
lips and the tongue and the throat why not
then the brain that suggested the wordsi
And ii the brain, why not the nerves. of
which the brain is the headquarters, And
if he can return the nerves, why not the
muscles, which are less iugenousl And if
the muscles, why not Tie bones, that are less
wonderful? And if the voice and the brain
and the muscles and the bones, why not tho
entire bodyi If man can do the photograph,
God can do the resurrection Will it be the
same body that in the last day shall he reani.
| matsd9 Yes, but infinitely improved
Our bodies change every seven years, and
yet, in one sense, It is the same body. On my
wrs, and the second ginger Of my right hand
there Is a scar | made that at - years of
age, when, disguised at the presence OF two
warts, | took a red hot iron and burned them
Off and burned thcm out. Since then my
body has changed q, least a halt dozen times,
but those scars prove it is he same body.
And we never lose our identity. ii God can
=,
ten times in this world, is it mysterious that
he can rebuild him once moro, and that in
the resurrectionf If he can do il ten times, |
think he can do it eleven times. Then look
AT the seventeen year lccustS. 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 husbundmen and vine dreSsers tremble
as the insectlla host takes up the march of
devastation Resurrection every seventeen
years
THE GOSPEL ALGERIA.
Another consideration makes the idea OF
resurrection easier. God made Adam. lie
/ was not fashioned after any model. There
/ had never been a human organism, and SO
there was nothing to copy At the first at
/ tempt God made perfect man. lie made
/ him out of the dust of the earth. If out of
/ uIulndTN uuSu OF lut edlln ana without q
| 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 a perfect being in the
resurrection. Surely the last Undertaking
would not be greater thsn the first. Sec the
gospel algebra; ordinary dust minus model
equals perfect man; extraordinary dust
| and plus model equals resurrection body.
Mysteries about it. On yes; that is one rea-
| son why | believe 1t. 1t would not be much
of a God who could do things only as far as [
can understand. Mysteres' Oh yes; but no
more about the resurrection of your body
! than about its present existence.
| will explain to you the last mystery 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 in
dependent of your body, can act upon your
body SO that at your will your eyes open,
or your foot walks, your hand is extended
| SO find nothing in the Bible statement con-
corning the resurrection that staggers me for
n moment. All doubts clear from my mind
] say that the cemeteries, however beautiful
now, will be more beautiful when the bodies
! of our loved ones come up.
THE REST OF THE GRAVE
They will come in improved condition
iIty VIII NpuIc up icsttN ihc lIlOSt VI litul
| lay down at the last very tired. How often
you have heard them say, II am so tlredI"
| The fact is, it is a tired world. If | should
| go through this audience, and go round the
world, could not find person in any style
of life ignorant Of the sensation 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, your brain is tired, or your nerves
are tired. Long journeying, or business up
plication or bereavement, or sickness have
put on you heavy weights. So the vast ma
| jority of those who went out of this world
went out fatigued. About the poorest place
10 rest in is this world. Its atmosphere its
! surroundings, and even its hilarities are eS-
hausting. So God stops our earthly life, and
mercifully closes the eyes and quiets the feet,
aud folds the hands, and more especially
gives quiescence to the lung and heart, that
have not had ten minutes rest from the first
respiration and the first beat.
If a drummer boy were compelled in the
army to beat his drum for twenty four hours
without stopping, his officer would be court
martaled for cruelty. If tine drummer boy