The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-04-23


tiguec. About the poorest place to -est
in is this world. Its atmosphere, it's
surroundings, and even its hilaritics are
exhausting. So God stops our earthly
life, and mercifully closes the eyes. and
quiets the feet, and folds the hands. and
more especially gives quiescence to the
lung and heart, that have not had ten
minutes rest since the first respiration
and the arst beat. adrummer-boy were
compelled in the army to beat his drum
for twenty -four hours without stop
ping. his officer would DO court-martialed
for cruelty. II the drummer-boy should
DO commanded to beat his drum for
week without ceasing, day and night, no
would die in attempting 1t.
But under your vestment is a poor
heart that began its drum-beat for the
march OF life thirty, or forty, or sixty,
or eighty years ago, and has had no fur
Tough by day or night, and. whether in
conscious or comatose state, it went
right on, for II it had stopped seven
seconds your life would have closed.
And your heart will keep going until
some time after your spirit has flown,
for the ausculat0r says that after tho
last expiration Of lung and the last
throb Of pulse, and after tho spirit is re-
leased, the heart keeps. on beating for
a time. What mercy. then, it is
that the grave is tho place where that
wondrous machinery of ventricle and
artery can halt! Under the healthful
chemistry Of the soil all the wear and
tear of nerve and muscle and Zone Will
be subtracted and that bath OF good,
fresh. clean soil will wash of the last
ache, and then some Of the same style
Of dust out Of which the body of Adam
was constructed may DO infused into the
resurrection body. How can the bodies
Of the human race, which have had no
| replenishment from the dust since the
time of Adam in paradise, get any re-
cuperation from, the store-house from
which he was constructed without our
1 going back into the dust? 4 ~ &Ai9S q
That original, life-giving material
having been added to the body Is 1t once
was, and all the defects left behind,
! what body will be the resurrection
body!W And will not hundreds Of thou
sands Of such appearing above the Cow.
anus Heights make Greenwood more
beautiful than any June morning after
q shower? The dust of the earth being
the original material for the fashioning
4 1.-THE first human being, we have to go
back to the same place to get perfect
body. Factories are apt to be rough
places, and those who toll in them have
their garments grimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that when
they turn out for us beautiful musical
instruments or exquisite upholstery
What though the grave is rough place,
it is resurrection-body mandatory,
and from 1t shall come the radiant and
Respondent forms of our friends ON the
brightest morning the world ever saw.
You put into factory cotton, and ii
comes out apparel You put into fac
tory lumber and lead, and it comes out
pianos and organs. And so into the fac
tory of the grave you put in pneumonias
and consnmptions and they come out
health. You put in groans, and they
come out hallelujahs. For us, on the
final day, the most attractive places
will not be parks, or the gardens, or the
palaces, but the cemeteries. 9
We are not told in what season that
day will come. If it should be winter
those who come up will be more hlstrous
than the snow that covered them If in
| thA a,,tn n ~
more gorgeous than the weods after the
frosts have pencilcd them. If in the
spring, the bloom on which they tread
will be dull compared with the rubicund
of their checks. Oh, the perfect resur
rcction body! Almost every one has
some defective spot in his physical con
stitution: q dull ear, or dim eye, or 6
rheumatic foot or neuralgia brow, Of
o twisted muscle, or a weak side or ar
{ inflamed tonsil, or some point at which
, the east wind or q season of Overworl
assaults him. But the resurrection
:. body shall be without one weak spot
, and all that the doctors and nurses anC
apothecaries of earth will thereafter
have to do will be to rest without inter
ruption after the broken nights o
their earthly existence Net onl,
will that day be the identification
of well kept cemeteries, but sons of thu
grave yards that have been neglected
and been the pasture ground for cattle
and roofing places for swine, will TO
tho FIRST time have attractiveness giveI
. them. 1t was a shame that in tina
, place ungrateful generations planted nj
= tree and twisted no garlands, and sculp
tured no marble for their Christian an
!, cestry; but on the day of which speal
the resurrected shall make the place o
. their feet glorious. From under tn
. shadow Of the church, where they Stun
!, bered among ,nettles and MULLEN stalk
,, and thistles, and slabs ashanti they shall
!. rise with glory that shall flash tn
" windows OF the village church, and b.
= the bell-tower that used to call them t
:, worship, and above the old spire besid
. which their prayers formerly assembled
!. What triumphal procession never did 70
q street, what an oratoriO never did 70
an academy, what an orator never di
:, for brilliant auditory, what obelis
a never did for King, Resurrection Nor
:, will do for all the cemeteries!
This Easter tolls rs that in Christ
. resurrection our resurrection, if we AZ
. His the resurrection Of all the pious dead
is assured, for He was ''the first fruits 3
them that slept Renan says He di
: not rise; but $50 witnesses. sixty 9
:. them Christs enemies, say he did rise
for fhau cav Him after He had risen