Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-07

quake, and will not this split the pol
ished Aberdeen granite, as well as the
plain slab that can afford but the two
words. Our Mary, or Our Charley?'' y
Well | will tell you how Resurrection
day will beautify all the cemeteries.
1t will be by bringing up the faces
that were to us once, and in our mem
Dries are to us now, more beautiful
than any Gala lily, and the forms that
are to us more graceful than any will
low by the waters Can you think of
anything more beautiful than the re-
appearance of those from whom we
have been parted? [ do not care which
way the tree falls in the blast of the
Judgment hurricane, or if the plow-
share 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 understand as hear the pho
nograph 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 very
| tones, the very accentuatiOn, the very
4 cough, the very song of the person
that breathed into it once, but is now
| departed If a man can do that, can
not Almighty God, without half try
| ing, 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 words? And if the brain,
] IF oh lo
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
entire body? If man can do the phono-
graph, God can do the resurrection.
Will 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 and the sec
Ond finger of my right hand there is a
scar. [ made that at II years of age,
when, disguised at the presence of two
warts, [ took red hot iron and burn
ed them off, and burned them out
Since then my body has changed at
| least a 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 resur-
rection? If he can do it ten times, I
think he can do it 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 hus-
bandmen and vine dressers tremble as
the insectile host takes up the march
Of devastation. Resurrection every
seventeen years.
THE IDEA OF RESURRECTION EASY.
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 a perfect man. He made
him out of the dust of the earth. If
out of ordinary dust of the earth and
without a model God could make a
perfect man, surely out of the extra
ordinary dust of the mortal body, and
with millions of models, God can make
each one of us q perfect being in the
resurrection. Surely the last under
taking would not be greater than the
first. See the gospel algebra: ordi-
nary dust minus a model equals a per-
feet man; extraordinary dust and plus
a model equals a resurrection body.
Mysteries about it? Oh, yes; that is
one reason why [ believe it. 1t would
not be much Of a God who could do
things only as far as [ can understand.
Mysteries? Oh, yes; but no more about
the resurrection of your body than
about its present existence.
will explain to you the last mys-
terry of the resurrection, and make it
as plain to you as that two and two
your mind, which is entirely indie
pendent of your body, can act upon
your body so 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
resurrection that staggers me for a
moment All doubts clear from my
mind, I say that the cemeteries, how
ever beautiful now, will be more
beautiful when the bodies of our loved
ones come up.
THEY WILL COME UP RESTED.
They will come in improved condi-
ton. They will come up rested. The
tired How often you have heard
them say, Il am so tiredI The fact
is it is a tired world If I should go
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the world, [ could not find per-
son in any style of life ignorant of
the sensation Of fatigue. [ do not be-
lieve 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
journeying, or business application, 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 to rest in is this world.
It's atmosphere, its surroundings, and
even it's hilarities are eXhauStlng. So
God stops our earthly life, and mercl-
fully closes the eyes, and qulets the
feet, and folds the hands, and more
especially gives quiescence to the lung
and heart, that have not had ten min
utes' rest from the first respiration and
the first beat
If drummer boy were compelled
in the army to beat his drum for TWEEN
ty-four hours without stopping, his
officer would be court martialed for
cruelty. If the drummer boy should
be commanded to beat his drum for
week without ceasing, day and night,
he would die in attempting it. But
under your vestment is a poor heart
that began its drum beat for the march
of life thirty or forty orsixty or eighty
years ago, and it has had no furlOugh
by day or night; and, whether in CON
scious or comatose state, it went right
on, for if 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 auscultatOr says that after the last
expiration of lung and the last throb
of pulse, and after the spirit is released,
the heart keeps on beating for a time.
What mercy then it is that the grave
is the place where that wondrous ma
chinery of yentricle and artery can
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