Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-12
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him out of the dust of the earth II out Of
ordinary dust of the earth and without a
model God could make u 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 under
taking would not be greater than the first.
See the gospel algebra: ordinary dust minus
a model equals perfect man; extraordinary
dust and plus Il model equals. Il resurrection
body. Mysteries about it? Oh, yes; that is
nereason why believe it. 1t would not be
much of God who could do things only as
far us can understand Mysteries? Oh.
yes but no more about the resurrection OF
your body than aboutits present existence.
will es plain to you the last mystery Of
the resurrection, and make it rs plain to you
as that two and two make four, 1t You will
tell me how your mind. which is entirely ill.,
dependent 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 con-
corning the resurrection that stagGers me for
a moment All doubts clear from my mind.
I say that the cemeteries. however beautiful
now, will be more beautiful when the bodies
of our loved ones come up.
They will come in improved condition.
They will come up rested. Them of them
lay down at the last very tired. How often
Won have heard them say. 81 am SO tired"
The tact is it is tired world. If should 50
through this audience, and 60 round the
world, l could not find Il person III any style
of life ignorant of the sensation OF tatigue; l
do not believe there are fifty persons III TINS
audience who are not tired. Your head Is
tired, or your back is tired. or your foot IS
t1rnti
or Your nerves are tired. Long jour-
neying, or business application, or
bereavement, or sickness have put OH You
heavy weights. So the vast majority OF
those who went out of this world went out
faticued. About the poorest place to rest
in is this world. Its atmosphere, Its sur
roundincS. and even its hllarities are eX-
So God stops our earthly life, and
closes the eyes, and qu'etS the
feet, and folds the handS,an more especially
Cives ouiescence to the lungs and heart, tlat
have not had ten minutes rest from the hrst
respiration and the first beat.
II drummer boy were compelled III the
army to beat his drum fortwenty-four hours
without stopping, his officer would be court
martialed for cruelty II the drummer boy
should be commanded to beat his drum for a
week without ceasing, day and night he
would die in attempting it, But under your
vestment is poor heart that began its drum
beat for the march of life thirty or forty OF
sixty or eighty years ago and it has had no
furlough by day or night; and, whether III
conscious or comatose state 1t went riSht on,
for if it had stopped seven seconds your NE
would have closed. And your heart VIII keep
going until some time after your spirit has
flown for the auscutator 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 Il time. what Il
mercy then it is that the grave is the place
where that wondrouS machinery OF ventrlcle
and artery can halt
Under the healthful chemistry OF the soil
all the wear and tear OF nerve and muscle
and bone will be subtracted and that bath OF
GOOD. fresh, clean Suil will wash off the last
ache. and then some of the same style OF
dust out of which the body OF Adam was
constructed may he infused into the resur-
rcction body. How can the bodies OF the
human race which have had no replenist.
ment from the dust since the time OF Adam
in paradise. get any recuperatlon from the
store house from which he was constructed
without our going back into the dust? That
original, life-glving material having been
added to the body as it once was, and all the
defects left behind. what q body will be the
resurrection body Aud will not hundreds
of thousands of such appearing above the
Gowanus heights make Greenwood more
beautiful than any June morning after
shower?
The dust of tho earth being the original
material for the fushioning of the first human
being. we have to go back to the same place
to Get q perfect body Factories are apt To
be rough places and those who toll in them
have their garments Srimy and their hands
smutched But who cares for that. when
they turn out for us beautiful musical lnstrl!-
inents or exquisite upholstery! WHAT though
the grave is rough place, 1t Is resutrec,
lion body mandatory, and from IL sliaie
come the radiant and Respondent forms OF
our friends on the brightest morning the
world saw ever You put into factory cot
ton. and it comes out apparel! You put into
a factory lumber and lead, and it comes out
uianos and organs. And SO into the factory
of the grave you put in pneunionlas and con
sumptions. and they come out health You
put in groans, and they come out halleIuJahs.
For us, on the final day, the most attractive
places will not be the parks or the gardens or
the palaces. but the cemeteries.
We are not told in what SEASON that day
will come. II it should be winter, those who
come up will be more lustrous than the snow
that covered them II in the autumn, those
who come up will be moro gorgeous than tine
woods after the frosts have penclled them.
If in the spring. the bloom on which they
tread will be dull compared with the ruo!-
.und of their checks. Oh the perfect resui'-
rection body! Almost every one has some
defective spot in his physical constitution;
a dull ear, or dim eye or rheumatic foot,
or a neuralgia brow, or q twisted muscle, OF
a weak side, or al in6amel tonSil, OF soma
point at which the east wind or o
season of overwork assaults him. 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 earth
" existence. Not only will that day be the
Identification of we'll kept cemeteries, but
some of the graveyards that have been neg
lected, and been the pasture ground for cat
tie and roofing places for swine. will tor the
first time have attractiveness given them.
1t was shame that i'll that place migrate
full generations planted no trees, and twisted
no Sarlands, and sculptured no marble fol
their Christian ancestry: but on the day OF
which | speak the resulrected shall make
the place of their feet glorious. From
under the shadow of the church, where
they slumbered among nett.eS and
mullen stalks and thistles, aud slabs
ashanti. they shall rise WIFI glory tnat snail
fash the windows of the village church, and
by the bell tower that used TO call them to
worship, and above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly assembled.
What triumpha procession never did for q
street, what an ordtorio never did for an
academy, what IN orator never did for a
brilliant auditory, what obaIisk never did
for King, resurrection morn will do for all
the cemeteries.
This Easter tells us chat i'll Christ's resur-
recton our resurrection, it we are His. and
heresurrection Of all the pious dead is as
sured, for He was '.the first fruits of them
that slept" Ronan says He did not rise but
five hundred and eighty witnesses sixty of
them Christs enemies. say He did rise, for
they saw Him after He had risen. II He did
not rise how did sixty armed soldiers LOT
Him get away? Surely sixty living soldiers
ought to be able to keep one dead man
Blessed be Cod! Hc did get away. After
His resurrection Mary Magdaiene saw Him
Cleopas saw Him. Ten disciples in al
upper room at Jerusalem saw Him. On {
mountain the eleven saw Him. Five hundre!
at once saw Him. Professor Ernest Renan