Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-10

ctoseS Tue eyes, anu qnl6ts the IeSt, anu
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 drummer boy were 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-b boy should be COM
manded to beat his drum for q 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 or sixty or eighty years ago. and
it has had no furIough by daY or night;
and, whether in conscious 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 split is
released, the heart keeps on beating for
a time. What a mercy, then, il is that
the grave is the place where the Won
drOus machinery OF ventTicIe and artery
can haiti Under the healthful chemistry
of the soil all the wear and tear
Of nerve and muscle AMI bone
will be subtracted and that bath of good,
fresh, clean soil 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 be- infused into the res
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the human race, which have had no re-
punishment from the dust since the time
of Adam in Paradise. get any recupera-
ton from the stoTehou5e from which he
was constructed without our going back
into the dust! That original, life giving
material having been added 10 the body
as It once was, and all the defects left
behind, what body will be the resur-
rectiOn body And 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 the earth being the
original material for the faShiouiug of
the first human being, we nave to go
back TO the same place to get perfect
body. Factories are apt to be rough
places, and those who toll III them have
their garments grImy aud their hands
smutched. But who cares for that when
they turn out for us beautiful musical
instruments or exquisite upholstery
Whit though the grave is rough place,
ii is q resurrection body mandatory,
and from it shall come the radiant AMI
respleudent forms of our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw.
You put into factory cotton, and it
comes out apparel. You put into fac
pianos aud organs. And so into the
factory of the grave you put in pneu-
moulas and consumptinns, 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 the parks or the gardens or the
palaces. but the cemeteries.
We are not told in what season that
day will come. If il should be winter,
those who come up will be more luStTOus
than the snow that covered them. If iii
the autumn, those who come up will be
more gorgeous than the woods after the
frOsts have penciled them. If in the
spring, the bloom on which they tread
will be dull compared with the rubicund
of their cheeks. Oh the perfect resur-
rection body! Almost every one has
some defective spot IN his physical con-
stitution: dun ear, or II dim eye, or 81
rheumatic foot. or q neuralgia brow, or
a twisted muscle, or a weak side, or all
iutlamed tonsil or some point at which
the east wind or season of Overwork
assaults him. But the resurrection body
shall be without one weak spot, aud all
that the doctors and nurses and apothe-
carries of earth will thereafter have to do
will be to rest without interruption after
the broken nights of their earthly exist
ence. Not only will that day be the
Identification of well-kept cemeteries,
but some Of the graveyards that have
been neglected, and been the
PASTURE GROUND FOR CATTLE
and roofing places for swine, will for the
first time have attractiveness given them.
It was a shame that in that place un-
grateful generations planted no trees and
twisted no garlands, and sculptured no
marble for their Christian ancestry; but
on the day of which l speak the resur-
rected shall make the place of their feet
glorious. From under the shadow of the
church, where they slumbered among
nettles and mullen stalks and thistles,
and slabs asiant, they shall rise with
glory that shall 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 tri-
umphal procession never did for a street,
what an oratorio never did for an
academy what an orator never did for a
brilliant auditory, what obelisk never
did for king, resurrection morn will do
for all the cemeteries.
This Easter tells Us that in Christ s res
direction our resurrection, if we are His,
and the resurrection of all the ptous
dead. Is assured, for He was 1.-the fruits
of them that slept Renan says He did |
not r.se, but $50 witnesses. sixty of them
Christ . enemies, say He did rise, for |
they saw HIM after He had risen. II He |
did not rise, how did sixty armed soldiers |
let Him get away? Surely sixty living |
soldiers ought to be able to keep one |
dead mani Blessed be God! He did get |
away. After His resurrection Mary Mag |
dalene saw Him. Cleopas saw Him. Ten |
disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem |
saw Him. On a mountain the eleven |
saw Him. Five hundred at once saw
Him. Professor Ernest Reman, who did