Connecticut western news., 1890-04-09

not mean garden Of these latltudeS. The late frosts of spring and the early frosts of autumn are so near to each other that there are only few months of flowers in the field All the flowers we see today had to be petted and coaxed and put under shelter or they would not have bloomed at all. They are the children of the conservatories. But at this season, and through the most of the year, the Holy Land is all ablush with floral opulence. You find all the royal family of flowers there, some that you supposed indigenous to the far north, and others indigenous to the far south-the daisy and hy- acinth, crOcus and anemone, tulip and water lily, geranium and ranunculus, mignonette and sweet marjoram.
 In the college at Beyrout you may see Dr. Posts collection of about eighteen hundred kinds of Holy Land flowers; while among the trees are the oak of frozen climes, and the tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and willow, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder, pine and sycamore If such floral and botani- cal beauties are the wild growths of the fields think of what garden must be in Palestinel And in such a gar den Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldiers spear. His last drop of blood had coagulated. And then see how ap- should be foralized and tree shaded. In June, Greenwood is Brooklyn's gar den.
 IT WILL BEAUTIFY THEM
 "Well, then" you say, "how can you make out that the Resurrection day will beautify the cemeteries? Will it not leave them plowed up ground2 On that day there will be an earth quake, and will not this split the pol ished Aberdeen granite, as we'll as the plain slab that can afford but the two words, Our Mary or Our Charley2'" Well, will tell you how Resurrection day will beautify all the cemeteries. It will be by bringing up the faces that were to us once, and in our mem orles are to us now, more beautiful than any calla 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 blow 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 year ago, just before our friends decease. You turn the wire, and then come forth the very tones, the very accentuation, the very cough, the very song of the person that breathed into it once, but is now departed. If man can do that, can not Almighty God, without half try ing, return the voice of your departed2 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, 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 ingenious2 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 reanimated2 Yes, but in finitely improved
 Our bodies change every seven years, and yet, in one sense, 1t is the same body. On my wrist and the sec ond finger of my right hand there is a scar. I made that at 12 years of age, when, disgusted at the presence of two warts, took a red hot iron and burn ed them off, and burned them out. Since then my body has changed at least half dozen times, but those scars prove 1t is the same body And we never lose our identity. If God can and does sometimes rebuild man five, six, ten times, in this world, is it mysterious that he can rebuild him once more, and that in the resur- rections 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 human organism, and so there was nothing to copy. At the first attempt God made perfect man. He made him out of the dust of the earth. If out of ordinary dust of the earth and without model God could make 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 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 model equals per feet man; extraordinary dust and plus model equals 8 resurrection body. Mysteries about it? Oh, yes; that is one reason why I believe it It would not be much of 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.
 I will explain to you the last mys- tery 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 inde- 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 I find nothing in the Bible statement concerning the resurrection that staggers me for a moment. All doubts clear from my