The Forrest City times., 1890-04-12

| | And if the lips and tho tongue and tho | throat why not then the brain that sug- | gested the words. And If the brain, why not the nerves, of which tho brain Is tho
 headquartersl And if He can return the
 nerves, why not the muscles, which are less ingeniousl And II the muscles, why
 net the bones, that are toss wondcrfull l And If tho voice and the brain and the muscles and tho bones, why not the estire 0odyi If man can do tho ! phouograph, God can do tho resurrection. Win it bs tho same body ] that In the last day shall be rcanimatodl | Yes but infinitely improved. Our bodies | change every seven years, and yet in one
 scnsc, it is the same body. On my wrist
 and the second finger of my right hand there Ia scar. l made that at twelve | years of age, when, disgusted at tho pro 1 sence Of two warts, l took a red hot iron | and bdrnoi tn sm off and burned them out Since then my body has changed at least 1 halt-ioeen times, but those scars prove 1t is
 the sano body. And we never
 lose our identity. If God can and i does sometimes rebuild man five,
 six, ten times, in this world, is it mys- 1 terlous that He can rebuild him once moro,
 and that in the resurrections If He can do
 it ton times. think He can do 1t eleven tim3s. Then look at tho seventeon-year
 losusts For sventeen years gone at the
 end Of seventeen ycsrs they appear, and by raboing the hind les az linst tho wing mako |. that rattle at which all the husbaudmen and vine dressers tremblc as the inscctile host takes up the march of dcvasta
 tion, Resurrection every seventeen years 1 Another consideration makes the idea O
 resurrection easier Goi made Adam Ho l was not fashioned after any model There had never been n human organism, and so there was nothing to copy. At tho frs i attempt God made a periect man. He made him out of tho dust ot tho earth. If ! out of ordinary dust Of the earth and with ont d model God could mako, a perfect
 man, surely out ot tho extraordinary dust Of the mortal body, and with millions of models God can m lto each one ot us per feet heng in tho Resurrection. Surely the last undertaking would not ba greater
 than the first See the gospel algebra or
 dtnarg dust minus model equals a , porseot man; extraordinary dust l and plus q model equals resurrection body Mysteries about ' it. Oh yes that is ono reason why
 believe it, l. would not bs much of God who could do things only as far as I can 1 understand. Mystsres, On, yes; but no l moro about the resarre 3ion of your body i than abo1t it's presont existence. 1 wilt l explain to you the last mystery of the resurrection, and make 1t as plain to 1 yon as that two and two make 1 four, if you will tell mo how your mind, l which is entirely independent of your body, | can act upon your body so that at your will i your eyes open, or your foot walks. or your l hana is extended, So iinl nothing in the | Bible statement concerning tho rcsurrcc ( t{ A "A 1 doubts clear from my mind, I say that the 1 cemeteries, however beautiful now, will be ] more beautiful when the bodies of our 1 loved ones como up.
 l They wltl come in improved condition ] Theg will come up rested Tho most ot 1 them lay down at the last very tired How
 often go1 have heard ,hcm say "I am so l tired v Tho faetis it is tired world If
 l should go through this audience. and go 1 around tho world could not ii ld a person ] in any stSlc of life ignorant of tho sensa- l tioa of fatigue. | do not believe there are ] nifty persons in this audience who are not ] tired. Your heid is tired or your back is 1 fred, or your foe, is tjrsi oe yo4r brain ia l tired, or your nerves arc tired. 1 Long iourneyuy or business applica- ] ton, or bereavement or sickness I haeo put on you heavy weights So the yast majority Of those who went out Of this
 world went ont iatiSued. About tue poor est place to rest in is this world It's at
 mgsphere, it's surroundings, and even it's ] hilarities are exhaustng So God stops 1 our earthly life, and mercifally closes the l eyas, and quiots tho feet, anu folds the 1 hands, and mora especially gives qnies
 cenee to the lung and heart, thas hava not 1 had ten minutes rest from the first reaplr
 atien and the first be3t lfa drummer, boy 1 wore compelled ia the army to bsat hls l drum for twenty four hours without stop l ping his officer would be court martlAiled l for cruelty. ftAe drummer. bog should be 1 commanded to beat his dram for a week without ccasing, day and night, he ] would de in attempting lt Hut 1 under Nour vestmen, is 2 poor heart ! that began it's dram-beat for the marcn of 1 fife thirty or forty or sky or eighty years | ago. and t has had no furlough by day or night; and, whether in conscious or coma i toso state, it went right on, for fl 1t had ] stopped seven seconds your lifs would havo | closed. And your heart will keep going
 until some time after your spirit has flown, 1 for the auseeltator says that after tho last 1 expiration of lung and the last throb of l pulse, and after tae spirit is released, the heart keeps on beating for time. What 1 mercy, then, it IS that the grave is the place ] where that wondrous machinery of ventri- | cle and artery can haiti Uular the health ] fui chemistry Of tho soil all the wear and tear Of nerve and muscle vnd bone
 will be subtraeted and that bath of good. l fresh, clean soil will wash of the last ache,
 and then some of tho same style of dust { out of which the body Of Adam was con. 1 structed may bs infused into the resurreo- i ton body. How can tho bodies of the hu- 1fs.et ,..l4a An $. ..s 1 From the dust since tue time of Adam in
 Paradise, got any recuperatiou from the 1 sterehouse from which he was constructed ! without our going back into the dust That original, life giving material havlng been added to tho
 body as it emce was. and ali the
 defects left behind, what body will be the . resurrection boly And will not hundreds of thousands of such appearing above the 1 tiowanus Heights make Greenwood more beautiful than any June morning after a showerl The dust os the earth being the i original material for tue fashtoning of the first human being, wa haye to go back to the sumo place to get a perfeet body. Factories Gre apt io be roagh places, and those WAc toll in thom have their garments ! erlmy and their hands smutched But wae cares for that, whoa they turn [ meuts CT exquisite npholsteryl What ] though the grave is a rough place, it x resurrection body manufactorv. and from # shall come tho radiant and TO | sp enaent forms ot our friends on the brightest morning tha world ever saw. Neti put into factory cotton, and it comes out apparel You put into n factory tnmosv aud lead, and it
 oalnas out piAao aai organs. And 90 into sAe faciery ef the grave you put ia ! pneamQnias and cousgmFtlons, and they enns aut hoaita Noa put In rroans, md thef come out hAilclluiahs For us, on the final day, tao mosi attractive places will
 Rot be the parks or Inc gardens or tho palaces, but tAe ecmetaries
 We are not told in what season that day wai come, If it should hc winter, those who come up wla be mora ius,rous than tue snow that covered tham. If in tho xssE, ...tlt l..