The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-17

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 Aberdeen granite, as well as the plain Our Mary. or Our Charleyg We'll,
 l will tell you how Resurrection Day
 win beantify all the cemeteries Ii
 win be by bringing up the faces
 that wera to us once, and in our memories arc to us now, more beautiful than any caiia lily, and the forms that are to us more graceful than any willow by the waters Can you think of any thing more beau tiful than the reappearance of those from whom we have been parted2 do not care which way the tree falls in the blast Of the Judgment hurricane, or if the plowshsre 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 dama ged, put irradiated.
 The idea of the resurrection gets easier 10 understand as l hear tho pbonograph 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 1t once, but is now departed. If man can do that, can not Almighty God, without half trying. re- turn 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 yoiee'2 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 file can return the nerves, why not the muscles, which are less ingenious? And if the muscles, why not the bones, that are less wonder ful2 And if the voice and the brain and the muscles and the bones, why not the entire body2 If man can do the phono- graph, God can do the resurrection. Will 1t be the same body that in the last day shall be reanimated2 Yes, but infinitely improved. Our bodies change every seven years, and yet, in one sense, it is the same body. On my wrist and the second finger of my right hand there is a scar. l made that at twelve years of age, when, disgusted at the presence of two warts, took red hot iron and burned them of, and burned them out. Since then my body has been changed at least 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 man five, six, ten times, in this world, is it mys- terious that He can rebuild him once more, and that in the resarreetion? 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 husbandmen and vine-dressers tremble as the insectile host takes up the march of devastation. Resurrection every seventeen years.
 Another cons ideration makes the idea of resurrection easier. God made Adam. He was not fashioned after any model. There had never been human organ ism, 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 a model God could make 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 un- der taking would not be greater than the first.
 See the Gospel algebra: ordinary dust minus model equals perfect man; extraordinary dust and plus model equals resurrection body. Mysteries about it2 Oh, yes; that is one reason why believe it 1t would not be much of God who could do things only as far as can understand. Mysteries? Oh yes, but no more about the resurrec- tion of your body than about it's present existence. l will explain to you the last mystery 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 Independent 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 con eenning the resurrection that staggers me for moment All doubts clear from my mind. l say that the ceme- teries, 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. The most of them lay down at the last very tired. How often you have heard them say: T am so tiredln The fact Is, it is tired world. If I should go through this audience, and go round the world, I could not find person in any style of life ignorant of the sensation of fatigue. l do not believe 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 pat on you heavy weights. So the vast majority of those who went out of this world went out fatigued. About the poorest place to rest in is this world. It's atmosphere, it's surroundings, and even its hiiarities are exhausting. So God stops our earthly life, 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 a drummer-boy were compelled in the army to beat his drum for twenty-iour 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 poor heart that began it's drum-beat for the march of life thirty or forty or sixty or eighty years agol and it has had no furlough 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 win keep go- ing until some time after your spirit