Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17

Of dust out of which the Body Of Adam
was constructed may be infused
into the resurrection body. How car
the bodies OF the human race, which
had no replenishment from the dust
since the time of Adam in Paradise
get any recuperation from the store
house from which he was constructed
without our going back into the DUST
That original, life-giving material haV.
ing been added to the body as it once
was and all the defects left behind, what
a body will be the resurrection body
And will not hundreds of thousands OF
such appearing above the Gowanus
Heights make Greenwood more beauti-
tuI than any June morning after a
shower? The dust of the earth being
the original material for the fashioning
OF the first human being, we have to 20
back to the same place to get perfect
body. Factories are apt to be rough
places, and those who toll in them have
their garments grimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that
when they turn out for us beautiful
musical instruments or exquisite up
holstery! What though the grave is a
rough place, it is a resurrection body
mandatory, and from it shall come the
radiant and resplendent 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 a fac
tory lumber and lead, and it comes out
pianos and organs And so into the fac
tory of the grave you put in pneumonias
and consumptions, 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 it should be winter
those who come up will be more
lustrous than the snow that covered
them. If in 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 checks o,
the perfect resurrection body! Almost
every one has some defective spot
in his physical constitution; a dull
ear, or dim eye, or a rheu-
matte foot or q neuralgia brow, or
twisted muscle, or a weak side,
or an inflamed tonsil, or some point at
which the east wind or season of over
work assaults him. But the resurrection
body shall be without one weak spot,
and all that the doctors and nurses and
apothecaries of earth will thereafter
have to do will be to rest without inter-
ruption after the broken nights of their
earthly existence. Not only will that
day be the Qualification of we'll 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. 1t was
a shame that in that place ungrateful
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 resurrection
Gus. From under the shadow of the
church, where they slumbered among
nettles and MULLEN stalks and thistles,
and slabs aslant they shall rise with
glory that shall flash the win
dows of the village church, and
by the bell tower that used to call them
to worship, and above the old spire be-
side which their prayers formerly as
cended. What triumphal procession
never did for street, what an oratorio
never did for an academy, what an orator
never did for brilliant auditory, what
obelisk never did for King, resurrec-
ton morn will do for all the cemeteries
This Easter tells US that in Christ's
resurrection, our resurrection if we are
His, and the resurrection of the pious
dead, is assured, for He was the first
fruits of them that slept" Renan says
He did not rise, but five hundred and
eighty witnesses. sixty of them Christ's
enemies, say He did rise. for they saw
Him after He had risen. If lie not
rise how did sixty armed soldiers let
Him get away? Surely sixty living SOL
diers ought to be able to keep one dead
man! Blessed be GodI He did get
away. After His resurrection Mary
Magdalene saw Him. Cleopas saw Him.
Ten disciples in an upper room at Jeru-
salem saw Him. On a mountain the
eleven saw Him. Five hundred at
once saw Him. Prof. Ernest Renan,
who did not see Him, will excuse US for
= Ii Of huv, II
and eighty who id see Him. Yes yes;
He got away And that makes me sure
that our departed loved ones and we
ourselves shall get away. Freed Him
self from the shackles of clOd, He is not
going to leave us and ours in the lurch.
There will be no doorknob on the inside
Of the family sepulcher, for we can not
come out of ourselves; but there is a
doorknOb on the outside and that Jesus
shall lay hold of and opening will say:
Good morning! You have slept long
enough, Arisei Ariser' And then
what fiutter of wings, and what flashing
Of rekindled eyes and what gladstone
rushing across the family lot. with cries
Of Father is that you?' Mother. is |
that you?" MY darling is that you?"
How you all have changed?"
''The cough gone, the Group gone, the
gone, the paralysis gone,
he WEAKNESS gone. Come, let US as
,end together! The older ones first, the
younger ones next! Quick now, getinto
inc! The skyward procession has al
'eady started! Steer now by that en-
,ankment of cloud for the nearest gate"
And as we ascend on one side the earth
-ets smaller until it is no larger than a
and smaller until it is no
anger than palace, and smaller until
t is no larger than ship and smaller