The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-04-09

you heavy weights. So the vast major
ty OF those who went out OF this world
went out fatigued. About the, poorest
place to rest in Is this world. Its atmos-
phere, its surroundings and even It's
hilarities are exhausting. SO God stops
our earthly life, and mercifully closes
the eyes, and quiets the feet and foids
the hands, and more especially gives
auiescence to the lung and heart that
have not had ten minutes rest from the
first respiration and the first beat. il
drummer boy we're compelled In the army
to beat his drum for twenty-four hours
without stopping, his officer would DO
court.martialed for cruelty. II tne
drummer boy should be commanded
to beat his drum for week
without ceasing, day and night
he would die in attempting 1t. But un-
der your vestment is heart that began
its drum-beat for the march OF lie
thirty or forty or sixty or eighty years
ago, and it has had no furlough by day
or night; and whether In conscious or
comatose state 1t went right on, for II II
had stopped seven seconds your life
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 last
throb of pulse, and after the spirit is re-
leased, the heart keeps on beating for
time. What a mercy, then, 1t Is
that the grave is the place where
that wondrous machinery OF VEN
tricle artery can halt. Under the
chemistry Of the soil all the wear and
tear of nerve and muscle and bone Will
be subtracted, and that bath OF good,
fresh, clean soil will wash of 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
resurrection body. How can the bodies
OF the human race, which have had no
replenishment from the dust since the
time OF Adam in Paradise, get any re-
cuperation from the storehouse from
which he was constructed without
our going back into the dust? That
original, life-giving material having
been added to the body as 1t once
was, and all the defects left behind,
what a body will be the resurrection
body! And will not hundreds of thou
sands 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 fashioning
OF the first human being, we have to 20
back to the same place to get a 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 beau
tiful musical instruments or OK
quisite upholstery What though th'
grave is rough place, It is resurrec
tion-body mandatory, and from 1t shal
come the radiant and respondent form
Of our friends on the brightest morning
the world ever saw. You put into |
factory cotton and 1t comes out apparel
You put into factory lumber and lea
and II comes out pianos and organs
And SO into the factory Of the grave yol
put in pneumonias and consumption
and they come out health. You put !
groans and they come out hallelujahs
For us, on the Hnal day, the most ai
tractiye places will not be the parks 0
the gardens or the palaces, but the GENE
teries.
We are not told In what season tha
day will come. II 1t should be wintei
those who will come up will be NOR
lustrous than the snow that covere
them. II In the autumn, those wh
come up will be more gorgeous than th
woods after the frosts have pencile
them. II in the spring the bloom 0
which they tread will be dull compare
with the rubicund Of their cheeks.
the perfect resurrection bodyl Almo
every one has some defective spot
his physical constitution; dull ear,
dim eye, or rheumatic foot, or
neuralgia brow or twisted muscle, or
weak side, or an in6amed tonsil, or SON
point at which the east wind or seasC
. Of overwork assaults him. But Il
resurrection body shall be without OF
weak spot, and all that doctors, aI
nurses, and apothecaries OF earth WI
thereafter have to do will be TO re
without interruption after the brok'
nights Of their earthly existence. N
only will that day be the beautiacati'
: Of well-kept cemeteries, but some
the graveyards that have been ne
/ lected, and been the pasture-groui
I for cattle and roofing places
0 swine, will for the first time ha
4 attractiveness given them. II W
4 q shame that in that place ungrat
1 full generations planted no trees a
a twisted no garlands, and sculptured
q marble for their Christian ancestry; b
4 on the day Of which I speak the resi-
n rected shall make the place Of their ft
/. glorious. From under the shadow OF
J, church, where they slumbered amo
q nettles and MULLEN stalks and thistl
:. and slabs aslant, they shall rise with
Q glory that shall fash the windows OF
4 village church, and by the bell-tov
o that used TO call them TO worship, q
, above the old spire beside which th
q prayers formerly ascendod What
Il umphal procession never did for astre
o what an oratorio never did for an &C
/, envy, what an orator never did 70
% brilliant auditory, what obelisk me-
10 did for king, Resurrection morn v
D. do for all the cemeteries.
If This Easter tells US that In Chrii
,s resurrection our resurrection II we
d His, and the resurrection Of all
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