The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-07


OF thousands of such appearing above the
Gowanus Heights make Greenwood more
beautiful 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 go 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
beautiful musical Instruments or
exquisite upholstery What though
the grave is q rough place, 1t
is O reSurrection-body mandatory, and
from it shall come the radiant and re-
splendent 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 factory lum-
ber and lead, and it comes out pianos and
organs. And so into the factory of the
grave you put in pneumonias and consump-
tions, and they come out health. You put
in groaus, 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 frost!
bloom on which they tread will be dul
compared with the rubicund of their cheeks
Oh the perfect resurrection bodyl Almost
every one has some defective spot in his
physical constitution: dull ear or dim
eye or rheumatic foot, or q neuralgia
brow, or a twisted muscle, or q weak side,
or an intiamed tonsil, or some point al
which the east wind or a season of over.
work assaults him. But the resurrection
body shall be without one weak spot, and
all that the doctors and nurses and apothe-
carries of earth will thereafter have to dc
will be to rest without interruption after
the broken nightsof their earthly existence.
Not only will that day be the Identification
of well-kept cemeteries, but some of the
graveyards that have been neglected, and
been the pasture-groond for cattle
and rooting-places for swine, will FOL
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 sculp-
tured no marble for their Christian ancestry
but on the day of which speak the resur-
rected shall make the place of their feet
glorious. From under tue 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 windows Of the village church, and
by the bell tower that used to call them &c
worship, aud above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly assembled.
What triumphal procession never did for q
street, what an oratorio never did for al
academy, what an orator never did for 0
brilliant auditory, what obelisk never die
for q king, resurrection morn will do for al
the cemeteries.
This Easter tells us that in Christ's resur-
rection our resurrection, il we are his, anC
the resurrection Of all TIE pious dead, i
assured, for he was "the first fruits OF then
that slepf.n Renan says he did not rise
but five hundred and eighty witnesses
sixty Of them Chrlst's enemies, say he die
rise, for they saw him after he had risen
If he did not rise how did sixty armeG
soldiers let Linn get away! Surely sixbl
living soldiers ought to be able to keep onl
dead maui Blessed be God he die
get away. After his resurrection Mary
Magdalele saw him. Clsopas saw him.
Ten disciples in an upper roo1
at Jerusalem saw him. On a mountain thu
eleven saw him. Five hundred at once saw
him. Prof. Ernest Rsnan, who did not SCI
him, will excuse us for taking the testimony
of the $50 who did see him. Yes, yes; h'
got away. And that makes me sure tina
our departed loved ones and we ourselves
shall get away. Freed himself from the
shackles of clod. he is not going TO leave u
and ours in the lurch. There will be nt
door knob in tho inside of our family sepul
chre, for wo cannot come out, of ourselves
but there is q door knob on the out
side, and that Jesus shall lal
hold .of, and opening, win say: "GooC
morningi You have slept long enough
Arisel Arisep' And then what fiutter o.
wings, and what flashing of rekindled eyes
and what gladstone rushing across the
family lot. with cries of Father, is tina
youW "Mother, is that your "My
darling, is that your ''How you all hav'
changed Tho cough gone, the Group gone
the consumption gone, the paralysis gone
tue weariuess gone. Come, let us ascenc
togetherl The older ones first, the yonnge
ones next! Quick now. get into linel Th
skyward procession has already started
Steer now by that embankment OF clouc
for the nearest gateln And as we ascend
on one side the earth gets smalle
until it is no larger than a noun
tain, and smaller until it is no large
than palace, and smaller unit
it is no larger than ship, apd smaller unit
it is 10 larger than "a wheel, and smaller
until it is no larger than speck. Farewell
dissolving earthl But on the other side, a
we rise, heaven first appears no larger thai
your mana. Anu HehEef ~ lUOkS ilkb
chariot, and nearer 1t looks like a throne
and ne earer it looks like a star, and nearer i
looks like a sun, and nearer it looks like
universe. Hail. scepters that shall always
wavel Hail, anthems that shall always
ROLL Hail. companiolships never again Il
be broken, and friendships never again h
partl That is what resurrection day vii
do for all the cemeteries and graveyard
from the Machpeah that was opened bI
Father Abraham in Hebron to the Macl
pelah yesterday consecrated. And tina
makes Lady Huntington's immortal rhythm
most opposite:
When thou, my righteous judge, shalt come
To take tny ransoined people home,
Shall / among them standg
Shall such worthless worm as /,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right handy
Among thy saints let me be found,
Wheneer tn archangeis trump snail sound,
To see thy smiling face;
Then loudest OF the throng I'll sing,
While heavens resounding arches ring
With shouts OF sovereign grace.
n(iTTR MEM GIIOT