Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-07

day shall be animated? les, but infinitely i'm
| proved.
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. i made that at u years of age
when, disguised at the presence of two warts
1 took a red-hot iron and burned them off, and
burned them out Since then my body has
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 some
times rebuild a man five, six, ten times, in this
world, is it mysterious that He can rebuild him
once more, and that in the resurrection? II
he can DO it ten times, l think He can do il
II times. Then look at the 7-year locusts.
For Il years gone. at the end of IL years they
appear, and by rubbing the hind leg against
the wing make that rattle at which all the hus-
bandmen and vine-dressers tremble as the in
sectile host takes up the march of devastation.
Resurrection every IL years!
Another consideration makes the idea of
resurrection easier. God made Adam. He
was not fashioned after any model. There had
never been human organism, 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 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 a perfect
being in the resurrection. Surely the last un-
dertaklng 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
it? Oh, yes; that is one reason why believe
it. 1t would not be much of God who could
do things only as far as l can understand.
Mysteries? Oh, yes; but no more about the
resurrection of your body than about its pres
ent existence. l will explain to you the last
mystery of the resurrection, and make 1t as
plain TO you as that two and two make four, If
You will tell me how your mind, which is en-
tirely 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 find nothing in the Bible statement con-
cerning the resurrection that staggers me for
moment. All doubts clear from my mind;
say that the cemeteries. however beautiful
now, will be more beautiful when the bodles OF
our loved ones come up.
They will come IN improved condition. They
will come up rested. The most of them lay
down ct the last very tired. How often you
have heard them say, II am so tired ~ The
fact is, it is a tired world. If / should go
through this audience. and go round the world,
l could not find person in any style of life
ignorant of the sensation of fatigue. do not
believe there are 30 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 jour
ment, or sickness have put 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.
Its atmosphere, its surroundings. and even its
hllarities arc eXhausting. So God stops our
earthly life, and mercIfully closes the eyes,
and quiets the feet, and folds the hands,
to the lung and heart, that have
not had ten minutes rest from the first res
plration and the first beat. If a drummer boy
wore compelled in the army to beat his drum
70 hours NEifhnnf officer EOnl6
be court-martialed for cruelty. If the drum
ner boy should be commanded to beat his
drum for a week without ceasing, day and
night, he would die in attempting it.
THE HEARTS CONSTANT LABOR.
But under your yestment Is a poor heart
hat began its drum beat for the march of life
20 or 40 or go or so years ago, and it has had no
,urlough by day or night; and. whether in con-
cious or comatose state, it went righ. on, tor
f it had stopped seven seconds your life would
lave closed. And your heart will keep going
Until some time after your spirit has flown, for
he auscultator says that after the last expira- |
ion of lung and the last throb of pulse, and |
lfter the spirit is released. the heart keeps on
,eating for n time What a mercy, then. it is |
hat the grave is the place where that won !
;rous machinery of ventricle and artery |
an haiti Under the healthful chem |
stry of the soil all the wear and |
ear of nerve and muscle and bone
will be subtracted and that bath of good, fresh,
clean soil will wash off the last ACHE and then |
'ome of the same style of dust out of which the |
Jody of Adam was constructed may be infused |
ntO the resurrection body.
How can the bodies of the human race. which |
lave had no replenishment from the dust since
he time of Adam in paradise. get any recuper-
Ltion from the storehouse from which he was
constructed without our going back into the
lust? That original, life-giying material hav-
hao add 10 thah Nod Il
III the defects left behind, what body will be
he resurrection body! And will not hundreds
If thousands of such appearing above the
5owanus Heights make Greenwood more beau
iful 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
llace to get perfect body. Factories are apt
o be rough places, and those who toll in them
lave their garments grimy and their hands
mutched, But who cares for that, when they
urn out for us beautiful musical instruments
IT exquisite upholstery! What though the
rave is a rough place, it is a resurrection-body
and from it shall come the
adiant and resplendent forms of our friends
IN the brightest morning the world saw ever.
you put into a factory cotton. and it comes out
pparel. You put into factory lumber and
cad, and ii comes out pianos and organs. And
o into the factory of the grave you put in
and consumptinns, and they come
ut health. You put in groanS and they come
ut halleujabs. For u.s. on the final day. the
1ost attractive places will not be the parks or |
he gardens or the palaces, but the cemeteries.
WHEN THE END COMES.
We are not told in what season that day
ill come. If it should be winter, those who
ONE up Will be more lustrous than the snow
hat covered them. If in the autumn, those
rho come up will be more gorgeous than the
roods after the frosts have pencilled them. Ii
D the spring, the bloom on which they tread
Till be dull compared with the rubicund of
heir cheeks. Oh the perfect resurrection body.
Almost everyone has some defective spot in his
hysical constitution: dull ear, or dim eye, or
rheumatic foot, or neuralgia brow, or q
visited muscle, or a weak side, or an inflamed
onsil, or some point at which the east wind or
season of overwork assaults him. But the
body shall be without one weak
not. and all that the doctors and nurses and
pothecaries of earth will thereafter have to do
Till be to rest without interruption after the
roken nights of their earthly existence. Not
My will that day be The Identification of we'll
ent cemeteries. but some of the graveyards
hat have teen neglected, and been the
,Iaces for swine, will for the first time have
given them. 1t was a shame
hat in that place ungrateful generations
tainted no trees and twisted no garlands, and
no marble for their Christian an
estry; but on the day of which 1 speak the
shall make the place of their feet
lorious. From under the shadow of the
hurch, where they slumbered among nettles
nd mullen stalks and thistles, and slabs
slant, they shall rise with glory that shall
ASH the windows of the village church. and
" the bell tower that used to call them to wor-
hip. and above the old spire beside which their
rayers formerly assembled. What triumphal
recession never did for street, what an ora
orio never did for an academy, what an orator
ever did for brilliant auditory what obelisk
ever did for king. resurrection morn will do
or all the cemeteries.
This Easter tells us that in Christ's resurrec-
ion our resurrection, if we are HIS and the
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