Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-07

OF the departed. 1t may have been sug-
gested by the fact that Christ's tomb
was in garden. And when l say garden
] do not mean a garden of these lati-
tudes. The late frosts of spring and the
early frosts of autumn are so near to
each other that there are only few
months of flowers in the field. All the
flowers we See to-day had to be petted
and coaxed and put under shelter, or
they would not have bloomed at all.
They are the children of the conservato-
ries. But at this season, and through
the most of the year, the Holy Land is
all ablush with floral opulence. You
find all the royal family of flowers there,
some that you supposed Indigenous to the
far North, and others indigenous to the
far SouLh-the daisy and hyacinth, crocus
and anemone, tulip and water-lily, ger
anium and ranunculus, mignonette and
sweet marjoram. In the college at Bey-
rout you may see DR.. Post 8 collection
of about 1900 kinds of Holy Land flowers;
while among trees are the oak of frozen
chimes, and the taInarisk of the tropics,
walnut and willow, ivy and hawthorn,
ash and elder, pine and sycamore. II
such floral and botanical beauties are
the wild growths of the fields, think of
what a garden must be in Palestine!
And in such garden Jesus Christ slept
after, on the soldiers spear, His last
drop of blood had coagulated. And then
see how appropriate that all our oeme-
teries should be fioralized and tree
shaded. In June, Greenwood is Brook
lynn garden.
"Well, them you say, Chow can
you make out that the resurrection day
viii beautify the cemeteries? VIII it not
leave them a ploughed-up ground? On
that day there Will be an earthquake,
and will not this split the polished Aber-
deem granite as well as the plain slab
that can afford but the two words, 'Our
Mary, or Our Charley?''' Well, l will
tell you how resurrection day will beau
tifY all the cemeteries. 1t will be by
bringing up the faces that were to US
once, and in our memories are to US now,
more beautiful than any Gala lily, and
the forms that are to US more graceful
than any willow by the waters. Can
you think of anything more beautiful
than the temperance of those from
whom we have been parted? I do not
care which way the tree falls in the
BLAST OF THE JUDGMENT HURRICANE,
or if the pIoughshare 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 damaged, but irradiated. The idea
of the resurrection gets easier to under
stand as hear the monograph unron
some voice that talked into it or sung
into it a year ago, just before our
friend s decease. You turn the wire,
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very accentuation, the very cough, the
very song Of the person that breathed
into it once, but is now departed. If a
man can do that, cannot Almighty God,
without half trying, return 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
voice? 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 if He can return the
nerves, why not the muscles, which are
less ingenious? And if the muscles, why
not the bones, that are less wonderful?
And If the voice and the brain and the
muscles and the bones, why not the en-
tire body? If man can do the phono-
graph, God can do the resurrection.
VIII it be the same body that in the last
day shall be terminated? Yes, but in
finitely 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 q scar. l made that at twelve
years of age, when, disguised at the
presence of two warts, / 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 sometimes rebuild a man
five, six, ten times, in this world, is it
mysterious that He can rebuild him once
more, Bnd that in the resurrection? If
He can do it ten times, think He can
do it eleven times. Then look at the
seventeen-yeer 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. Res
direction every seventeen years!
ANOTHER CONSIDERATION.
makes the 1Qea OF resurrection easier,
God made Adam. He was not fashioned
after any model. There had never been
a human organism, and so there wa,
nothing to copy. At the first attempt
God made perfect man. He made him
ont OF the dust Of the earth. If out of
ordinary dust of the earth and without a
model God could make a 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 undertaking would not be greater
than the first. See the gospel algebra:
Ordinary dust minus q model equals a
perfect man; extraordinary dust and
plus q model equals a resurrec-
ton body. Mysteries about it?
Oh, yes; that is one reason why l
believe it. 1t would not be much of a
God who can do things only as fer as 1
can understand. Mysteries? Oh yes;
but no more about the resurrection of
your body than about its present exist
ence. VIII explain to you the last mys-
terry 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,