Sharp County record., 1890-04-24

montbs of flowers in the field. All the
flowers we see to-day had to Dc peI'eu
and coaxed, and put under Snel'er y, "
tbov would not have bloomed at all
Thov ara the children OF the
aonsorvatories. But at this season.
and through the most OF the year
the Holy Land is all aDluSh WIN
eora1 onnlence. You find all the royal
family of flowers there, some that you
supposed indigenous to the 1ar HoiVn' %
and others indigenous to the lar oouUn
the daisy and hyacinth, crocuS . anu
anpmone, tulip and water-lily, geranlum
and ranunculus, mignonette and SWEEP
marioram. In the college al neylouU '
YOU may see DR.. Posts collectIIn
Of about eighteen hundred xmas
of Holy Land flowers; while among among
trooo are the oak of frozen cllmes
and the tamarisk Of the troplcS'
walnut and willow, ivy and hawthorn,
ash and elder, pine and sycamore IL
such floral and botanical beauties are
the wild growths of the field, think OF
what garden must be in PaleStlne.
And in such garden Jesus Christ Slept
after, on the soldiers spear, Ills iaSC
drop of blood had coagulated. ana
then see how appropriate that all
onr cemeteries should be foralized ana
tree-sbaded. In June, GREENWOOD Is
Brooklyn's garden.
"Weil, them" you say, chow can you
make out that the Resurrection DAY
will beautify the cemeteries? Will IL
not leave them plowed-up grouno'
On that day there will be an earthq uake,
and will not this split the polished
Aberdeen granite, as well as the plain
slab that can afford but the two words
Our Mary or Our Charley we'll
1 will tell you how Resurrection Day
will beautify all the cemeteries. IL
will be by bringing up the races
that were to us once, ana III
our memories are to us noW'
more beautiful than any calla hIy'
and the forms that are to us more
graceful than any willow by the waters
Can you think Of any thing more beau
tiful than the temperance OF those
from whom we have been parted? DO
not care which way the tree falls in the
blast of the Judgment hurricane, or II
the plowshare 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 understand as l hear the
phonograph unroll some voice that
talked into it or sung into it year ago,
Just before our friends deceaSe. You
turn the wire, and then come forth the
very tones, the very accentuation, tho
very cough, the very song of the person
that breathed into it once, but is now
departed If man can do that, can not
Almighty God, without half trying, re-
turn 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 ifHe can return
the nerves, why not the muscles, which
are less ingenious? And if the muscles,
why not the bones, thatare less wonder
full? And if the voice and the brain and
the muscles and the bones, why not the
entire body? If man can do the phono-
graph, God can do the resurrection.
Will it be the same body that in the
last day shall be terminated? Yes, but
infinitely 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
years of age, when, disgusted at
the presence of two warts, l
took a red hot iron and burned
them off, and burned them out.
Since then my body has been 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 mys-
terious that He can rebuild him okce
more, and that in the resurrection? If
He can do it ten times, think He can
do it eleven times. Then look at tho
seventeen-year locusts. For seventeen
years gone; at the end of seventeen
years they appear, and by rubbing the
hind leg against tho wing make that
rattle, at which all the hus sbandmen and
vine-dressers tremble as the insectile
host takes up the march of devastation.
Resurrection every seventeen years.
Another consid Grafton makes the idea
of resurrection easier. God made Adam.
He was not fashioned after any model.
There had never been a human organ
ism, 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 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 un-
der taking would not be greater than