The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-17

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 wood more beautiful than any Juno
 morning after 2 shower2 The dust of 1 the earth being the original material l for the fashioning of the first human be- ! ing, We have to 20 back to the same place to ret q 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 as beautiful musical instruments or ex- quisite upholsteryi What though the
 grave is rough place, it is resurrec-
 tion-body manufact0ry, and from ie shall come the radiant and resplendent 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 lumber and lead.
 and 1t comes out pianos and organs
 And so into the factory of the grave you
 put in pneumonias and consumptions,
 and they come out health. You put in
 groans, and they come out hallelujahs. For us, on the final day. the most at
 tractive 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 ID 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 frosts have penciled them. If in the spring, the bloom on which they tread
 
 of their checks Oh, the perfect resur- rection bodyi Almost every one has some defective spot in his physical con stitution: dull ear, or dim eye, or rheumatic foot, or neuralgia brow, or twisted muscle, or weak side, or an infamed tonsil, or some point at which the east wind or a season Of oyerwork assaults him. But the resurrection body shall be without one weak spot.
 and all that the doctors and nurses and apothecaries of earth will thereafter have to do will be to rest without inter- ruption after the broken nights of their earthly existence.
 Not only will that day be the beauti- fcation of well-kept cemeteries. but some of the graveyards that have been neglected, and been the pasture ground
 for cattle and roofing places for swine, will for the first time have attractive ness given them. 1t was a shame that in that place ungrateful generations planted no trees and twisted no garlands, and sculptured no mar ble for their Christian ancestry; but on the day of which speak the resurrected shall make
 the place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the church, where
 they slumbered among nettles and null lein stalks and missiles 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 to worship, and above the old spire beside which their prayers for merly aseended. What triumphal pro- eession never did for street what an oratorio never did for an academy, what an orator never did for brilliant audi tory, what obelislz never did for King. resurrection morn will do for all tho cemeteries.
 The Easter tells us that in Christ's resurrection our resurrection, if we are His, and the resurrection of all the pious dead, is assured, for He was "the first fruits of them that slept" Renan says He did not rise, but five hundred and eighty witnesses, sixty of them Christ's enemies, say He did rise, for they saw Him after He had risen. If He did not rise, how did sixty armed soldiers let Him get ava y? Surely six ty living soldiers ought to he able to n-.- ID ls. H-1f He did get away. After His resur- rection Mary Magdalene saw Him. Cleopas saw Him. Ten disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem saw Him. On mountain the eleven saw Him. Five hundred at once saw Him. Prof Ernest Renan, who did not see Him. will excuse us for taking the testimony of the five hundred and eighty who did see Him. Yes, yes; He got away. And that makes me sure that oar departed loved ones and we ourselves shall get away. Freed Him. self from the shaekles of clod, He is not going to leave us and ours in the lurch. There will be no door-knob on the in- side of our family sepulcher. for we can not come out by ourselves; but there is n AgDE-AuOD OU lilt DAtSAutf anu b4ldb Jesus shall lay hold of, and opening, will say: Good morning! You have slept long enough. Arisel Arisel"
 And then what futter of wings, and l what flashing of rekindled eyes, and what gladsome rushing across the fami. 1 ly lot with cries of Father, is that l you2" Mother, is that you?' My 1 darling, is that you?" How you all | have ehangedl The cough gone, the l croip gone, the consumption gone, the | paralysis gone, the weariness gone. l Come, let us ascend togetherl The l older ones first, the younger ones next | Quick now, get into linel The skyward | procession has already started! Steer | now by that embankment of cloud for | the nearest gate!" And as we as- smaller until it is no larger | than a mountain, and smaller until it is 1 no larger than a palace, and smaller | until it is no larger than a ship, and f smaller until it is no larger than wheel, and smaller until it is no larger | than speck. Farewell, dissolying | earthl But on the other side, as we | rise, Heaven at first appears no larger | than your hand. And nearer it looks | like chariot, and nearer it looks like | a throne, and nearer it looks like star, and nearer 1t looks like a sun, and | nearer it looks like a universe. Hail, | scepters that shall al ways wayel Hail, | anthems that shall always roll Hail, ! companionships never again to be bro | ken, and friendships never again to partl | That is what Resurrection Day will | do for all the cemeteries and grave yards from the Maehpelah that was opened by Father Abraham in Hebron to the Machpelah yesterday consecrated. | And that makes Lady Huntington's i'm. mortal rhythm most opposite:
 When Thou, my righteous Judge, shalt come To take Thy ransomed people home,
 Shall among them standf
 Shall such d worthless worm as l.