Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-07

faces that we're to us once, and III our memor'
les are to as now, more beautiful than any
ealla lilv. 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 VIC
have been parted2 do not care which way
the tree falls in the blast of the Judgment
hurricane, or il 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 dam.
aged but irradiated.
The idea of the resurrection gets easier to
understand as l hear the monograph unroll
some voice that talked into it or sung into II
a year ago, just before our friends decease
You turn the wire, and then come forth the
very tones, the very accentnation, the very
cough, the very song of the person that
breathed into it once, but is now departed
II 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 lipsand the tongue and the
throat that fashioned the voicel And IT the
lips and the tongue and the throat, why not
then the brain that suggested the wordsi
And if the brain, why not the nerves, OF
which the brain is the headquarters And
If lie can return the nerves, why not the
MUSCLES, which are less ingeniousl 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
entire body? If man can do the photograph,
God can do the resurrection. VIII it be the
same body that in the last day shall be reani
mated? Yes, hut infinitely improved.
Our bodies change every seven years, and
yet in one Rense, it is the same body. On my
wrist and ne second finger of my right hand
there is u scar. | made that at II years OF
age, when, disguised at the presence of two
warts, | took 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 man five, six,
ten times, in this world, Is II mysterious that
he can rebuild him once more, and that in
the resurrection? If he can do 1t ten times, |
think he can do it eleven times. Then look
at the seventeen year 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. Resurrection every seventeen
years.
THE GOSPEL ALGEBRA.
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 at
tempt God made perfect man He made
him out 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 perfect being in the
resurrection. Surely the last undertaking
would not be greater than the first. See the
gospel algebra: ordinary dust minus model
equals a perfect man; extraordinary dust
and plus model equals a resurrection body.
Mysteries about it9 Oh, yes; that is one rea-
son why believe it. 1t would not be much
of a 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 present existence.
will explain to you the last mystery OF
the resurrection and make it as plain to you
as tlldI TWO anu Two llldhG - 1Ou " III
tell me how your mind, which is entirely in
dependent 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-
corning 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 bodies
of our loved ones come up
THE REST OF THE GRAVE.
They will come in improved condition.
They will come up rested. The most of them
Law down mt the last very tired. How often
you have heard them say, ~ am so tiredp'
The fact is, it is tired world. If ! should
90 through this audience, and go round the
world | could not find person In any style
of life ignorant of the sensation OF fatigue, |
do not believe there are fifty 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 journeyng, or business APP
pication, or bereavement, or sickness have
put on you heavy weights So the vast ma
iority 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 hilarities are ex-
hausting. So God stops our earthly life, ana
mercifully closes the eyes, and quiets the feet,
aud folds the hands, and more especially
gives quiescence to the lung and heart, that
have not had ten minutes rest from the first
respiration and the first beat
If a drummer boy were compelled in the
army to beat his drum for twenty-four hours
without stopping, his officer would be court
martialed for cruelty. If the drummer boy
should be commanded to beat his drum for a
week without ceasing, day and night, he would
die in attempting it. But under your vestment
lisa poor heart that began its drum beat for the
march of life thirty or forty or sixty or eighty
years ago, and it has had no furlough by day
or night; and, whether in conscious or coma
tose state, it went right on, for If 1t had
stopped seven seconds your life would have
closed. And your heart will keep going UNI
/ til some time after your spirit has flown, for
the auscultator says that after the last expira-
i ton of lung and the last throb of pulse, and
! after the spirit is released, the heart keeps on
! beating for a time. What a mercy, then, il
is that the grave is the place where that won
drons machinery of ventricle and artery can
halt
Under the healthful chemistry of the soil
all the wear and tear 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 some of the same styl of dust
out of which the body of Adam was con
structed may be infused into the resurrection
body. How can the bodies of the human race
which have had no replenishment from tbs
dust since the time of Adam in paradise, gel
any recuperatlon from the storehouSe IRON
which he was constructed without our golnG
back into the dustl That original, life giving
material having been added to the BODY as =
once was, and all the defects left behind
what n body will be the resurrection Oouy
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