Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-18

words Our Mary or Our Charley:
Well | will tell you how RESURRECTION DAY
will beautify all the cemeteries 1t VIII De oy
bringing up the faces that were to us once and
in our memories are TO us now, more oehutt
full than any Gala lily. and the forms that
are to us more graceful than any willow by
.he waters Can you think Of anything more
beautiful than the temperance OF tnoSt
from whom we have been parted; 40 no,
care which way the tree falls In the blast Oh
the Judgment hurricane or If the ploWshart
that day shall turn under the last rose leal
and the last China aster If out OF the DroKer
sod shall come the bodies OF our loved one:
not damaged but irradiated-
The idea of the resurrection gets easier u
understand as hear the photograph unrol
some voice that talked into it or sung into
a year ago. Just before our friends deceae
\ Ou turn the wire and then come forth the
very tones, the very accumulation, the very
cough the very song of the person that
breathed into it once, but Is now departed. TX
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 sug
gested the wordse And il the brain, why not
the nerves, of which the brain Is the head
quarters' And if he can return the nerves,
IL
ge1iousr 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? II man can
do the monograph, God can do the reSurrec-
ton. Will it be the same body that in the
last day shall be terminated? Yes but In
fnitely 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 a scar. | made that at twelve 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 a half dozen
times but those scars prove 1t Is the same
body. And we never lose our identity. II
Con can and does sometimes rebuild
man five, six, ten times, in this world,
is it Mysterious thai He can rebuild him once
more, and that in the resurrection? If He
can do it 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 husband
men and vine dressers tremble as the in
sectile host takes up the march of devasta-
ton. Resurrection every seventeen years.
Another consideration makes the idea of
resurrection easier. God made Adam. He
was not fashioned after any model. There
had never been a 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
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 under.
taking would not be greater than the first.
See the gospel algebra: ordinary dust minus
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 dc things only as
far as [ can understand. Mysteries? Oh,
yes; but no more about the resurrection of
your body than about its present existence.
1 will explain to you the last mystery 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, 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 exteH1ed.
So [ find nothing in the Bible statement con-
corning the resurrection that Staggers ME for
a 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.
They will come in improved condition.
They will come up rested. The most Of them
lay down at the last very tired. How often
you have heard them say: Il AM so tiredw
The fact is it is tired world. II 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. I
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
-.reu, or your brain is tired, |
neying, business application, or
or sickness have put on YOU |
heavy weights. So the vast majority of |
those who went out of this world went out
satigued. About the poorest place to rest
n is this world. Its atmosphere, its sur
'oundings, and even its hilarities are ex-
lausting. SO God stops our earthly life, and
nercifully closes the eyes, and quiets the
eet, and folds the hands, and more especially
sives quiescence to the lungs and heart, that
lave not had ten minutes rest from the first
aspiration and the first beat.
If a drummer boy were compelled in the
lrmy to beat his drum for twenty-four hours
without stopping, his officer would be court
nartialed for cruelty. If the drummer boy
hould be commanded to beat his drum for
week without ceasing day and night, he
you'd die IN attempting it. But under your
Vestment is a poor heart that began its drum
peat for the march of life thirty forty or
sixty or eighty years ago, and 1t has had no
urlOugh by day or night; and, whether IL
conscious or COmatOse state, it went right on,
or if it had stopped seven seconds your life
would have closed. And your heart will keep
ling until some time after your spirit has
for the auscultator says that after the
ration of lung and the last throb of
after the spirit is released, the
beating for time. What
hat the grave is the place
machinery of ventricle /
~oistry of the soil
g and muscle
hat hath Of