The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-04-18
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Win It be the some body that on IT, last
day shall b. rcanimatedf. YSSs tut' inanitsly
improved. Our bodies change every seven
years' and an yet In every sense. It is the same
Of my right hnnd there Il scar. made
thnt, at twelve years of age, when, disgusted
at the presence Of two warts. took red.
hot iron md burned them out. Since then
my body has changed ut least halEdozen
times, but those scars prove it 10 the snme
ran and does sometimes rebuild q man five,
ak, ten times. in this world, ID 1t mysterious
thut lie eau rebuild him once more and that
in the resurrection? II he can do It 10 times,
think He can do it II times. Then look
ut the 17-year locnsts. For II years gone.
rubbing the hind leg against tho wing nuke
that rattle Mt which NIL the llusbnndmen and
vine-dressers tremble IN the nsectile host
takes up the march Of devastation. Resur.
rection every Z years!
Another consideration makes the idea OF
resurrection easier. God made Adam. He
was not tushioned utter any model. There
Ind never been human organism, end 30
there was nothing to copy. At the first at
tempt God matlra perfect man. He made
him out Of the dust o the earth. II out OF
ordinary dust oi the eartli and without a
out Of the extraordinary dust of the mortal
body. nnd with millions OF models God
cnn make each one of us n perfect being in the
Resurrection. Surely the last undertaking
would not he greater than the first. Sec the
gospel algebra: ordinary dust minus n inodel
equals perfect man: extraordinary dust and
plus model equals ~ resurrection body.
Mysteries about it? oh yes; that is one rei,-
son why helirvc it. 1t would not lie much
of n God who could do things only as fnr as
! can understand. Mysteries? Oh yes: hut
no moro about the resurrection of your body
tlan about its present existence will OK.
l'lain to y0n the last mystery of the resur.
rection. nnd make it az plain to you as that
two aud Two make four, IL you will tell mo
how your mind, which In entirely independent
of your body Gun actupon your body M Tint
at your will your eyes open, or your foot
nothing in the Bible statement concerning
he resnrrection TINT staggers mo for mo.
lncnt. All doubts clenr from my mind say
TINT TIL" cemeteries. however beautiful now,
will be more beautiful when the bodies of our
loved ones come up.
They will come up rested. The most OF them
lay Down ut the last very tired. How otm
YOU have henr,l them say, II uni No tire!'
The fnct IT, it IN n tired world. i'll shonld
go through this audience, and go round the
world. could not find II person in amy stylr
/
do not believe there are 80 persons in this
audience who nre not tired. Your head il
tired, or your back il tired. or your foot is
tired. or your brnin is tired or your nerves
are tired. Long journeying, or business up.
plication, or bereavement, or sickness hnvo
put on YOU heavy weights. So the vnst mn.
iority of those who went out Of the world
went out fatig,el About the poorest place
to rest in il This world. Its ntmosplere its
surroundings, and even its liilarities are ex-
hausting. So God stops our earthly life.
and, closes the eyes, and quiets the feet, ,.nnd
folds the hands, md more especially giyes
luiefcence to the lung aud heart, TINT have
not hnd 10 minutes rest from the first res
piration and tho first brat. Ifa drummer.
boy were compelled in the army to bent lis
drum for 81 hours without stopping, his Off
GER would br court mnrtiuirl FOR cruelty. n
tho drummer-lOy should be commanded to
beat his 'rum for Il week without censing,
.iny md night. he would dio in attempting
II. But underyour vest mcnt il poor heart
that l,cgan its drum heat for the march of
life 20 or 10 or 80 years ngo, and 1t has l,a,i
no fnrlonsh by day or night; and. whether
IN conscious or romntost ST. ate. it went right
on, for hit had stopped seven seconds your
lie would have closed And your heart will
keep going until some time after your spirit
llns iiown for the nnsculntor snys that after
th'J last expiration OF lung nnd the last
throb OF pulse and after the spirit is relensr,l,
the heart keeps on beating for time. What
u mercy, then, it in that the grave liz tho
plare whero that wondrous machinery OF
yventrirle aud artery can Init! Under the
hcnlthful chemistry Of tho soil all tho wenr
and tear %! nerve nnd muscle and bone will
lie slbtrnctr,l and that bath OF good, fresh,
clean soil will wash off the lust ache, and then
some of the same style of dust out of which
The body of Adam was constructed may be
infused into the resurrection body. How
cnn the bodies of the human r,,ce, which
have hn,i no rrplanishinent from the dust
since the time oi Adum in paradise, get any |
rernner'ttion from the storehouse from !
which lie was constructed without our going
back into the dust? That original, li:c.giv !
ing material having been added to tho body
ns it once was, and ull the defects left be-. .
hind, what II body will he the resurrection
body! And will not hundreds of thousands !
Of such appearing above the Gowanus
Heights mako Greenwood more beautiful
than any June morning after shower? The !
dust OF the earth being the original material |
for tho fashioning Of the first human being. !
we hnv" I" go back to the same place to get
a perfect hndy. Factories are apt to bs I
rough places. nn'l those who toll in them
have their hands grimy and their clothes
For us. on the final day, the most attract
i've pInces will no, br the parks or the gardens
or the palaces. but the cemeteries
We mre not told in Whit season that |
dny VIII come. HIT should lie the winter .
I hose who come up will be mt ore lust rous thnn
tho snow that covered them. III in the mn
tumm. those who come up will he more ror-
geous than tho woods after the fro.ts have
pcncile,i them. If in the spring, the bloom on
which they tread will be dull compared with
tho rubirund ON their checks. Oh the perfect
resurrectinn body! Almost every one has
some detective spot in his physicai constitu. /
tion; dull ear or n dim eye or o rheumntic
foot. or neuralgic brow, or IL twisted muscle.
or ii weak side. or an inhamed tonsil. or
some point ut which the east wind or a sen.
son of ovrrwork nssnults him. But the re-.
snrrecte'l body shall bc without one weak
spot. and all that the doctors and nurses and
npothpcarias Of earth will thereafter have to
do will I've to rest without interruption after
the broken nights of their enrthy existence.
Not only will the day bc the Identification
"f well kept cemeteries, but some of the
graveyards that have bcen neglected. and
been the pnsture-g,ound for cattle and root. @
ing places for swine, will FOR the first time
llnye nttrnctiveness given them 1t was
shame that in that place ungrateiuI g4nor.
asions planted no trees and twisted no gnp-
lands. and srulptured no marble for their
iiristian ancestry; hut on the day Of which
rIssak the resurrected sllnll maj , the ulaca
OF ..i.' r feet gl0riaus. For under ~
OF tIcsChUscL. where tlley III