The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-04-12

are less lngen1OuSP And II the muscles,
why not the bones, that are less won
derful? And if the voice and the brain
and the muscles and the bones, why not
he entire body? If man can do the
photograph God can do the resurrection
Another consideration 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 Goo made a perfect
man. He made him out of the dust of
the earth. Ii out of the ordinary dust
of the earth and without a model God
could make q perfect man, surely out Of
the extraordinary dust of the mortal
body, and with millions Of models, Goo
can make each one Of us a perfect being
in the resurrection. Surely the last I'M
~dertaking would not be greater thar the
first. See the gospel algebra; ordinary
dust minus a model equals a perfect man,
extraordinary dust and plus a model
equals a resurrection body. Mysteries
about 1t? O, yes; that Is one reason
why l believe II. 1t would not be much
of a God who could do things only as far
as l % understand. Mysteries? o,
yes; but no more about the resurrection
Of your body than about its present ex-
istence l will explain to you the last
mystery Of the resurrection, and make
1t as plain to you as that two and two
make four, II you will tell me how your
mind, which is entirely independent of
your body, can act upon your body so
that at your will your eyes open, OF
unur foot Wa1ko or un1r hand Ia nv
tended. So l find nothing in the Bible
statement concerning the resurrection
that staggers me for a moment All
doubts clear from my mind, l 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 nave heard them say:
81 am sc tiredr' The fact is, it is a tired
world. If I should go through this au-
Hence and go aroun the world l could
not find a person in any style of life ig-
norant Of the sensation of fatigue. l 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 journey
ing, or business application, or bereave-
ment or sickness have put oSyou heavy
weights. So the vast majority of those
who vent 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 exhadsting. So God stops our earth |
ly life, and mercifully closes the eyes
and quiets the feet and folds the hands
and more especially gives quiescence to
the lungs and heart hat have not had
ten minutes rest from the first respira- !
ton and the first beat.
If q 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 q week without
ceasing, day and night, he would die in
attempting 1t. But under your vestment
is a 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 comatose state,
1t went right on, for II it had stopped |
sev seconds -FOUR life would have
closed. And your heart will keep going
for some time after your spirit has
flown, for the auscultator says that af-
ter the last expiration of lung and the
last throb of pulse, and after the spirit |
is released, the heart keeps on beating |
for q time. What a mercy, then, 1t is
that the grave is the place where that
wondrons 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
OF dust out Of which the body of Adam
was constructed may be infused
into the resurrection body. How can
the bodies OF the human race, which
had no replenishment from the dust
since the time of Adam in Paradise,
get any recuperatipn from the store
house from which he was constructed
without our going back into the dustP
That original, life-giving material hay
ing been added to the body as it once
Was and all the defects left behind, what
. body will be the resurrection bodyl
And will not hundreds of thousands Of
such appearing above the Gowanus
Heights make Greenwood more beauti-
full than any June morning after q
shower? The dust Of the earth being
the original material for the ~fashioning
OF the first human being, we have to go
back to the same place to get q perfect
body. Factories are apt to be rough
and those who toll in them have
their garments grimy and their hands
when they turn out for ~ beautiful
musical Instruments or exquisite Hp-
holsteryI What though the grave is 2
rough place. 1t IS 2 resurrection body
manufactory. and from 1t shall come the
radiant and respleBdent forms OF o4F
friends pm the brightest morning the
world ever saw.
You put into q factory cotton, and it
comes out apparel. You put into a fac
tory Lumber and lead, and 1t comes out
pianos and organs And 20 into h fac
tory Of the grave You put in pneumonias
and c~onsumptions, and they come out
health. You pat IN groans, and they
out hallelujahs. For AS on the
day the most attractive 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. II it should be winter
those who come up will be more
lustrous than the snow that covered
them. IL in the autnmR, those who
up will be more gorgeous than the
woods after tho frosts haye penciled
them. II in the spring. the bloom on
they tread will be dull compared
with the rubicund OF their cheeks. q.
the perfect resurrection body! Almost
every one has some defective spot
In bis physical constitution; q dull
ear. or s dim eye, or a rheu-
matte foot or = Reuralgic brow, or
4 twisted muscle, or 8 Yeak side,
or al inflamed ~tonsil, or ONE point 90
which the east wind or q season Of over
work assaults him. But the resurrection
body shall be without n weak spot,
and all that the doctors and nurses and
apothecaries of earth will thereafter
have to do will be to rest without inter
after the broken nights of their
existence. Not only will that
lay be the Qualification Of yell kept
but some Of the g~rayeyards
that have been neglected, and been the
pasture ground for cattle and roofing
places for swine, will for the first time
nave attractiveness given them. 1t was