The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-30

Low htnus Oh 1OlE ldnu MOWERS. NnlAe
among trees are the oaks of frozen
chimes, and the tamarisk of the tropics
walnut and willow. ivy and hawthorn,
ash and elder, pine and sycamore. If
such floral and botanical beauties are
the wild growths of the field, think of
what a garden must be in Palestinei
And in such a garden Jesus Christ
slept after, on the soldiers spear. his
last drop of blood had coagulated-
And then see how appropriate that all
our cemeteries should be fioralized and
tree shaded In June Greenwood is
Brooklyn's garden
We'll, then, you say, show can you
make out that the resurrection day
will beautify the cemeteries? VIII it
not leave them a plowed up ground?
On that day there will be an earth
quake, and will not this split the pol
ished Aberdeen granite. as well as the
plain slab that can afford but two
words: Our Mary or Our Charlev?' -
Well will tell you how resurrection
day will beautify all the cemeteries
It will be by bringing up the faces that
were to US once, and in our memories
are to US now, more beautiful than any
Gala lily, and the forms that are to us
more graceful than any willow by the
waters
The idea of the resurrection gets
easier to understand as / hear the
photograph unroll some voice that
talked into it year ago, Just before
our friends deceased You touch the
lever, and then come forth the very
tones, the very song OF the person that
breathed into it once. but Is now de-
parted If man can do that. cannot
Almight God, without half irving, re-
turn 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 the brain that suggested the
words? If man can do the photograph,
God can do the resurrection.
VIII it be the same body that in the
last day shall be terminated? Yes,
but infinitely improved. Our bodies
change every seven years, and yet, in
one sense it is the same body On nv
wrist and the second finger of my
right hand there is a scar | made
that at y years of age. when. Disguised
at the presence OF two warts. l took a
red hot iron and burned them off and
burned them out. Since then nv body
has changed at least half dozen times.
but those scars prove it is the same
body. We never lose our identity.
If God can and does sometimes
rebuild a man five, six. ten
times, in this world. Is it mysterious
that he can rebuild him once more, and
that in the resurrection? If he can do
it ten times think ne can do it eleven
times Then look at the seventeen
year locusts For seventeen wears
gone, at the end OF seventeen wears
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.
wonderful fact,
Another consideration makes the idea
of resurrection easier. God made
Adam He was not fashioned after anv
model There had never been a human
and so there was nothing to
copy. At the first attempt God made
a perfect man. He made him out
of the dust of the earth. If out of |
ordinary dust of the earth. and with |
out a model God could make a perfect
man, surely out Of the extraordinary |
dust OF mortal body. and with millions |
Of models God can make each one of |
US a perfect being in the resurrection.
Surely the last undertaking would not |
be greater than the first. See the Cos |
pei algebra: ordinary dust minus |
model equals perfect man: extraordi- |
nary dust and plus a model equals |
body. Mysteries about |
it? Oh, yes: that Is one reason why |
believe it 1t would not be much of a |
God who could do things only as far as
can understand.
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 independent of
your body. can act upon your body, so
that at your will your eyes open. or
-our foot walks or your hand is ex-
tended SO I find nothing in the Bible
statement concerning the resurrection /
hat staggers me for moment All |
doubts clear from nv mind. ! say that /
he cemeteries however beautiful now.
will be more beautiful when the bodies
If our loved ones come up in the morn
ng of the resurrection
They will come in improved condi-
ion They will come up rested The
most of them lay down at the last very
ired How often you have heard them
ay: Il am 50 tiredr' The fact is, it is
tired world. If should go through
his audience. and go around the world.
could not find person in any style of
ife ignorant OF the sensation of IA
igue- Long jOurneyiug, or business
Ipplica ton, or bereavement. or sickness
las put on you heavy weights so the
asst ma joritv of those who went out of
his worldwent out fatigued- About the
poorest place TO rest Is in this world
Is atmosphere. its surroundings. and
ven its hilarities are eXhausting. So
rod stops our earthly life and merci-
ully closes the eyes, and more especial
' gives qujescence to the lung and
Ieart that have not had ten minutes
est from the first respiration and the
rSt beat
If a drummer boy was compelled in
he army TO beat his drum for twenty
our hours without stopping his officer
Fould be court-martialed for cruelty
I the drummer boy should be COM
elled TO beat his drum for a week
7ithout ceasing. DAY and night, he
7ould die in attempting it But under
our vestment IS poor heart that be-
an its drum beat for the marc h Of life