Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-28

ever beautiful now, will be moro beauti
tul when the bodies of our loved onei
come up in the morning of the resurrec
! ton.
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, 81
am so tiredP The fact is, it is a tired
world. If l should go through this au
dience and go round the world, could
not find person in any style of life ig
porant Of the sensation of fatigue.
do not believe there are so persons in
this audience who are not tired. Your
head is tired, or your back is tired, OF
your foot is tired, or your brain is tirt d,
or your nerves are tired. Long journey.
ing or business application or bereave-
ment or sickness has put on you heavy
weights. So the vast majority of those
who went out of this world went out fa-
tigued. About the poorest place to rest
in is this world. Its atmosphere, its sur
roundings and even its hilarities are ex-
hausting. So God stops our earthly life
and mercifully closes the eyes, and more
especially gives quiescence to the lung
and heart, that have not had 10 minutes
rest from the first respiration and the
first beat.
If drummer boy were compelled in
the army to beat his drum for "a hours
without stopping, his officer would be
court martialed for cruelty. If the drum
mer boy should be commanded to beat
his drum for a week without ceasing,
day and night, he would die in attempt
ing it. But under your vestment is a
poor heart that began its drumbeat for
the march of life 80 or 40 or so or so
years ago, and it has had no furlough by
day or night, and whether in conscious
or comatose state it went right on, for if
it had stopped seven seconds your life
would have closed. And your heart will
keep going until some time after your
spirit has flown, for the auscultator says
that after the last expiration of lung and
the last throb of pulse, and after the
spirit is released, the heart keeps on beat
ing for time. What a mercy, then, it
is that the grave is the place where that
machinery of ventricle and ar
terry can halt!
DUST OF THE EARTH.
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 style 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 have
had no replenishment from the dust
since the time of Adam in paradise, get
any recuperation from the storehouse
rom which he was constructed without
our going back into the dustp That orig
nal life giving material having been
added to the body as it once was, and all
he defects left behind, what body will
De the resurrection bodyi And will not
hundreds of thousands of such appearing
above the Gowanus heights make Green
wood more beautiful than any June
after a shower? The dust of
5he earth being the original material for
he fashioning of the first human being,
we have to go back to the same place to
get a perfect body.
Factories are apt to, be rough places,
md those who toll in them have their
grimy and their hands smutch-
3D. But who cares for that when they
urn out forus beautiful musical instru-
nents or exquisite upholstery? What
.hough the grave is rough place-it is
l resurrection body mandatory, and
rom it shall come the radiant and re-
'plendent forms of our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw.
You put into a factory cotton, and it
comes out apparel. You put into fac
tory lumber and lead, and they come out
pianos and organs. And so into the fac
tory of the grave you put in pneumonias
and consumptions, and they come out
health. You put in groans, and they
come out halleluiahs. For us, on the
inal day, the most attractive places will
not be the parks, or the gardens, or the
palaces, but the cemeteries.
THE PERFECT BODY.
We are not told in what season that
lay will come. If it should be winter,
hose who come up will be more lustrous
han the snow that covered them. If in
he autumn, those who come up will be
more gorgeous than the woods after the
rosts had penciled them. If in thespring,
he bloom on which they tread will be
lull compared with the rubicund of
heir cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrec-
ion body! Almost everybody has some
spot in his physical constitu-
iona dull ear, o. a dim eye, or a rheu-
natic foot, or a neuralgia brow, or a
visited muscle, or weak side, or an in
famed tonsil, or some point at which the
.ast wind or a season of overwork as
aults him.
But the resurrection body shall be
one weak spot, and all that the
loctors and nurses and apothecaries Of
.arth will thereafter have to do will be
o rest without interruption after the
,roken nights of their earthly existence.
Not only will that day be the beautihca-
ion Of well kept cemeteries, but some
f the graveyards that have been neg
ected and been the pasture ground for
attic and roofing places for swine will
or the first time have attractiVeness