The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-26

feet body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and Ia So who toll in them have their
garments grimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that when
they turn out for Us beautiful musical IN
strumenrs or exquisite upholstery! What
though the grave is q rOu-h place It Is
resurrection body mandatory, and from
70 shall come The radiant and respondent
forms OF Our friends on the brightest morn
ING the world ever saw. EOu put into
factory cotton. and Do comes out apparel.
You put into factory lumber and Lead,
and 10 comes out pianos and organs. And
50 into the factory OF the grave, you put
I'D pIeumOnlas and COusumptlOls and they
come out health. IDu put q ErOaus and
they come out halclulahs. FOR u.s. on
the final day. the most attractive places
viii not uc the parks or the gardens or
tine palaces. but the cemeteries.
W are not told IN what season that
day viii come. If il should be winter
those who come up Will be more lustrOus
than the snow that covered them. II In
J the autumn. those who viii come up will
be more gorgeous than the woods
after the frOsJs had pencIled them. Ii
/ IN the spring, the bloom on which they
tread viii be dull compared with
the rubicund Of their cheeks. Oh, the
/ perfect resurrection body! Almost every
. body has some defective spot in his phys
/ zeal constitution a duh ear or a dim
+ eye, or rheumatic foot or a neuralgia
! brow, or a twisted muscle, or a weak side
/ or an iufamcd tOnsil. or some point at
which the east wind or season Of over
| work assaults him. But the resurrection
1 body shall be without one weak SPOT and
all that the doctors, and nurses and apoth-
/ ecaIies Of earth Will thereafter have to
/ do, viii be 10 rest without interruption
/ after the broken nights of their earthly
( existence. Not only viii that day be the
| Identification of well kept cemeteries, but
1 some of the graveyards that have been
ns elected and been the pasture ground for
cattle, and roofing places for swine, will
/ for the first time have attractiveness
given hem.
| 1t was a shame that in that place I'M
grateful generations planted no trees,
and twisted no garlands, and sculptured
no marble for their Christian ancestry:
| but on the day of which / speak the resur-
rected shall make the place of their feet
glorious From under the shadow of the
church, where they slumbered among
nettles, and mullen stalks, and thistles,
and slabs aslant, they shall rise with
glory that shall flush the windows of the
village church, and by the bell tower that
used to call them TO worship, and above
the old spirc beside which their prayers
formerly assembled. What tUiumphal pro-
cessiOn never did for a street, what an
oratorio never did for an academy, what
an orator never did for brilliant audi
| tory, what obelisk Eever did for a king
| resurrection morn will do for all the
cemeteries.
This Easter tells US that in Christs
resurrection our resurrection. if we are
his, and the resurrection of all the pious
dead, is assured, for he was, the first
fruits of them that slept" Renan says
he did not rise, but five hundred and
eighty witnesses, sixty of them Christs
enemies say he did rise, for they saw
him after he had risen. If he did not
rise, how did sixty armed soldiers lot
him get away Surely sixty living sol
diers ought 10 be able to keep one dead
man! Blessed be God, He did get away
After his resurrection Mary Magdalene
saw him. Cleopas saw him. 20 Ten dis
ciples in an upper room at Jerusalem,
saw him. On a mountain the eleven saw
| him. Five hundred at once saw him
| Prof Ernest Renan, who did not see him,
| Will excuse US for taking the testimony of
the five hundred ana eighty who did see
! him. Yes, yes he got away. And that
| makes me sure that our departed loved
ones and we ourselves shall get away
| Freed himself from the shackles of clod,
he IS not going to leave US and ours in the
| lurch.
There will be no door knob on the inside
of our family sepulchre, for we cannot
come out, of ourselves; but there is a door
knob on the outside, and that Jesus shall
lay hold of, and, opening, will say: Good
morning. You have slept long enough
ARISE! Arise!" And then what 1utter of
wings, and what flashing of rekindled
eyes, and what gladstone rushing across
the family lot with cries of Father is
that your" Mother, is that yOu?' My
darling, is that your How you all have
! changed The cough gone, the Group
gone the consumption gone, the paralysis
gone, the WEAKNESS gone. Come, let US
ascend together The older ones first,
the younger ones next! Quick now, get
into line! The sky-ward procession has
already started! Steer now by that en-
bankment OF cloud for the nearest gate!"
And, as we ascend, on one side the earth
gets smaller until it is no larger than
mountain, and smaller until it is no larger
/ than a palace, and smaller until it is no
larger than ship, and smaller until it is
no larger than a wheel, and smaller until
it is no larger than a speck.
Farewell, diSsOlving earth! But on the
other side, as we rise, heaven at first APP
pears no larger than your hand. And
nearer it looks like a chariot, and nearer
IL looks like Uthrone, and nearer it looks
! like a star, and nearer it looks like a sun,
and nearer il looks like a universe. Hail,
/ scepJers that shall always wavc Hail,
amt hens that shall always roll! Hail,
companlOnships never again to part That
/ Is what resurrection day will do for all
/ the cemeteries and graveyards from the
1 Machpelah that was opened by Father
/ Abraham in Hebron to the Machpelah
! yesterday consecrated And that makes
/ Lady Huntington's immortal rhythm
! most opposite:
! When thou, my righteous Judge shall come
/ To take thy ransomed people home
Shall among them stand:
Shall such a worthless worm as l,
I Who sometimes am afraid to die.
BE found at thy right hand?
/ Among thy saints let me be found,
/ Whene 'er tn archaugel's trump shall sound;
70 see thy smiling face;
/ Then loudest of the throng l II sing
! While he tven's resounding arches ring
With shouts of sovereign grace
A BEAUTIFUL TOWN.
A Place That Would Be a Superb