Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-04-05

near each other that there IRE only 4
lew months Of flowers In the field.
All the flowers we sec today had to
ne petted and cOaxed and put under
shelter, or they would not have bloom
ed Mt I'LL. They are the children Of the
c0nseryatOries. But Mt this season and
through the most Of the year, the Holy
Land Is all ublush with foreign opu-
lence.
You find oil the royal family of flow-
ers there, some that you supposed IN
digenous to the Far north, and others
indigenous to the far south-the daisy
and hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tu-
lip and water lily, geranium and ran
unculus, mignonette and sweet mar
joram. In the college at Beyrout you
may sec DR.. Posts collection Of about
1,S0O kinds Of Holy Land flowers;
while among trees are the oaks Of froz-
en- climes, and the tamarisk Of the
tropics. walnut and willow, ivy and
hawthorne, ash and elder, pine and sy-
camore. II such floral and botanical
beauties are the wild growths Of the
field, think Of what q garden must be
In Palestine! And in such a garden
Jesus Christ slept after, On the sol
dier's spear, his last drop of hlcod
had coaijulated. And then see how
appropriate that all our cemeteries
should be floralized and tree shaded.
In June Greenwood is Brooklyn's gar
den.
"Well, then.'' you say, "how can you
make out that the resurrection day
VIII beautify the cemeteries? viii it
not leave them q ,lowed up ground?
On that day there will be rn earth
quake, and will not this split the pol
ished Aberdeen granite, as we'll rs the
plain slab that can afford but 'wo
VIC rds, Our Mary or Our Charley 2 y"
Well, will tell you how resurrection
day will beautify all the Gem 'teries. 1t
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 my willow
by the waters. Can you think of any
thing more beautiful than the yeappear-
| ance of those from whom we nave been
| parted? do not care which way the
tree falls in the blast Of the judgment
hurricane, or if the Dlowshare that day
shall turn under the last rose leaf and
the last china aster, If out of the brok-
I'll SUI SlldA COulc Cuc uOOAeS VI Jul
loved ones not damaged, but erradi-
| ated.
The idea of the resurrection gets
easier to understand us I heac the
photograph unroll some voice that
talked into 1t year ago, just before
our friends decease. 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
departed. If man can do that, can
not Almighty God without half try
ing, return the voice Of your departed?
And il he can return the voice, why
| not the lips and the tongue and the
thrt at that fashioned the voice? And
If the lips and the tongue and the
throat, why not the brain that sng-
gested the words? And if the brain,
why not the nerves, why not the NUS
cles, which are less ingenious? And
If the muscles, why not the bones,
that are less wonderful! And If the
voice and the brain and the muscles
and the bones, why not the entire
body? If man can do the phon0-
graph, God can do the resurrection.
Will it. be the same body that IL the
last day shall be reanima+ch? Yes,
but infinitely improved. Our bodies
change every seven years, nc yet, IN
one sense it is the same BODY. On
my wrist and the second fi1ger of my
right hand there is Il scar made that
at IL years of age. when, dls5llsted at
the presence of two warts, took red
hot iron and burnad them Off and
burned them out. Since then my body
has changed at least half dozen times
but those scars prove it is the same
body. We never lose ou"' identity.
If God can and does sometimes re-
build a man five six, ten times, in this
world, it is mysterious that he can re-
build him once more, and that in the
resurrection? If he can do it ten times
| I think he can do it eleven times. Then
look at the seventeen-yc:lr locusts. For
| seventeen years gone, at the end OF
| seventeen years they appear, and by
rubbing the hind leg against the wing
make that rattle at which all the hus-
| bandman and vine-dressers tle,nble as
the insectile host takes up the march
| Of devastation. Resurrection every
seventeen years, O wonderful fact!
Another consideration makes the
idea Of resurrection easier. God made
| Adam. He was not fashioned after
any model. There had never been
a human organism, and SO there: was
nothing to copy. At the first attempt
God made a perfect man. IIe made
him out of the dust Of the earth. If
out Of the ordinary dust Of the earth
and without model God could make
perfect man, surely out Of the ex-
traordinary dust of mortal body. and
with millions of models, God can make
each one of us perfect being in the
resurrection. Surely the last, under
| taking would not be greater than the
first. See the gospel algebra; ordinary
dust minus model equals a perfect
man; extraordinary dust ind plus q
| model equals Il resurr actiOn body.
Mysteries about it? Oh, yes; that is
one reason why believe il. 1t would
not be much Of a God who could do
things only as far as ] can understand.
Mysteries? Oh, yes; but no more
about the resurrection of your body
than about its present existence.
will explain to you the last mys-
tery of the resurrection, md make 1t