Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-04-11

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him ont of the dust Of the earth. II out OF
ordinary dust OF the earth and without a
model God could make perfect man, surely
out of the extraordinary dust OF mortal body
and with millions OF models God can make
each one of US perfect being in the resur-
rection. Surely the last undertaking would
uot be greater than the first. See the gospel
algebra. Ordinary dust minus n model
equals a perfect man. Extraordinary du9
aud plus n model equals resurrection body
Mysteries about It? Oh, yes. That is one
reason why believe 1t. 1t would not be
much of q God who could do things only az
far as l can understand. Mysteries? On.
yes. But no more about the resurrection OF
your body than about its present existence.
| will explain to you the last mystery Of the
resurrection and make 1t as plain to you as
that two and two make four If you will tell
me how your mind, which Is entirely indie
pendent OF your body, can act upon your
body so that at your will your eyes open. or
your foot walks, or your hand is extended.
So flud nothing in the Bible statement con-
cerning the resurrection that staggers me
for moment. All doubts clear from my
mind l say that the cemeteries, however
beautiful now, will Oe more beautiful when
the no lies OF our loved ones come up in the
morning OF the resurrection.
They will come in improved condition.
They will come up rested. The most OF
them lay down at the last very tired. How
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tired p The fact is, it is tired world. If l
should go through this audience and so
round the world, L could not find person in
any style of life ignorant Of the sensation Of
tItigue.
1 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 journeylng or business ap-
plication or bereavement or sickness has put
on you heavy weights. So the vast majority
Of those wuO went out OF this world went
out fatigued. About the poorest place to rest
In IS this world. Its atmosphere, its sur
rounlings and even its hilarities are exhG1Es-
ing. So God stops our earthly life eni
mercifully closes the eyes, and more espe-
cially gives quiescence to helung and heart,
that have not had ten minutes rest from the
irst respiration and the first beat.
If u drummer boy were compelled in the
army TO beat his drum for twenty-four hours
without stopping, his officer would be court
martjaled for cruelty. II the drummer boy
should be commanded to beat his drum for a
week without ceasing, day and night, he
would die in attempting 1t. But under your
vestment Is 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
! lurlOugh by day or night, and Ohsiher in
conscious or comatOse state it went right on,
Tor II il 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 thro5
Of pulse, and after the spirit is released. the
leart keeps on beating tor a time. What q
mercy, then. it is that the grave is the place
where that wondrOu5 machinery Of ventricIo
anil artery can halt
Under the healthful chemistry OF the soil
I'll the wear ami tear of nerve and muscle
lni bone will be suhtractsd. and that bath Of
good fresh clean soil will wash of the last
ache, and then some of the same style of
lust out OF which the body of Adam was
constructed may be infused into the resur-
rection body. How can the DO dies OF the hui
man race, which have had no replenishment
from the dust since the time OF Adam in par
idise, get any recuperatiOn from the store
house from which he was constructed with
pat our going back into the dust? That
original life giving material having been
added to the body as 1t once was, and all the
defects left behind. what a body will be the
resurrection body! And will not hundreds
Of thousands of such appearing above the
Gowanus heights make Greenwood more
beautiful than any June morning after a
shower? The dust OF the earth being the
original material for the fashioning OF the
first human being, we have to 20 back to the
same place to get perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places, and
those 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 instruments or exquisite
upholstery? What though the grave is a
rough place-it is a resurrection body manu-
factory, and from 1t shall come the radiant
and resplendant forms OF our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw. You
put into q factory cotton, and It comes out
apparel. You put into a factory lumber and
lead, and they come out pianos and organs.
And so in the factory OF the grave you put
In pneumOniaS and consumptiOns, and they
come out health. You put ia groans, and
they come out haleuiah7. For US, on the
linll day, the most attractive places Will not
Je the parks, or the gardens, or the palaces,
1ut the cemeteries.
We are not told in what season that day
will come. II it should be winter, those who
coma up will be more lustIOus than the snow
that covered them. If in the autumn, those
VINO come up will be more gorgeous than the
WOO Is after the frosts had penciIed them. II
In the spring, the bloom on which they tread
will be dull compared with the rubicund of
heir checks. Oh. the perfect resurrection
body Almost everybody has some deiec-
i've spot in his physical constitutional dull
aar. or a dim eye, or a rheumatic foot, or a
leuralcic brow, or q twisted muscle, or
weak sile, or an inlamed tonsil, or some
point at which the east wind or a season of
JTerwOrk assaults him.
But the resurrection body shall be without
one weak spot, and all that the doctors ami
nurses and apothecaries Of earth will there
after have to do will be to rest without in
terruption after the broken nights of their
earthly existence. Not only will that day
be the beautidcatiOn Of well kept cemeteries,
but some OF the graveyards that have been
neglected and been the pasture ground for
cattle and rOOsting place for swine will for
the first time have attractiveness given
them.
1t was shame TINT in that place ungrate-
fuI generations planted no trees and twisted
no garianGs. ami sculpturel no marble for
their Christian ancestry. But on the day of
which | speak the resurrecte shall make the
Place o! their feet glorious. From under the
shadow o. the church where they slumbered
among npttles and mullen stalks and this
ties mn ! slabs aslant. they snail arise with
glory tha. shall flush the win lows of the
village church, AMI by the bell tower that
used 20 call them to worship. AMI above the
old spire beside which their prayers formerly
HS'ruiei. :. What triumphal procession never
diI .oc street. what an oratoE:o never dII
Tor Ga Glsmy, what an orator never did
for brilliant auditory, what obeisk never
iii Tor a king, resurrection morn will do for
all the cemeteries.
This Easter tells US that in Christ's resur-
rHction our resurrection, If we are His, and
the rrsGrr 'tion Of all the pious dead, is as
Surai, for He was ''the first fruits Of thcm
that slept" Renln says He did not rise. but
$50 witnesses. sixty Of them Christ's enemies,
slv He did rise, tor they So V Him after He
had. Ii He did not rise. how did sixty armed
soldiers let Him get awayg Surely srxty rry-
in soldiers ought to be able to keep one
dead man. Blessed be God! He did get
aWFv.
Amer His resurrection Nlrv Mag lllens
-" lin. ClcOpas saw Him. Ten disciples
n an upper room at JerusGlsm saw Him On
= mountain the eleven saw Him. Five hum
irri az "l,t' saw Him. Professor Ernest Re-
nan. who did not ses Him, will excuse US for
tlS'us { he testimony OF the $50 who did see
Hon. lfs, yes. H got away. And that
makes me sEgo that QUO departed loved ones
!nI we ourselves shall get away. Freed
Hi~-..i from the shackles OF clod He is NOT
go 1ctp leave Us ami ours in the lurch.
There will be no icCrknOb on the inside of
our 'anly sepul"hpr. for We rInHot come out
ot ourselves, l.It ;l@re IL q H1Orknob on the !
outside, ana tnIt Jesus snail lay hold o. and,
opening, will say: "GOOl morningl You |
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