The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-03-31


tree shaded. In June Greenwood is
Brooklyn's garden.
well, then" you say, show can you
make out that the resurrection day
Will beautify the cemeteries? VIII il
not leave them u plowed up ground?I
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: 'Ou Mary or Our Charley""
Well, i will tell you how resurrection
day will beautify all the cemeteries.
1t will be by bringing up the faces that
were to us once, and in our memories
are to us now, 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 n yea ago. just before
our friends deceased. You touch the
lever, and then come forth the very
tones, the very song of h person that
breathed into it once, but is now de-
parted. If n man can do that, cannot
Almight God, without half trying, re.
turn the voice of your departed? And
if He can return the voice, why not the
lips and the tongue and the throat
hat fashioned the voice? And il the
lips and the tongue and h throat,
why not the brain hat suggested the
words? If a can do the photograph,
God can do the resurrection
Will 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 my
wrist and the second finger of my
right hand there is a scar. l mad
that at IL years of age, when, disguised
at the presence of two warts, l tool a
red hot iron and burned them off and
burned them out. Since then my body
has changed at least a half dozen times.
but those scars prove it is the same
body. We never lose our identity.
If rod 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? II he a do
it ten times l think he can do it eleven
times. Then look at the seventeen
year 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 hu~sbandmen and vine
d~ressers tremble as the insectile host
takes. up the march of devastation.
DENOMINATION ar,a-r oarnrnfaAn ,
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. He made him out
of the dust of the earth. II out of
ordinary dust of the earth, and with
out a model God could make a perfect
man, surely out of the extraordinary
lust 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 gos-
pei algebra; ordinary dust minus u
model equals n perfect man; extraordi-
nary dust and plus a model equals a
resurrection body. Mysteries about
it? Oh, yes; that is one reason why ]
believe it. 1t would not be much of n
God who could do things only as far as
| can understand.
They will come in improved condi-
ton. They will come up rested. The
most of them lay down at the last very
tired. How often you have heard them
say: II am SO tiredy" The fact is, it is
n tired world. If l should go through
this audience. and go around the world.
/ could not find n person in any style of
life ignorant of the sensation of ia
tigue. Long journeying, or business
application, or bereavement, or sickness
has put on you heavy weights. So the
vast majority Of those who went out OF
this ~worldwent out fatigued. About the
poorest place to rest is in this world.
Its atmosphere, its surroundings, and
even its hilarities are exhausting. Sc
God stops our earthly life, aud merci-
fully closes the eyes,, and more especial.
ly gives quiescence to the lung and
heart that nave not had ten minutes
rest from the first respiration and the
first beat.
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 lust since the time of Adam il
Paradise. get any recuperation from
the storehouse from which he wa con
structed without our going back int,
the dust? That original, life-givin,
material having been added to tn
body as it once was, and all the defect
left behind, what q body will be tn
resurrection body!
Factories are apt to be rough places
and those who toll in them have thei
garments grimy and their hand
smutched. But who cares for tina
when they turn out for us beautiful
musical instruments or exquisite up
holstery? What though the grave is
rough place. it is a resurrection bod,
mandatory, and from it shall CON
the radiant and Respondent forms o
our friends on the brightest mornin
the world ever saw. You put into
factory cotton, and it comes out ap
parel. You put into a factory lumbe
and lead, and 1t comes out pianos an,
organs And SO into the factory of tn
grave, you put in ~pneumonias and cor
sumptions, and they come out health
You put in groans and they come on
hallelujahs. For us. on the final day
the most attractive places will not b
the parks or the gardens or the palaces
but the cemeteries.
We are not told in what season tina
day will come. IL it should be i
winter those who come up will be NOR
lustrous than the snow that covere
them. IL in the autumn those VIII
come up will be more gorgeous tina
the woods after the frosts had pencile
them. If in the spring. the bloom O
which they tread will be dull compare
with the rubicund of their cheeks. OF
the perfect resurrection body! Almos
I everybody has some defective spot i
his physical constitutions; a dull ear,
! dim eye, OF "A rheumatic foot. or a mel
. ralgic brow, or a twisted muscle, or
. weak side, or an infiamed tonsil, or son
point at which the east wind or n Sc;