Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-26

You find an theroyal family Of flowers
/ there, some that you supposed indigen-
Gus 20. the fer sOuth-the daisy and
! hyacinth, -crocus and aDemene, mignon-
cite and sweet marjOram.
n THE COLLEGE AT BEYROUT
Won NAV see DR.. Posts collection Of
about eighteen hundred kinds OF Holy
Land flowers; while among trees are the
oaks of frozen climes, and the tanarlsk
OF the tropics, walnut and willow, ivy
aud hawthorne, ash and elder, pine and
sycamore. If such floral and botanical
I beauties are the wild growth OF the
field. think Of what garden must DC
in Palestine! And in such garden
Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldiers
spear bis last drop Of blood had coagu-
lated. Aud then see how appropriate
that all our cemeteries should be horal-
lied and tree shaded. In June Green
wood Is Brooklyn's garden.
"Wol, then" you say, chow can you
make out that the Resurrection DAY
will beautify the cemeteries| VIII II
not leave them a plOwed up ground?
on that day there will be an earth
quake, and will DOT this split the pol
ished Aberdeen granite, as we'll as the
plain slab that can aiIord but two
words, our Mary, or Our Cbarley| "
Well, will tell you how Resurrection
day Will baauliiy all the cemeteries. IL
will be by bringing up the facts that
were 20 US once, and in our memories
are 20 us now, more beautiful than any
callalilly, aud the forms that are to US
more graceful than any willow by the
waters. Can you think OF anything
more beautiful than the reappearance
o. those from whom we have been
parted? I do not care which way the
tree falls in the blast OF the Judgment
hurricane, OF IL the plowshare that
day shall turn under the rose leaf and
the last China aster, II out Of the bro
ken sod shall come the bodies OF our
loved ones not damaged, but irradiated.
Tue idea of the resurrection gets
easier 10 understand as / hear the pho
nograph UnrOll some voice that talked
into 10 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 iJ once,
BUT is NOW DEPARTED.
If aman can do that, cannot Almighty
God, without half trying, return the
voice of your departed And if lie can
return the voice, why not the lips and
the tongue and the throat that fashion
ed the voice? And II the lips and the
tongue and the throat, why not not the
brain that suggested the words? And
if the brain. why not the nerves OF
which the brain is the headquarters?
And IN BE can return the nerves, why
not the muscles, which are less ingenl-
Gus? And If the muscles, why not the
bones, that are less wonderful? And II
the voice and the brain aud the muscles
aud the bones, WHY not the entire body?
III man can do the phOnOgraph, God can
DO the resurrection.
VIII it be the same body that in the
last day shall be reauima,ed? Yes, but
infinitely improved, Our bodies change
every seven years and yet, i'm one sense,
TO is the same body. Ga nv wrist and
the second finger OF my right hand
there is a scar. made that at twelve
years OF age, when, disguised at the
presence OF two warts, took a red hot
iron and burned them of and burned
them out Since then my body has
changed 10 least a half dozen times, bot
those sears prove it is the same body.
We never lose our Identity. If God can
and does sometimes rebuild man five,
six. ten times, iu this world, Is 10 mys-
terious that he can rebuild him once
more, aud that in the resurrection? II
hs can do TO ten times / think he can do
10 eleven times. Then look at the sew
enteen-year loCusts. For seventeen
gone, 40 the end OF seventeen years they
appear and by rubbing the hind leg
against the wing make that rattle az
which an the busbandmen and vine
dressers trem0 io as the inSeCtile host
takes up the march of devastation.
Resurrection every seventeen years, a
wonderful fact,
ANOTHER CONSIDERATION
makes The idea of resurrection easier.
God made Adam. He was BOT fashioned
alter any model. There had never
gbeen o human organism, and so there
was nothing to copy At the first at
tempt God made a perfect man. He
made him ont of the dust of the earth.
III out OF ordinary dust of the earth and
without model God could make per-
feet man, surely out of the eXtraOrdin-
ary dust of mortal body, and with mill
ions OF models, God can make each one
of us o. perfect being in the resurrec-
tion. Surely the last undertaking
would not be greater than the first
See the gospel algebra; ordinary dust
minus o model equals a perfect man;
extraordinary dust plus a model equals
a resurrection body Mysteries about
it? Oh, yes; that is one reason why l
believe TO- 10 would not be much Of a
God who could do things only rs far as
I can understand. Mysteries? Oh, yes;
but no more abOut the resurrection of
your body than about its present exist
ence.
I will explain to you the last mystery
OF the resurrection, and make II as plain
20 YOU rs that TWO and two make four,
II you tell me how your mind, which is
entirely independent 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 / ind moth
ing in the Bible statement concerning
the resurrection that StSggers me for
moment An doubts clear from my
mind. I say that the cemeteries, how
ever beautiful. now, will be more beauti-
ful when the oodies Of our loved ones
come up, In the
MORNING OF THE RESURRECTION.
They will come in improved cOndi-
tion. They will come Up rested. The
most OF the % lay down at the last very
tired. How often have YOU heard them
say, 81 am so tired' The fact is, it is