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


day there will be an earthquake, and wII
not this split the polished Aberdeen gran
tie, as well as the plain slab that can al
ford but two words, our Mary or Cur
Charley" Well. viii tell vou how
resurrection day viii beaut f. all the Gene
teries- IL VIII be By bringing up the
. faces that were 10 Us once. and in our
memories atJ 10 las now, more beautiful
than amy Gala lily. and the forms that are
10 us more graceful than any willow by
tine waters Can you think Of anything
more beautiful than the temperance Of
those from whom we have been parted
. DO not care winch way the tree falls I'm
the blast of the Judgment hurricane. Or if
the piowsnare that cay shall turn under
the last rose leaf and the last china aster,
II out of the broken sol small come the
( bodies OF our loved ones not damaged, but
! Irrauiated
The idea Of the resurrection gets easier
/ to understand as ] hear the monograph
. unrOA some voice that talked into IL
year ago, Just before our friends deccase.
/ You touch the lever, and chen come forth
/ the very tones the very song OF the person
I that brcaJhed into it once. but is now de
! parted. II man can do that, cannot Al
mighty God, without half trying return
/ the voice of your departed2 And If he
/ can return The voice. why not the lips and
/ the tongue and the throat, that fashioned
the voice2 And if the lips and the tongue
and the throat, why not the
| brain that suggested the words, And if
/ the brain, why not the nerves of whiChtha
| brain is the headquarters And If he can
return the nerves, why not the muscles.
which are less iugeniOus} And if the
| muscles, why not the bones. that are less
wOnderful2 And if the voice and the
| brain and the muscles and the bones why
not the entire body If man can DO the
! photograph, God can do the resurrec-
! zion.
! VIII it be the same body that in the last
| day shall be terminated Yes, but inf
| uitely 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
| scar. made that at twelve years of age,
| when disguised at the presence OF two
| warts, | took red hot iron and burned
| them OFF and burned them out. Since
| then my body has CHANGED ut least a half
| dozen times, but those scarsuprove it is
the some body: We never lose our iden-
! tity. If God can and does sometimes re-
| build man live, six, ten times, in this
| world, is it mysterious that he can re
| build him once more, and that i'm the
| resurrection If he can 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 seven
| teen years they appear, and by rubbing
! the hind leg against the wing make that
rattle at which all husbandmen and vine
| dressers tremble as the insecule host
takes up the march of devastation. Res
direction every seventeen years, won
| derful 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
without model God could make perfect
man, surely out Of the extraordinary dust
OF mortal body, and with millions of mod
els 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 gospel algebra ordi-
nary dust minus a model equals a perfect
man; extraordinary dust and plus model
equals a resurrection body Mysteries
about it, Oh, yes; that is one reason why
l believe It, II would not be much of a
God who could do things only as far | can
understand. Mysteries Oh, yes; but
no more atout the resurrection of YOUR
| body than about its present existence
will explain to you the last mystery
| OF the resurrection, and make it as plain
| TO you as that two and two make four, if
y
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 find nothing
in the Bible statements concerning the
resurrection that staggers me for a mo-
ment. All doubts clear from my mind.
| say that the cemeteries, however beau
tiful now, will be more beautiful when
the bodies of our loved one 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 often you have heard them say, Il
am so tired!' The fact is, il is tired
world. If l should go through this audi
ence, and go round the world, / could not
tind person in any style of life ignorant
Of the sensation of fatigue. ! do not be-
leve there are fifty persons in this audi
ence 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 iourneying, or
business applications, or bereavement or
sinkness has put on you heavy weights.
So the vast majority of those who went
out of this world went out fatigued.
About the poorest place TO rest in, is this
world. It's atmosphere, its surroundings,
| and even its hilarities are exnausting.
| So God stops our earthly life. and lnerci-
luliS ClOS6S Iue eyes, ana more eSpee lally
| gives quiescence to the lung and heart
that have not had ten minutes rest from
the first respiration and the first beat.
! If a drummer boy were compelled in the
| army to beat his drum for uwenty-four
! hours without stopping, his officer would
! be courtmartialed for cruelty If the
| drummer boy should be commanded
to beat his drum for week
! without ceasing, day and night,
! he would die in attempting it. But
under your vestment is a poor heart that
| began It's drum beat for the
march of life thirty, or forty,
or sixty or eighty years ago,
and it has had no furlough by DAY or
night; and whether in conscious or coma
tose state, il went right on, for if it had
/ stopped seven seconds your life would
/ have closed. And your heart will keep
| going until sometime after your spirit has
! flown, for the ascultatOr says that after
! the last expiration of lung and the last
! throb of pulse, and after the spirit is re-
| leased. the heart keeps on beating for
/ time. What mercy. then, 1t is that the
! grave is the place where that wondrous
machinery of venuicle and artery can
! halt.
Under the healthful chemistry of the
soil all the wear and tear of nerve and
| muscle and bone will be subtracte1 and