The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-05-19

They will come IN improved condi-
ton. They will como up rested. The
most of them lay down ut the last very
tired. How often you have heard them
say: II am SO tiredp' The fact is it is a
tired world. If should 60 through
this audience, and go around the
world, could not find person
in any style of life ignorant Of
the sensation of fatigue. do not be-
lieve 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 jour-
neying, or business application, or be-
reavement, or sickness has put on you
heavy weights. So the vast majority
of those who went out of this world
went but tatigued. About the poorest
place to rest in is this world. It's at
mosphere, its surroundings, and even
its hilarities are exhausting. So God
stops our earthly life, and mercifully
closes the eyes, and more especially
gives quiescence to the lung and heart
that have not had ten minutes rest
from the first respiration and the first
beat.
If drummer boy were compelled in
the army to beat his drum for twenty
four hours without stopping his officer
would be court-martialed for cruelty.
If the drunmer boy should be COM
peeled to beat his drum for week with
out ceasing. day and night, he would die
in attempting 1t. But under your vest
ment 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 furlough by day or by
night, and whether in conscious or COM
atose state it went right on, for if it 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 throb of pulse, and after
the spirit is released, the heart keeps
on beating for time. What a mercy.
then, it is that the grave is the place
where that wondrous machinery OF
ventricle and artery can haiti
Under the heathful 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 dust since the time of Adam
in Paradise, get any regeneration from
| the storehouse from which he was
constructed without our going back
into the dust? That original, life-giving
material having been added to the body
as it once was, and all the defects left
behind, whata body will be the resurrec
ton bodyl And will not hundreds OF
thousands of such appearing above the
| Gowanus Heights make Greenwood
more beautiful than any June morn
| ing after a shower? The dust of the
earth being the original materia'
for the fashloning of the first human
being, we have to go back to the same
place tc get perfect body.
There will be no door knob on the
inside of our family sepulcher, for we
can not come out, of ourselves; but
there is door knob on the outside
and that Jesus shall lay hold of
and, opening. will say: ''Good
morning! You have slept long
enoughi Arise! Arisel'' And then what
a flutter of wings, and what flashing
of rekindled eyes, and what glad
some rushing across the family lot
with cries of Father, is that your
"Mother, is that you?' my darling
is that you?'' How you all have
changed! The cough gone, the GROUP
gone, the consumption gone, the pa
ralysis gone. the WEAKNESS gone
Come, let us ascend together
The older ones first, the younger
ones next! Quick now, get into line
The skyward procession has already
started! Steer now by that embank
ment of cloud for .he nearest gate!'
And, as we ascend, on one side tn,
earth gets smaller until it Is no larger
than mountain, and smaller until i
is no larger than a palace, and smalle
until it is no larger than a ship, and
smaller until it is no larger than /,
wheel, and smaller until it is no large
than speck.
Farewell, dissolving earth! But OF
the other side, as we rise, Heaven a
first appears no larger than your hand
And nearer it looks like chariot, ant
nearer it looks like a throne, an,
nearer it looks like star, and neare
it looks like sun, and neare
it looks like a universe. Hail
scepters that shall always wave
Hail, anthems that shall Away
roll! Hail, comprehensive neve
again to part! That is what resur
rection day will do for all the GENE
teries and graveyards from the Mach
pelah that was opened by Fathe
Abraham in Hebron to the Machpelal
yesterday consecrated. And that make
Lady Huntington's immortal rhythm
most opposite:
When thou. my righteous Judge shalt come
To take Thy ransomed people home.
Shall among them standf
Shall such . worthless worm as !,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at Thy right handi
Among Thy saints let me be found,
Il Whsne'er tn archangel's trump shall sound
To SEQ Thy cmiling face;
Then loudest of the throng I'll sing,
While heavens resounding arches ring
With shouts Of sovereign grace.
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