The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-04-05
Holy Land Is all ablush with floral opu.

genous to the far south---the daisy and
hyacnth, crocus and anemone, tulip and
and water lily, geranium and rauunclus,
mignOnetto aud sweet mari 1Oram.
In the college at Beirut you
may see DR.. POSTS collection Of about
eighteen hundred kinds of Holy Land
| flowers. while among trees ore tho 0 AXIS
Ut frozen climes, aud the tamarisk of the
tropics, walnut and willow, ivy and
hawthorn, ash and elder, pine and syca'
more. If such floral aud botanical beau.
ties are the wild growth Uf the fields
think of what garden must bs III Pal
estiue! Aud ID such garden Jesus
Christ slept atle,, on tho soldiers spear,
bis last drop Of blood had coagulated.
Aud then see how appropriate that all
our cemeteries shOutt be ftoralized and
ir,o shaded. In June Greenwood is
Bruoklyn'S garden.
"Well them" you say, "how can you
make ouo that the resurrection day Will
bcauii'y the cemeteries? Will it not
leave them plowed up ground? On
that day there will be an earthquake and
will not this spl, the polished Aberdeen
granite as woll as tho plain slab that
can afford but two words--'Our Mary
or Our Charley?'" Well, l will tell
you how resurrection day will beauLify
all the cemeteries. 1t will be By bring
ill., up the fnces that were to us once aud
| in our memories are to us now more
beautiful than any Gala lily and the
| forms that are to us moro graceful than
any willow by the waters. Can you
| think OF anything more beautiful than
the reappcarancs OF those from whom
we have been parted2 1 do not care
which way the tree falls in tho blast of
the judgment hurricane, or if the plow-
share that day shall turn under the last
roao leaf and the last CHINA aeter, if out
OF The broken sod shall come tho bodies
OF cur loved ones not damaged, but IRA.
dated.
Tie idea of the resurrection gets cas-.
ior to understand as l hear the phono.
graph unroll somo voice that talked into
1t year ago, just before our friends dc.
cease. You touch the lever, and then
come forth the very tones, the very song
"t the person that breathed into it onco
bat is now departed. fla man can do
that, cannot Almighty God without half
trying return the voice Of your departed?
Aud if he can return tho voice, why not
the lips, and the tongue, aud the throat
that fashioned the voice? And if The
lips, and tho tongue, and the throat why
not the brain that suggested The wordsp
And II the brain, why not the nerves, of
which the brain is headquarters? And
IL he can return The nervcs, why not the
muscles, which arc less Ingenious? And
if the muscles, why not the bones, that
are less wonderful? Aud if the voice,
and the BRAIN, and the muscles, and the
bones, why not the entire body? If man
can DO the phonograph, God can do the
resurrection.
Will it bo the same body that in the
last day shall be reaulmatedP Yes, but
iunuitcly improved. Our bodies change
every seven years. and III one sense it is
the same body. On my wrist and the
second finger ofmy right hand there Is n
scar. l made that at IL years of age,
when, disgusted at the presence of two
warts, took a redhot iron and burned
them of and burned them out. S uce
theu my body has changed at least a
halt 0ozen iimes, but those scars provo
II ls the same body.
We ncver lose our identity. If God
can and does sou etim 90 rebuild q man
| live, Six, ten times in this world, is II
mysterious that hc can rebuild him once
more and that in the resurrection? If he
can it 10 times, | think ho can do it
| | times. Then look at the IT Year 10.
Gusts. For II years gone, at the end OF
II years they appear, and by rubbing
the hind leg against the wing make that
rattle at which all the husbandlnon and
vine dressers :. >mble ns the insecLile
host takes up ,he march OF devastation
Resurrection every II years, wonderful
fact
Another consideration makes the idea
ot direction easier. God made Adam.
lie WAS not fashioned after any model.
Thore had never been u human organ.
| ism, and 80 there was nothing COPY. At
the lrst attempt God made perfect
man. He made him out of the dust of
the earth. If out of ordinary dust { the
earth and without model God could
make perfect man, surely out of the
extraordinary dust oS mortal body and
with the milllous Of models God can
make each one OF us a perfect being In
the resurrecten, Surely the last under
taking would not be greater than tho
first. See the gospel algebra-ordlnary
dust minus model equals a perfect man
extraordinary dust and plus model
equals resurrection body. Mysteries
about il? On, yes. That is one reason
why believe it. Itwould not be much
OF God who could do things only as far
1 can understand. Mysteries? Oh yes;
but no more about tho resurrection OF
your body than about it's present exist.
enCe.
1 will explain to you the last mystery
of tho resurrection and make 1T as PLAN
to you rs that two aud two make four II
you will tell me how your mind, which
is entirely independent Of your nody, can
act upon your body 30 that at your will
your eyes open, or your foot walks, or
your hand ls extended. SO l find aoth-
ing in the Bible statement concerning
the resurrection that staggers mo for q
moment. All doubts clear from my
mind. 1 say the cemeteries, no wever
beautiful now, will be more beautiful
when the bodies Of our loved ones come
up IN the morning Of the resurrection.
| They will come in improved condi-
ton. Thoy will come up rested. The
most of them lay down at tho last very