Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-04-06

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We never lose our identity. If God can
| and does sometimes rebuild mln fve SIX,
ten times in this world is it mysterious tnat
| He can rebuild him once more and that III
| the resurrection? II He can do it ten times,
| 7 think He can do it eleven times. Then
| look at the seventeen year locusts. For
| seventeen years gone, at the emf OF seventeen
| years they appear, AMI by rubbing tne MN.
| leg against the wing make that rattle at
, which all the htsbandlleh an vine dfesSer5
tremble as ths, lnsectie host takes up the
march of devastation. Resurrection every
seventeen years-a won lerlui TACT
| Another consideration makes the idea OF
| resurrection easier God made Adam. lie
was not fashioned after any model. There
| had never been human organism, and so
there was nothing to copy. At the first at
| tempt God made a perfect man. He MADE
him out Of tho dust Of the earth. If out OF
| ordinary dust OF the earth an | without q
| model God eould make perfect man, surely
out of the extraordinary dust OF mortal body
and with millions of models God can make
each one of us perfect being in the resur-
| rection. Surely the last undertaking would
| not be greater than the first. See the gospel
algebra. Ordinary dust minus model
equals a perfect man. Extraordinary dust
and plus model equals resurrection body.
reason why believe it. II would not be
much of God who could do things only as
far as r. can understand. Mysteries? Oh,
yes But no more about the resurrection Of
your body than aboW its present existence.
will explain to you the last mystery of the
resurrection and make 1t as plain to you as
that two and two make four If you will tell
me how your mind, which is entirely Jude
pendent OF your body, can act upon your
body so that at your will yoir eyes open Of
your foot walks; or your hand is extended:
so find nothing in the Bible statement con-
corning the resurrection that staggers me
for moment. All doubts clear from my
mind / say that the cemeteries, however
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 condition.
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 50
tired !" The fact is, ii is tired world. II
should go through tbs audience and go
round the world, coull not find a person in
any style of life ignorant OF the sensation OF
fatigue.
do not teieYe there are fifty persons in
this audience who are not tired. Your heal
is tired. or your back is tired, or your foot is
tired, or your brain is tired, or your nerves
are tire. Long iourneying or business APP
plcation or bereavement or sickness 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 sur
roun iings and even its hlarties are exhaust
ing SO God stops our earthly life and
mercifully closes the eyes, and more espe-
cially 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 tho
army to beat his drum for twenty-four hours
without stopping, his officer would he court
mattiaied for cruelty. 1t the drummer boy
should be commanded to beat his drum for a
week without ceasing day and night, he
would die in attempting IT, But under your
vestment is poor heart that began its dunn
beat for the march Of life thirty or forty or
sixty or eighty years ago. and it has had no
1urlough by day or night, and whether in
conscious or comatose state il 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 an the last throb
OF pulse, and after the spirit is released tho
heart keeps on beating Tor time. What
Y,
where that wondrous machinery of veutricle
and artery can halt
Under the healthful chemistry of the soil
all the wear and tear Of nerve and muscle
and bone WILDE subtracted, an that bath Of
good fresh clean soil will wash off the last
ache, an then some of the same style Of
dust out OF which the body of Adam was
constructed may be infused into the resur-
recton DO iy. How can the bodies OF the hui
man race, which have had no replenishment
from the dust since the time Of Adam In par
adise, get any recuperation from the store
house from which he was constructed with
out 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, what body will be the
resurrection body And will not hundreds
of thousands of such appearing above the
Gowanus heights make Greenwood more
beautiful than any juno morning after a
shower? The dust of the earth being the
original material for the fashioning of the
first human being, we have to go back to the
same place TO get perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places, AMI
those who toll in them have their garments
grimy and their hands smutched But who
cares for that when they turn out for us
beautiful musical instruments or exquisite
upholstery? What though the grave is a
rough place-it is a resurrection body manu-
factory, AMI from it shall come the radiant
and resplendant forms Of our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw. You
put into factory cotton andit comes out
apparel. You put into factory lumber ana
lead. and they come out pianos and organs
And so in the factory of the grave you put
in pneumonias and consumptions, AMI they
come out health. You put in groans, and
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final day, the most attractive places will not
be the parks, or the gardens, or the nalaces.
but the cemeteries.
We are not told in what season mat day
will Gomez If it should be winter, those who
come upwill be more lustrous than the snow
that covered them. II in the autumn, those
who come up will be more gorgeous than the
woods after the frosts had penciled them. III
in the spring, the bloom on which they tread
will be dull compared with the rubicund oil
their cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrection
body Almost everybody has some detec-
tive spot in his physical constitutional dull
ear or a dim eye, or rheumatic foot, or
neuralgia brow. or n twisted muscle, or
weak side or an inflamed tonsil, or some
point at which the east wind or season OF
overwork assaults him.
But the resurrection body shall be without
one weak spot, and all that the doctors apd
nurses and apothecaries of earth will there
after have to do will be to rest without in
terruption after the broken nights of their
earthly existence. Not only will that day
be the Identification of we'll kept cemeteries,
but some of the graveyards that have been
neglected and been the pasture ground for
cattle and roosting place for swine will for
the first time have attractiyeness given
them.
1t was a shame that in that place migrate
rul generations planted no trees and twisted
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