The Bossier banner., 1894-05-10

| at III Is EdStCT SorElC6 ask anu an
swer what may seem novel question,
but it will be found, before l get
| through, practical and useful and
tremendous question: What will res
direction day 60 for the cemeteriesP
| First, l remark, it will be their super
nal Identification. At certain seasons
it is customary in all lands to strew
flowers over the mounds of the de-
parted. 1t may have been sug-
gested by the fact that Christ's
tomb was in a garden. And when
l say garden l do not mean a gar
den of these latitudes. The late frosts
of spring and the early frosts of au-
tumn are SO near each other that there
are only a few months of flowers in
The field. All the flowers we see to-day
had to be petted and coaxed and put
under shelter, or they would not have
bloomed at all. They are the children
of the conservatories. But at this sea-
son and through the most of the year
the Holy Land is all ablush with floral
opulence.
You find all the royal family of flow
ers there, some that you supposed in
digenous to the far north, and others
indigenous to the far south-the daisy
and hyacinth, crocus and anemone.
tulip and water lily, geranium and
ranunculus, mignonettee and sweet
marjoram. In the college at Beyrout
you may see DR.. Posts collection of
about one thousand eight hundred
kinds of Holy Land flowers; while
among trees are the oaks of frozen
climes, and the tamarisk of the tropics,
walnut and willow, ivy and haw-
thorne, ash and elder, pine and syca-
more. If such floral and botanical
beauties are the wild growths of the
field, think of what garden must be
in Palestine! And in such garden
Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldiers
spear, His last drop of blood had CO.
agulated. And then see how appro-
pirate that all our cemeteries should be
floralized and tree shaded. In June
Greenwood is Brooklyn's garden.
"Well, then" you say, ''how can you
make out that resurrection day will
beautify the cemeteries? VIII it not
leave them a plowed up ground? On
that day there will be an earthquake,
and will not this split the polished
| Aberdeen granite, as well as the plain
slab that can afford but two words
Our Mary or Our CharleyT" Well,
1 will tell you how resurrection day
| will beautify the cemeteries. 1t will
be by bringing up the faces that were
to us once, and in our memories are to
us now, more beautiful than any
Gala lily, and the forms that are to us
more graceful than any willow by the
waters. Can you think of anything
more beautiful than the temperance
of those from whom we have been
parted? do not care which way the
tree falls in the blast of the judgment
hurricane, or if the plowshare that day
shall turn under the last rose leaf and
the last china aster, if out of the broken
sod shall come the bodies of our loved
ones not damaged, but irradiated.
Will it be the same body that in the
last day shall be terminated? Yes, but
infinitely 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 a scar. / made that at twelve
years of age, when, disgusted at the
presence of two warts, / took red hot
iron and burned them off and burned
them >out. Since then my body has
changed at least half dozen times, but
those scars prove it is the same body.
We never lose our identity. If God can
and does sometimes rebuild man five,
six, ten times, in this world, is it mys-
terious that He can rebuild him once
more, and that in the resurrection?
If He can do it ten times | think He
can do it eleven times. Then look at
the seventeen-year locusts. For
seventeen years gone, at the END of
seventeen years they appear, and by
rubbing the hind leg against the wing
make that rattle at which all the hus-
bandmen and vine-dressers tremble as
the insecti!e host takes up the march
of devastation. Resurrection every
seventeen years, q wonderful fact!
Another consid era tion makes the idea
of resurrection easier. God made Adam.
He was not fashioned after any mod
ell. There had never been human
organism, and so there was nothing to
copy. At the first attempt God made
perfect man. He made him out of
the dust of the earth. If out of or
dinary dust of the earth and without
model God could make a perfect
man, surely out of the extraordinary
| dust of mortal body, and With mil
lions of models, God can make each
one of us a 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 perteCt man
extraordinary dust and plus a mode
, equals resurrection body. Mysteries
: about it? Oh, yes; that is one reason
| why l believe it. 1t would not b'
much of God who could do thing
only as far as can understand. Mys
4 teries? Oh, yes; but 80 more abou
: the resurrection of you body thnn abou
s its present existence.
4 / will explain to you the last mys
e terry of the resuffe eetion, ami make i
4 as plain to you as that two and tw'
Y make fou.. If you will tell me how you