The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28

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| What though the grave is a rough place,
it is resurrection body mandatory, and
! from it shall come the radiant and re-
| splendent forms of our friends on the
| brightest morning the world ever saw.
You put into a factory cotton, and it
| comes out apparel. You put into a fac
| tory lumber and lead, and they come
out pianos and organs. And so unto the
factory OF the grave you put in pneu-
mOnias and consumptions. and they come
out health. You put in groans, and they
! come out hallelujahs. For us on the final
day the most attractive places will not
be the parks. or the gardens. or the pal
| aces. but the cemeteries.
We are not old in what season that
! day will come. II 1t should be winter.
| those who come up will be more lustrous
than the snow that covered them. If in
/ the autumn, those who come up will be
| more gorgeous than the woods after the
| frosts had penciled them. IL in the
| spring, the bloom on which they tread
| will be dull compared with the rubicund
| of their cheeks. Oh, the perfect resur-
/ rection body Almost everybody has
| some defective. spot in his physical con-
/ stitution--a dull ear, or a dim eye, or
| rheumatic foot. or neuralgia brow or
! a twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an
/ infamed tonsil. or some point at which
/ the east wind or a season of overwork
| assaults him.
But the resurrection body shall be
| without one weak spot. and all that the
! doctors and nurses and apOthecaries of
| earth will thereafter have to do VIII be
| to rest without interruption after the
| broken nights of their earthly existence.
| Not only will that day be the beautifi-
| cation Of well kept cemeteries, but some
! Of the graveyards that have been neg
| lected and been the pasture ground for
| cattle and roofing places for swine will
! for the first time have attractlveness
| given them.
1t was a shame that in that place
| ungrateful generations planted no trees,
| and twisted no gaTlands, and sculp-
| tured no marble for their Christian an
cestry. but on the day of which | speak
| the resurrected shall make the place OF
| their feet glorious. From under the
| shadow of the church, where they SUM-
bared among nettles and mullen stalks
| and thistles and slabs aslant, they shall
| rise with a glory that shall flush the win
| dows of the village church, and by the
| bell tower that used to call them to wOr-
! ship. and above the old spire beside
| which their prayers formerly assembled
What triumphal procession never did
! for a street. what an oratorio never did
for an academy, what an orator never
lisk never did for king, resurrection
morn will do for all the cemeteries.
IL We Are His.
This Easter tells us that in Christs
resurrection our resurrection, if we are
His. and the resurrection of all the
pious dead is assured, for He was "the
first fruits Of them that slept" Renan
says he did not rise. but $50 witnesses,
sixty Of them Christs enemies, say He
did rise. for they saw Him after He
had risen. If He did not rise how did
sixty armed soldiers let Him get away?
Surely sixty living soldiers ought to
be able to keep one dead man! Blessed
be God He did get away.
After His resurrection Mary Magda-
lene saw Him CleOpas saw Him. Ten
disciples in an upper room at Jerusa-
lem saw Him. on a mountain the eleven
saw Him. Prof. Ernest Renan, who did
not see Him. will excuse US for taking
the testimony of the $50 who did see
Him. Yes, yes, He got away. And that
makes me sure that our departed loved
ones and we ourselves shall get away.
Freed Himself from the shackles of clod.
He is not going to leave US and ours
in the lurch.
There will be no doorknob on the in
side Of our family sepulcher. for we can
not come out Of ourselves, but there is
a dOOrknOD
Jesus shall lay hold of, and opening Will
say: Good morning! You have slept
long enough, Arise, ariser And then
what flutter of wings, and what flash
ing 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 p
How you all have changed! The cough
gone the Group gone. the consumption
gone, the paralysis gone. the WEAKNESS
gone. Come. let us ascend together! Inc
older ones first, the younger ones next!
Quick now, get into line! The skywarG
procession has already started! Steer
now by that embankment Of cloud for
the nearest gateF'
And as we ascend on one side the
earth gets smaller until ii is no larger
than a mountain. and smaller until it
is no larger than a palace. and
smaller until it is no larger than a ship
and smaller until it is no larger than a
wheel and smaller until il is no larger
than a speck.
Farewell to Earth.
Farewell. dissolving earth, But on the
other side as we rise heaven at first ap-
pears no larger than your hand. And
nearer it looks like chariot and nearer
1t looks like a throne, and nearer il looks
like a star, and nearer ii looks like a
sun. and nearer il looks like a universe.
Hail. scepters that shall always wave
Hail, anthems that shall always rolf
Hail. companionships never again to
part That is what resurrection day will
do for all the cemeteries and graveyards
from the Machpelah that was opened by
Father Abraham in Hebron to the Mach
pelah yesterday consecrated. And that
makes Lady Huntington's immortal
rhythm most opposite:
When thou, my righteous Judge, shalt
come
To take thy ransomed rc0p'e home,
Stall I among them stand?
Shall such worthless worm as /,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right hand?
Among thy saints let me be found.
Whene' er tn archangeTs trump shall
sound,
To see thy smiling face
Then loudest Of the throng, I'll sing
While heavens resembling arches ring
With shouts Of sovereign grace.