The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-06

had to be petted and coaxed and put
under shelter, or they would not have
bloomed at all. They are the children
of the Conservatives. But at this sea-
son and through the most of the year
the Holy Lar1 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 T. the far south-the daisy
and hyacinth, crocus and anemone,
tulip and water lily, geranium and
ranunculus, mignonettee and sweet
marioram. In the college at BeyrOut
yon 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 Palestinel And in such a garden
Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldiers
spear, His last drop of blood had co.
pirate that all our cemeteries should be
floralized and tree shaded. in June
Greenwood is BrooklyD's garden.
"Well, then" you say, chow can you
make out that resurrection day will
beautify the cemeteries2 Will 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 Charley?'" Well,
/ 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.
The idea of the resurrection gets
easier to understand as hear the pho
nograph unroll some voice that talked
into it year ago, just before our
friends decease. You touch the lever,
and then come forth the very tones,
the very song of the person that
breathed into it once, but is now de-
parted. If man can do that, can not
Almighty God, without half trying.
return the voice of your depart
ed? And if He can return the
voice, why not the lips and the
tongue and the throat that fashioned
the voice? And if the lips and tongue
and the throat, why not the brain that
suggested the words? And if the
brain, why not the nerves, of which
the brain is the headquarters? And if
He can return the nerves, why not the
muscles, which are less ingenious?
And if the muscles, why not the
bones, that are less wonderful? And
if the voice and the brain and the
muscles and the bones, why not the
entire body? If man can do the phon-
ograph, God can do the resurrection.
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 scar. | made that at twelve
years of age, when, disgusted at the
presence of two warts, I took a 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 a 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 locTsts For
seventeen years gone, at the end of
seventeen years they appear, and by
bOing the hind leg against the wing
make that rattle at which all the hus-
bandmen and vine-dressers tremble as
the insectile host takes up the march
of devastation. Resurrection every
seventeen years, a wonderful fact!
Another consid Grafton makes the idea
of resurrection easieR God made Adam.
He was not fashioned after any mod
ell There had never been a human
organism, and so there was nothing to
copy. At the first attempt God made
a perfect man. He made him out of
tEe dust of the earth. If out of or
dinary dust of the earth and without
a 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 a model equals a perfect man;
extraordinary dust and plus a model
equals a resurrection body. Mysteries
about it? oh, yes that is one reason
why 1 believe it 1t would not be
much of God who could do things
only as far as l can understand. Mys-
teries? Oh, yes; but no more about
the resurrection of you body than about
its present existence.
will explain to you the last mys-
/ terry of the resurrection, and make it
as plain to you as that two and two
make four if you will tell me how your
mind, which is entirely independent of
/ your body, can act upon your body, so
that at your will your eyes open, or
your foot walks, or your hand is ex-
/ tended. So find nothing in the Bible
statement concerning the resurrection
that staggers me for a moment. All
doubts clear from my mind. | say that
/ the cemeteries, however beautiful now,