Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-31

hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip and
water lily, geranium and ranunculus,
mignonette and sweet marjoram. In the
college at Beirut you may see DR..
Posts collection Of about 1900 kinds of
Holy Land flowers, while among trees
; are the oaks of frozen climes, and the
tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and will
low, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder,
pine and sycamore. 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
d spear, his last drop of blood had coagu-
4 lated. And then see how appropriate
4 that all our cemeteries should be floral
lied and tree shaded. In June Green
wood is Brooklyn's garden.
i THE RESURRECTION IDEA.
We'll, then," you say, chow can you
make out that the resurrection day will
,tfeautify the cemeteries? Will it not
leave them plowed up ground? On
that day there will be an earthquake,
anu will not this split the polished Aber-
3s1een granite as well as the plain slab
FtlEats can afford but two words-'Our
htsary' or Our Charley" Well, will
hts you how resurrection day will beau
tfy all the cemeteries. 1t will be by
blingiag up the faces that were to us
once, md in our memories are to us
nov, moro beautiful than any Gala lily,
B|'ara tho forms that are to us more grace
fu5SIia,l any willow by the waters. Can
/ you think Of anything more beautiful
thin the reappearance of those from
Whom we have been partedf do not
care which way the tree falls in the blast
of The Judgment hurricane, or if the
pillow STARE that day Shall turn under the
last rose leaf and the last china aster, if
outs Sthg broken sod shall come the bod
les Of enr loved ones not damaged, but
irradiated.
The idea the resurrection gets easier
to understand as hear the photograph
unroA some voice that talked into it
yearsago, Just before our friends decease.
You it1saeh tsiie lever, and then come forth
the veTs, tones, The very song of the per-
son that Hreatbed into it once, but is
now depar5ed IF man can do that,
cannot mighty God. without half try
ing, M llrn tho voice of your departed?
And Il IL anreturn the voice, why not
the lips nd the tongue, and the throat
that fass1ioned the yoice2 And if the
lips and he tongue. and the throat, why
not the GfSin that suggested the words?
And BRAIN why not the nerves, of
whiah the BRAN is the headquarters?
And Iii he can return the nerves, why not
the &nuselee, which are less ingenious?
And if sse muscles, why not the bones,
that asss less sderful? And if the voice,
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rex IS tr.asasssses
A WONDERFUL FACT.
win 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 10 years of age,
when, disguised at the presence of two
warts, took redhot 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 1t
mysterious that he can rebuild him once
more and that in the resurrection? If he
can do it 10 times, think he can do 1t II
times. Then look at the II year locusts.
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 husbandmen and vine
dressers tremble as the insectile host
takes up the march of devastation. Res
direction every II years-a wonderful
fact!
Another consideration makes the idea
of resurrection easier. God made Adam.
He was not fashioned after any model.
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 ordinary dust of the
earth and without a model God could
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 res
direction. Surely the last undertaking
would not be greater than the first. See
the gospel algebra. Ordinary dust minus
model equals perfect man. EXtraor-
binary dust and plus a model equals
resurrection body. Mysteries about IT.
Oh, yes. That is one reason why l be-
lieve it. 1t would not be much of God
who could do things only as far as | can
understand. Mysteries? Oh, yes. But
no more about the resurrection of your
body than about its present existence.
A TIRED WORLD.
will explain to you the last mystery
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 extended. So l find moth
ing in the Bible statement concerning
the resurrection that staggers me for
moment. All doubts clear from my
mind. say that the cemeteries, how
ever bea ,tiful now, will be more beauti-
full whe the bodies of our loved ones
come u in the morning of the resurrec-
ton.
They will come in improved condition.
They VIII come up rested. The most OF
them lay down at the last very tired.
How often you have heard them say, u
nm so tiredr The fact is, it is tired