Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-03-30

/ least half dozen times, but those scars
/ prove II is the same body.
We never lose our identity. II God can
and does sometimes rebuild - man nNe, si1,
| ten times in this world, is IL mysterious that
/ He can rebuild him once more and thAt IN
the resurrectionY 10 He can do II ten times,
| | think He can do II eleven times. Then
/ look nj the seventeen year locusts. FOR
/ seyenteen wears 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 husbandmen and vine dressers
tremble as the insectile host takes up the
| march OF devastation. Resurrection every
seventeen vears-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 at
tempt God made a perfect man. He made
him out OF the dust OF the earth. II 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 resur-
rection. Surely the last undertaking would
not he greater than the first. See the gospel
algebra. Ordinary dust minus model
equals perfect man. Extraordinary dust
and plus model equals a resurrection body.
Mysteries about II? Oh, yes. That IL one
reason why believe 1t. II would not be
much of God who could do things only as
far IA 1 can understand. Mysteries? On,
yes But no more about the resurrection OF
your body than about Its present existence.
will explain to you the last mystery OF the
resurrection and make II as plain TO you AS
that two and two make four II you will tell
me how your mind. which is entirely indie
pendent 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 find nothing In the Bible statement CON
cernng the resurrection that staggers me
for moment. All doubts clear from my
mind. ] say that the cemeteries, however
beautiful now, will ne more beautiful when
the bodies OF our loved ones come up In the
morning OF the resurrection.
They will como In improved condition
They will come up rested. The most Of
them lay down at the last very tired. How
often YOU nave heard them say. - am so
tired The fact Is, It is tired world. II |
should go through this audience and so
round tho world could not ind Il person in
any style OF life ignorant OF the sensation Of
fatigue
10 not believe there are ATTY persons in
this audience who are not tired. Your head
Is tired, or your back Is tired, or your foot is
tired, or your brain is tired, or your nerves
are tired. Long iourneying or business APP
plicaton or bereavement or sickness has put
on you heavy weights SO the vast majority
OF those who went ont OF this world went
out fatigued. About the poorest place 10 rest
in is this world. Its atmosphere, its sur
roundinys and even its hilarities are exhaust
ing So God stops our earthly life and
mcrclfully closes the eyes, and more espe-
cially gives quieSrence to the lung aud heart
that have not had ten minutes rest from the
first res piratlon and the lrst beat.
liza drummer boy were compelled In the
army to beat his drum for twenty hours
without stopping, his officer would be court
martialed for cruelty. II the drummer boy
should be commanded to beat his drum for \
week without ceasing, day and night, he
would die In attempting 1t. But under your
vestment is poor heart that began its drum
beat for tn" march OF life thirty or forty or
sixty or eighty years ago, and 1t has had no
iurlough by day or night, and whether in
conscious or comatose state IL went right on,
for ifit 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 aud the last throb
OF pulse and after the spirit is released. tho
heart keeps on beating tor "A time. What q
MARCY than II is that the trnva ia tho ptace
where that wondrouS machinery OF ventriclc
and artery eau halt
Under the healthfuI chemistry OF the soil
all the wear and tear OF nerve and muscle
and bone will BE- subtracted, an that bath OF
good fresh clean soil will wash on the last
ache, and then some OF the same style OF
dust out OF which the body OF Adam was
constructed may be infused into the resur-
rectlOn body How can the bodies OF the hu-
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 hs was constructed with
out our going back into the dust! That
original life giving material having been
added to the body as II 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 June morning after n
shower The dust OF the cath being the
original material for the fashioning OF the
first human being, We have to 20 back to the
same place TO get perfect body.
Factories ara apt 10 be rough places and
those who toll in them have their garments
Srimy and their hands smutched. But who
cares for that when they turn out for IA
beautiful musical instruments or exquisite
upholstery What though the grave Is a
II
factory AMI from 1t shall come the radiant
and resplenlant forms OF our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw. You
put into factory cotton. and II comes out
apparel. You PIT into 4 factory lumber and
lead. and they come ont pianos and organs.
Aud so in the factory OF the grave you put
In pneumonias and consumptionS, and they
come out health. You put ia groans, and
they come out hallelniahs For us, on the
final day, the most attractive places will not
be- the parks. or the gardens, or the palaces.
but the cemeteries.
We are not told In what season that day
will come. II II should be winter, those who
come up will be more lustcous than the snow
that covered them. II in the autumn. those
who come up will DO more gorgeous than the
woods after the frosts had penclled them. II
In the spring, the bloom on which they tread
will he dull compared with the rubicund Of
their cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrection
body Almost everybody has some defec-
tive spot IN his physical constitutions dull
ear. or q dim eye, or a rheumatic foot. or a
neuralgia brow, or u twisted muscle, or d
weak side or an inhamed tonsit, or some
| point at which the east wind or II season o
overwork assaults him.
But the resurrection body shall be without
one weak "A IT, and all that the doctors and
nurses anG Al r'hecarles Of earth will there
after have !. ~ will be to rest without In
terruptton after the broken nights OF theil
earthly existence, Not only will that DAY
be the Identification OF we'll Kept cemeteries
but some OF the graveyards that have beer
neglected AMI been the pasture ground fol
cattle and roostIng place for swine will fo
the first time have attractiyeness giyeI
| them.
II was n shame that in that place migrate
full generations planted no trees and twisted
no garlands, and sculptured no marble for
their Christian ancestry. But on the day oil
which speak the resurrected shall make the
| place OF their feet glorious From under the
shadow OF the church where they slumbered