Connecticut western news., 1894-03-29

spear, his last drop of blood had coagu- lated. And then see how appropriate that all our cemeteries should be floral ized and tree shaded. In June Green. wood is Brooklyn's garden.
 THE RESURRECTION IDEA
 "Well, then" you say, ''how can you make out that the resurrection day will beautify the ceraeteriesf Will it not leave them plowed up ground? On that day there will be an earthquake, and will not this split the polished Aber- deen granite as we'll as the plain slab that can afford but two words-'Our Mary or Our Charleyr" We'll, will tell you how resurrection day will beau tify all the cemeteries. It will be by
 bringing up the faces that were to us once, and in our memories are to us now, more beautiful than any calla lily, and the forms that are to us more grace ful than any willow by the waters. Can you think of anything more beautiful than the reappearance of those from whom we have been parted? I 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 bod ies of our loved ones not damaged, but irradiated.
 The idea of the resurrection gets easier
 to understand as hear the phonograph
 unroll some voice that talked into it 8
 year ago, just before our friend's s decease.
 You touch the lever, and then come forth
 H. k ~,< %1.<aw>
 son that breathed into it once, but is
 now departed. If a man can do that,
 cannot Almighty God, without half try.
 ing, return the voice of your departedf
 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 the tongue. and the throat, why
 not the brain that suggested the wordst
 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 ingeniousi 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 photograph, God can do the resurrection.
 A WONDERFUL FACT.
 Will it be the same body that in the last day shall be reanimated? 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 12 years of age, when, disgusted at the presence of two warts, took a 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 a man five, six, ten times in this world, is it mysterious that he can rebuild him once more and that in the resurrection? If he can do it 10 times, I think he can do it Il times. Then look at the IT year locusts. For IT years gone, at the end of IT 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 J factl
 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 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 urrection. Surely the last undertaking would not be greater than the first. See the gospel algebra. Ordinary dust minus model equals a perfect man. Extraor- dinary dust and plus a model equals a resurrection body. Mysteries about iti Oh, yes. That is one reason why be- lieve it. It 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 it's present existence. TIRED WORLD.
 I 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 l your hand is extended. So find noth- l ing in the Bible statement concerning l the resurrection that staggers me for 8
 moment. All doubts clear from my mind. I say that the cemeteries, how ever beautiful now, will be more beauti- ful when the bodies of our loved ones come up in the morning of the resurrec- I tion.
 They will come in improved condition. l They will come up rested. The most of I them lay down at the last very tired.
 How often you have heard them say, "I
 am SO tiredr' The fact is, it is & tired world. If should go through this au-
 dience and go round the world, could
 not find a person in any style of life ig-
 norant of the sensation of fatigue l I do not believe there are 50 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 journey
 ing or business application or bereaye-
 ment or sickness has put on you heavy
 weights. So the vast majority of those
 who went out of this world went out fa-
 tigued. About the poorest place to rest
 in is this world. Its atmosphere, it's sur
 roundings and even its hilarities are ex-
 hausting. So God stops our earthly life
 and mercifully closes the eyes, and more
 especially gives quiescence to tho lung
 and heart, that have not had 10 minutes
 rest from the first respiration and the
 first beat
 If drummer boy were compelled in
 the army to beat his drum for 24 hours
 without stopping, his officer would be
 court martialed for cruelty. If the drum
 mer boy should be commanded to beat