Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-28

hdNo Deel suggested by the fact tla
Chrlsts tomb was in a garden. AM
when say garden do not mean a gar
den of these latitudes The late frost
of spring and the early frosts of autumn
are so near each other that there ar,
only few months of flowers in the field
All the flowers we see today had to bc
petted and coa6ed and put under shelter
or they would not have bloomed at all
They are the children Of the conservato
RES. But at this season and through
the most Of the year the Holy Land is
all ablush with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family of flow.
ers there, some that you supposed indig.
enous to the far north, and others indig.
enous to the far south-the daisy and
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 1,SO0 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 Palestinel And in such a garden
Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldiers
spear, his last drop of blood had coagu-
lated. And then see how appropriate
that all our cemeteries should be floral
lied and tree shaded. In June Green
wood is Brooklyn's garden.
THE RESURRECTION IDEA.
"Well, then" you say, chow can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beautify the cemeteries? Will it not
leave them plowed up ground? On
that day there will be an earthquake,
and will not this split the polished Aber-
deem granite as well as the plain slab
that can afford but two words-'Our
Mary or Our CharleyP" Well, l will
tell you how resurrection day will beau
tify all 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 grace
'ul than any willow by the waters. Can
you think of anything more beautiful
han the temperance of those from
whom we have been parted? do not
,are which way the tree falls in the blast
If the judgment hurricane, or if the
)lowshare that day shall turn under the
asst rose leaf and the last china aster, if
,ut of the broken sod shall come the bod
es of our loved ones not damaged, but
rradiated.
The idea of the resurrection gets easier
% understand as l hear the phonograph
lnroll some voice that talked into it
rear ago, just before our friend's decease.
You touch the lever, and then come forth
he very tones, the very song of the per-
on that breathed into it once, but is
low departed. If a man can do that,
,annot Almighty God, without half try
ng, return the voice of your departed?
And if he can return the voice, why not
he lips, and the tongue, and the throat
hat fashioned the voice? And if the
ips, and the tongue, and the throat, why
lot 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
he muscles, which are less ingenious?
And if the muscles, why not the bones,
hat are less wonderful? And if the voice,
md the brain, and the muscles, and the
ZONES, why not the entire body? If man
AN do the phonograph, God can do the
WONDERFUL FACT.
Will it be the same body that in the
asst day shall be terminated? Yes, but
improved Our bodies change
very seven years, and yet in one sense
t is the same body. On my wrist and
he second finger of my right hand there
S a scar. made that at 12 years of age,
when, disgusted at the presence of two
warts, took redhot iron and burned
hem off and burned them out. Since
hen my body has changed at least half
Iozen times, but those scars prove it is
he same body,
We never lose our identity. If God
an and does sometimes rebuild mani
i've, six, ten times in this world, is it
mysterious that he can rebuild him once
more and that in the resurrection? If he
an do it 10 times, think he can do it II |
ines. Then look at the II year locusts. |
FOR II years gone, at the end Of II years
hey appear, and by rubbing the hind leg
gainst the wing make that rattle at
which all the husbandmen and vine |
ressers tremble as the insectile host |
axes up the march of devastation. Res
ERECTION every II years-a wonderful |
actl
Another consideration makes the idea |
f resurrection easier. God made Adam. |
lie was not fashioned after any model. !
here had never been human organism, |
nd so there was nothing to copy. At |
be first attempt God made a perfect |
IAN. He made him out of the dust of |
be earth. If out of ordinary dust Of the
arth and without model God could
lake a perfect man, surely out of the
dust Of mortal body and
With millions of models God can make
ach one of us a perfect being in the res
erection. Surely the last undertaking
would not be greater than the first. See
he gospel algebra. Ordinary dust minus
model equals a perfect man. Extraor-