The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-03-30
ever beautiful now, will be more beauti.

Iul Wnen Che bodies OF our loved one
come up in the morning of the resurrec
ton.
They will come in improved condition
They will come up rested. The most O
them lay down at the last very tired
How often you have heard them say, g
am so tired!' The fact is, it is a tirec
world. If l should go through this au
dience and go round the world, coult
not find person in any style of life ig
norant OF the sensation of fatigue.
do not believe there are so persons il
this audience who are not tired. YOU
head is tired, or your back is tired, OF
your foot is tired, or your brain is tired
or your nerves are tired. Long journey
ing or business application or bereave
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, itssur
roundings and even it's hilarities are ex
hausting. So God stops our earthly life
and mercifully closes the eyes, and more
especially gives quiescence to the lung
and heart, that have not had 10 minutes
rest from the first respiration and the
first beat.
Ii drummer boy were compelled in
the army to beat his drum for "a hours
without stopping, his officer would be
court martialed for cruelty. If the drum
mer boy should be commanded to beat
his drum for week without ceasing,
day and night, he would die in attempt
ing it. But under your vestment is a
poor heart that began it's drumbeat for
the march of life 80 or DO or go or 80
years ago, and it has had no furlough by
day or night, and whether in conscious
or comatose state it went right on, for if
it 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 and
the last throb of pulse, and after the
spirit is released, the heart keeps on beat
ing for time. What mercy, then, it
is that the grave is the place where that
wondrous machinery of ventricle and ar,
terry can halt!
DUST OF THE EARTH.
Under the healthful chemistry of the
soil all the wear and tear of nerve and
muscle and bone will be subtracted, and
that bath of good fresh clean soil will
wash off 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 resurrection body. How can
the bodies of the human race, which have
had no replenishment from the dust
since the time of Adam in paradise, get
any recuperation from the storehouse
from which he was constructed without
our going back into the dust? That orig.
inal life giving material having been
added to the body as it once was, and all
the defects left behind, what a body will
be the resurrection body! And will not
of thousands of such appearing
above the Gowanus heights make Green
wood more beautiful than any June
morning after a shower? The dust of |
the earth being the original material for
the fashioning of the first human being,
we have to go back to shesssme alses to
get perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them have their |
garments grimy and their hands smutch.
ed. But who cares for that when they |
turn out for us beautiful musical instru- |
ments or exquisite upholstery? What |
though the grave is rough place-it is
q resurrection body mandatory, and
from it shall come the radiant and re-
splendent forms of our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw.
You put into factory cotton, and it |
comes out apparel. You put into a fac.
tory lumber and lead, and they come out
pianos and organs. And so into the fac
tory of the grave you put in pneumonias
and consumptions, and they come out
health. You put in groans, and they
come out halleluiahs. For US, on the
final day, the most attractive places will
not be the parks, or the gardens, or the
palaces, but the cemeteries.
THE PERFECT BODY.
We are not told in what season that
lay will come. If it should be winter,
hose who come up will be more lustrous
han the snow that covered them. IF in
he autumn, those who come up will be
more gorgeous than the woods after the
rosts had penciled them. If in thespring,
he bloom on which they tread will be
lull compared with the rubicund of
heir cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrec.
ion bodyl Almost everybody has some
Effective spot in his physical constitu-
iona dull ear, or dim eye, or rheu.
natic foot, or a neuralgia brow. or
visited muscle, or a weak side, or an in
amed tonsil, or some point at which the
asst wind or a season of overwork as.
aults him.
But the resurrection body shall be
Without one weak spot, and all that the
octors and nurses and apothecaries of
arth will thereafter have to do will be
D rest without interruption after the
roken nights of their earthly existence.
lot only will that day be the beautifca-
ION of well kept cemeteries, but some
the graveyards that have been neg
'cted and been the pasture ground for ,
attic and roofing places for swine will !
Dr. the first time have attractiyeness
iven them. ,