Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-30

aim. nut the resurrection DOuy snail
be without one weak spot, and all that
the doctors, and nurses, and apothe-
carries of earth will thereafter have to
do, will be to rest without interruption
for the broken nights of their earthly
existence. Not only will that day be
the Identification of we'll kept ceme-
teries, but some of the graveyards that
have been neglected and been the
pasture ground for cattle, and roofing
places for swine. will for the first time
have attractiveness given them
This Easter tells ms that in Christ's
resurrection our resurrection, If we
are his. and tho resurrection of all the
pious dead, is assured, for he was 1.-THE
first fruits of them that slept" Renan
says he did not rise but five hundred
and eighty witnesses, sixty of them
Christ's enemies, say he did rise, for
they saw him after he had risen. If
he did not rise, how did sixty armed
soldiers let him get away? Surely
sixty living soldiers ought to be able
to keep one dead man! Blessed be
GOdl He did get away. After his res
direction Mary Magdalene saw him
Cleopas saw him. Ten disciples in an
upper room at Jerusalem, saw him.
On a mountain the eleven saw him.
Five hundred at once saw him. Prof.
Ernest Renan, who did not see him. will
excuse us for taking the testimony of
the five hundred and eighty who did
nee him. Yes, yes; he got away. And
that makes me sure that our departed
loved ones and we ourselves shall get
away. Freed himself from the shaclSles
of clod, he is not going TO leave us
and ours IN the lurch.
There will be no door knob on the
inside of our family sepulcher, for we
can not come out OF ourselves; but
there is a door knob on the outside,
and that Jesus shall lay hold of, and,
opening, will say: Good morning!
You have slept long enough Arisel
Arise" And then what flutter of
wings, and what flashing of rel1indled
eyes, and what gladstone rushing
across the family lot, with cries of
Father is that you?" Mother,
is that your MY darling, IL that
you?" How you have all changed
The cough gone, the Group
gone, the consumption gone,
the paralysis gone the weari-
ness gone. Come, let us ascend TO.
gether! The older ones first, the
younger ones next! Quick now, get
INFO line! The slIyward procession has
already started! steer now by that
embanlSment of cloud for the nearest
gate!" And, as we ascend, on one
side the earth gets smaller until it is
no. larger than mountain, and smaller
until it is no larger than palace and
smaller until it is no larger than a ship
and smaller until it is no larger than a
wheel. and smaller until it sno larger
than speck.
Farewell, dissolving EARTH But on
the other side, as we rise, heaven at
rirst appears no larger than your hand
And nearer it looks like a chariot, and
nearer il looks like throne, and nearer
il looks like star and nearer il looks
like n sun, and nearer it looks like a
universe Hail scepters that shall al
ways wave! Hail. anthems that shall
always roll! Hail, ecmpanionships
never again to part! That is wha,
resurrection day will do for all the
cemeteries and graveyards from the
Machpelah that was opened by Father
Abraham in Hebron to the hachpelah
yesterday consecrated. And that
makes Lady HuntingtoD's iEnmortal
rnythm most apposite:
When thou, my righteous iudss. shalt cems
TO take thy ransomed people home,
Shall among them staAdR
Shall such worthless worm as ],
Who sometimes am afraid TO die.
Be found at thy right handf
Among thy saints let me be found,
Whenever tn archange!s trump hall ssund
To see thy smiling face;
Then loudest of the throng I'll sing,
While heavens resounding arches ring
With shouts of sovereign graca