The Globe-republican., 1894-03-30

garden. And when say garden do
not mean a garden of these ATTITUDES.
The late frosts of spring and the early
frosts of autumn are so near each other
that there are only few months of
flowers in the field. All the flowers
we see to-day had to be petted and
coaxed and put under shelter, or they
would not have ploomed at all They
are the children of the Conservatives.
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 in
digenous to the far north. and others
Indigenous to the far south-the daisy
and hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tu-
lip and water lilly. geranium and ra-
nunculus, mignonette and sweet mar
joram. In the college at Beyrout you
may see DIR. Posts collection of about
l. 500 kinds of Holy Land flowers: while
among trees are the oaks of frozen
climes, and the tamarisk of the tropics,
walnut and willow. ivy and hawthorn.
ash and elder, pine and sycamore. Ii
such floral and botanical beauties are
the wild growths of the field, think of
what garden must be in Palestine.
And in such a garden Jesus Christ
slept after, on the soldiers spear, his
last drop of blood had coagulated.
And then see how appropriate that all
our cemeteries should be horaliZed and
tree shaded. In June Greenwood is
Brooklyn's garden.
We'll. then" you say, ''how can you
make out that the resurrection day
will beautify the cemeteries? viii it
not leave them a plowed up ground?
On that day there will be an earth
quake, and will not this split the pol
ished Aberdeen granite, as well as the
plain slab that can afford but two
words: Our Mary or 'Our Charley"
Well, will tell you how resurrection
day will beautify 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 graceful than any willow by the
waters.
The idea of the resurrection gets
easier to understand as | hear the
phonograph unroll some voice that
talked into it a year ago. just before
our friends deceased. You touch the
lever. and then come forth the very
tones, the very song of the person that
breathed into it once. but is now de-
parted If man can do that. cannot
Almight God, without half trying, re.
turn the voice of your departed? And
if He can return the voice, why not the
lips and the tongue and the throat
that fashioned the voice? Ani if the
lips and the tongue and the throat,
why not the brain that sug yested the
words? If man C IN do the phonograph,
God can do the resurrection.
Will it be the same body that in the
last day shall be terminated? 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. l made
that at II years of age, when, disgusted
at the presence of two warts. l took a
red hot iron and burned them off and
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 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 ten times think he can do it eleven
times Then look at the seventeen
year lOcusts. For seventeen years
gone, at the end of seventeen wears
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 years, 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 a 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 with
out a model God could make a 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 resurrection.
Surely the last u rdertaking would not
be greater than the first See the gos-
pei algebra: ordinary dust minus
model equals a perfect man: extraordi-
nary dust and plus a model equals a
resurrection body. Mysteries about
it? Oh. yes: that is one reason why
believe it. 1t would not be much of
God who could do things only as far as
can understand.
They will come in improved condi-
ton. They will come up rested. The
most of them lay down at the last very
tired. How often You have heard them
say: Il am SD tired!'' The fact is. it is
a tired world. If should go through
this audience. and GO around the world.
l could not find a person in any style of
life is norant of the sensation of IA
tigue. Long journeying. or business