Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-26

Long journeying, or business appllca-
lion. or bereavement, or sickness has
nut on Won heavy weights. So the vast
majority OF those who went out Of this
world went out fatigued. About the
poorest place to rest in is this world.
lis mosphere, It's surroundings, and
even its hilarities are exhauStiBg. So
God stops our earthly life, and merci-
fullv closes the eyes, and more especial
" gives ouiescence TO the lung and
heart, that have not had ten minutes
rest from the first respiration and the
first beat
Ifadrummer boy were compelled in
the army TO beat his drum for twenty
four hours without stopping, his officer
would be cout-martialed for cruelty. II
the drummer boy should be commanded
10 beat his drum for week without
ceasing, day and night, he would die In
attempting il. But under your vest
ment is a poor heart that began It's drum
beat for the march OF life thirty, forty,
or sixty, or eighty years ago, and it has
had no fuClough by day or night; and
whether in conscious or comatose state,
it went right on, for il it had stopped
seven seconds your
LIFE WOULD HAVE CLOSED.
And your heart will keep going until
sometime 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 beating for
a slime. What mercy, then, II is that
the grave is the place where that WON
drous machinery Of virticle and artery
can haiti
Under the healthfUl chemistry Of the
soil ell the wear and tear OF nerve and
muscle aud bone will be SubStracted 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 dust from
which be was constructed without our
going back into the dust? That origi-
nal, life-giving material having been
added 10 the body as ii once was, aad
all the defects left behind, what body
will be the resurrection bodyl And will
not hundreds Of thousands of such ap-
pearing above the GOwanus Heights
make Greenwood 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 the
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Factories are apt TO be rough places,
and those who toll 10 them nave their
garments Rrimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that
when they turn out for US beautiful
musical instruments or exquisite up
hOlstery? What though the grave is
rough place, 10 is a resurrection body
mandatory, and from it shall come
the radiant and respondent 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 fac
tory lumber and lead, and 1t comes on I
pianos aud organs. And so into the fac
tory of the grave, you put in pneu-
mOnias and cOnsumptions and they come
out health. Yout put in grOans and
they come out hallelujahS. For us, on
the final day, the most attractive places
will not be the parks or the gardens or
the palaces, but the cemeteries.
We are told in what season that day
will come. II it should be winter, those
who come up will be more iustrious
than the snow that covered them. II
in the autumn, those who come up will
more gorgeous than the woods after the
frosts had pencled them. II in the
spring, the bloom on which they tread
will be dull compared with the ruOi-
cund of their cheeks. Oh, the perfect
resurrection body. Almost everybody
has some defective spot 10 mis- physical
constitution; q dull ear, or a dim eye,
or a rheumatic foot, or neuralgia
brow, or twisted muscle, or weak
side, or an iu1amed tOusil, or some
point at which the east wind or sea-
son Of overwork assaults him. But the
resurrection body shall be without one
weak spot, and all that the doctors, and
nurses, and apotheCaries OF earth will
thereafter have to do, will be TO test
without interruption after the broken
nights of their earthly existence. Not
only will that day be the Identification
of we'll kept cemeteries, but some OF the
graveyards that have been neglected
and been the pasture ground for cattle,
aud roofing places for swine, will for
the first time nave attractiveness given
them.
1t was a shame that in that place IN
grateful generations planted no treSS,
and twisted no garlands, and scnlptured
DO marble for their Christian ancestry;
but on the day Of which 1 speak, the
resurrected shall make the place OF
their feet glorious. From under the
SHADOW OF THE CHURCH,
where they slumber among nettles, and
MULLEN stalks, and thiStles, and slabs
aSlant, they shall rise with glory that
shall flush the windows OF the village
church, and by the bell tower that used
TO call them to worship, and above the
old spire beside which their prayers
formerly assembled. What triumphal
procession never did for q street, what
an oratoriO never did for an academy,
what an orator never did for brilliant
auditory, what an obelisk never did for
king, resurrection morn will do for all
the cemeteries.
This Easter tolls US that in Christ's
resurrection our resurrection, If we are
his, ana re resurrection OF all the pi-
Gus dead, is assured, for he was the
6rst-fruits Of them that slept" Renan
saws he did not rise, but five hundred
and eighty witnesses, sixty OF them
Christ's enemies, say be did rise, for
they saw him after he had risen. II
be did not rise, how did sixty armed
soldiers let him get away? Surely sixty
livint, soldiers Ourht 10 be able TO keen