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

Il
seventeen years, wonderful tact!
Another consideration makes the'id
of resurrection easier. God made
Adam. lie 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 ihap, lie made
out of 11dinaCy dust of the earth and
without a model God could make
perfect man, surely out of the extra
ordinary dust of mortal body, and
with millions of models, God can make
each one'of us a perfect being il the
resurrection. Surely the last uader-
taking would not be greater than the
first. See the gospel algebra; ordinary
dust minus a model equals perfect
man; extraordinary dust and plus
model equals q resurrection body.
Mysteries about it? Oh yes; that is
one reason why l believe it. 1t would
not he much of a God who could do
things only as far as can understand
Mysteries? oh, yes; but no more
about the resurrection of your body
than about its present existence.
will explain you the last mystery
of the resurrection, and make it as plain
to you as that two and two make four,
if you will tell me how your mind.
which is entirely independent of your
body, can act upon your body 30 that
at your Will your eyes open, or your
foot walks, or your hand is extended
So find nothing in the Bible state
ment concerning the resurrection that
staggers me for moment All doubts
clear from my mind. l say that the
cemeteries, however beautiful now,
will be moro beautiful when the bodies
of our loved ones come up, in the morn
ing of the resurrection.
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 beard
them say, 81 am so tired!' The fact
is, it is tired world. If should go
through this audience, and go round
the world, | could not find a person in
any style of life ignorant of the sensa-
ton of fatigue. do not believe there
are fifty pers ons in this audience who
are not tired Your head is tired, or
your back is tired, or your foot is tired
or your brain is tired, or your nerves
are tired. Long journeying, or bust
ness application, or bereavement,
or sickness has put on you heavy
weights. So the vast majority of
those who went out Of this world went
ont fatigued. About the poorest place
to rest in is th's world. Its atmos-
pherc its surroundings, and even it's
hilarities, are exhausting 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 ten minutes rest
from the first respiration and the first
beat.
II drummer BOY were compelled in
the army 10 beat his drum for twenty
four hours without stopping, his oil
Ger would 10 court martialed for
cruelty. IL the drummer boy should
be commanded to beat his drum for q
week without ceasing, day and night
he would die in attempting it But
under your vcs:ment is poor heart
that began its drum beat for the march
of life thirty "r forty, or sixty or
eighty years ~ ., and it has had no
furlough by day or night; and whether
in conscious or comatosc 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 9uscultatc- gays that after the
last expiration of lung and the last
.hrob of pulse, and after tie spirit is
released, lhe heart keeps on beating
for time. What mercy, then, it is
that the grave is the place where that
eondrous machinery of ventriole ana
arterf can halt
Under the 1rGithful. chemistry of
the soil all tho wear and tear of nerve
and muscle and bone will be sub
tracted 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 store
house from which nc was constructed
without our going back into the dust?
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them have their
garments grimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that
when they turn out for us beautiful
musical instruments or exquisite up
hoistery? What though the grave is
rough place, it is a resurrection body
mandatory and from il shall come
the radiant and rcsplcndent forms of
our friends on the brightest morning
the world ever saw. You put into
factory cotton, and it comes out APP
pareL You put into factory lumber
and lead, and it comes out pianos and
organs And so into the factory OF
the grave, you put in pneumonias and
consumptions and they come out