Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-04-05

y sickness has put on you heavy
weights. So the'vnst majority, Of those
who went out Of this world went out
fateued. About the poorest place to
rest In is this world. Its atmosphere,
tts surroundings, and even its hilarities
are exhausting. So God stops oun,
earthly life, and mercjfully closes the
eyes, and more especially gives ac-
quiescence to the lung and heart that |
have not had ten minutes rest from
the first respiration and the first beat I
II drummer boy were compelled in
the army to beat his drum for twcnty-r
four hours without stopping his officer
would be cOurt-martialed for cruelty
1t the drummer boy should he com I
PEELED to beat his drum for a week
without ceasing, day and night, hL
would die in attempting it. But unda.
your vestment is a poor heart that ba
gan its drum beat for the march of lie
thirty or forty or sixty or eighty 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 ex-
piration of lung and the last throb OF
pulse and after the spirit is released,
the heart keeps on beating for a time.
What - mercy, then, it is that the
grave Is the place where that won-
lrous machinery of ventricle and ar
tery can halt! {.
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 con.
structed may be infused into the resur-
rection 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 re-
cuperation from the storehouse from
which he was constructed without our
going back into the dust? That orig
inal, life-giviDg material having been
added to the body as it once was, and
all the effects left behind, what 4 body
will be the resurrection body! And will
not hundreds of thousands Of such ap-
pearing above the Gowanus Heights
make Greenwood more beautiful than
any June morning after shower?
The dust of the earth being the orig
inal material for the fashionirg Of the
first human being, we have to go back
t<> thn n1lS0 fn <rQf S1C,rfnNt
body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them IA re their
garments grimy and their hands
| smutched. But who cares for that
when they turn out for us beautiful
musical instruments or exqui.ite up.
holstery? What though the grave is
a rough place, it is q 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 pu5 into a
factory cotton, and it comes out ap-
parel. You put into a factory lumber
and lead, and it comes out pianos and
organs. And so into the factory Of the
grave, you put in pm eu.Ionias and con-
sumptions, and they come out health.
! AOu pun Ala 6LVtlAAo SlAu lACy NOAC OuL
hallelujahs For us, on the final day,
the parks Or the gardens or the palaces,
but the cemeteries.
We are not told in what season that
day will come. If it should be winter
those who come up will be more lus-
trious than the snow that covered
them. If in the autumn those who
come up will e-more gorgeous than the
woods after the frosts had penciled
them. If in the spring the bloom on
which they tread will be dull compared
with the rubicund of their cheeks. Oh,
the perfect resurrection body! Almost
everybody has some defective spot in
his 'physical constitution; dull ear, or
dim eye, or rheumatic foot, or
neuralgia brow, or a twisted muscle,
or a weak side, or an inflamed tonsil,
or some point at which the east wind
or q season of 0verw0rk assaults him.
But the resurrection body shall be with
out one weak spot, land all that the doc
tors and nurses and apcthecaries Of
earth will hereafter will have to do will
be to rest without interruption after
the broken nights of their earthly exis-
tence. Not only will that day be the
UedullllCdllOu VI well AcpC CclACIcAACc,
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 at
/ tractiveness given them.
1t was shame that in that place un-
grateful generations planted no trees,
and twisted no garlands, and sculptured
no marble for their Christian ancestry;
but on the day Of which speak the res
direction shall make the place Of their
feet glorious. From under the shadow
of the church. where they slumbered
among nettIes, and mullen stalks and
thistles, and slabs aslant, they shall
rise with a glory that, shall flush the
windows of the village church, and the
bell tower that used call them to wor-
ship, and above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly assembled.
What triumphal procession never did
for street, what an oratorio never did
for, an academy, what an orator never
did for brilliant auditory, what ODE
lisk never did for king, resurrection