The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-04-05
life 80 or 30 or GO or 80 wears ago, and

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1t has had no furlough by day or night,
aud whether in conscious or comatose
state 1t went right on, tor if il had
stopped seven seconds your Life would
have closed. Aud your heart will keep
going until some tine after your spirit
has flown, FOR the auscultator SAYS that
after the last expiration of lung aud tho
last throb Of pulse, and after the spirit
is released, the heart keeps on beating
for time. What q mercy, then, it 80
that the eravo is the place
where that wopdrous m ,chinery of ven.
triCle and artery cnn halt!
Under the healthful chemistry of the
soil all the wear aud tear OF nerve and
muscle and bone will bo subtracted and
both of good fresh clean soil viii wash
OFF the last ache, and then some OF the
same style of dust out of which the
body Of Adam was constructed NAV be
Infused into the resurrection BODY.
How can the bodies OF the human
race, which have had no repIenish
ment from the dust since the time of
Adam In paradise, get any recupera.
tion from the stOrehouse from which he
was constructed without our going
back into the dust? That original,
life giving material having been add.
ed to the body as 1t once was, and
all the defects left behind, what a
body will be the resurrection body!
AND will not hundreds Of thousands of
such appearing above the Gowanus
heights make Greenwood more beauti-
full than any June morning after a
showerp The dust OF the earth being
the original material for tho tashioning
OF the hrst human being, we have to 60
pack TO the same place to get a per
feet body.
Factories are apt to be rough pl aces
and those who toll in them have their
garments grimy and their hands smut
ched. But who cares for that when
they turn out for ua beautiful musical
Instruments or exquisite upholstery?
What though the grave is a rough
place, 1t Is resurrection body man
ufactory, and from 1t Shall come the
radiant and resplendent forms Of our
friends on the brightest morning the
world ever saw. You put into a facto-
~ cotton, and 1t comes out apparel.
I on put into factory lumber and
lead, and they come out pianos and
organs. And so into the factory Of the
grave you put In pneumonias and con-
Sumptions, and they come out health
7 ou put in BrOaEs, and they come out
hallelulahs. 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 not told in what season that
day VIII come If 1t should be winter,
those who come up will be more lustr-
Gus than the snow that covered them.
II In the autumn, those who come up
viii be more gorgeous than
the woods after tie frosts had pen
ciled them. If In the spring, the bloom
on which they tread will be dull COM
pared with the ruUicund of their cheeks
On, the perfect resuprrection bodyI AL
most everybody has some defective
spot in his physical consLitu-
tlon-a dull ear, or a dim eye, or a
rheumatic foot, or neuralgia brow,
or twisted muscle, or weak side, or
an lnhamed tonsil, or some point at
| which the east wind or a Season Of over
| work assaeults him.
| But the resurrection body shall be
| Wlthuot one weak spot, and all that the
| doctors and nurS -. and apoChe-
carries OF earth will thereafter have to
90 Will be to rest without interruption
after the BROKEN nights of their earth
| ~ existence. Not only Will chat day be
the Deautllication OF we'll kept ceme-
| teries. but some Of the graveyards that
have been neglected and been the pas
ture ground for cattle and roofing
places for swine VIII for the first time
have attractlyenes given them.
1t was q shame that In that place I'M
grateful generations plauted no trees,
and twisted no garlands, and seculp.
tureu no marble for their Christian an
cestry, but on the day Of which | speak
the resurrected shall make the place Of
their feet glorious. From under the
shadow OF the church, where they slum-
Oered among nettleS and mullen stalks
and thlStles and SLABS aslant, they shall
rise with a 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 splre be-
side which their prayers formerly as
8ended. What ltriumphal procession
never did for str eet, what an oratorio
never di0 for an academy, what an or
ator never did for a brilliant auditory,
what Obellsk never did for q king, re-
surrection morn will do for all the Gem
eteries.
This Easter tells us tn at In Chrlst's
resurrection our resurrection, if his,
and the resurrection OF all the pious
dead, Is assured, for he was "the first
fruits Of them that slept" Renan says
| he did not rise, but $50 witnesses, 80 of
| them Chrtst's enemies, say he did rise,
for they saw him after he had risen. If
he did not lise, how did 60 armed SOL
diers let him get away? Surely 20 liv.
ing soldiers ought to be able to keep
one dead mani Blessed be God! lie
did get
After his resurrection Mary Magda-
lene saw him. Cleopas saw him. Ten
disciples IN an upper room at Jerus alem
| saw him. On q mountain the / saw
him. Five hundred at once saw him.
Professor Ernest Renan, who did not
see him. will excuse us for taking the
testimony of the $50 who did see 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 shackles of cold, lie
is not going to leave us and ours in the
lurch.
There will be no doorknob on the
inside Of our family sepulcher, for we
cannot come out Of our elves, but there
Is doorlnob on the outside, and that
Jesus shall lay hold Of. and opening
Will say: "Good morning! You have
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