The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30

ever beautiful now. win be more beauti-
full when the bodies of our loved ones
come up in the morning of the resurrec-
ton.
They will come in improved condition.
They will come up rested. The most Of
them lay down at the last very tired.
How often you have heard them say, II
am so tiredr The fact is, it is a tired
world. If should go through this au-
dience and go round the world, / could
not find person in any style of life ig-
horant of the sensation of fatigue.
do not believe there are 50persons in
this audience who are not tired. Your
head is tired, or your, pack is tired, or
your foot is tired, or your brain Is tired,
or your nerves are tired. Long journey
ing or business application or bereave-
ment or sickness has put on you heavy
weights. So the vast majority of those
who went out of this world went out IA
tigued. About the poorest place to rest
in is this world. Its atmosphere, itssur-
roundings and even its hilarities are ex-
hausting, So God stops our earthly life
and mercifully closes the eyes, and more
especially gives quiescence to tho lung
and heart, that have not had 10 minutes
rest from the first respiration and the
first beat.
If drummer boy were compelled in
the army to beat his drum for "a hours
without stopping, his officer would be
court martialed for cruelty. If the drum
mer boy should be commanded to beat
his drum for week without ceasing,
day and night, he would die in attempt
ing it. But under your vestment is a
poor heart that began it's drumbeat for
the march of life 80 or 40 or so or 80
years ago, and 1t 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 expiration of lung and
the last throb of pulse, and after the
spirit is released, the heart keeps on beat
ing for time. What a mercy, then, it
is that the grave is the place where that
wondrous machinery of ventricle and ar
terry can halt!
DUST OF THE EARTH.
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 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 storehouse
from which he was constructed without
our going back into the dust? That orig
inal life giving material having been
added to the body as it once was, and all
the defects left behind, what body will
be the resurrection body! And will not
hundreds of thousands of such appearing
above the Gowanus heights make Green.
wood more beautiful than any June
morning after 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 same place to
get perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them have their
garments grimy and their hands smutch.
ed. But who cares for that when they
turn out for us beautiful musical instru.
ments or exquisite upholstery? What
though the grave is rough place--it is
a resurrection body mandatory, and
from it shall come the radiant and re-
splendent forms of our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw
You put into factory cotton, and il
comes out apparel. You put into fac,
tory lumber and lead, and they come out
pianos and organs. And SO into the fac.
tory of the grave you put in pneumonia
and consumptions, and they come out
health. You put in groans, and they
come out halleluiahs. For us, on the
final day, the most attractive places will
not be the parks, or the gardens, or the
palaces, but the cemeteries.
The fERtECI BOD1.
We are not told in what season that
day will come. If it should be winter
those who come up will be more lustrous
than the snow that covered them. If il
the autumn, those who come up will bt
more gorgeous than the woods after the
frosts had penciled them. Ifin thespring
the bloom on which they tread will b.
dull compared with the rubicuna o.
their cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrec
ton body! Almost everybody has some
defective spot in his physical constitu
tion-a dull ear, or dim eye, or rheu
matte foot, or a neuralgia brow, or {
twisted muscle, or weak side, or an in
famed tonsil, or some point at which thu
| east wind or u season of overwork as
| saults him.
But the resurrection body shall b.
without one weak spot, and all that tn,
doctors and nurses and apothecaries y
earth will thereafter have to do will b,
to rest without interruption after til,
broken nights Of their earthly existence
Not only will that day be the beautifca
ton of well kept cemeteries, but som,
Of the graveyards that have been neg
lected and been the pasture ground 70,
cattle and roofing places for swine vii
for the first time have attractivenes
given them.
1t was a shame that in that place un
grateful generations planted no trees
and twisted no garlands, and sculpturet
no marble for their Christian ancestry
But on the day of which speak the res
directed shall make the place of thei
feet glorious. From under the SHADOW
of the church, where they slumberet
among nettles and mullen stalks an,
thistles and slabs aslant, they shall arts
with a glory that shall flush the win
dows of the village church, and by tn
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