Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-12

The late frosts OF spring and the early
frosts of autumn are so near each othel
that there are only few months o
flowers in the field. All the flowers we
see to-day had to be petted and coaNed
and put under shelter, or they would
not have bloomed at all They are the
children of the conservatives. But al
this season and through the most OF
the year. the Holy Land is all adjust
with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family of flow.
ers there, some that you supposed indi
| genous to the far south-the daisy ano
| hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip
and water lily. geranium and ranuneu.
lus. mignonette and sweet marjoram
In the college at Beyrout you may SEQ
| DIR. Posts collection of about eighteen
! hundred kinds of Holy Land flowers.
while among trees are the oaks of
frozen chimes, and the tamarisk of the
topics, walnut and willow. ivy and
hawthorne, ash and elder, pine and
sycamore. If such floral and botanical
beautiesare the wild growth of the field.
think what garden must be in Pales-
tine! And in such a garden Jesus
Christ slept after, on the soldiers
spear, His last drop of blood had coagu-
lated And then see how appropriate
that all our cemeteries should be flor
allied and tree shaded. Greenwood is
Brooklyn's garden.
We'll, then, you say, how can You
make out that the resurrection dav
will beautify the cemeteries? VIII IT,
not leave thema plowed up ground? On
that day there viii be an earthquake.
and will not this split the polished
Aberdeen granite, as well as the plain
slab that can afford but two words.
Our Mary, or Our CharleyP' F" Wen,
| Will tell you how resurrection dav
will beautify all the cemeteries Il
will be by bringing up the faces that
were to us once, and in our memories
are to MS now, more beautiful than any
Gala lily. and the forms that are to Us
more graceful than any willow by the
waters. Can you think of anything
more beautiful than the temperance |
of those from whom we have been /
parted? | do not care which way the /
tree falls in the blast of the Judgment /
hurricane, or If the plowshare that day 4
shall turn under the last rose leaf and 4
the last china aster, If out of the bro
ken sod shall come the bodies of our
loved ones not damaged but irradiated.
The idea of resurrection gets easier
to understand as hear the photograph
unroll some voice that talked into it a
year ago, just before our friends de-
cease. You touch the lever, and then
come forth the very tones, the very
song of the person that breathed into
it once, but is now departed. If a man
can do that cannot Almighty God
without half trying return the voice
Of your departed? And il he can return
the voice why not the lips, and the
tongue, and the throat that fashioned
the voice? And if the lips. and the
tongue, and the throat, why not the
brain that suggested the words? And
if the brain, why not the nerves, of
which the brain is tho headquarters
And if he can return the nerves, why
not the muscles, which are less ingeni-
BUS? And if the muscles, why not the
bones that are less wonderful And
if the voice and the brain, and the
and the bones, why not the
entire body? If man can do the pho
1ograph, God can do the resurrection
win it be the same body that in the
asst day shall be terminated? Yes,
put infinitely improved. Our bodies
,hange every seven years and vet in
me sense it is the same body On my
wrist and the second finger of my right
land there is scar. / made that at
. years of age when, disguised at the
presence of two warts, took red hot
ron and burned them off and burned !
hem out Since then my body has
hanged at least half dozen times [
nut those scars prove it is the same I
,ody We never lose our identity. I'll
iod can and does somet times rebuild a
nan five. six, ten times, in this world, [
5 it mysterious that he can rebuild {
i'm once more, and that in the resur- {
ection? If He can do it ten times, / c
hink He can do it eleven times. Then /
)ol at the seventeen-year locust. For c
eventeen years gone, at the end OF O
eventeen years they appear, and by p
ubbing the hind leg against the wing c
lake that rattle at which all the hus- b
andmen and vine dressers trem BILE as f
ne insectile host takes up the march t
t devastation. Resurrection every r
eventeen years, a wonderful fact! o
Another consideration makes the a
lea of resurrection easier. God made "
dam. He was not fashioned after o
az model There had never been a u
1man organism, and so there was W
1thing to copy. At the first attempt Il
cd made perfect man. He made him W
it of the dust of the earth. If out Of re
binary dust of the earth and without bi
model God could make perfect man. el
rely out of the extraordinary dust of b,
ortal body, and with millions of &c
odels God can make each one of us "a
rfect being in the resurrection. be
rely the last undertaking would not al
greater than the first. See the pos- tn
l algebra; ordinary dust minus a tn