News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-29

tory of the grave you put in pnenmonias
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 PERFECT BODY.
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. 1t In
the autumn, those who come up will be
more gorgeous than the woods after the
frosts had penciled them. If in spring,
the bloom on which they tread will be
dull compared with the rubicund of
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 a
twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an in
famed tonsil, or some point at which the
east wind or a season of overwork as
saults him.
But the resurrection body shall be
without one weak spot, and all that the
doctors and nurses and apQthecaries OF
earth will thereafter have to do will be
to rest without interruption after the
broken nights of their earthly existence.
Not only will that day be the beautihca-
ton of well kept cemeteries, but some
of the grayeyards that have been neg
lected and been the pasture ground for
cattle and roofing places for swine will
for the first time have attraettyeness
given them.
1t was shame that in that place un-
grateful generations planted no trees,
and twisted 10 garlands, and sculptured
no marble for their Christian ancestry.
But on the day of which l speak the res
directed shall make the place of their
feet glorious. From under the shadow
of the church, where they slumbered
among nettles and mullen stalks and
thistles and slabs aslant, they shall arise
with glory that shall flush the win
dows of the village church, and by the
bell tower that used to call them to wOr-
ship. and above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly asoeEded.
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 a King, resurrection
morn will do for all the cemeteries.
This Easter tells US that in Christ's
resurrection our resurrection, if we are
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, 60 OF
them Christ's eIoGics, say he did rise,
fol- they saw him after he had risen. If
he did not rise, how did 60 armed soldiers
let him get away? Surely go living SOL
diers ought to be able to keep one dead
man. Blessed be God! He did get away.
THR RECOGNITIONS.
After his resurrection Mary Magda-
iene saw him. Cleopds saw him. Ten
disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem
saw him. On a mountain the II 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 r.akes
me sure that our departed loved ores
and we ourselves shall get away, Freed
himself from the shackles of clod, he is
not going to leave us and ours in the
lurch.
There will be 10 doorknob on the in
side of our family sepulcher, for we can
not come out of ourselves, but there is a
doorknob on the outside, and that Jesus
shall lay hold of, and, opening, will say:
Good morning! You have slept long
enough Arise! Arise!'' And then what
futter of wings, and what flashing of
rekindled eyes, and what gladstone rush
ing across the family lot, with cries of;
Gather, is that your Mother, is that
your MY darling, is that your" 'How
you all have changed The cough gone,
the Group gone, the consumption gone,