The Progress., 1894-03-31

seventeen years, NOnNCfIUl 1dcI.
Another consideration makes the idea
OF resurrection easier. God made
Adam. He was not fashioned after
any model There had never been a
human organism, and 50 there was
nothing to copy. Atthe first attempt
God made a perfect man. lie made
him ont Of the dust of the earth, If
out of ordinary dust of the earth and
without a model God could make Il
perfect man, surely out Of the extra
ordinary dust of mortal body, and
with millions of models, God can make
each one of US perfect being in the
resurrection. Surely the last under
taking would not be greater than the
first. See the gospel algebra; ordinary
dust minus a model equals perfect
man; extraordinary dust and plus a
model equals a resurrection body.
Mysteries about it? Oh, yes; that is
one reason why ! believe it. 1t would
not be much of God who could do
things only as far as can understand
Mysteries? Oh, yes; but no more
about the resurrection of your body
than about its present existence.
will explain toyou the last mystery
of the resurrection, and make it as plain
to you as that two and two make four,
if you will tell me how your mind,
which is entirely independent Of your
body, can act upon your body so that
at your Will your eyes open, or your
foot walks, or your hand is extended,
SO find nothing in the Bible state
ment concerning the resurrection that
staggers me for a moment. All doubts
clear from my mind say that the
cemeteries, however beautiful now,
will be more beautiful when the bodies
of our loved ones come up, in the morn
ing of the resurrection.
They will come in improved condi-
ton. 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 tired" The fact
is, it is a tired world. If should go
through this audience, and 60 round
the world, | could not tind person in
any style of life ignorant of the sensa-
ton of fatigue. do not believe there
are fifty persons in this audience who
are not tired Your head is tired, or
your back is tired, Or your foot is tired,
or your brain is tired, or your nerves
are tired Long journeying, or bust
ness application, or bereavement,
Or sickness has put on you heavy
weights. So the vast majority of
those who went ont of this world went
out fatigued. About the poorest place
to rest in is this world. It's atmos-
phere, its surroundings, and even its
hilarities, are eXhausting SO God
stops our earthly life, and mercifully
closes the eyes, and more especially
gives q1iescence to the lung and heart;
that have not had ten minutes rest
from the first respiration and the first
beat.
If drummer boy were compelled in
the army to beat his drum for twenty
four hours without stopping, his Off
Ger would be court-martialed for
cruelty. If the drummer boy should
be commanded to beat his drum for
week without ceasing, day and night
he would die in attempting it. But
under your vestment is poor heart
that began its drum beat for the march
of life thirty, or forty, or sixty or
eighty years ago, and it has had no
Through 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 auscultatCr says that after the
last expiration of lung and the last
throb of pulse, and after the spirit is
released, The heart keeps on beating
for time. What mercy, then, it is
that the grave is the place where that
wondrous machinery Of ventricle and
artery can halt.
Under the healthful chemistry of
the soil all the wear and tear of nerve
and muscle and bone will be sub
tracted 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 store
house from which he was constructed
without our going back into the dust?
Factories are apt to be rough places
and those who toll in them have their
garments ,ogrimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that
when they turn out for us beautiful
musical instruments or exquisite up
holstery? What though the grave is
rough place, it is a resurrection body
mandatory, and from it shall come
the radiant and resplendent forms of
our friends on the brightest morning
the world ever saw. You put into a
factory cotton, and it comes out APP
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