The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-05

ll|l- IN inc n|NrI OF flr judgment Nlfrl-
cnuo. or it tine plow-harn that day rnt,l
tuu under the last rose leaf and the last
china aster, if out of the broken sod shall
come the bodies Of our loved ones not dam
aged, but irrldiated.
TIM VOICE OF THE DEAD.
The idea of theresurrection gets easier to
understand as I hear the photograph I'M
roll some voice that talked into it year
ago, just before our friends decease. You
touch the lever, aud then come forth the
very tones, the very songu the person that
brcathgd into IL once, but is now departed.
If a man can do that, cannot Almighty
God, without half trying, return the voice
of your dopartrd2 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 aud the tongue, and the
throat, why not the brain that suggested
the Wurds2 And il the brain. why not the
nerves, of which the brain is the headquar-
ters2 And lt hr can return the nerves, why
not the muscles, which are less iugeniuusY
And il the muscles, why not the bones,
that are less wUudeuulY Aud If the voice,
and the brain, and the muscles, and the
bones, why not the entire bOdyY If man
can do the phUuu-ruph, God can do the
resurrection.
VIII it he the same body that in the last
day shall he terminated. Yes, but infinite
IN improved. Our bodies change every
seven years. and yet In one sense it is the
same body. On my wrist and the second
FINGER of my right hand there is scar. ]
made that at II years Of age, when, dis
-usted ut the presence of two warts, took
rcdhot iron and burned them of and
burned them out. Since then my body mas
/ changed AT least half dozen times, but
/ those scars prove it is the same body.
/ We never lose our identity Ii God can
/ and does sometimes rebuild a man five six
ten times in this world, is it mysterious
that he can II build him once more audtbat
in the re-Trrectiony Ii he can do it 10
times, think he can do it II times. Then
look at the Z year iOCusts For IL years
gone, at the end OF II years they appear,
and by rubbing the hind lex against the
wing make that rattle at which all the hus-
bandmeu and vine dres,prs trymhle us the
lnsectile host takes up the march OF devus-
tation. Resurrection every I years, a Won
dertul fact.
TIL GOSPEL ALGEBRA.
Another consideration makes the idea of
resurrection easier. God made Adam. He
was not fashioned after any model. There
had never been human organism, and so
there was nothing to copy At the first at
tempt God made a perfect man. He made
him ont of the dust Of the earth. If out Of
ordinary dust of the earth and without
model God could make perfect man, sure
| ly out of the extraordinary dust of mortal
body and with millions of models God can
make each one of Us perfect being in the
resurrection. Surely the last undertaking
would not be greater than the first. See the
gospel algebra-oydiuary dust minus mod
/ el equals "A perfect man: extraordinary dust
and plus II model equals a resurrection body.
Mysteries about it. Oh, yes. That is one
reason why | believe it. 1t would not lie
much of God who could do things only
as far as | can understand. Mysteries2 Oh,
yes; but no more about the resurrection Of
your body than about It's present existence.
will explain TO you 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 50 that at your will your eyes
open, or your foot walks, Or your hand is
extended So find nothing in the Bible
statement concerning the resurrection that
staggers me for "A moment. All doubts clear
from my mind. l say that the cemeteries,
however beautiful now, will be more beau
tiful when the bodies Of our loved ones
come up in the morning of the resurrection.
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, 81 am so
| tiredw The fact is, it is a tired world If
| should go through this audience and 90
round the world, could not find person
in any style Of life ignorant Of the sensation
of fatigue.
do not believe there are 50 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 sick
ness has put on you heavy weights. So the
vast majority Of those who went out of this
/ world went out fatigued. About the poor
est place to rest in is this world. Its at
mosphere, its surroundings, and even its
hilarities are eXhaustng. So God stops our
earthly life, ana mercilully closes the eyes,
and more especially gives quiescence to the
/ lung and heart, that have not had 10 min
utes' rest from the first respiration and the
first beat
THE HEARTS DRUNiBEAT.
If a drummer boy were compelled in the
army to beat his drum for "A hours without
stopping, his officer would be court mar
tailed for cruelty. If the drummer boy
should be commanded to beat his drum for
a week without ceusing, day and night, he
would die in attempting it. But under
your vestment is poor heart that began
/ its drumbeat for the march Of life 30 or 40
or 60 or 50 years ago, and it has had no fur
Tough by day or plight, and whether in con
sctous or comatOse state it went right on,
l . Il l.. 4 i r
/ would have CLOSED And your heart will
/ keep going until some time after your spr-
/ it 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 beating for a
/ time. What a mercy, then, it is that the
| grave is the place where that wondrous ma
chinery of ventrcle and artery can halt!
Under the healthful chemistry of the soil
all the wear and tear of nerve and muscle
/ and bone will be suOtracted, and that bath
/ OF good fresh clean soil will wash oil 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 resur-
| rection body. How can the bodies of the
human race, which have had no replenish-
| mcnt 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
original, 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 bodyl And will not hun
dreds OF thousands OF such appearing above
| the Gowanus heights make Greenwood
more beautiful than any June morning aft
er shower The dust of the earth being
the original material for the fash ioning OF
/ the first human being, we have to 20 back
TO the same place to get a perfect body.
THE FACTORY OF THE GRAVE.
Factories are apt to be rough places, and
those who toll in them have their garments
grimy and their hands smutchud. But who