The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-04-04

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have been suggested by the fact that
Christ's tomb was in a garden. and
when I say garden / do not mean a gar
den Of tnese ATTITUDES. The late frosts
of spring and the early frosts Of autumn
are so near each other that there are
only q few months of flowers in the field.
All the flowers we see today had to be
petted and coaxed and put under shelter,
or they would not have bloomed at all.
They are the children of the conservato~
ries. But at this season and through
the most Of the year the Holy Land is
all ablush with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family OF flow
ers there, some that you supposed indig-
enous to the far north, and others indig-
enous to the far south-the daisy and
hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip and
water lily, geranium and ranunculus,
mignonette and sweet marjoram. In the
college at Beirut you may see DR..
Posts collection of about 1,800 kinds Of
Holy Land flowers, while among trees
are the oaks of frozen climes, and the
tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and will
low, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder,
pine and sycamore. If such floral and
botanical beanties are theSwild growths
of the field. think of what a garden must
be in Palestine! And in such a garden
Jesus Christ, slept after, OF the soldiers
spear, his hstsdropof blood had coagu-
lated. And thenssee how appropriate
that all our cemeteries should be- floral
lied and Tree shaded. In June Green
wood is Brooklyn's garden.
THE RESURRECTION IDEA.
"Well, then" you say, chow can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beauty the cemeteries? Will it not
leave them a plowed up ground? On
that day there will be an earthquake,
and will not this split the polished Aber-
deem granite as well as the plain slab
that can afford but two words-'Our
Mary or Our Charley" Well, / viii
tell you how resurrection day will beau
tify all the cemeteries. It will be by
bringing up the faces that were to us
once, and in our memories are to us
now, more beautiful than any Gala lily,
and the forms that are to us more grace
full 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 shall turn under the
last rose leaf and the last china aster, if
out of the broken sod shall come the bod
les of our loved ones not damaged, but
nradiated.
The idea of the resurrection gets easier
to understand as / hear the photograph
unrou some voice that talked into it a
gear ago, just before our friends decease.
You touch the lever, and then come forth
the very tones, the very song Of the per-
SON that breathed into it once, but is
now departed. If q man can do that,
cannot Almighty God, without half try
ing, return the voice of your departed?
And if he can return thf 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 the headquarters?
And II he can return the nerves, why not
the muscles, which are less ingenious?
Andrif the muscles, why not the bones,
that are less wonderful? And if the voice,
and the brain, and the muscles, and the
bones, why not the entire body? If man
ear do the photograph, God can do the
resurrection.
WONDERFUL FACT.
Will it be the same body that in the
last day shall be terminated? Yes, but
infinitely improved. Our bodies change
every seven years, and yet in n sense
it is the same body. On my wrist and
the second finger of my right hand there
is a scar. I made that at IL years Of age,
when, Disguised at the presence of two
warts, I took a redhot iron and burned
them off and burned them out. Since
then my body has changed at least a half
dozen times, but those scars prove it is
the same body.
We n~ever@iose onridentity. IF God
can and does sometimes rebuild q man
five, SIX, ten times in this world, is it
mysterious that hecan rebuild him once
more end that in heIesurrection? If he
can dot 10 times, I think he cando it II
times. Then look at the II year locusts.
For II years gone, at the end of II years
they appear, and by rubbing the hind leg
against the wing make that rattle at
which all the husbandmen and vine
dressers trenable as the insectile host
takes up the march of devastation. Res
direction every II years-a wonderful
fact!
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 so there was nothing to copy. At
the first attempt God made a perfect
man. He made him out Of the dust of
the earth. # out of ordinary dust Of the
earth and without. a model God could
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