Democratic messenger., 1894-03-31


come up III the morning Of tie rcsurrec-
iiol
They will come III improved condition.
They VIII come up rested. The most of
them lay down at the last very tired.
How often Nou have heard them say. Il
am - tiredr The fact is. il is tired
world. If ! should 20 through this au-
dience and 20 round the world. could
mol find n person in any style Of life ig-
norant nf the sensation of fatigue.
do not believe there are - persons i'll
this audience who are not tired. Your
head is tired. or yonr back is tired. or
your fo", is tired. or Your brain is tired.
or Your nerves are tired. Long journey
ing or businosS application or bercave-
ment or sickness has put ON Won heavy
weights. 81 the vast majority of those
vino went ont of this world went ont IA
iigned. Ahont the poorest place To- rest
in Is this world. Its atmosphere. its sur
roundings and even its hilariiics are cx-
hausiing. so God stops our earthly life
and mrrci:ully closes the eyes. and NOR,
especially gives quiescence to the lnng
and heart. that have not had 10 minutes
rest from the first respiration and the
first beat
If a drummer boy were compelled in
the army 10 beat his drum for - hours
without stopping. his officer would he
court mar;ial,.d for cruelty. Ii the drum
mer boy should be commanded to beat
his drum for week without ccasing.
day and night. he would die in attempt
ing IT, But under your vestment is "A
poor heart that began its drumbcat for
the march of life 20 or 10 or 60 or 81
wears ago, and il has had no furlougi by
IL ~ light. and whether in conscious
or connatose state it went right on. for if
it had stopped seven seconds ycur life
would have closed And your heart will
keep going until some time after your
spirit has flown. for the auscultator says
that after the last expiration of lung and
the last ihrob of pulse. and after the
spirit is released. the heart keeps on beat
ing for time. What Il mercy. then, it
Is that the grave Is the place where that
wondrous machiI cry of ventriclc and ar
terry can halt.
dust OF THE EARTH.
Under the healthful chemistry of the
soil all the wear and tear of nerve and
muscle and bone will he subtracted. and
that bath of good fresh clean soil will
wash off the last ache. and then some of the
same style of dust ont of which the body
of Adam WAS constructed may be infused
M h.. L.
the bodies of the human race. which have
had no rcplenishmrnt from the dust
since the time of Adam iii paradise, get
any recuperation from the storehouse
from which he was constructed without
our going back into the dust: That orig
inal life giving material having been
added la the body rs it once was ana all
the defects left behind. what Il body will
be the resurrection body! And will not
hundreds of thousands of such appearing
above the Gowanns heights make Green
wood more beautiful than any June
morning after Il shower: The dust of
the earth being the original material for
the fashioning of the first human being
we have To 20 back To the same place 10
get a perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them have their
garments griny and their hands smutch-
ed. But who cares for that when they
turn ont for us beautiful musical instru-
ments or exquisite upholstery: What
though the grave is "A rough placc-it j.
II resurrection body mannfactory. and
from il shall come the radiant and re-
splendent forms of our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw
Nou put into II factory cotton, and it
comes ont apparel. You put into II fac
tory lumber and lead. and they come ont
pianos and organs. And So into the fac
tory of the grave You put i'll pneumonias
and consumptions, and they come ont
health. You put in groans. and they
come ont halleluiahs. For us. on the
final day. the most attractive places will
not he the parks, or the gardens. or the
palaces, but the cemeteries.
TIE PERFECT BODY.
We are not told III what season that
day will come. Ii it should bc winter,
those who come up will he more lustrons
than the SNOW that covered them. Ii in
the autumn. those who come up will be
more gorgeous than the woods after the
frosts had penciled them. lfin thcs spring.
the bloom on which they tread will be
dull compared with the rubicund of
their cheeks. Oh. the perfect resurrec-
tion body! Almost everybody has some
defective spot III his physical constitn-
tion-a dull ear. or a dim eye, or !; iheu-
matte foot. or Il neuralgia brow. or II
twisted muscle, or weak side. or an in
famed tonsil. or some point at which the
east wind or season of overwork as
saints him.
But the resurrection body shall be
without one weak spot. and all that the
doctors and nurses and apothccaries of
earth will thereafter have Ia do will be
to rest without interruption after the
broken nights of their earthly existence
Not only will that day be the b.auiifica-
tion of we'll kept cemeteries, but some
of the graveyaris that have been meg
lected and been the pasture ground for
cattle and roofing places for swine will
Ior tnt liTSl tlillt nave dttFdctlNtilt'SS
given them.
II was "a shame that in that place I'M
grateful generations planted no trees,
and twisted no garlands. aud scnllyturc,l
no marble for their Christian ancestry
But on the day Of which speak the PCS
urrecicl shall make the place of their
feet glorious From under the shadow
If III" church. whore They slumbcrcl
amen. n-iil'.s AMI mullen stalks and
thisils and slabs aslant. they shall arise
with ii glory that shall flush The win
dows of the village church. and 10y the
bell tower that used Ia call them To wor-
ship. and above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly ascrndcd.
Wha. iriumphal procession never did
for Il street. what AN oratorio never did
for an academy what am orator never
did for brilliant auditory. what ol,..-
lisk never did for IA king. resurrection
morn will do for all the cemeteries.
This Easter tells MS that in Christ :
racurra.ti.n ..,tr r..surr..finu II w.. .,r.