The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-30

HOW can the DOuleS Oh the human race,
which have had no replenishment from
the dust since the time of Adam in
Paradise, get any recuperation from
the storehouse from which he was con-
structed 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 body. And will not hum
dreds of thousands of such appearing
above the Gowanus Heights make
Greenwood more beautiful than any
June morning after a shower? The
dust of the earth being the original
material for the fashioning of the first
human being, we have to go back to
the same place to get a perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them have their
garments grimy 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 a
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
pareL You put into a factory lumber
and lead, and it comes out pianos and
organs And 50 into the factory of the
grave. you put in pneumonias and con-
sumptions 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
We are not told in what season that
day will come. II it should be in
winter those who come up will be more
lustrous than the snow that covered
them If in the autumn those who
come up will be more gorgeous than
the woods after the frosts had penciled
them If in the spring. the bloom on
which they tread will be dull compared
with the rubicund of their cheeks. Oh,
the perfect resurrection body, Almost
every body has some defective spot in
his physical constitution: a dull ear. a
dim eye, or a rheumatic foot. or neu-
ralgic brow, or a twisted muscle. or a
weak side. or an inflamed tonsil, or some
point at which the east wind or a sea-
son of overworlS assaults him. But the
resurrection body shall be without one
weak spot, and all that the doctors,
and nurses, and apothecaries of earth
will thereafter have to do will be to
rest without interruption after the
broken nights of their earthly exist
ence. Not only will that day be the
Identification of well kept cemeteries,
but some of the gravevards that have
been neglected and been the pasture
ground for cattle and roofing places
for swine will for the first time have
attractiveness given them
1t was n shame that in that place IN
grateful generations planted no trees,
and twisted no garlands, and sculptured
no marble for their Christian ancestry;
but on the day Of which | speak the
resurrected shall make the place of
their feet glorious From under the
shadow of the church. where they
Stunt ered among nettles. and MULLEN
stalks and thistles. and slabs aslant,
they shall rise with a glory that shall
flush the windows of the village church.
and by the bell tower. that use to call
them to worship, and above the old
spire beside which their prayers for
merly assembled. What triumphal pro-
cession never did for street, what an
oratorio never did for an academy,
what an orator never did for a bril-
liant auditory, what obelis< never did
for king, resurrection morn will do
for all the cemeteries.
This Easter tells US that in Christ's
our resurrection. il we are
His, and the resurrection of all the pi-
Gus dead is assured. for He was the
first fruits of them that slept" Renan
SAYS He did not rise. but So witnesses,
sixty of them Christ's enemies. say He
did rise, for they saw Him after He had
risen. If He did not rise. how did sixty
armed soldiers let II N get away.
Surely sixty living soldiers ought to be
able to keep one dead man, Blessed
be God. He did get away. After His
Mary Magdalene saw Him
upper room in Jerusalem saw Him. On
a mountain the eleven saw Him Five
hundred at once saw Him Yes. yes:He |
got away And that makes me sure
our departed loved ones and we our
selves shall get away. Freed Himself
from the shackles of clol, He is not go
ing to leave US and ours in the lurch
There will be no door-knob on the /
inside of our family sepulcher. for we
cannot come out, of ourselves: but
there is door-knob on the outside, 1
and that Jesus shall lay hold of, and. /
opening, will say: Good morning! .
You have slept long enough, Arise! .
Arise And then what a fiutter of .
wings. and what flashing of rekindled .
eyes, and what gladstone rushing
across the family lot. with cries Of
hat your MY darling. is that you?''
How you all have changed! The
cough gone. the Group gone, the
gone, the paralysis
zone, the WEAKNESS gone Come,
ct US ascend together! The older ones
irst. the younger ones next. Quick
low. get into line. The skyward pro-
session has already started, Steer
low by that embankment of cloud for
he nearest gate And, as we ascend,
IN one side the earth gets smaller
Until it is no larger than a mountain,
md smaller until it is no larger than
/ palace, and smaller until it is no
arper than a shin. and smaller until IL |
5 no larger than a wheel, and smaller
Until it is no larger that specL-
Farewell. dissolving earth, But on
he other side, as we rise, He aven at
irst appears no larger than your hand
Ind nearer il looks like a chariot. and
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