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spirit 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 beat
ing for time. What mercy, then, it
is that the grave is the place where that
wondrous machinery Of ventricle 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 be subtracted, 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 storehouse
from which he was constructed without
our going back into the dust? That orig
inal 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
hundreds of thousands of such appearing
above the Gowanus heights make Green
wood more beautiful than any June
morning after shower? The dust of
the earth being the original material for
the fashioning of the first human being,
we have to so back to the same place to
get perfect body.
Factories are apt to be rough places,
and those who toll in them have their
garments grimy and their hands smutch-
ed. But who cares for that when they
turn out for us beautiful musical instru-
ments or exquisite upholstery? What
though the grave is rough place-it is
a resurrection body mandatory, and
from it shall come the radiant and re-
splendent forms of our friends on the
brightest morning the world ever saw.
You put into factory cotton, and it
comes out apparel. You put into fac
tory lumber and lead, and they come out
pianos and organs. And so into the fac
tory of the grave you put in pneumonias
and consumptions, 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, orlthe gardens, or the
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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. fin thespring,
the bloom on which they tread will be
dull compared with the rubicund OF
their cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrec-
ton body Almost everybody has some
defective spot in his physical constitu-
tion-a dull ear, OF dim eye, or rheu-
matte foot, or neuralgia brow, or
twisted muscle, or weak side, or an in
famed tonsil, or some point at which the
east wind or a season of overwork as
saults 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 existence.
Not only will that day be the beautifca-
ton of well kept cemeteries, but some
of the graveyards that have been neg
lected and been the pasture ground for
cattle and roofing places for swine will
for the first time have attractiveness
given them.
1t was a shame that in that place I'M
grateful generations planted no trees,
and twisted no garlands, and sculptured
no marble for their Christian ancestry.
But on the day of which I speak the res
directed shall make the place of their
feet glorious. From under the shadow
of the church, where they slumbered
among nettles and mullen stalks and
thistles and slabs aslant, they shall arise
with a glory that shall flush the Win
dows of the village church, and by the
bell tower that used to call them to wor-
ship. and above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly assembled.
What triumphal procession never did
for street, what an oratorio never did
for an academy, what an orator never
did for a brilliant auditory, what ODE
lisk never did for u king, resurrection
morn will do for all the cemeteries.
This Easter tells US that in Christ's
resurrection our resurrection, if we are
his. and the resurrection of all the pious
dead, is assured, for ne was ''the first
fruits of them that slept" Renan says
he did not rise, but $50 witnesses, GO OF
them Christ's enemies, say he did rise,
for they saw him after he had risen. If
he did not rise, how did6O armed soldiers
let him get away? Surely 60 living SOL
diers ought to be able to keep one dead
man. Blessed be God! He did get away.
THR RECoGN1TIoNs.
After his resurrection Mary Magda-
lene saw him. Cleopas saw him. len
disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem
saw him. On a mountain the II saw
him. Five hundred at once saw him.
Professor Ernest Renan, who did not
see him, will excuse us for taking the
testimony of the $50 who did see him,
Yes, yes, he got away. And that makes
me sure that our departed loved ones
and we ourselves shall get away. Freed
himself from the shackles Of ciod, he Is
not going to leave us and ours IN the