Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-03-29

it Is customary In all lands 70 strew How
ers over the mounds OF the departed Il
may have been suggested By the fact that
Christ's tomb was in q garden. And when
I say garden ] do not mean a garden Of
these ATTITUDES. The late frosts Of spring
and the early frosts Of autumn are 80 near
each other that there ara only few months
Of flowers in the field. All the flowers we
see today had 70 be psttsd and Ooaxed and
put under shelter or they would not have
bloomed at all They ars the childrsn Of
the conservatories. But At this season and
through the most Of ths year the Holy
Land Is all ablush with floral opulsnce.
You ind all the royal family Of flowers
there, some that you supposed indigenous
TO the far moth and others indigenous to
the far south-the daisy and hyacinth, GRO
Gus and ansmOns, tulip and water lily, g.
Eanium aud ranuneulus, mignouetts and
sweet marjoram. In the oollsgs a. Beirut
you may see DR.. Posts solIsction Of about
eighteen hundred kinds Of Holy Land flow
srs, while among trees are tho oaks Of fro
sen elimes, and the tamarisk Of the tropics,
walnut and willow. ivy and hawthorn, ash
and elder, pine and sycamore. II such nor
al and botanical beauties are the wild
growths of the field, think Of what a garden
must Be In Palestinei And In such gar
den Jesus Christ slept after. on the soldiers
spear, his last drop of blood had coagulat-
ed. And then see how appropriate that all
our cemeteries should be horalized and tree
shaded. In June Greenwood is Brooklyn's
garden.
"Well, them" you say, how can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beautify the cemeteriesi VIII it not leave
them a plowed up groundi On that day
there will be an earthquake, and will not
this split the polished Aberdeen granite as
well as the plain slab that can afford but
two words-'Our Mary or Our CharleyF"
Well, will tell you how resurrection day
will beautify 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 graceful than
any willow by the waters. Can you think
of anything more beautiful than the reap
pearance Of those from whom we have been
partedp do not care which way the tree
falls in the blast of the judgment hurri-
cane, or il the plowshare that day rhall
turn under the last rose leaf and the last
china aster, IL out of the broken sod shall
aged, but irradiated.
THE VOICE OF THE DEAD.
The idea Of the resurrection gets easier to
understand as hear the phonograph un-
roll some voice that talked into it year
ago, just before our friends decease. You
touch the lever, and then come forth the
very tones, the very song of the person that
breathed into IL once, but Is now departed.
II a man can do that, cannot Almighty
God, without half trying. return the voice
of your departedi And il he can return
the voice. why not the lips, and the tongue
and the throat that fashioned the voicei
And II the lips, aud the tongue, and the
throat, why not the brain that suggested
the wordsP And If the brain, why not ths
nerves, of which the brain is the hesdquar
terss And II he can return the nerves, whl
not the muscles, which are less ingenious
And If the muscles, why not the bones
that are less weuderful3 And il the voice
and the brain, and the muscles, and thu
bones, why not the entire body? If mar
can do the phonograph, God can do thu
resurrection.
Will it be the same body that in the las
day shall be reanimateda Yes, but infinite
| " improved. Our bodies change ever.
seven years, and yet in one sense it is tn
same body. On my wrist and the secont
finger of my right hand there is a scar.
made that at Ii years Of age, when, dis
gusted at the presence Of two warts, tool
a redhot iron and burned them off AM
burned them out Since then my body ha
changed at least half dozen times, bu
those scars prove it is the same body.
| We never lose our identity. II God ca
| and does sometimes rebuild a man five, siz
ten times in this world, is it mysteriou
that he can rebuild him once more and tina
in the resurrection If he can do 1t
times, think he can do it IL times. The
look Mt the IL year locusts. For II year
gone, at the end of II years they appear
and by rubbing the hind leg against th
wing make that rattle at which all the hui
bandmen and vine dressers tremble as th
Insectile host takes up the march Of deva.
tation. Resurrection every II years, a wor
derful fact.
THE GOSPEL ALGEBRA.
Another consideration makes the idea {
resurrection easier. God made Adam. Il
was not fashioned after any model. Ther
had never been human organism, and 6
there was nothing to copy. At the first a
tempt God made a perfect man. He mad
him out of the dust of the earth. II out {
ordinary dust of the earth and without
model God could make q perfect man, SUR
ly out Of the extraordinary dust of mortt
body and with millions of models God ca
make each one of us perfect being In th
resurrection. Surely the last undertaken
would not be greater than the first. See th
gospel algebra-ordinary dust minus q mot
Ell equals perfect man; extraordinary dul
and plus model equals resurrection bod.
Mysteries about iti Oh, yes. That is or
reason why / believe 1t. 1t would not
much Of a God who could do things onl
as far as can understand. Mysteriesi OF
yes; but no more about the resurrection
your body than about its present existenc
Twill explain to you the last mystery
the resurrection and make it as plain to 70
as that two and two make four if you wi
tell me how your mind, which is entirel
independent of your body, can act upc
your body so that at your will your ey'
open, or your foot walks, or your hand
extended. So l find nothing in the Bib
statement concerning the resurrection thi
staggers me for moment. All doubts clel
from my mind. l say that the cemeterie
however beautiful now, will be more beaJ
tiful when the bodies of our loved ON
come up in the morning of the resurrectio
They will come in improved conditio
They will come up rested. The most
them lay down at the last very tired. Ho
often you have heard them say, II am
tiredp' The fact is, it is tired world.
| should 60 through this audience and {
round the world, could not find perst
in any style Of life ignorant of the sensatit
, of fatigue.
do not believe there are 80 persons
this audience who are not tired. Your hes
, is tired. or your back is tired, or your fo
, is tired, or your brain is tired. or yol
: nerves are tired. Long journeying, or bui
; ness application, or bereavement, or sic
ness has put on you heavy weights So Il
. vast majority of those who went out of tt