The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-04-04
THE WATcHMAN AND APRIL 4. 1894.

7ATCHMAN AND 81
them lay down at the last very tired.
How often you have heard them say, 81
am so tired!!" The fact is, it is a tired
world. If I should go through this au-
dience and go round the world, I could
not find a person in any style of life ig-
norant of the sensation of fatigue.
1 do not believe there are 50persons in
this audience who are not tired. Your
head is tired, Or your Jack is tired, or
your foot is tired, or your brain is tired,
or your nerves are tired. Long journey
ing or business application or bereave-
ment or sickness has put on you heavy
weights. So the vast majority of those
who went ont of this world went out IA
tigued. About the poorest place to rest
in is this world. It's atmosphere, its sur
roundings and even it's hilarities are ex-
hausting. So God stops our earthly life
and mercifully closes the eyes, and more
especially gives quiescence to the lung
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 to beat his drum for "a hours
without stopping, his officer would be
court martia1ed for cruelty. If the drum
mer boy should be commanded to beat
his drum for a.week without eeasing,
day and night. he would die in attempt
ing it. But under your vestment is a
poor heart that began its drumbeat for
the march of life 90 or 40 OF 60 Dr. 80
years ago, and it has had no furloughby
day or night, and whether in conscious
or comatose state it went right on, forn
it had stopped seven seconds your life
would have closed. And your heart will
keep going until some time after your
spirit has flown, for the auscultator says
t, It 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 atime. What a mercy, then, it
is that the grave is the place where that
wondrous machinery of ventricle and ar
terry can halt!
DUST OF Il EARTH.
Under the healthful chemistry Of the
soil all the wear and tear of nerve and
muscle ard 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 humanrace, which have
had no replenishnent from the dust
since the time of Adam in paradise, get
any r~ecuperation 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 a 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 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 q, 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 a 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 yer saw.
You put into a factory cotton, and it
comes out apparel. You put into a fac
tory lumber and lead, and they come out
pianos and organs. And so into the fac
toryof the grave you.put in pneumonias
and consumptions, and they come out
health. You put in groans, and they
ccme 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.
THE PERFECT BODY.
We are not told in what aso that
day will come. If it should be 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.Ifin the spring,
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, or g dim eye, OF a rheu-
matte foot, OF a neuralgia brow, or a
twisted muscle, or a 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-