Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-29

CROWNS OF The neld, thlnk OF WnaL n Saruen
must be in Palestine And in such gar
den Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldiers
spear, his last drop, Of blood had coagu!at-
ed And then see.how appropriate that all
our cemeteries should be foralized and tree
shaded. In June Greenwood is Brooklyn )
garden
"Well, then" you say, how can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beautfy the cemeteries? Will it not leave
them plowed up ground? On that day
there will be an earthquake, and will not
| this split the polished A Aberdeen granite as
| well as the plain slab that can afford but
| two words-'Our Mary or Our Charley"
| Well, | will tell you how resurrection day
will beautifv all the cemeteries 1t 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
partedS ] do not care which way the tree
! falls in the blast Of the Judgment hurri-
cane, or if the plOwshare that day rnall
turn under the last rose leaf and the last
china aster, if out of the broken sod shall
! come the bodies of our loved ones not dam
aged, but irradiated.
THE VOICE OF THE DEAD.
The idea of the resurrection gets easier to
understand as ! hear the monograph I'M
roll some voice that talked into it year
ago, iuas before our friends decease. You
touch the lever, and then come forth the
very tones the very song Of the person that
breathed into it once, but is now departed.
If a man can do that, cannot Almighty
God, without half trying, return the voice
of your departed? And if lie can return
the voice, why not the lips, and the tongue,
and the thruut that fashioned the voice?
And if the lips, and the tongue, and the
throat why not the brain that suggested
the words? And if the brain. why not the
nerves, of which the brain is the headquar-
| tiers? And if he can return the nerves. why
| not the muscles, which are less lngeniouss
And if the muscles why not the bones,
that are less wonderful? And if the voice,
aud the brain, and the muscles, and the
bones why not the entire body? If man
can do the phonograph, God can do the
resurrection.
Will it be the same body that in the last
day shall be terminated? Yes, but Infinite
ly improved. Our bodies change every
seven years, and yet in one sense it Is tins
same body On my wrist and the second
finger Of my right hand there is scar.
made that at II years Of age, when, dis
gusted at the presence OF two warts, | took
a redhot iron and burned them off and
burned them out, Since then my body ha.
changed at least Il half dozen times, but
those scars prove Ii is the same body.
We never lose our identity, If God car
and does sometimes rebuild man five, six
ten times in this world, is it mysteriou.
that he can rebuild him once more aud that
in the resurrection? If he can do it Il
times, think he cnn do it II times. Their
look at the II year lucusts. For II yeer'
gone at the end of Il years they appear
and by rubbing the hind lex against The
wing make that rattle at which all the hus
bandnen and vine dressers tremble as til,
nsectile host takes up the march of devss
tation. Resurrection every II years, Il won
! dertul fact.
THE GOSPEL ALGEBRA.
Another consideration makes the idea o
resurrection easier God made Adam. HI
was not fashioned after any model. Their
had never been human organism, and 81
there was nothing to copy, At the first at
tempt God made II perfect man. He mad
him out of the dust of the earth. If out 0
ordinary dust Of the earth and without
. model God could make perfect man, sure
, ly out of the extraordinary dust of morta
body and with millions of models God car
, make each one of us perfect being in TIN
!, resurrection. Surely the last undertaken!
would not he greater than the first. See th
gospel aigebra-uruiuary dust minus moo
el equals a perfect man; extraordinary dus
and plus "A model equals resurrection bod Y
, Mysteries about it? oh, yes. That is on
reason why / believe it,. 1t would not b.
,f -nj tkl,, 40 nj,
as far as l can understand. Mysteries? Oh
yes; but no more about the resurrect ION 0
your body than about its present existence
will explain to you the last mystery o
the resurrection and make it as plain to yol
as that two and two make four if you vii
, tell me how your mind, which is entirel
independent Of your body, can act upol
your body SO that at your will your eye
open, or your foot walks, or your hand j
extended. SO | find nothing in the Bib
statement concerning the resurrection tina
sta9gers me for moment. All doubts clea
5 from my mind. say that the cemeteries
. however beautiful now, will be more beau
tiful when the bodies of our loved one
come up in the morning of the resurrection
They will come in improved condition
They will come up rested The most O
, them lay down at the last very tired Hoy
= often you have heard them say, Il am :
tired!' The fact is, il is a tired world. |
' | should 90 through this audience and &
!. round the world, could not lind a per,o
: in any style Of life ignorant OF the sensatio
of fatigue.
G do not believe there are 80 persons i
e this audience who are not tired. Your hea
: is tired, or your back is tired, or your foe
70 is tired, or your brain is tired, or you
/ nerves are tired, Long journeying or bus
r ness application, or bereavement, or scl
e ness has put on you heavy weights. SO tn
= vast majority Uf those who went out of hi
. world went out fatigucd. About the poo
. est place to rest in is bins world. Its a
: mosphere its surroundings, and even il
hilarities are eXhausting. So God stops GU
earthly life, and mercfuly closes the eye
r and more especially gives quiescence to til
+ lung and heart, that have not had 10 mil
:, utes' rest from the first respiration and tn
first beat.
+ THE HEART S DRtMBEAT.
p If "A drummer boy were compelled III I'll
= army to beat his drum for "A hours withor