Connecticut western news., 1894-03-29

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 bodyl 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 eartE being the original material for the fashioning of the first human being, we have to go back to the same place to get perfect body.
 Factories are apt to be rough places, and those who toil 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 & resurrection body manufactory, 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, or the gardens, or the palaces, but the cemeteries.
 THE PERFECT BODY.
 We are not told in what season 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. If in thespring, the bloom on which they tread will be dull compared with the rubicund of their cheeks. Oh, the perfect resurrec- tion bodyi Almost everybody has some defective spot in his physical constitu- tion-a dull ear, or dim eye, or 8 rheu- matic foot, or a neuralgia brow, or twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an in- famed tonsil, or some point at which the east wind or d 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- tion 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.
 It was shame that in that place un- 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 res- urrected shall make the place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the church, where they slumbered among nettles and mullein stalks and thistles and slabs aslant, they shall arise with 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 ascended. What triumphal procession never did for 8 street, what an oratorio never did for an academy, what an orator never did for brilliant auditory, what obe- fisk never did for a 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 he was ''the first fruits of them that slept" Renan says he did not rise, but 580 witnesses, 60 of them Christ's enemies, say he did rise, for they saw hiIG after he had risen. If he did not rise, how did 60 armed soldiers let him get away? Surely SO living sol diers ought to be able to keep one dead man. Blessed be God! He did get away.
 THR REcoGNITIoNs.
 After his resurrection Mary Mazda lene saw him. Cleopas saw him. Ten disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem saw him. On mountain the Il 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 580 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 clod, he is
 
 lurch.
 There will be no doorknob on the in- side of our family sepulcher, for we can not come out of ourselves, but there is a doorknob on the outside, and that Jesus shall lay hold of, and, opening, will say: Good morningi You have slept long enough! Arisei Ariser' And then what 1utter of wings, and what flashing of rekindled eyes, and what gladsome rush. ing across the family lot, with cries of: Father, is that your Mother, is that your My darling, is that you?" "How you all have changedi The cough gone, the croup gone, the consumption gone, the paralysis gone, the weariness gone. Come. let us ascend togetheri The older ones first, the younger ones nextI Quick, now. get into linel The skyward pro- cession has already startedi Steer now by that embankment of cloud for the nearest gatef'
 And, as we ascend, on one side the earth gets smaller until it s no larger than mountain, and smaller until it is no larger than 8 palace, and smaller un- til it is no larger than ship, and small CT until 1t is no larger than 8 wheel, and smaller until it is no larger than speck. FAREWELL AND HAIL.
 Farewell, dissolving earthl But on the other side, as we rise, heaven at first appears no larger than your hand. And nearer it looks like chariot, and nearer it looks like a throne, and nearer it looks like star, and nearer it looks like sun, and nearer it looks like 8 universe. Hail, scepters that shall always wavel Hail, anthems that shall always rolli Hail, companionships never again to partl That is what resurrection day will do for all the cemeteries and graveyards from the Machpelah that was opened by Father Abraham in Hebron to the Mach pelah yesterday consecrated. And that makes Lady Huntington's immortal rhythm most apposite:
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