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tomary in all lands to strew flowers owe
the mounds of the departed. 1t ma.
have been suggested by the fact tina
Christ's tomb was in a garden. Ant
when I say garden do not mean gar
den of these ATTITUDES The late frost
of spring and the early frosts Of autumn
are 80 near each other that there ar
only few months of flowers in the field
All the flowers we see today had to b'
petted and coaxed and put under shelter
or they would not have bloomed at all
They are the children of the conservato
ries. But at this season and through
the most of the year the Holy Land il
all ablush with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family of flow
ers there, some that you supposed indlg
enous to the far north, and others indig-
enous to the far south-the daisy and
hyacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip and
water lily, geranium and ranunculus,
mignonette and sweet marjoram. In the
college at Beirut you may see DIR.
Posts collection of about 1900 kinds of
Holy Land flowers, while among trees
are the oaks of frozen chimes, and the
tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and will
low, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder,
pine and sycamore. If such floral and
botanical beauties are the wild growths
of the field, think of what a garden must
be in Palestine! And in such a garden
Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldiers
spear, his last drop of blood had coagu-
lated. And then see how appropriate
that all our cemeteries should be floral
lied and tree shaded. In June Green
wood is Brooklyn's garden.
THE RESURRECTION IDEA.
"Well, them" you say, chow can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beautify the cemeteries? Will it not
leave them a plowed up ground? On
that day there will be an earthquake,
and will not this split the polished Aber-
deem granite as we'll as the plain slab
that can afford but two words-'Our
Mary or Our CharleyT" Well, I will
tell you how resurrection day will beau
tify 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 grace
full than any willow by the waters. Can
you think of anything more beautiful
than the temperance of those from
whom we have been parted? do not
care which way the tree falls in the blast
of the judgment hurricane, or if the
plowshare that day shall turn under the
last rose leaf and the last china aster, if
out of the broken sod shall come the bod
les of our loved ones not damaged, but
The idea of the resurrection gets easier
to understand as hear the photograph
unroll 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 per-
son that breathed into it once, but is
now departed. If a man can do that,
cannot Almighty God, without half try
ing, return the voice of your departed?
And if he can return the voice, why not
the lips and the tongue, and the throat
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 headquarters?
And if he can return the nerves, why not
the muscles, which are less ingenious?
And if the muscles, why not the bones,
that are less wonderful? And if the voice,
and the brain, and the muscles, and the
bones, why not the entire body? If man
can do the photograph, God can do the
A WONDERFUL FACT.
Will it be the same body that in the
asst day shall be terminated? Yes, but |
improved. Our bodies change
every seven years, and yet in one sense
t is the same body. On my wrist and |
jhe second finger of my right hand there
s scar. made that at 10 years of age,
when, Disguised at the presence of two
warts, took a redhot iron and burned |
hem off and burned them out. Since
hen my body has changed at least half |
lozen times, but those scars prove it is
he same body.
We never lose our identity. If God
AN and does sometimes rebuild man
i've, six, ten times in this world, is it
mysterious that he can rebuild him once
more and that in the resurrection? If he
an do it 10 times, l think he can do it II
lines. Then look at the II year locusts.
For II years gone, at the end of II years
hey appear, and by rubbing the hind leg
gainst the wing make that rattle at
which all the husbandmen and vine
ressers tremble as the insectile host
axes up the march of devastation. Res
erection every II years-a wonderful
actl
Another consideration makes the idea
resurrection easier. God made Adam.
lie was not fashioned after any model.
here had never been human organism.
nd so there was nothing to copy. At
he first attempt God made a perfect
ian. He made him out of the dust of
ne earth. If out of ordinary dust of the
arth and without model God could
lake a perfect man, surely out of the
dust of mortal body and
18th millions of models God can make
ach one of us perfect being in the res
Surely the last undertaking