The Red Cloud chief., 1894-04-06

ication. AT certain seasons it Is Gus
tomary in all lands to strew flowers ovei
the mounds Of the departed. Il ma,
have been suggested by the fact tina,
Christ's tomb was In q garden. And
when I say garden I do not mean o gar
den OF these ATTITUDES. The late frosts
Of spring and the early frosts Of autumn
are 30 near each other that there are
only a few months Of flowers in the field.
All the flowers we see today had to BIZ
petted and coaxed and put under shelter,
OF 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
oil ablush with floral o~pulence.
You find all the royal family Of flow.
ers there, some that you supposed indig.
nou to the far north, and others indig.
nou to the far s%outh-the daisy and
h~yacinth, crocus and anemone, tulip and
water lily, g~eranium and ranunculus,
mignonette and sweet m%arjoram. In the
college at Beirut you may see DR..
Posts collection Of about 1900 kinds OF
Holy Land flowers, while among trees
are the oaks Of frozen climes, and the
tamarisk Of the tropics, walnut and will.
low, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder,
pine and sycamore. II such floral and
botanical beauties are the wild growths
Of the field. think Of what "a garden must
be In Palestinei And in such q 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, show can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beautify the cemeteriesf Will 1t not
leave them a plowed up ground2 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 Charley" Well, I will
tell you how resurrection day will bean.
tify all the cemeteries. 1t will be by
bringing up the faces that were to us
once, and in 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 parted2 I do not
care which way the tree falls in the blast
Of tho Judgment hurricane, or If the
plowshare that day shall turn under the
last rose leaf and the last china aster, il
ont OF the broken sod shall come the bod
les of our loved ones not damaged, but
irradiated.
The idea OF the resurrection gets easier
to understand rs l hear the photograph
unroll some voice that talked into it Q
year ago, just before our friends decease.
You touch the lever, and then come forth
tho very tones, the very song Of the per-
son that breathed into 1t once, but Is
now departed. II q man can do that,
cannot Almighty God, without half try.
ing, return the voice Of your departed?
And II he can return the voice, why not
the lips, and the tongue, and the throat
that fashioned the voice9 And II the
lips, and the tongue, and the throat, why
not the brain that suggested the wordsa
And II tho brain, why not the nerves, Of
which the brain Is the headquartersi
And II he can return the nerves, why not
the muscles, which are less ingenious?
And II the muscles, why not the bones,
that are less wonderful? And IL the voice,
and the brain, and tho muscles, and the
bones, why not the entire bodyP II man
can do the monograph, God can do the
resurrection.
WONDERFUL FACT.
Will 1t be the same body that In the
last day shall be terminated? Yes, but
infinitely improved. Our bodies change
every seven years. and yet in one sense
1t Is the same body. On my wrist and
the second finger Of my right hand there
Ii . scar. made that at l2 years Of age,
when, Disguised ut the presence Of two
warts, ! took u redhot iron and burned
them of and burned them out. Since
then my body has changed ut least q half
dozen times, but those scars prove It is
the Same body.
We lose identity. II God
con and does sometimes rebuild a man
i've, six, ten times In this world, Ia il
mysterious that he can rebuild him once
more and that in the resurrection? II he
can do 1t 10 times, l think he can do it II
times. Then look ut the II year locusts.
Fol IL years gone, ut the end Of II years
they appear, and by rubbing the hind leg
against the wing make that rattle at
which all the husbandmen and vine
dressers tremble as tho ~inscctile host
takes up the march Of devastation. Res
direction every II years--a wonderful
facti
Another consideration makes the idea
OF resurrection easier. God made Adam,
He was not fashioned after my model.
There had never been human organism,
so there was nothing to copy. At
the first attempt God made n perfect
man. He made him out of the dust Of
the earth. II out Of ordinary dust Of the
earth and without a model God could
make q perfect man, surely out Of the
extraordinary dust of mortal body and
with millions of models God can make
one Of us n perfect being in the res. |
direction. Surely the last undertaking
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