The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30

when say garden do not mean gar
den of these ATTITUDES. The late frosts
of spring and the early frosts Of autumn
are SO near each other that there are
only few months of flowers in the field.
All the flowers we see today had to be
petted and coaxed and put u~der 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 is
all ablush with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family of flow.
ers there, some that you supposed indig.
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 DR..
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 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 well as the plain slab
that can afford but two words-'Our
Mary or Our Charleyr" Well, l will
tell you how resurrection day will beau
tify all She 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? l 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
irradiated.
The idea of the resurrection gets easier
to understand as l hear the monograph
unroll some voice that talked into it a
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 wordst
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 rHr%cles, and the
bones, why not the emit y? If man
can do the phonograph, can do the
resurrection.
A WONDERFUL FACT.
Will it 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
it is the same body. On my wrist and
the second finger of my right hand there
is scar. l made that at 10 years of age
when, Disguised at the presence of two
warts, | took redhot iron and burned
then my body has changed at least a hall
dozen times, but those scars prove it is
the same body.
We never lose our identity. If God
can and does sometimes rebuild mar
FIVE, six, ten times in this world, is il
mysterious that he can rebuild him once
more and that in the resurrection If hi
can do it 10 times, think he can do it Il
times. Then look at the II year locusts
For II years gone, at the end of II year,
they appear, and by rubbing the hind les
against the wing make that rattle a
which all the husbandmen and vint
dressers tremble as the insectile hos
takes up the march Of devastation. Res
direction every II years-a wonderful
fact!
Another consideration makes the ides
of resurrection easier. God made Adam
He was not fashioned after any model
There had never been human organism
and 80 there was nothing to copy. A
the first attempt God made perfec
man. He made him out of the dust o
the earth. If out of ordinary dust of tn
earth and without model God coult
makea perfect man, surely out of tn
, extraordinary dust of mortal body an,
with millions of models God can max
each one Of us perfect being in the res
direction. Surely the last undertaking
, would not be greater than the first. Sc
the gospel algebra. Ordinary dust mimi
model equals a perfect man. Extrao1
binary dust and plus model equals
resurrection body. Mysteries about il
I Oh, yes. That is one reason why / be
, heve it. 1t would not be much of Go
who could do things only as far as I ca
understand. Mysteries2 Oh, yes. Blu
no more about the resurrection of you
> body than about its present existence.
D A TIRED WORLD.
/: Twill explain to you the last myster
: of theresurrection and make it as plai
c to you as that two and two make fou
| If you will tell me how your mind, whic
is entirely independent of your body, ca
act upon your body SO that at your wi
: your eyes open, or your foot walks, G
J, your hand is extended. So find notf
t ing in the Bible statement concernin
: the resurrection that staggers me for
: moment. All doubts clear from m
l mind. / say that the cemeteries, how