The Globe-republican., 1894-03-30

material having been added to the
| body as it once was. and all the defects
F. left behind. what a body VIII be the
resurrection body,
Factories are apt to be rough places.
and those who toll in them nave their
garments grimy and their hands
smutched. But who cares for that
when they turn out for US beautiful
musical instruments or exquisite up
ho,stery? What though the grave is a
rough place, it is 4 resurrection body
mandatory, and from it shall come
the radiant and resplendent forms of
our friends on the brightest morning
the world ever saw. You put into a
factory cotton. and it comes out APP
parel You put into a factory lumber
and lead, and it comes out pianos and
organs And so into the factory of the
grave. you put in pneumonias and con-
sunptions. and they come out health.
You put in groans and they come out
hallelujahS- For US. on the final day,
the most attractive places will not be
! the parks or the gardens or the palaces.
but the cemeteries
We are not told in what season that
day will come. If it should be in
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 the spring, the bloom on
hich they tread will be dull compared
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the perfect resurrection body. Almost
| everybody has some defective spot in
his physical constitution: dull ear. a
dim eye, or a rheumatic foot. or neu-
ralgic brow, or twisted muscle, or a
weak side. or an inflamed tOnsil. or some
point at which the east wind or a sea-
son of overwork assaults 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 exist
ence. Not only will that day be the
Identification of well kept cemeteries
but some of the graveyards that have
been neglected and been the pasture
ground for cattle and roofing places
for swine will for the first time have
attractiveness given them.
1t was a shame that in that place un-
grateful generations planted no trees
and twisted no gariands. and sculptured
no marble for their Christian ancestry;
but on the day of which l speak the
resurrected shall make the place of
their feet glorious. From under the
shadow of the church. where they
slumCered among nettles, and mullen
stalks and thistles, and slabs aslant.
they shall rise with a glory that shall
flush the windows of the village church.
and by the bell tower that use to call
them to worship, and above the old
spire beside which their prayers for
merly ascended. What triumphal pro-
cession never did for street, what an
oratorio never did for an academy,
what an orator never did for bril-
liant auditory, what obelisk never did
for 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 pi-
Gus dead is assured. for He was 1.-The
first fruits of them that slept" Renan
says He did not rise, but $50 witnesses,
sixty of them Ch-ist's enemies, say He
did rise. for they saw Him after H, had
risen. If He did not rise how did sixty
armed soldiers let II IN get away.
Surely sixty living soldiers ought to be
a BILE to keep one dead man! Blessed
be God! He did get away. After His
resurrection Mary Magdalene saw Him.
Cleopas saw Him., Ten disciples in an
upper room in Jerusalem saw Him. On
a mountain the eleven saw Him. Five
hundred at once saw Him. Yes, yes: He
got away. And that makes me sure
our departed loved ones and we our
selves shall get away. Freed Himself t
from the shackles of clod, He is not go
ing to leave us and ours in the lurch.
There will he no door-knob on the
inside of our family sepulcher. for we
cannot come out, of ourselves: but
there is door-knob on the outside.
and that Jesus shall lay hold of. and,
opening. will say: Good morning!
You have slept long enough. Arise.
Arise.' And then what a futter of
wings, and what flashing of re,lindled
eyes, and what gladsome rushing
across the family lot, with cries of
Father. is that you?' Mother, is
that you?" 'My darling. is that you?"
''How you all have changed! The
cough gone. the Group gone, the
consumption gone, the paralysis
gone. the weariness gone. Come.
let us ascend together! The older ones
first, the younger ones next! Quick
now. get into line! The skyward pro.
cession has already started! Steer
now by that embankment of cloud for
the nearest gate"' And, as we ascend.
on one side the earth gets smaller
until it is no larger than a mountain,
and smaller until it is no larger than
a palace. and smaller until it is no
larger than a ship. and smaller until it
is no larger than a wheel, and smaller
until it is no larger that a speck.
Farewell, dissolving earth! But on
the other side. as we rise, Heaven at
first appears no larger than your hand.