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How Will Our Bodies Be Found?
Robert Morris
They will have been long buried, long decayed. Friends,
relatives, yea even our very children will cease to remember
"where they have laid him." The broad earth will undergo
many changes; mountains will be leveled and valleys filled.
The seasons will have chased each other in many a fruitful
round. Oceans lashed into fury by the gales of today will
on tomorrow sink like a spoiled infant to its slumber. Broad
trees with broader roots will interlace them bard and knobbed
as they are over our ashes, as if to conceal the very fact
of our burial; and then after centuries of life they will follow
our example, and long struggling against decay, will at last
topple down above us and join their remains to ours; thus
obliterating the last testimony that humanity has ever rested
there. So shall we be lost to the knowledge of man. But
the eye of God will nevertheless mark the spot, green as it
will be with the everlasting verdure of faith, and when the
trumpet's blast shakes the hills to their bases, our astonished
bodies will rise impelled upward by an irresistible impulse,
and we shall stand face to face with our Redeemer,
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