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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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