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To both alike the Lord will give a body of glory, "fashioned like unto His
glorious body," a body which knows not, weakness or suffering or death--"a
spiritual body."
You remember--do you not?--that a type is but a very small and faint
picture of the real thing; yet, when you see a butterfly, and think of what
it once was and what it has become, let it preach its little sermon to you;
say to your own heart, "If that wonderful moment, which is so soon coming,
were to come just now, should I be one of those who are Christ's at His
coming? Would my body be changed and made like His glorious body? Should
I 'be caught up together with them' (those who 'sleep in Jesus') 'in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air,' and so be for ever 'with the Lord'?"
And now as we turn from the wonderful story of the butterfly, in which we
may, as has been said, "see the resurrection painted before our eyes,"
to the busy little ants; let us see that it is the sluggards, the lazy
persons, who are especially told to "consider" their ways. To do this we
must visit them in their own home, which we shall find in some pine-wood,
like the "pincushion-wood," or in some grassy thymy spot, covered with
little green tufts. Each of these grassy hillocks is an ant nest, and if
you look inside you will find that it contains a great many tiny rooms,
connected by galleries. Some of the rooms are hollowed out below the
surface of the earth; these are the cellars where the baby-ants are kept
warm in cold weather, while in summer they are taken by their watchful
nurses to the cool upper storeys.
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