New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-06
REVELATIONS OF THE THIRD DAY.

IN, R.r. DR.. 1yHg Jru at the Church Of ne H0ty Trinity
The Church of the Holy Trinity, at Madison
and Fortyseventh-st, was crowded to its fullest
capacity yesterday morning. The Rev. Stephen II.
Tying it, d. D.. preached the sermon, choosing for his
text: Matthew xvii "a: SO the last shall be
worse than the first" He said in substance;
Tue chief priests and Pharsees betray in these words
presentiment and dread which are in strange contrast
with their triumph OF last Friday Then they were We
torions-now they are trembling before dead man.
Then they secuted His professions superstitOns and
fanatic sm-now they remember His sayings with sad
ness and fear the horrible condemnation rising before
them AS the Jewish Sabbath wanes the uneasiness Of
for time, but what the darkness or the dawn OF the
third day may bring who can tell That mysterious
eG, m nor Ss ow s learn It was God Sord NOT
IL was associated with the death OF the male;actor on
Gogotha in their minds Inc words tna cnpips dlsc
render The OF bis precision aEs sbs se sSsy
S Sne secure C until t the third day.
All UNCONSCIOUS of this precaution We read In Johns
Gospel that the women faithful to him In his entomb
pressed them--who should roll away the stone They
lad not thought Of the watch which PLATE had sta
open There is Christ 10 the sepulcherl An angel
| that the stone nS srs Niger
dalene becomes the Apostolic Apostplorum, in commu;
eye behed the exhibition Of divine power in
the Resurrection. Those who felt tho earth quake
AZ dead men The teaches the OF unbeef
on resurrection OF Christ IL alleges first OF ALL that
the mistake. luis tne Urst error; ana
the last error shall be than the first" Now they
remember how meekly He bore the to Golgotha.
Now they remember that though he did nothing to bring
on his death, he did nothing to slsy It, "He was led
as sheep to the slaughter, and as lamb before the
shearers il dumb, He opened not his mouth" All
this they remembered after the deed was done. He
whom they had vented their malice had conquered their
wisdom.
They remembered that He said, II this temple were
destroyed, ia three days lie would rebuild IT, They
mark the correspondence between the prophecy,
which they had heard in their synagogues and its
alizatloD. This parallesm between the fact they
now 10, and the prophecy with which they were
familiar taught them that they had made mistake.
Whether the claims Of Jesus were true false they
saw they had committed for they had done the
very thing He prophesied. This death was the foun
tain OF His promises. Death was the path through
which Ho was to walk. aud through which He TO
bring back largcness Of love from the far0 country.
From the sepucher 10 spring consolation 10 keep
them from darkness aud sorrow. Lie and Immortality
TO be brought to light BY the settling down OF dark
upon Gogotha.
This comment OF unbelief on the resurrection holds
that Jesus still criminal 1 not how any hon
sraete read the $50 chapter OF Isaiah and the
nth chapter Of Matthew and not note most remarka
bio between the facts aud figures. But their
cruelty satisfied with His death. When the
grave those from who have been reyled,
rejected and Outcas humanity teaches US 10 rest
our criticism aud speak only good OF the dead. But
NIFTY pursues the Savior within the sepulcher.
What must be the bitterness OF unbeef In our hearts,
who by thoughts motives our actions, c0ltln
ally cruelty afresh the Lord OF Glory