The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23
JOYOUS EASTER.
Sermon by Rev. DIR. Dewitt Tai
mage.

| very gay. DelDg ueCOIdteu Will IL"
ers wherever they could be placed
The music was excellent, Mr.. Ar
buckle and Mr.. Morgan being in
their happiest moods. Mr.. Tai
mage's face were a pleasant smile
as the immense congregation poured
into the church. The opening hymn,
"Hark /! ten thousand haIps and
voices" was sung by the congrega'
ton. The beautiful story of the res
direction was the lesson, which the
pastor adorned with his comments.
The subject Of the sermon was,
Easter Morning, Our Own Resur'
rection,' and the text was taken
from I. Corinthians, XIV. 20:-"Now
is Christ risen from the dead and be.
come the first fruits of them that
slept"
The most helpful and cheering
thought of Easter morning, said
Mr.. Talmage, is that Christ broke
the grave not only for Himself but
for all His disciples, and was the
first sheaf of The resurrection har-
vest. A great conqueror has con.
quered every land and besieged ev.
cry city, and today Paris, London,
ST. Petersburg, New York and
Brooklyn are going down under his
derce and long continued assaults.
That conqueror is Death. He car
ries a black flag and takes no pris-
0ners. He digs q trench across the
hemisphere and fills it with carcass
es. What a cruel cenqueror What
a bloody king His place is huge
sepulchre; his flowers the faded gar
Lands that lie on coffin lids; his mu-
sic the cry of desolated households;
the chalice Of his banquet a skull
his pleasure fountains the falling
tears of a world. But that throne
shall come down that sceptre shall
break that palace shall fall under
5ombardment. Heathen philoso-
)hers guessed at the immortality of
he soul, but never dreamed that the
body would get up and join it. This
dea is exclusively Scriptural and
beyond reasoning. Indeed, all anal
)gies fail. The body, though cut up
)y dissecting knives and burned in
| furnace, shall come together. But
While there are in this theory Of the
many things above rea-
.oning there is nothing contrary TO
eas0n. The objectors say that the
,ody is scattered to such a great
distance it can never be gathered.
man went into the Mexican war
md lost a foot. He comes to New
York and by accident loses a finger.
lie afterward goes as q missionary
o China, and there dies. VIII the
DOT come from Mexico and the fin
,or from New York and join the
,ody in China? I answer, it is no
larder for God to do that than to do
hings He has already done. Your
,ody is already made up from all the
zones of the earth-made up from
he raisins Of Italy, from the ban
mas of Florida, from the birds of
he prairie and from the sugar Of the
ar South; made up from Russia.
Brazil and Oregon. Fruits and
,lants from all these localities have
oecome part Of your body
There hangs over all the graves
md sepulchres and mausoleums of
he ages darkness that no earthly
amp can lift. but from above the
sun Of Righteousness shines, and,
he dense fogs of scepticism having
ifted, the valleys of the dead stand /
q the full gush of the morning Of
he resurrection. Various Scriptur-
j accounts say that the work of
,rave breaking. will begin with the
,lasts Of trumpets and shoutings,
whence / take it that the first inti-
nation Of the day will be a sound
rom heaven such as has never be-
ore been heard. 1t may not be so
cry loud, but it will be penetrating.
There are mausoleums so deep that
lndistnrbed silence has slept there
yer since the day when the sleepers
Tere left in them. Among the cor
Is of the sea, miles deep, where the
hipwrecked rest, the sound will
trike; no one will mistake it for
hunder or the blast of earthly min.
trelsy. But how will these bodies
ook? The bodies of the righteous
7ill be glorious. The most perfect
Y formed body, indeed, is mere
keleton to what it would have been
ad not sin come. Gods model of
face. of hand, Of foot, of a
ody, we know not. | suppose that
he face of the sun in the sky is dull
nd stupid compared with the out
aiming glories Of the countenances
{ the saved. | suppose that when
hose faces shall turn to look toward
be gate or up toward the throne it
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