The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-30
7. DE WITT TALMAGE.
YEA, RATHER, THAT HE IS ARISEN
AGAIN - THE sORROWFUL
TRAGEDY OF MOUNT
CALVARY.
And What 1t Did for the Degenerate Millions
Of Mankind-sermOh Delivered In the
Brooklyn Tabernacle on, Sunday,
October 28, by Rev. e. De.
Witt Talmage,

Brooklyn, October 26,-There was the usual i'm.
mense attendance at the great TahernR Gle to-day.
The opening hymn was:
"0h, could speak the matehless WoFtbl
Oh, could sound the glorles forth,
That In my Savior shine"
"Christ's Resurrection"
ROMANS, VIII, "a: "Who is He that condemneth?
II is Christ that died; yea, rather that is risen
again, who also maketh intercesslon for u.s.
Paul flung this challenge at the feet OF all civil
and ecclesiastic authority, synagogues, and Ne.
Ios. He feared neither swords nor lions, earth
nor hell DiOcletian, who had slain 1900 in per.
secutlon, had no terror for him l. was not be.
cause he was physically strong. think he must
have been weakened with exposure and NAL.
treatment. 1t was not because he was lacking
in sensitlveness-you find the most delicate
shades Of feeling playing through his sermons
and letters. His communications often burst
into tears, What then, puts him into such tri.
umphant mood2 The thought Of Savior dead
Savior risen, Savior exalted, Savior interced.
ing. ut is Christ that died; yea, rather that is
risen again, who Is even at the right hand Of
God, who also maketh intercession for u.s." How
was 1t possible for large nature like Paul's to
get any pleasure out of the horrible death scene
at Calvary. We weep at funerals; we are sad
even when we see a stranger die When muir.
derer Is executed. we have commiseration end
pray for his soul, and yet you tell me that the
tender hearted Paul finds something to rejoice in
at the funeral OF God. Christ had been dead
only twenty or thirty years and the tragedy had
justClosed, and many were living who yet talked
OF the horrible tranaction. How could Paul re-
joice when the sorrow was freShl 1t was because
in that death he and all generations might escape
aWorse disaster. He saw the gap opening into
which the race must plunge, and saw Christ with
his two bleeding hands close 1t. The glittering
steel Of the tip Of the execuioner's spear in his
eye kindled into torch TO light men heaven.
ward. The persecutors read over the cross FIVE
wordsin Hebrew, Greek and Latin; but Paul
read only one word, "Expiation." In the dying
groan Of Christ he heard his own grosn Of eternal
torture taken by another. Paul feels: Had itnOt
been that Christ had volunteered In my stead
those would have been my mauled hands and
feet, my gashed side, my crimsoned temples"
Men Of strong physical stature have carried great
weights-three hundred pounds put on them, and
still they have borne II; and four hundred pounds
and FIVE hundred pounds, and still they cried:
"Put on more weight; have not yet tested my
full capacity Of strength, until after while they
cred out: "stop can carry no more" But
Chlist's burden was illimitable. First he bent
down under his own troubles; on that was piled
the loneliness Of his poor old mother on that the
crimes Of the villains who surrounded the cross.
Stop now There is burden enough. "No he
says, put on all the sins Of this Jewish nation;
put on the iniquities and the bereavements and
losses and the woes Of all the inhabited earth.
Yea, roll on to me the sins Of the preceding four
thousand years so far as they have been forgiven.
The angels OF God, seeing the awful pressure, cry:
Enough Enough" NO." says Christ; "roll on
me the sins OF the next nineteen years. Roll on
me the agonies Of hell, ages and ages, the chains
and the prisons and eternity Of suffering" That
is what the Bible means when 1t says: "He took
our sins and carried our sorrows." "Now," says
Paul, II am free. That suffering was for my de-
liverance God never collects debt twice. I
have receipt In full. II God is satisfied and let's
me of, what do all the threats Of earth and hell
amount to2 Bring on your witnesses If you have
any, show all your forces. Do your best against
me- Who is he that eondemneth2 1t is Christ tina
died." What swarthy argument that Is for
every Christian man to carry. some day all the
sins OF his past life come down In fiery platoon
They pound at the gate Of the soul saying 1--WE
come for your arrest. Any one of us could over.
come you, but we are 10000 strong. Surrender"
We swing open the gate, and slDgle-handed defy
them to entrance. We hurl this one weapon In
their midst and then fly quick as we Can think
1t. ut is Christ that died. How dare you pre-.
sent those old bills agaln2 have nothing to do
with these absolHte things" Do you know how
hard 1t is for Wreckers to fetch out any thing that
Is sunken near the beach OF the ocean, But drop
something half way from New York to Liverpool,
and no graphing. hooks can catch 1t. And SO our
sins he says he hath cast into the depth Of the
sea- Hall the legions Of hell with machinery
made In foundrIes ofdarkness Rndlaunehed from
the doors Of eternal death should search 10000
years for any one OF the forgotten sins of our life
they could not fetch 1t up. When sin Is par,
doned 1t goes out Of the books It goes out Of ex.
istence From TRACED les In the theatre men some
times go home exhausted, to pass sleepless
nights; but there Is one tragedy that soothes and
calms, and saves all who see 1t aright-Calvary
the,BtRge, the curtains OF thesnight falling at
mid noon the dfop-scene; thunders OF falling
rocks the orchestra; angels In the galleries and
devils in thepit were the speCtatOrs The tragedy
crucihxionl ut is Christ that died"
The second cause Of, PsulB exhiaration: II
Christ had stayed In the grave, we never would
have got out. 1t would have been as dark and
dreadful q place as the Concierge prison from
which men were not taken till the carts were
rolled up TO transfer them to the place OF death,
lido not wonder that the apcientS embalmed dead
bodies and thus resisted dissolution, for the dark.
est and deepest chasm ever opened is the grave,
unless a light from the Resurrection throne
streams into It, But Christ stayed there all Fri.
day night, and all Saturday aud Saturday night
and part OF Sunday morning, Just long enough to
at up the place for ug when we get there. He
was there two nights so that he knows the need
Of plenty Of light and has flooded It with glory.
EARLY Sunday morning. Let US go up to see the
,saVior's grave, The sun just rising kindles the
dew, and the shrubs sweet q our foot presses
them. What beautiful place in which to be
buriedh Wonder why they did nottreat Him as
well when He was alive az after deatbl Give mil.
itary signal to that soldier guarding the dead.
HaTk to, the erashl An earthquakel Back fall the
soldiers and most look as II they are dead. The
heavy stone spins down the hill, flung by the
arm Of angel. Come ont Of that damp place into
the sunshine, 0 Jesusl Breathe the perfume Of
Joseph's garden-+He comes out radiant, and
look down into the excavation, aud away back In
the distance Isee others coming hand in hand
troop after troop, and Il And that y is long pro;
ceAslon OF the piouR dead, and among them our
own loved ones, the fathers and mothers and
companions and children that we lost all march;
ing TIL the last fEll the good have come cut Of
IT.. As look in bewllderment Christ waves His
hand toward the Advancing procession and says,
IT am the resurrection aud the life He that be-
lieyeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live, Iand then heartthe deadmafohlt that had
been sounding for 5000 years stop suddenly at
theHhouEsUf the ArclBfngel'a Come forth" n
Jesus had not been able to break out our rescue
another attempt like that OF Oharlotse COrday TO
sSlIsy MeEaso herself slain i would have been
himself hung. IL would have been death, and
Christ n grsppls with death victor On AZ the
Gag would have nosted triumphant and hell
would have routed the posts o. heaven and cap.