Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-10
THE SHATTERED TOMB.
The Lord is Risen On Earth Peace
Goodwill to Men.
The Coming Resurrection Of All that is
Good, and True, and Holy, and
Right, in Politics, Religion,
Art and Literature.
REIGN0F THE WHITE LILIES OF PEACE

gallerleS-Wltn SuCn u uisPtay VI hO"eAS -
has hardly ever been seen in an American
Church. The music was OF the highest
order. Selections from Handel, Haydn,
Schubert and Mozart were rendered by
George W. Morgan, the organist, and Pro
fessor All, the cornetist. Mrs. Florence
Rice-Knox. the celebrated contralto, sang.
The opening hymn was,
"Hark, the song of jubilee,
Loud as mighty thunder's roar"
At the conclusion of the hymn, the Doc
tor announced his text as Mathew xviii:
6, "Come see the place where the Lord
lay" and proceeded as follows:
Visiting any great city we want to see its
cemetery. We examine the ditterentStyleS
of centOtaph, of mansOleum, OF crypt, oil
sculpture. There sleeps warrior, yonder
a poet, here a stateman, there an orator.
But how different the feeling with which
we visit the resting place OF our own
kindred. The tomb at which we halt this
morning is that of king, conqueror, an
emancipator, friend, a brother, Christ.
The surrounding is a manor in the suburbs
of Jerusalem owned by a wealthy gentle
man BY the name of Joseph. He belonged
TO the court t seventy who had condemn
ed Christ. but he had voted in the negative
or being a tinlid man, had abscnted him
self when the vote was to he taken. At
great expense he laid out the garden. 1t
being a hot climate, | suppose there were
trees broad branched and there were paths
winding under these trees, and here and
there were water dripping down over the
rocks into fishpondS, and there were vines
and flowers blooming from the wall and
all around the beauties OF Kiosk ana
arboriculture. After the fa'igues OF the
Jerusalem court room, how refreshing ID
come into
This ISurburban Retreat.
botanical anil genealogical. Wandering in
the garden, | behold some rocks which
have on them the marx of the sculptor S
chiScl. come ne urcr, AMI find there Is
a subterranean recess. | come down the
marble steps and come TO a pOrtlCo, over
which there is an architrave by the chjsel
cut into representations OF fruits and
flowers. | enter the pOrtiCO. On either
side there are roomS-twO or four or six
rooms of rock, the walls of these rooms
having inches, each Mich large enough to
hold a dead body. Here is one room that is
espcciallv wealthy OF sculpture. The fact
is that Joseph realizes he cannot always
walk this garden, and he has provided this
place for his last Slumber. Oh, what a
beautiful spC ii which to wait for the
coming of the resurrection. Mark well
this tomb, for il is to be the most celebrated
tomb in all the ages. CatacombS Of Egypt,
tomb of Napoleon, Mahal Tai OF India,
nothing compared to it. Christ has Just
been murdered, and his body will be
thrown to the dogs and the ravens. like
other Cruciticd bodies, unless there be
prompt and efficient hindrance. Joseph,
The owner of this mauSOleum in the rock
bcgs for the body of Christ. He washes the
poor mutilated frame from the dust and
blood, shroudS it and perfumes it.
| think that regular embalment wa
omitted. When in olden times body was
10 be embalmcd, the priest. with some pre-
tension of medical skill, would point out
the place between the ribs where the in
cision must be made and then the operator
having made the inciSiOn, ran lest he be
slain Tor a violation OF the dead. Then the
other priests would come with salt OF nltre
and cassa, and wine of palm tree and com
plete the embalmcnt. But think this EN-
balment OF the body Of Christ was omitted
1t would have raised another contention
and another riot.
The Funeral Hastens On.
Present, | think, Joseph, the owner Of tn,
| mansoeum; NiCodemuS the wealthy man
who had brought the spices; and the two
Marvs. No organ dirge, no plumeS, NJ
catafalQue. Heavy burden for two men a.
| they carry ChriSt's body down the marble
| stairs and into the porticO and lift the deaC
| weight to the level of the niche in thC
rock. and push the body of Christ into thu
! only pleasant resting place it ever had
| Coming forth from the pOrtiCo they clos,
| the door of the rock against the recess. Tht
government, afraid that the disciples ma!
steal the body of Christ and play reSurrcc
| ton, order the seal Of the Sanhedrim to b'
nut upon the door of the tomb; the viola
| ton Of that seal, like the violation of thu
! seal of the government OF the United State
| or Great Britain, TO be followed with grea
punishment. a company of soldiers from
| the tower of Antonia is detailed II Stan'
| guard. At the door OF that manS)leum
| fight takes place which is to decide The
| question for all gravcyardS and cemeteries
Sword Of lightning against sword Of steel
Angel Against Military.
| No seal of letter was ever moro easily bro
| ken than that seal of the Sanhedrim on tn
| door of the tomb. The dead body in tht
| niche in the rock begins to move in it
Shroud Of fine linen, slides down up0n til,
pavement. moves out OF the portcO, ap
| pears in the doorway, advances into tn,
| open air, comes up the marble steps
Having left his mOrtuary attire behinC
| him he comes forth in workman'S garb, a
| take it, from the fact that the womcr
miStook him for the gardener. That day
the grave received such SCATTERING that i
can never be rebuilt. All the trowelS o
of earthly masonry can never mend il
Forever and forever it is a broken tomb
Death taking side with the military in tina
fight received terrible cut from the angel
spear of flame, so that he himself shall e
| down after while under it. The King o
TerrorS retiring the King OF Grace. Tn,
Lord is risen. Let earth and heaven kceI
Easter to day. HoSanna.
Some things strike my observation while
standing by the Savior sepulchre. Among
them is the thought that honors after deatt
are poor pay for unkindness to the living
If they could have afforded Christ such
costly sepulChre, why could they not have
given him
An Earthly Residence.
Will they give this pie"e of marble to {
dead Christ instead of a soft pillow for thc
the living Jesus? Ii they had expended
half the value of that tomb to make Chris
| comfortable it would not have been as saC
Story. lie aSkeu DTtdl, tney gave nln
stone. Christ, like most Of the world.
benefactorS, was appreciated better after ht
| was dead Westminster Abbey and monu
| mental Greenwood are the worlds attempt
to atone by honorS for the dead, for wrongs
10 the living. Poets corner, in Westmins
ter Abbey, attempts to pay for the sufferin ;
of Grub Street. Go through that Poets
corner in Westminster Abbey There il
! Handel, the great musician. from whose
music we hear to-day; but while look a
| his statue can not help but think OF tht
di>cords with which his fellow musician
tried to destroy him. There is the tomb o
John Dryden, a beautiful monument, but
can not help but think at 30 years of age h,
wrote OF his being oppressed in fortune
and OF the contract he had made for thous
and verses at sixpence line. And there
too, you find the monument of Slmue
Butler, the author Of 'Hudibras. " but Will,
look at his monument in Poets corner
can not but ask myself where he died. II
garret. There see the costly tablet il
the Poets corner-the costly tablet to ont
of whom the celebrated Wallwer wrote
"The Old Blind SehooImaster
John Milton, has just issued a tedious
poem on the fall of man. If the length o
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