Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-14
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dawn Mark says ''at the rise of the sun.'
Luke says very early in the morning."
John says "when 1t was yet dark" In
other words 1t was twilight. That was the
hour ct which Mary Magdalen mistook
Christ for the gardener. What does that
mean? 1t means that there are shadows
about the tomb, unified, mysterious,
lowering, unexplained. Easter twilight,
but not Easter noon. Mary stopped down
and looked until her eyesiRhk was strained
to see to the other end OF the crypt
and gave hysteric outcry. Do not let rs
be wearied because We cannot see clear
through to the other side Of our own grave
or to the other side of the graves OF our
dead. We ought not TO expect to have 1t
brighter around our family lot than IL was
about that Joseph OF Arimathea. Twilight
around Chiisrs grave! Why not? For the
present twilight rround all the graves.
Twilight Of unanswered questions Why
given at all if so soon to be taken? Why
were they snatched away 80 sud
denlyH Why could We not have
few farewell words? Why? So short
word and yet in 1t such crucifxions OF
agony. Wby1 Shadows on the graves OF
good men and women who seemed 70 die
before their work was done. Shadows on
the graves OF all the children because We
cannot understand why such Q beautiful
craft should have been launched to be
wrt cked one mile outside the harbor. I.
clear throuGh thaEpausolepn? Only 70
wait. The sun rolled up through the
Heavens and the tomb was flooded with
light. Don't let rs get morbid because OF
the present twilight that hoyers over our
family sepulchres or over our own expect.
ed pillow OF dead leaves. Charles the ",
of Spain, took torch and went into the
vaults Of the metropolis, where his ances:
tors were buried and where he was himself
to lie down. Deeper aud further going
with bis servants till he came TO crucinx,
around which were the caskets Of his an
cestors, and he had opened the bronze
chest in which some Of his kindred lay
and came upon the form OF one OF his
household by embaImer's art, kept perfect
as eighteen years before st her burial. But
bis body and mind persisted as the result
of this exploration. Do not let rs In our
NOR rbidity struggle with the sepul-
chral shadows for remember 1t Is
not an evening twilight to get darker
and darker, but q morning twilight
TO melt H. n an ocean. OF day. Roll on and
roll up thou Easter sun till We shall get
back our dead. preach it-sunrise over
churcbyard, sunrise over Woodlawn, sun.
rise over Greenwood, sunrise over Laurel
Hill sunrise over catacombs and village
graves and coral depths of the sea. Oniy
half past 5 o'clock now among the tomos,
il is going to be high noon Cf explanation
and beat, adens. 1t was in the morning
twilight that Mary Msgdalen saw the sup
posed gardener.
Another thing uun lticed in
This Resurrection sf Christ
is his pathetic credentials. How do you
know bat that he was only an earthly gar,
dener? His clothes said he was. The
flakes OF ground upon him said he was
How are we sure that this was the Chris,
instead Of q gardener? OBJ, before that day
had gone, he showed to his disciples his
han DIS and side. The three scars were his
Gre den usls, three paragraphs written In
ridged or depressed cuticle-one ON the
right palm, the other on the left palm, the
other amid the ribs Scarsl scars. They
| they knew him. That Is the way we shall
| recognize him when we meet. Scars all
| over him, for that Easter he showed TO his
! Disciples only part Of his credentials
| What does that mean? That we
| will all, among other things, recognize each
| other in heaven by the old scars Of earth
scars of accident, Gears OF bereavement
J scars OF persecution, scars OF betrayal, SOAR
| of battle, scars of hard work, scars OF sick
ness, tcars OF old age. Our bodies are 20
ing TO be remodeled and glorlhed, but we
| are going to keep the scars. Christs res
| urrected body with the scars all on MAKE
me think so. Why, before we get out o.
| this world the most OF us will be scars al
over. Heaven will not be bay into which
| summer pleasure yachts float with gay
/ bunting and embroidered sails as fair as
| when tpey were irst unfurled, but navy
| ward into which shall come to lay at an
chor men of war from Trafalgar and lie
usrto, all sides struck by 7+pounders and
| decks scratched with bursting shell and
| mss,s twisted of by cyclone. Old "consti
| tCtions" and ICONS stations" OF hard sery'
| ice discharged forever from work Ga res
| direction dsy Christ was identified and
creden tialed by bis scars, and we shall q
| last know him by the scars, and know each
| other by the scars. You have thought o.
| them ss disbursements or badges OF endrr
apcey Now tell you they are to De mean'
| Of recognition.
Once more, you have not noticed thai
| sitter Christ bad
Lain From Friday rHI sunday Lffeies'
| in q hot elm ate, where sanitary prudence
compels burial tho next day and wher'
| here Is no Ice to retard dissolution, He II
| rot only exhumsted but positively robus
IS one who is bronzed Of out door work
Mary not taking Him for an invalid jus
| cot out OF hospital, or O corpse risen fron
the tomb, but "supposing Him 10 be gar
| dener," healthy by the upturning OF thu
| soil and life In the sunshine. After Hi
nterment every cellular tissue had broker
| down, and artery, and nerve, and bratr
| we're a wreck physically. Yet, here He i
roseate and swarthy aud complete. Well
| IL God could turn tuch q mortuary STATE
| into such q radiant animation, that settles
| IL that whatever may hNys become OF thu
bodies of our Christian friends they can bs
/ rt constructed, oil the nerves strung, all th'
| bopes ioiuted, the optic nerve re lumed, th'
tsr drum vibrating and all the body set a
Except its inner sections and WORLDLY
ufes tor which no need no resurrection
Come! Come! IL is slmost time for us Y
| g,t ready ard 20 out and meet our resui
up healthy after all decorations shows M
that all the grave can keep is our wound
ard physical defects and weaknesses
| Christ bad been put into the tomb eI
hsus;ed and blooules. from his wounds
All the lie currents hsd been poured out
After a life Of faiipns aod hunger az,
Sc fIering he bad died lingering dPatl
bis whole weight hung on four spikes an'
no invalid after ten years OF suffering wen
into his grave so snacisted and CHASTITY a
Christ and yet here he 10 three days after
90 free from sll Wounds and 80 rublcunt O
cheek that Mary supposed him TO be tn
gardener.
So we will leave our sideschss and head
aches and. bsctschss and legaches anc
besrtsches whore Christ left bis
Your ear will eone 10 without IL
hssylnsss, your eye without It's dimnes'
! vour step without it's rheumatic ha'
your lungs without oppressed reePiraa
| what Races We VIII Run
when we become immortal athietess VIII
circuits We will take when with ell on
physical imperfections subirscted and q
celestial veIocities sdded We shall set n
our new residence In the capital OF the IN
verse in which, with more inhsbitsnt
than all our earthly cities combined "
shall not for all eternity be called TO Oh
serve one obssquy. Standing this Esste
morning amid the shattered masonry OF
Sayior's sepulchre point you 70 . worl
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