Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-14
THE GLAD EASTER DAY.
Christ, Ever Glorious, Triumphant
Over Death.
A LOVING SAVIOR FOR ALL MEN.
For the ToiIiug and Suffering, for the Poor
and the Unknown-The Morning
Twilight That will Burst
Into Day Of Glory.
Special TO tie Register.


vice in the Brooklyn Tabernacle was very
beautiful The wide platform which in
this church takes the place of the pulpit,
there being no desk, was covered with
flowers, and even the galleries and the pill
lars of the church were wreathed. The
music was of q jabilant character, the gener-
al congregational singing interspersed with
selections from the old German and Italian
masters given by the regular church ar
fists. Six thousand people crowded the
church aud many others we're unable to
gain admittanee. One Of the opening
hymns was:
SHARK, the sound OF jubilee,
Loud as mighty thunders roar"
DR.. Talmage's theme was New Easter
Lessons" and his text was taken from
John xx.15: "She, supposing him to be
the gardner" Following is afull report Of
the sermon:
Here are
Mary MaSdalene and Christ
lust after his resurrection. For four, thou
sand years pale old tyrant had been kill.
ing people and carrying them into his cold
palace. He had a passion for human
skulls. He had been gathering them for
forty centuries nnhindered. He had taken
into the rooms of that great palace all the
Kings and Queens and con4ue-ors, as well
as all those without fame. There were
shelves of skulls, and pyramids OF skulls,
and altars of skulls, and beds OF skulls, ana
even the chalices al the table were bleached
skulls. He had taken down ell the gener:.
ations. Beginning with the skeleton OF
Abel he had added Gil the skeletons OF all
the ages and none disputed his right But
one Good Friday about 1851 years ago, as
calculate it, q Mighty Stranger showed
back the door OF that awful palace and
went in and seized the old tyrant and
threw him flat on the marble pavement and
put the heel on the neck OF the fallen
Zoe. The Mighty Stranger explored
he ghsstly furniture of the pa
ace, walked all through the iaby
rinths and opened all the dark cellars,
snd having tarried under that roof whose
ribs we're human bone two nights and
day, the nights very dark and the day very
dismal he seized the two chief pillars OF
the palace and rocked them till they began
TO fall and then lifting the ponderous 'front.'
gate from its hinges he carried it of, crying
II am the resurrection and the life" That
scene we celebrate this morning, Handeltan
and Beethooyian miracles OF sound added
TO floral decorations that have turned
pulpit and gallery into blooming psrterre.
There are four or five things about
This Ressurreeiien of Christ
| that none seems to have noticed. First
Our Lord in gardeners disgnioa. Mary
Magdalen, grief-struck at the e '''''-
phagus of Christ looks around e
can find the tracks OF the sacri,egioIsi i.su'-
rectionist and, 10, she sees some one that
looks as II be had ccme ont to water the
| flowers or root out the weeds OF the garden
| or set up the reclining and fallen vine. He
is in rough working,tdress and perhaps
4 to his hands and marking his garments.
Mary Msgdalen with face all covered with
| the rain of a fresh shower OF weeping
| charges on this supposed workman the
| desecration of the dead and this person IN
| cognito responds by hipging his soul into
| lust one word that trembled with all the
| sweetest rythm OF earth and heaven saying,
Mary" Through that peculiar accen tus'
ton the disguise fell off and she found that
instead of being an humble gardener OF
| ASIA Minor he had charge OF the hanging
| gardens of heaven ablOom with worlds,
| consultations, the clusters Of forget-me
| nots, the sun flower chief OF all, while
| morning sky and midnight aurora are the
| trellis ablsze like @ summer wall with car
| nation rose and gian Is. Of battle. Blessed
and glorious mistake of Mary Magdalen
recorded in my text: 'Sapposlng
him tobe the gardener" Ga. that
means that Christ is an every
day Christ for every day work
and in every day fatigue, in our most
! seemly apparel on Sabbath morning no
more having his sympathy and compassion
than when in our everyday apparel at
/ tending to our merchandise, or shifting our
| an,i. ploughipg our fields, or preparing
| co. 1u- families, or mending garment
o. =. .nrusehold, or standing at our flying
.,.ai- OF engineering our railway trains,
| + s,tung up appointed ems OF type, or
| composing with our weary brain, or cutting
with our tired chisel, or sketching with our
exhausted pencil. Christ in woskman's
dress ready to help us in our wo!kinp
dress! Lifted to the highest strain OF this
Easter anthem: "Supposing Him to be
gardener"
Had Christ Reappeared TO Mary
in a kings crown that would have sug
gested especial sympathy for mona7chs'
Had he appeared in chains Of gold and robe
diamonded, that would have suggested
especial sympathy for the sfiluent. Had
he appeared with sword dangling from
soldiers sash, that would have suggested
sympathy with warriors. Bnt in gardener:
habit, besoiled OF his occupation, thai
means, as spell it out to-day, pathetic
understanding on his part OF the hard
work OF life. Ala to day ought TO roll
down comfort through al these aisles anc
roll D comfort through all these galleries
LET The miners in darkest underground
| corridor OF the mountain hear 1t, and
factory maid amid the most unventilatec
factory of Lowell and Lancaster, and
clesreT of roughest new ground s'aid west
ern wilderness, and all the WORT out seTinI
women who have stitch in tue side To-
eyer- stitch tbey give the cloth, some o
ibsiI cruel employers having no NOR
cbsnce Of going through the door OF heays'
than OF going through the eye OF ina
broken needle which has just fallen on tn,
bare hcor from the picked and bleeding
singers OF the consunT::ye sewing girl
Away with all your absurd talk soOu
"hypostatic union" aud "soteriology
the Council of Trent" sia yon
metaphysics OF religion, which hav'
we'll nigh driven religion out o
| the world and pass along this gardener
| coat till all nations may touch the hem 0
i il and feel the thrill OF Cnristly brother
hood! Not supposing hin to be Cesar
not supposing him TO be q Socrates, bn
| supposing him to be q gardner. That u
| Wbst helps Josiah Wedgewood, struggling
ON amid the dust and heat Of the potterie
until he can make for Queen Charlotte th'
| irst royal table service Of English manu-
facture. That helps James Watt amid de
| rision ami scorn until he can put on wheel
that thunderbol; Of power that roars bj
day and night in the furnace OF every 10
| coinotive engine of Christendom. Ths
helps Hugh Miller amid the quarries o
| crcnoiory until he makes the rocks 81
| msny volumes Of the worlds biography
| and fnds the footsteps OF the Cneator in
| the cold Red Sandstone" What the vorlC
| vents is Christ for the printer's offe'