Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-26
EASTERTIDE.
A Beautiful Sermon BY the Rev.
DR.. Talmags.
RESURRECTION ON EASTER MORN
The Wondrous Resurrection Coming toT
the Followers Of True
Religion.
,Snsrinl 10 he RsaiILer.

GRATED today, both in platform ana gal
leties. Within the church scene of rsr'
beauty was presented, the platform being
covered with flowers arranged in various
devices and breathing forth a delicst'
aroma. The building was so crowded tha
the doors we're held open by the pressure
and many persons were turned away, be
ing unable to get further than the iron
4 gates on the street. In addition to the
usual srtistes Of the church, Mrs. Florence
Rice. Knox sang tsice. The opening
hymn, in which ak thousand voices joined
was
I'VE praise Thee, o God, for the son Of Thy Love,
For Jesus who died and is nov gone before"
The subject OF the sermon was Easter
tide" DR.. Talmsge took his text from
l Cor. XIV 20: Nov ia Christ risen from
the dead, and become the first fruits Of
them that slept" He spoke as follows:
ON this GLORIOUS EASTER MORNING.
among the music and the flowers, | give
you Christian sslutation. This morning
Russian meeting Russian ou the streets OF
St. Petersburg halls him with the ssluts.
ton, Christ ia riser" and is answered by
ais friend in salutation. "Hs is risen TO-
deed 10 some parts of England aud Ire
land to this very day there is the super8ti
tion tha! on Easter morning the sun danced
| in the heavens. And well may we forgive
such a superstition, which illustrates the
fact that the natural world seems to sym.
pathize with the spiritual.
Hail Easter morning! Flowers Flow.
ers! All Of them voice, all of them
tongue, all OF them full Of speech to day.
bend over one Of the lilies aud hear it
cav, Consider the llies of the field, how
they grow; they toll rot neither do they
spin, yet solomon in all his glory was not
srrayed as one of these" | bend over q
rose and it seems to whisper, 81 sm the
rose of Sharon" And then | stand and
listen. From oil sides there comes the
chorus of d Jwers saying: If God clothe
the grass of the field, which to day is, and
tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he
not much more clOthe you, o ye OF little
faithY
FLowERs ELOwERs
Braid them into the brides hair. Flow
ersl Flowersl Strew them over the graves
of the day, sweet prophecy Of the resur-
rec,ion. Flowersi Flowers Twist them
into garland for my Lord Jesus on
Easter morning. GLORY be to the Father
aud to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as
it was in the beginning, is now aud ever
shall To-
Why, il rainbow this morning hsd
fallen and struck the galleries and struck
the platform, the scene could not have
been more radiant. Oh! how bright and
how besu6ful the flowers, and how much
they make NE think of Christ and his re-
ligiou, that brightens everything 1t touches,
briChtens our life. brightens our character,
origbters society, bEightens the church,
orightens everything. You who go with
gloomy countenance pretending you are
better than ] am because Of your lugubri
cusness, you capuot cheat nae. You old
hypocritel know you. Pretty case you
are tor g nan that processes to be more
than conqueror. It Is mol religion that
makas you gloomy, it is the lack of 1t.
There is Just SO much religion in a wedding
as in burial, Just ss much religion in a
smile as in tear. Those gloomy Chris
rsns va sometimes see are the people to
whom | like - lend money, for l never
zee theu As4;n' The women came "ama
to the Sayiours tomb ana they
dropped spices all around the
tomb, & ID those spices were the seed
that began to grow, snd from them came
oil the flowers Of this Easter morn. The
two angels ro6ed in white took hold of thu
stone at the Savior tomb and they hurled
Il with such force down the hill that it
crushsd in the door Of the world ssepulchre,
and the stark and the dead must come
forth.
care not how labyrinthine the msuso
leum or how costly the sarcophsgus or
however beautifully psr'erred the family
grounds, We want them ell broken Up by
the Lord OF the resurrection. They must
come out. Father aud mother-they must
come out. Husband aud wifs-they must
come out. Brother and sister-they must
coue ogt. Our darling children-they
must coms s4t The eyes that
wa close With such trembling
angers mus. open again in the
radiance of that morn. Cbs arms We
folded in dust must join ours in an EN-
brace of reunion. The voice that was
hushed in aur dwelling must be returned.
! o, how long some of you ssem to be wait
\ inS-Ssit:ng ;er TIE resurrection, waiting
And for these broken hears to-Gs7 make
q sott cool bsndsge out of Z sster flowers.
! Six years sgo the night before Easter, l
rocsiyed an Easter card on which there
vas q representation Of that exquisite
flower, the trumpet cfeeper, snq undeE it
the words: The trumpet shall sound and
the dead shall rise" Thsre YES especial
reason vhy at that time should have that
card sent me, and present the same con.
ISOLATION to day to ell in this house; and
! who has escaped7
My friends, this morning l find in the
risen Christ
! PROPHECY
Of oar own resurrection, my text setting
| forth tie idea that as Christ has risen so
His people viii Fiss Rs the first sheaf Of
The resurrection harvest; He the Hrst
fruits of them that slept" Before
II get through this morning.
will walt through all the cemeteries Of the
dead, through ell the country gFayeyards
where your loved ones are buried, and |
will pluck Of these flowers aud | will drop
q sweet promise Of the Gospels rose Of
hope, g lily of joy on every tomb--the
child's tomb. the husbands tomb, the
wife's tomb, the fathers grave, the moth
er's grave; and while We celebrate the res
direction of all the good. Christ the
fret fruits Of them that slepL"
If I should come to you this morning
and ask you for the names OF the great
conousrors of the world, you would say
. Alexander. Caesar, Phillip, Napoleon L
J Ah, my friends, you have forgotten tc
mention the name of greater conquer
7 than all these-s cruel, ghastly con