Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
SERMON.
oosons Presented By the Re-
,,rreuce Of Easter-Tide.
.,u,+ness of Earthly Flowers as Pre-
% u the Glories of the Last Great
Resurrection-The Duties OF
Immortality.

Immortality.
T Dewitt Talmage delivered his
IT. Ti5e sermon at the Brooklyn Taber.
's ~ from the following text:
~ :, christ risen from the dead, and be.
No" .ne first fruits of them that slept.-[I
or. w 90.
u. smoke as follows:
IN this glorious Easter morning, amid
mnsic and the flowers, 1 give you
pI~istian salutation. This morning Rus
:", meeting Russian on the streets of
petersburg halls him with the saluta.
ion:
"rbrist is risenW
And is answered by his friend in saluta.
ion.
.He is risen indeed"
In some parts of England and Ireland
u this very day there is the superstition
[bot on Easter morning the sun dances in
khs Heavens; and we'll may we forgive
[ncD a superstition which illustrates the
F.ct that the natural world seems to SYM
bathize with the spiritual.
EASTER VOICES.
Hail Easter morning. Flowers! Flowers!
AM Of them a voice, al of them q tongue.
a of them full of speech to-day. I bend
over one of the lilies and hear them say:
consider the lilies of the field, how they
rrow, they toll not, neither do they spin, yet
Eoomon in all his glory was not arrayed as
one Of these.
1bend over a rose and it seems to whis-
per:
am the rose of Sharon.
And then l stand and listen. From all
,ides there comes the chorus of flowers,
saving:
II God so clothe the grass Of the field,
which to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into
,he oven, shall he not muEh more clothe you,
Oh We of little faith?
Flowers! Flowers! Braid them into the
hrjle's hair. Flowers! Flowers! Strew
them over the graves of the day, sweet
prophecy of the resurrection. Flowers!
Flowers! Twist them into a garland for
nv Lord Jesus on Easter morning. "Glory
he to the Father and to the Son and to the
HOLY Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is
now and ever shall be-"
Why, if a rainbow this morning had
fallen and struck the galleries and struck
the platform, the scene could not have
been more radiant. Oh! how bright and
how beautiful the flowers, and how much
they make me think of Christ and his re-
lgion, that brightens every thing it
touches, brightens cur life, brightens our
character, brightens society, brightens the
church, brlghtens every thing. You who
60 with gloomy countenance pretending
YOU are better than 1 I'M because of your
righteousness, you can not cheat me.
You old hypocrite! / know you. Pretty
le you are for a man that processes to be
nre than conqueror. 1t is not religion
Tbs. makes you gloomy; it is the lack of
il There is just as much religion in a
welding as in a burial, just as much reli-
sioA in a smile as in a tear. Those gloomy
CHRISTIANS we sometimes see are the people
to whom like to lend money, for 1 never
see them again! The women came to the
SaTiour's tomb, and they dropped spices all
around the tomb, and those spices were the
seed that began to grow, and from them
came all the flowers Of this Easter morn.
Inc two angels robed in white took hold
ol'le stone at the Saviour's tomb and they
hurled it with such force down the hill
mat 1t crushed in the door of the worlds
%Sepulcher, and the stark and the dead
must come forth.
care not how labyrinthine the mauso-
ieum, or how costly the sarcophagus, or
however beautifully parterred the family
grounds, we want them all broken up by
ene Lord of the resurrection. They must
come out. Father and mother-they must
come out. Husband and w%ife-they must
come out. Brother and sister-they must
come out. Our darling children-they
"use come out. The eyes that we close
WIN such trembling fingers must open
again IN the radiance of that morn. The
arms we folded in dust must join ours in
al embrace of reunion. The voice that
was hushed in our dwelling must be re-
,u'Aeu' y, how long some of you seem to
Y "altlng-waiting for the resurrection,
s''thg: And for these broken hearts to-
Gay make a soft, cool bandage out of
Easter flowers.
DIX years ago., the night before Easter, I
'ece'Ved an Easter card on which there
was a representation of that exquisite
ef' the trumpet creeper, and under it
the words:
ny trumpet shalt sound and the dead shall
mere was especial reason why at that
Eau | should have chat card sent me, and
. resent the same consolation to-day to
=, IN thls house; and who has escaped?
"y friends, this morning l find in the
sen Christ a prophecy of our own resur-
rsVlon' my text setting forth the idea hat
l tnrlst has risen so his people will rise.
= 'he hrst sheaf of the resurrection har-
ss'' ne 1.-THE first fruits of them that
sP'," Before l get through this morn
~ l VIII walk through all the cemeteries
ne dead, through all the country grave
s"0s Where your loved ones are buried,
, S"I ! VIII pluck off these flowers and I
a. orop a sweet promise of the Gospel-a
vse Oh hope, a lily of JOY on every tomb
nay ehlld's tomb, the husbands tomb, the
- ) tomb, the fathers grave, the moth
grave; and while we celebrate the
direction of Christ we will at the same
good.
IAf'st the first fruits OF them that slept.
u | should come to you this morning
- ask You for tie names of the great
"querors of the world, you would say
a., A"paer, Cesar, Philip, Napoleon 1.