Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-05-14
DR.. HALMAGE'S SERMON.
EASTERTlDE.


slept II Cor, XIV, 90
On this glorious Easter morning, amid the
music and the flowers give YOU Christian
salutation. This morning Russian meeting
Russian on the streets of st. Petersburg halls
him with the salutation: "Christ has risen, -
and is answered by his friend in salutation:
''He is risen, indeed In some parts of Eng
land and Ireland TO this very day there is the
superstition that on Easter morning the sun
dances in the heavens, and well may we for
give such superstition which illustrates the
fact that the natural world seems to sympa-
thize with the spiritual.
HALL Faster morning. Flowers! Flowersl
All OF them voice, all of them a tongue,
all of them full of speech to day. l bend
over one of the lilies and | hear it say:
Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toll not, neither do they spin;
yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these l bend over TO e and it
seems to whisper: 81 am the rose of Sharon
And then l stand and list II. From all sides
there comes the chorus Of flowers saying:
"lf God so clothed the grass of the field,
which to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into
the oven, shall He not much more clothe you,
o We OF little faithf'
Fowers Flowers! Braid them into the
brides hair. Flowers! FloweTs Strew them
over the graves o. the dead sweet prophecy
Of the resurrection. Flowers! FlowerSl Twist
them into a garland for my Lord Jesus ON
Easter morning Glory be 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, il a rainbow this morning had fallen
and struck the galleries and sru k the plat
form the scene could not have been more
radiant. Oh, how bright and how beautiful
the flowers; how much they make me think
of Christ and His religion that
brieh ems everything it touches,
brightens our life, brightens our
character brightens society, brightens tho
church, brightenS everything. You who go
with gloomy COuutenanCe preten ling you
are better than am, because of your lugub-
robustness, YOU cannot cheat me. NoI old
hypOcrite, know you. Pretty case you arc
for man who processes to be more than
conquerOr. 1t is not religion that makes you
gloomy, it is the lack of it. There is just az
much religion III we tding as III BURIAL Just
As much religion i'll smile as in tear.
Tho e gloomy Christians we sometimes see
are tie people to whom like TO lend money,
for never see them again! The women
came = the Savior's tomb and they dropped
spices all around tie tomb AMI those spl -es
were the seed that began to grow, and from
them came all the flowers Of this Easter
morn. The two angels robed in white took
hold OF the stone az the SaYlors tcmb, and
they hurled 1t with such force down the hill
that 1t crushed IN the door of the worlds
sepulchre, and the stark AMI the dead must
come toltA.
| care not how labyrnthine the mauso-
leum or how costly the sarcopha2us, or how
ever BEAUTIFULLY rartarred the family
grounds, we want them all broken up by the
Lord OF the Resulrect. ON. They must come
out. faIheiS an mothers, they must come
out; husbands an wives they must come
out; DrOther a,d s.ster, they must come
out; our Daring children, they must come cut.
The eyes that we close with such trembling
fingers must open again in the radiance Of
that morn The arms we folded in dust
must JOIN ours III an embrace of reunion.
The voice That was huShed IN our dwelling
must De returned. Oh, how long some OF you
seem to be want ng-Waltng for the resur-
rectlon,--Wa.tng And Tor these broken
hearts To-Day make Solt, COOL Dandage out
OF Easter flowers.
Six years ago, the night before Easter, l
received an Easter card on which there was
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hearts OF nations 1t IS the conqueror
Death. He carries black flag and he takes
no prisoners. He digs trench across
the hemispheres and fills it with thu
CarcaSses of nations Fifty times would the
world have been depopulated had not God
kept making new generations, Fifty times the
world would have swung lifeless through the
aiT--no man II the mountain, no man On tn
sea, an abandoned ship blowing through i'm
mensity.
Again and again has he done this work
with all generations. He is a monarch Il.
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