St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-26
Flowers Sweet Prophecy of the Res
direction, a Reminder of the Religion
of Christ,
Which Brightens Character, the
Church, Society and All Else of
Earth 1t Touches.
The General Rising Of the Dead From
the Grave Pictured in Vivid
Language.
DR.. TaImage,s sermon.
Special to the Globe.

the dead, and become the first fruits of them
that slept" He spoke as follows: On this
glorious Easter morning, amid the music
and the flowers, i give You Christian salu-
tation- This morning Russian meeting
Russian on the streets of St. Petersburg
halls him with the salutation: Christ is
risen," and is answered by his friend in sal
utation: ~'He is risen indeed" In some
parts OF England and Ireland, to this very
day, there is the superstition that on Easter
morning the sun dances in the heavens;
and well may we forgive such supersti-
ton which illustrates the fact that the nat
tural world seems to sympathze with the
spiritual. HALL Easter morning. FlOweTs
Flowers! All of them a voice. all of them
tongue, all of them full of speech to-day.
/ 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 a
rose, and it seems TO whisper: Il am the
rose of Sharon" And then | stand and
listen. From all sides there comes the
chorus OF flowers saying: If God so clOthe
the grass of the field, which to-day is, and
tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he
not much more clothe you, y ye of little
faith?'
FLOWERS! FLOWERSl
Braid them into the brides hair. Flowersl
Flowers! Strew them over the graves of
the day, sweet prophecy of the resurrec-
ton. FlOwersl Flowers! Twist them
into garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter
morning. GLORY be TO the Father and to
the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as il 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 plat
form, the scene could not have been more
radiant. OH how bright and how beauti-
full the flowers, and how much they make
me think of Christ and his religion, that
brightens everything it touches, brightenS
our life, brightens our character, brightens
society, brightens the church, brightenS
everything. You who go with gloomy
cOuntenance pretending you are better than
L am because of your righteousness you
cannot cheat me. You old hypocrite! l
know you. Pretty case you are for man
that professes TO be more than conqueTor.
1t is not religion that makes you gloomy, it
is the lack of it. There is just as much re-
ligiOn in a smile as in tear. Those gloomy
Christians we sometimes see are the people
to whom like to lend money, for l never
see them again. The women came to the
SayiOr'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.
The two angels robed in white took hold of
the stone at
THE sAvIoR's TOMB,
and they hurled it with such force down the
hill that it crushed in the door OF the
worlds Sepulcher, and the stark and the
dead must come forth. l care not how
a nv no moi
the sarcOphagus or however beautifully
parterred the family grounds, we want
them all broken up by the Lord of the res
direction. They must come out. Father
and mOther-they must come out. Hus-
band and wife-they must come OUT.
Brother and siSter-they must come out
Our darling children-they must come out.
The eyes that we close with such trem-
bling fingers must open again in the radi-
ance of that morn. The arms we folded
in dust must Join ours in an embrace of re-
union. The voice that was hushed in our
dwelling must be returned. o, how long
some of you seem to be waiting-waiting
for the resurrection, waitingi And for
these broken hearts to-day make soft,
cool bandage OUT of Easter flowers. All
along the sea route from New York to Liv-
erpOol, at every few miles. where steamer
went down. departed spirits will be coming
back. lowering over the wave. There is
where the City of Boston persisted. Found
at last. There is where the President
persisted. Steamer found at last
There is where the Central
America went down. Spirits lowering.
hundreds Of spirits lowering; waiting for
the reunion of body and soul. Out on the
prairie spirit alights. There is where a
traveller died in the snow. Crash goes
Westminster Abbey. and the
POETS AND ORATORS
come forth. Wonderful mingling of good
and bad. Wherefore, the good; Queen
Elizabeth, the bad. Crash 90 the pyramid
of Egypt, and the monarchs come forth
Who can sketch the scene? l suppose tina
one moment before that general rising there
will be an intense silence save as YOU hear
the grinding of wheel or tn e CHATTER of the
boots of procession passing into the GEM
etery. Silence in all the caves of the earth.
Silence on the side of the mountain.
Silence down in the valleys and far out into
the sea. Silence. But in a moment, in
the twinkling of an eye, as the archangel's
trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing
across the mountain and sea, the earth will
give one terrific shudder and the graves of
the dead will heave like the waves of the
Ions will stalk forth in the lurid air, and
the drowned will come up and wiring out
their wet locks above the billOw, and all the
land and all the sea become one moving
mass OF life-all faces, all ages and cOndi-
tons gazing in one direction and upon one
throne, the throne of resurrection. ''All
who are in their graves shall come forth"
But" you say, eff this doctrine of the
resurrection is true as prefgured by this
Easter morning, Christ the first fruits o (
them that slept Christ rising, a promise
and a prophecy of the rising of all His peo-
pie, can you tell us something about the
resurrected bOdy?" l can. There are
mysteries about that, but L shall tell you
thee or four things in regard to
THE REsURRECTED BODY
that are beyond guessing and beyond mis-
take. In the first place L remark in regard
to your reSurrected body, it will be a
glorious body. The body we have now is
mere skeleton of what it would have been
if sin had not married and defaced it.
Take the most equisite statue that was
ever made by an artist and chip it here and
chip it there with chisel, and batter and
bruise it here and there and then stand it
out in the storms of hundred years, and
the beauty would be gone. Well, the
human body has been Clipped and battered
and bruised and damaged with tine storms
Of thousand years-the physical defects
of other generations coming down from
generation TO generation. we inheriting the
infelicities OF past generations, but in the
morning Of the resurrection the body will
be adorned and beautified according to the
original model, and there is no such differ
ence between gymnast and an emaciated
wretch in a lazarettO as there will be
difference between our bodies as they are