Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

Dust to dust. So we come up, we pros
per, We spread abroad, we die, as tn,
f)wer-as the flower.
Charge and decay ON all around see;
o Thou who changest not, able with mel
Flowers also afford mighty symbolism
OF Christ, who compared himself
TO THE ANCIENT QUEEN,
the lily. and the modern queen, the rose
when He said: 81 am the rose of Sharon,
and the lily Of the valleys" Redolen,
like the one, humble like the other. Like
both, appropriate for the sad who want
sympatniz ers, and for the rejoicing who
want oanqueters. lowering over the
marriage ceremony like q wedding bell,
or folded like chsplet on the pulseless
heart Of the dead.
Oh, Christ! let the perfume of thy
name be wsf ed all around the earth
lilv and rose, lily and rose-uuti the
wilderness crimson into garden, and the
round earth turn into one great bud of
immortal beauty laid against the warm
heart of God. Snatch down from the
worlds banners eagle and lion, and put
on lily and rose, lilv and rose.
But, my friends, flowers have no grand
celebrate the reanim alton Of Christ from
the catacombs. All the flowers Of to-day
spell resurrection. There is not nook
or corner in all the building but is
touched with the incense. The women
carried spices to the tomb of Christ and
they dropped spices all around about the
tomb and from those spices have grown
all the flowers of Easter morn. The two
white-robed angels that hurled the stone
away from the door of the tomb hurled 1t
with such violence down the hill that 1t
crashed in the door of the worlds sepul-
cner and millions Of the stark and dead
shall come forth.
However labyriDthisn the mausoleum,
however costly the ssrcophsgus, however
architecturally grand the metropolis,
however beautifully psrterred the family
grounds, we want them all broken up by
THE LORD OF THE RESURRECTION.
The forms that we laid away with oul
broken hearts must rise again. Father
and mother-theY must come out. Hus
band and wiie-they must come out
Brothers and slsters-.hey must come
out. Our darling children-they mus
come out. The eyes that with trembling
iagers we closed must open in the lustel
of resurrection morn. The arms that VIZ
folded in death must Join ours in en-
brace OF reunion. The beloved voice thai
WAS hushed must be returned The be
loved form must come up without Its in
firmities, without it's fatigues-it mus
come up.
On, how long 1t seems for some of you
withdrawing for the resurrection
How long-how long! / make for YOU
broken hearts to-day q cool, soft bsndsgt
of Easter lilies. Last night we had come
in the mails beautiful Easter card-oI
the top Of it representation Of that ex-
quisite fl over called the trumpet creep
en-" and under it the inscription: "Tht
trumpet shall sound and the dead shall bt
raised" l comfort you this day with thu
thought of resurrection.
When Lord Nelson was buried IN st
Paul's cathedral in London, the heart o.
all England was stirred. The procession
passed on amid the sobbing of 8 nation
There were thirty trumpeters stationed a.
the door Of cathedral with instruments Of
music in hand, waiting for the signal, land
when the illustrious dead arrived at the
gates Of St. Paul'5 Cathedral, these thirty
trumpeters gave one united blast, and
then all WAS silent. Yet the trumpets did
not wake the dead. He slept right on.
But have to tell you, what thirty
trumpeters could not do for one man, one
trumpeter will do for all nations. The
ages have rolled on, aud the clock of the
worlds destiny rtrikes 9, 10, IL, IL, and
TINE SHALL BE NO LoNGERl
Behold the srchangel lowering. He
takes the trumpet, points 1t this way,
puts its lips to his lips, and then blows
one long, loud, terrific, thu1dercus, re-
verberatipg and resurrectionsry blast.
Looki Look! They riseI' The dead |!
The dead! Some coming forth from the
family vault. Some from the city ceme-
terry. Some from the country graveyard.
Here spirit is joined to its body, and
there another spirit is joined to another
body, and millions Of departed spirits are
asserting the bodies and then reclothing
themselves in forms now radiant for as
cension.
The earth begins to Durn-the bonfire
of great victory. ALI ready now for the
procession of reconstructed humanity
Upward aud awsy! Christ leads and all
the Christian dead follow, battalion after
battalion, nation after nation. Up, upl
On, oni Forward, ye ranks OF God Al
mighty! Lift up your heads, ye everlast-
ing gates, and let the conquerors come
in! Resurrection! Resurrection
Aud so 1 twist all the festal flowers OF
this church with sll the festsl flowers OF
chapels and cathedrals of all Christendom
Into one great chain, and with that chain
1 bind the Easter morning Of 1888 with
the closing Easter Of the worlds history
resurrection! Msy the God Of peace
that brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd Of the
sheep, through the blood OF the everlsst.
ing covenant, make you perfect in every
good work to do HIS will.
MARLIN.